Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MELANDER SUPPOS'D TO LOVE SUSAN, BUT DID LOVE ANN, by EDWARD HERBERT Poet's Biography First Line: Who doth presume my mistress's name to scan Last Line: Must I not however love susan? Echo. Ann. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
WHO doth presume my mistress's name to scan, Goes about more than any way he can, Since all men think that it is Susan. Echo. Ann. What sayst? Then tell who is as white as swan, While others set by her are pale and wan; Then, Echo, speak, is it not Susan? Echo. Ann. Tell, Echo, yet, whose middle's but a span, Some being gross as bucket, round as pan; Say, Echo, then, is it not Susan? Echo. Ann. Say, is she not soft as meal without bran? Though yet in great haste once from me she ran, Must I not however love Susan? Echo. Ann. | 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 AN ODE UPON A QUESTION WHETHER LOVE SHOULD CONTINUE FOREVER by EDWARD HERBERT DITTY IN IMITATION OF THE SPANISH: ENTRE TANTO QUE L'AVRIL by EDWARD HERBERT EPITAPH FOR SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, AT ST. PAUL'S WITHOUT A MONUMENT ... by EDWARD HERBERT |
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