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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PEGGY, by DAVID GARRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I'll tune the vocal shell Last Line: "adieu, my lovely peggy." Subject(s): Love | |||
Once more I'll tune the vocal shell, To hills and dales my passion tell, A flame which time can never quell That burns for thee, my Peggy: Yet guitar bards the lyre shall hit, Or say what subject is more fit, Than to record the sparkling wit And bloom of lovely Peggy. The sun first rising in the morn, That paints the dew-bespangled thorn, Does not so much the day adorn As does my lovely Peggy: And when in Thetis' lap to rest, He streaks with gold the ruddy west, She's not so beauteous as undrest Appears my lovely Peggy. When Zephyr on the violet blows Or breathes upon the blushing rose, He does not half the sweets disclose As does my lovely Peggy: I stole a kiss the other day, And trust me, naught but truth I say, The fragrance of the blooming May Is not so sweet as Peggy. Were she arrayed in rustic weed, With her the bleating flocks I'd feed, And pipe upon the oaten reed, To please my lovely Peggy: With her a cottage would delight, All's happy when she's in my sight; But when she's gone it's endless night All's dark without my Peggy. While bees from flower to flower shall rove, And linnets warble through the grove, Or stately swans the rivers love, So long shall I love Peggy: And when Death with his pointed dart Shall strike the blow that rives my heart, My words shall be, when I depart, "Adieu, my lovely Peggy." | 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 |
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