Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEW YEAR'S DAY, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, thou best and brightest morning! Last Line: But in thy fairest eyes find two for one. Variant Title(s): Hymn For New Year's Day Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The | ||||||||
Rise, thou best and brightest morning! Rosy with a double Red; With thine own blush thy cheeks adorning And the dear drops this day were shed. All the purple pride that laces The crimson curtains of thy bed, Guilds thee not with so sweet graces Nor setts thee in so rich a red. Of all the fair-cheek't flowrs that fill thee None so fair thy bosom strowes, As this modest maiden lilly Our sins have sham'd into a rose. Bid thy golden GOD, the Sun, Burnisht in his best beames rise, Put all his red-ey'd Rubies on; These Rubies shall putt out their eyes. Let him make poor the purple east, Search what the world's close cabinets keep, Rob the rich births of each bright nest That flaming in their fair beds sleep, Let him embrave his own bright tresses With a new morning made of gemmes; And wear, in those his wealthy dresses, Another Day of Diadems. When he hath done all he may To make himselfe rich in his rise, All will be darknes to the Day That breakes from one of these bright eyes. And soon this sweet truth shall appear Dear BABE, ere many dayes be done, The morn shall come to meet thee here, And leave her own neglected Sun. Here are Beautyes shall bereave him Of all his eastern Paramours. His Persian Lovers all shall leave him, And swear faith to thy sweeter Powres. Nor while they leave him shall they lose the Sun, But in thy fairest eyes find two for one. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DIFFERENT VIEWS; A CHRISMAS DUET by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY AN UNMERRY CHRISTMAS by AMBROSE BIERCE CHRISTMAS IN CHINATOWN by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER CHRISTMAS TREE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ISAIAH'S COAL by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.. by MARVIN BELL 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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