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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DEFIANCE, RETURNING TO THE PLACE OF HIS PAST AMOURS, by PHILIP AYRES Poet's Biography First Line: A heart of ice did here my heart inflame Last Line: I'll triumph more than e'er I griev'd before. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited | |||
A HEART of ice did here my heart inflame, Bound with loose hairs, a pris'ner I became, Here first sweet Love, tho' bitter in the end, Flatter'd with spite, with kindness did offend. But from assaults, a new defence I'm taught, And my past ills an antidote have brought; So the poor bird, that once escape has made, Returns with caution where the net is laid. With my late damp, all sparks of love expire, My feet approach, yet does my soul retire, Tho' near her presence, I can justly say, My eyes and mind tend quite another way. With her my lute could no attention find, Now will I please myself, not sing to th' wind; With laurel here, where cypress late I wore, I'll triumph more than e'er I griev'd before. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TUTTO E SCIOLTO by JAMES JOYCE APPULDURCOMBE PARK by AMY LOWELL TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON by GLYN MAXWELL ELEGY FOR AN ENEMY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ESSAY ON WHAT I THINK ABOUT MOST by ANNE CARSON ON A FAIR BEGGAR by PHILIP AYRES |
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