文章基本信息

标题：Unplug the Vegetables.
作者：Crofts, Thomas
期刊名称：The Upstart Crow
印刷版ISSN：0886-2168
出版年度：2006
期号：January
语种：English
出版社：Clemson University, Clemson University Digital Press, Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing

摘要：

 UNPLUG THE VEGETABLES     From fairest creatures we desire increase    for when we smelle that burgeoning bud    and our extremities do charge with bludde,    we groan HOORAY for ripe surcease;     But thou that art contracted to a wraith,    a scroll of arid flesh whereon we write    not poetry, but old polemic spite    to fill the secret cavity of faith,     From thee we nothing further shall desire    unless upon the midnight (with no pain)    to cease, like a bird, a breeze, a thought profane.    Be not so fond, dear heart, as not to expire.     All are idiots who more fear death    than meat upon the table drawing breath.

Unplug the Vegetables.

Crofts, Thomas

UNPLUG THE VEGETABLES

   From fairest creatures we desire increase
   for when we smelle that burgeoning bud
   and our extremities do charge with bludde,
   we groan HOORAY for ripe surcease;

   But thou that art contracted to a wraith,
   a scroll of arid flesh whereon we write
   not poetry, but old polemic spite
   to fill the secret cavity of faith,

   From thee we nothing further shall desire
   unless upon the midnight (with no pain)
   to cease, like a bird, a breeze, a thought profane.
   Be not so fond, dear heart, as not to expire.

   All are idiots who more fear death
   than meat upon the table drawing breath.