The Watch

I

ED on my hot, hard bed;

Upon the pillow lay my head;

Beneath the pillow I could

My little watch was ticking clear.

I thought the throbbing of it went        Like my continual discontent,

I thought it said in every tick:

I am so sick, so sick, so sick;

O death, come quick, come quick, come quick,

Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick.