Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIME STREET, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: You might have been as lovely as the dawn Last Line: O god! The pain! The horror of it all! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Chastity | ||||||||
YOU might have been as lovely as the dawn, Had household sweetness nurtured you, and arts Domestic, and the strength which love imparts To lowliness, and chastened ardour drawn From vital sap that burgeons in the brawn Around the dreadful arms of Hercules, And shapes the curvature of Dian's knees, And has its course in lilies of the lawn. Even now your flesh is soft and full, defaced Although it be, and bruised. Unblenched your eyes Meet mine, as misinterpreting their call, Then sink, reluctant, forced to recognise That there are men whose look is not unchaste -- O God! the pain! the horror of it all! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE COMPLAINT OF CHASTITIE by RICHARD BARNFIELD WHITENESS, OR CHASTITY by JOSEPH BEAUMONT MY CHASTE MISTRESS by GOTTFRIED AUGUST BURGER TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 5 by HILDA DOOLITTLE THE NUN: A CANTATA by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) THE PRAISE OF CHASTITY by GEORGE PEELE THE VEIL OF ISIS by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR A SERMON AT CLEVEDON; GOOD FRIDAY by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |
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