Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FRAILTY AND HURTFULNESS OF BEAUTY, by HENRY HOWARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brittle beauty that nature made so frail Last Line: Today ready ripe, tomorrow all too shaken. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
Brittle beauty that nature made so frail, Whereof the gift is small, and short the season, Flow'ring today, tomorrow apt to fail, Tickle treasure, abhorred of reason, Dangerous to deal with, vain, of none avail, Costly in keeping, passed not worth two peason, Slippery in sliding as an eeles tail, Hard to attain, once gotten not geason, Jewel of jeopardy that peril doth assail, False and untrue, enticed oft to treason, Enemy to youth (that most may I bewail!), Ah, bitter sweet! infecting as the poison, Thou farest as fruit that with the frost is taken: Today ready ripe, tomorrow all too shaken. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A PRAISE OF HIS LOVE by HENRY HOWARD COMPLAINT OF THE ABSENCE OF HER LOVER BEING UPON THE SEA by HENRY HOWARD |
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