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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO DELIA: 19, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If beauty thus be clouded with a frown Last Line: To use me thus and know I loved so long. Subject(s): Beauty; Love | |||
If beauty thus be clouded with a frown, That pity shines no comfort to my bliss, And vapors of disdain so overgrown That my life's light thus wholly darkened is, Why should I more molest the world with cries, The air with sighs, the earth below with tears? Since I live hateful to those ruthless eyes, Vexing with untuned moan her dainty ears. If I have loved her dearer than my breath, My breath that calls the heav'ns to witness it, And still must hold her dear till after death; And if that all this cannot move a whit, Yet let her say that she hath done me wrong To use me thus and know I loved so long. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD |
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