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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE UNDISCOVERED, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, others may with safety tell Last Line: Twenty to one but I shall live again. | |||
1. I, Others may with safety tell The moderate Flames, which in them dwell; And either find some Med'cin there, Or cure themselves even by Despair; My Love's so great, that it might prove Dangerous, to tell her that I Love. So tender is my wound, it must not bear, Any salute, though of the kindest aire. 2. I would not have her know the pain, The Torments for her I sustain; Lest too much goodnesse make her throw Her Love upon a Fate too low. Forbid it Heaven my Life should be Weigh'd with her least Conveniencie. No, let me perish rather with my grief, Then to her disadvantage find reliefe. 3. Yet when I dye, my last breath shall Grow bold, and plainly tell her all. Like covetous men who nere discry Their deare hid Treasures 'till they dye. Ah, fayrest Mayd, how should it chear My Ghost, to get from Thee a Tear! But take heed; for if me thou pitiest then, Twenty to one but I shall live again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AGAINST HOPE by ABRAHAM COWLEY ON THE DEATH OF MR. CRASHAW by ABRAHAM COWLEY ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM HERVEY by ABRAHAM COWLEY THE CHRONICLE; A BALLAD by ABRAHAM COWLEY TO HIS MISTRESS by ABRAHAM COWLEY A DEDICATORY ELEGY TO THE ... UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE by ABRAHAM COWLEY |
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