The Complaint, Or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To Which Is Prefixed the Life of the Author (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To Which Is Prefixed the Life of the Author I wake how happy they who wake no more! Yet that were vain, if dreams infelt the grave. I wake, emergi from a fea of dreams Tumultuous; w ere my wreck'd defponding thought, From wave to wave of fancy'd mifery, At random drove, her helm of reafon loft Tho' now reitor'd, 'tis only change of pain, (a bitter change!) feverer for fevere The day too ibort for my difirefs; and night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
