Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl

Fill for me a brimming bowl     And in it let me drown my soul:     But put therein some drug, designed     To Banish Women from my mind:     For I want not the stream inspiring     That fills the mind withfond desiring,     But I want as deep a draught     As e'er from Lethe's wave was quaff'd;     From my despairing heart to charm     The Image of the fairest form     That e'er my reveling eyes beheld,     That e'er my wandering fancy spell'd.     In vain! away I cannot chace     The melting softness of that face,     The beaminess of those bright eyes,     That breastearth's only Paradise.     My sight will never more be blest;     For all I see has lost its zest:     Nor with delight can I explore,     The Classic page, or Muse's lore.     Had she but known how beat my heart,     And with one smile reliev'd its smart     I should have felt a sweet relief,     I should have felt "the joy of grief."     Yet as the Tuscan mid the snow     Of Lapland dreams on sweet Arno,     Even so for ever shall she be     The Halo of my Memory.