Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN EPISTLE, by MARY MOLLINEUX Poet's Biography First Line: Is friends fled, or love grown cold? Last Line: The same effects, dear friend, in thee. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Spring | ||||||||
Is Friends fled, or Love grown cold? Do frozen Walls of Ice with-hold Its Pearly Streams? O let the Sun, That gave it being, shine upon The brittle Fence! Or is some Skreen Injuriously set up between The gentle Spring, and that bright Ray Which, conqu'ring Night, brings joyful Day? Remove that Obstacle away: Then, tho' with Grief I may confess, In Winter-time th' Effects be less, Because of Distance, or cold Air Prevailing in our Hemisphere, And interposing (For Sol's Pow'r Is still the same each Day and Hour) It will dissolve the Frost in time, If its warm Ray there-on may shine; Tho' vacant Clouds do interpose Its pure refulgent Beam, and those Inferiour Concrets that have Birth From the gross Element of Earth. But stay! Methinks a Spring should be From Winters chilling force, more free Than to be Frozen! Inbred Heat Is then, with purest Springs, more great; And with its Current soon doth glide Through Ice besetting either side. Let Love spring up, that we may see The same Effects, dear Friend, in thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD OF MODESTY, SELECTION by MARY MOLLINEUX |
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