Delight Alone!

Painting by Jean Baptiste Vanmour (c.1720 - c.1737)

In the surging swell
Where joys abound,
In perfumed wavelets’
Trembling sound,
In the world’s soft breathing
Whisp’ring round –
To drown thus – sink down thus
– all thought gone – delight alone!

, Tristan und Isolde