Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALMORAN TO ELIZA; WITH A HEART OF ICE, by ROYALL TYLER Poet's Biography First Line: The poets, when they paint a pair Last Line: To shape the expressive ice. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives | ||||||||
THE Poets, when they paint a pair Of perfect lovers, urge their care, To give them mutual charms; If dying softness seize the fair, The swain must sure, with languid air, Dissolve into her arms. Nay all, who write, and all, who read, In this one point, are still agreed, Which proves the maxim right, That real LOVE is only found, Where correspondent tastes abound, And hearts are formed alike. The man of sentiment and ease, Must choose him, if he wish to please, A sentimental wife; While airy KATE will have her beau, To trip it, "with fantastic toe," Adown the dance of life. ALMORAN'S heart is wrapt in flames; No blood runs riot through your veins, But all is calm and pure; Hearts opposite can ne'er be friends; -- He now takes back his own -- and sends This COUNTERPART of yours. This heart, he knows, will suit your worth; He's tried the merit of them both, With calculation nice; Both, when he shivered by your side, And, when his fingers he applied, To shape the expressive ICE. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING by JANE HIRSHFIELD A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE by DAVID IGNATOW ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE by MARY BARBER THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV INDEPENDENCE DAY by ROYALL TYLER |
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