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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CAUTION TO FAIR LADIES, by HENRY LAWES Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, you whose smooth and dainty skin Last Line: Held a most notorious sin. Subject(s): Prudence; Caution | |||
LADIES, you whose smooth and dainty skin, Rosy lips, or cheeks, or chin, All that gaze upon you win, Yet insult not, sparks within Slowly burn ere flames begin, And presumption still hath been Held a most notorious sin. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RIFLEMAN FORM! by ALFRED TENNYSON THE CAUTIOUS HOUSEHOLDER by ANAXILAS THE ELDER'S WARNING; A LAY OF THE CONVOCATION by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN OF CAUTION by FRANCESCO DA BARBERINI PRUDENCE by RALPH WALDO EMERSON A MAIDEN'S DREAM by ROBERT GREENE |
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