Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CLITOPHON AND LEUCIPPE TRANSLATED; TO THE LADIES, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pray ladies, breathe, awhile lay by Last Line: In english meet to wait on you. | ||||||||
PRAY ladies, breathe, awhile lay by Celestial Sidney's Arcady; Here 's a story that doth claim A little respite from his flame: Then with a quick dissolving look Unfold the smoothness of this book, To which no art, except your sight, Can reach a worthy epithite; 'Tis an abstract of all volumes, A pilaster of all columns Fancy e'er rear'd to Wit, to be The smallest god's epitome, And so compactedly express All lovers' pleasing wretchedness. Gallant Pamela's majesty, And her sweet sister's modesty Are fix'd in each of you; you are, Distinct, what these together were; Divinest that are really What Chariclea 's feign'd to be; That are ev'ry one the Nine, And brighter here Astræas shine; View our Leucippe, and remain In her these beauties o'er again. Amazement! Noble Clitophon Ev'n now look'd somewhat colder on His cooler mistress, and she too Smil'd not as she us'd to do. See! the individual pair Are at sad odds, and parted are; They quarrel, emulate, and stand At strife who first shall kiss your hand. A new dispute there lately rose Betwixt the Greeks and Latins, whose Temples should be bound with glory In best languaging this story. Ye heirs of love, that with one smile A ten-years' war can reconcile, Peaceful Helens, virtuous, see! The jarring languages agree, And here all arms laid by, they do In English meet to wait on you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LA BELLA BONA ROBA by RICHARD LOVELACE THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON by RICHARD LOVELACE THE SCRUTINY; SONG by RICHARD LOVELACE TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON by RICHARD LOVELACE TO AMARANTHA, THAT SHE WOULD DISHEVEL HER HAIR by RICHARD LOVELACE TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING BEYOND THE SEAS by RICHARD LOVELACE TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS by RICHARD LOVELACE A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (1) by RICHARD LOVELACE A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (2) by RICHARD LOVELACE |
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