Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 24, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could my heart more tongues employ Last Line: Than to lose all at the best. Subject(s): Grief | ||||||||
COULD my heart more tongues employ Than it harbours thoughts of grief; It is now so far from joy, That it scarce could ask relief. Truest hearts by deeds unkind To despair are most inclined. Happy minds, that can redeem Their engagements how they please! That no joys or hopes esteem, Half so precious as their ease! Wisdom should prepare men so As if they did all foreknow. Yet no art or caution can Grown affections easily change; Use is such a lord of man That he brooks worst what is strange. Better never to be blest Than to lose all at the best. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE I HAVE FOLDED MY SORROWS by BOB KAUFMAN A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 by THOMAS CAMPION |
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