Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WAKEFUL NIGHTINGALE, by ANONYMOUS Last Line: "for love that makes him wakeful, makes him sing" Subject(s): Birds;cupid;love - Complaints;nightingales; Eros | ||||||||
THE wakeful nightingale, that takes no rest, While Cupid warms his little breast; All night how sweetly he complains, And makes us fear that love has pains: No, no, no, no, 'tis no such thing, For love that makes him wakeful, makes him sing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MESSAGE FROM THE SLEEPER AT HELL'S MOUTH: 6. ONESELF AT HELL'S MOUTH by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER SONNET: O HUSBAND! by ANNE WALDMAN EROS by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: SONG by JOHN DRYDEN A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID by BEN JONSON CUPID MISTAKEN by MATTHEW PRIOR DEATH AND CUPID; AN ALLEGORY by JOHN GODFREY SAXE TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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