Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A MINERAL IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND ... CURED OF DISEASES, SELECTION, by WILLIAM LUCKYN First Line: For introduction, not to stay Last Line: Rapture to give it you again. Alternate Author Name(s): Grimston, Viscount Subject(s): Healing; Water; Cures | ||||||||
For Introduction, not to stay, I sing, as Poets used to say, The Virtues, Cures, Effects, and Nature, Of a rare Spring of Min'ral Water. I beg'd the Muses to Inspire And fill me with Poetick Fire: Clio, Quoth I, I do presume For Kindling to your Well to come; For it may Wonders do as easily As Athamas, that Brook of Thessaly, Which, as some Authors Warrant cou'd, With its own Billows Burn a Wood: Upon my Word you shan't lose by The Kindness done your Friend, for I Will as a Bellows, Wind draw in Rapture to give it you again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ONE VOLUME MISSING by RITA DOVE READING HOLDERLIN ON THE PATIO WITH THE AID OF A DICTIONARY by RITA DOVE BANGLA DESH: 2. THE BLOOD IN MY EYES by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ VACATION: CALIFORNIA COAST by ALBERT GOLDBARTH FOR MY DAUGHTER by DAVID IGNATOW FOR MY MOTHER ILL by DAVID IGNATOW WITH THE DOOR OPEN by DAVID IGNATOW NOTHING WILL CURE THE SICK LION BUT TO EAT AN APE' by MARIANNE MOORE TO A CHAMELEON by MARIANNE MOORE |
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