Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVES HOROSCOPE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, brave vertues younger brother Last Line: Love shall live, although he dye. Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Love | ||||||||
Love, brave vertues younger Brother, Erst hath made my Heart a Mother, Shee consults the conscious Spheares, To calculate her young sons yeares. Shee askes if sad, or saving powers, Gave Omen to his infant howers, Shee asks each starre that then stood by, If poore Love shall live or dy. Ah my Heart, is that the way? Are these the Beames that rule thy Day? Thou know'st a Face in whose each looke, Beauty layes ope loves Fortune-booke, On whose faire revolutions wait The obsequious motions of Loves fate. Ah my Heart, her eyes and shee, Have taught thee new Astrology. How e're Loves native houres were set, What ever starry Synod met, 'Tis in the mercy of her eye, If poore Love shall live or dye. If those sharpe Rayes putting on Points of Death bid Love be gone (Though the Heavens in counsell sate, To crowne an uncontrouled Fate, Though their best Aspects, twin'd upon The kindest Constellation, Cast amorous glances on his Birth, And whisper'd the confederate Earth To pave his pathes with all the good That warmes the Bed of youth and blood) Love ha's no plea against her eye Beauty frownes, and Love must dye. But if her milder influence move; And guild the hopes of humble Love: (Though heavens inauspicious eye Lay blacke on loves Nativitye; Though every Diamond in Joves crowne Fixt his forehead to a frowne,) Her Eye a strong appeale can give, Beauty smiles and love shall live. O if Love shall live, o where But in her Eye, or in her Eare, In her Brest, or in her Breath, Shall I hide poore Love from Death? For in the life ought else can give, Love shall dye although he live. Or if Love shall dye, o where But in her Eye, or in her Eare, In her Breath, or in her Breast, Shall I Build his funerall Nest? While Love shall thus entombed lye, Love shall live, although he dye. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A HYMN [TO THE NAME AND] IN HONOR OF SAINT TERESA by RICHARD CRASHAW A SONG [OF DIVINE LOVE] by RICHARD CRASHAW AN EPITAPH UPON HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO DIED AND WERE BURIED by RICHARD CRASHAW |
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