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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN ATTEMPT AT THE MANNER OF WALLER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Did not thy reason and thy sense
Last Line: Then scorn our freedom, and by choice obey.
Subject(s): Obedience; Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
First Line: Did not thy reason and thy sense
Last Line: Then scorn our freedom, and by choice obey.
Subject(s): Obedience; Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
DID not thy reason and thy sense,
With most persuasive eloquence,
Convince me that obedience due
None may so justly claim as you,
By right of beauty you would be
Mistress o'er my heart and me.
Then fear not I should e'er rebel,
My gentle love! I might as well
A froward peevishness put on,
And quarrel with the mid-day sun;
Or question who gave him a right
To be so fiery and so bright.
Nay, this were less absurd and vam
Than disobedience to thy reign;
His beams are often too severe;
But thou art mild, as thou art fair;
First from necessity we own your sway,
Then scorn our freedom, and by choice obey.
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A COMPARISON by WILLIAM COWPER