Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A PORTRAIT OF MARY TUDOR IN PRADO, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen / a portrait of this mary Last Line: Of tudor blood turned acid in the veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Mary I, Queen Of England (1516-1568); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens | ||||||||
I have seen A portrait of this Mary This thin queen With anxious eyes and narrow tight-sealed lips Holding a rose in her sharp fingertips. She has done all she can in hopes to please Her Spanish king lagging across the seas: Has she not given him her withered heart, That fiery pinch of dust? Is not her will Limp in his hands? Philip has but to ask And Mary, Queen of England, must fulfill. She woos him with a parchment tenderness; Her dangerous sister at his word she spares, And with the hangman's sword and hempen rope From English blood a love-knot she prepares -- And sends this portrait where one reads the pains Of Tudor blood turned acid in the veins. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN IN PHARAOH'S TOMB by HAYDEN CARRUTH FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY VASHTI by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA by EMMA LAZARUS TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA) by EMMA LAZARUS ALL GOATS by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH SONG OF THE RABBITS OUTSIDE THE TAVERN by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH |
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