Unconditional surrender

 

Gustave Doré Death on the Pale Horse (1865)

 

 Surrender up to me thy captive breath;

My pow'r is nature's pow'r, my name is Death.

 

-- Walter Harte 

'Tis The Silly Season

 Both ways deceitful is the wine of pow'r;

When new 'tis heady, and when old 'tis sour.

 

-- Walter Harte

Learn of me . . . my burden is light

Engraving by Jan Luyken of the narrow gate which leads to life

 

 

 

 

In days of poverty his heart was light;

He sung his hymns at morning, noon, and night.

-- Walter Harte

It takes a real genius to make poetry of a sow's pool

How ill mean neighbourhood your genius suits?

To live like Adam 'midst an herd of brutes!

-- Walter Harte

In souls prepared . . .

In souls prepar'd, the passage is a breath

From time t'eternity, from life to death.

-- Walter Harte (1709-1774)