Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S CLOCK; A PASTORAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dryad feet Last Line: "and love's watch loses?" Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
DAPHNIS waiting. "O DRYAD feet, Be doubly fleet, Timed to my heart's expectant beat While I await her! 'At four,' vowed she; 'T is scarcely three, Yet by my time it seems to be A good hour later!" CHLOE. "Bid me not stay! Hear reason, pray! 'T is striking six! Sure never day Was short as this is!" DAPHNIS. "Reason nor rhyme Is in the chime! It can't be five; I 've scarce had time To beg two kisses!" BOTH. "Early or late, When lovers wait, And Love's watch gains, if Time a gait So snail-like chooses, Why should his feet Become more fleet Than cowards' are, when lovers meet And Love's watch loses?" | 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 AFTER THE BURIAL by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL |
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