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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAIDENHEAD: WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF A FRIEND, by JOAN PHILIPS Poet's Biography First Line: At your intreaty, I at last have writ Last Line: Court the vain blessing from a woman's pen. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Women - Writers | |||
At your Intreaty, I at last have writ This whimsy, that has nigh nonplused my wit: The Toy I've long enjoyed, if it may Be called to Enjoy, a thing we wish away; But yet no more its Character can give, Than tell the Minutes that I have to Live: 'Tis a fantastic Ill, a loathed Disease, That can no Sex, no Age, no Person please: Men strive to gain it, but the way they choose T'obtain their Wish, that and the Wish doth lose; Our Thoughts are still uneasy, till we know What 'tis, and why it is desired so: But the first unhappy Knowledge that we boast, Is that we know, the valued Trifle's lost: Thou dull Companion of our active Years, That chill'st our warm Blood with thy frozen Fears: How is it likely thou shouldst long endure, When Thought itself thy Ruin may procure? Thou short-lived Tyrant, that Usurp'st a Sway O'er Woman-kind, though none thy Power obey, Except the Ill-natured, Ugly, Peevish, Proud, And these indeed, thy Praises Sing aloud: But what's the Reason they Obey so well? Because they want the Power to Rebel: But I forget, or have my Subject lost: Alas! thy Being's Fancy at the most: Though much desired, 'tis but seldom Men Court the vain Blessing from a Woman's Pen. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA) by ANNE WALDMAN THE WOMAN WHO WROTE TOO MUCH by KAY RYAN EPIGRAM: LADY BIOGRAPHER by WILLIAM JAY SMITH MRS. NASSAU SENIOR by ANNIE MATHESON SAPPHO BURNS HER BOOKS AND CULTIVATES THE CULINARY ARTS by ELIZABETH MOODY ON MRS. WALKER'S POEMS: PARTICULARLY THAT ON THE AUTHOR by CHRISTOPHER PITT LIFE'S SONGS by ELETHA MAE TAYLOR ON SIR J- S- SAYING IN A SARCASTIC MANNER, MY BOOKS WOULD MAKE ME MAD by ELIZABETH THOMAS LOVE'S FIRST APPROACH by JOAN PHILIPS |
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