Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S TOKENS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love's herald is not speech Last Line: Their lord will never be! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Nature Of | ||||||||
LOVE'S herald is not speech -- His fear-fraught tongue is mute -- His presence is bewrayed By blushes deep that shoot Athwart the conscious brow, And mantle on the cheek, Then fleet for tints of snow Which soft confusion speak; Thus red and white have place By turns on true love's face. Love vaunteth not his worth In gaudy, glozing phrase, His home is not in breast Where thought of worlding stays; In modest loyaltie His fountain doth abide; In bosom greatly good The lucid pulses tide That ebb and flow there ever, Till soul and body sever. Trust not the ready lip Whence flows the fulsome song -- True love aye gently hymns, False love chaunts loud and long. Young Beauty, Cherish well The bashful, anxious eye, The lip that may not move, The breast that stills the sigh -- A recreant to thee Their lord will never be! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RESCUE THE DEAD by DAVID IGNATOW BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON by MARK JARMAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 27 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 30 by JAMES JOYCE HE WHO KNOWS LOVE by ELSA BARKER LOVE'S HUMBLENESS by ELSA BARKER SONG (IN THE LUCKY CHANCE) by APHRA BEHN JEANIE MORRISON by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL |
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