StoryTitle("caps", "Melancholy") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hence, all you vain delights, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As short as are the nights ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wherein you spend your folly! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's naught in this life sweet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If men were wise to see't, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But only melancholy— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O sweetest melancholy! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Welcome, folded arms and fixéd eyes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A sight that piercing mortifies, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A look that's fasten'd to the ground,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A tongue chain'd up without a sound! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fountain-heads and pathless groves, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Places which pale passion loves! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Moonlight walks, when all the fowls ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are warmly housed, save bats and owls!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A midnight bell, a parting groan— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "These are the sounds we feed upon: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.", "") ?>
Poet("John Fletcher", "1579-1625") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>