Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEAUTY, by EDWARD HOVELL-THURLOW Poet's Biography First Line: Tis much immortal beauty to admire Last Line: Love and delight shall with delight devour! Alternate Author Name(s): Thurlow, 2d Baron Subject(s): Beauty; Love | ||||||||
'T IS much immortal beauty to admire, But more immortal beauty to withstand; The perfect soul can overcome desire, If beauty with divine delight be scanned. For what is beauty but the blooming child Of fair Olympus, that in night must end, And be forever from that bliss exiled, If admiration stand too much its friend? The wind may be enamored of a flower, The ocean of the green and laughing shore, The silver lightning of a lofty tower, -- But must not with too near a love adore; Or flower and margin and cloud-capped tower Love and delight shall with delight devour! | 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 SONG TO MAY by EDWARD HOVELL-THURLOW THE SYLVAN LIFE by EDWARD HOVELL-THURLOW TO A BIRD [THAT HAUNTED THE WATERS OF LAAKEN IN THE WINTER] by EDWARD HOVELL-THURLOW |
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