Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN IMITATION OF COWLEY: 2. PRESENTING A LARK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go tuneful bird, forebear to soar Last Line: While wretched lovers sing in vain. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) | ||||||||
Go tuneful bird, forbear to soar, And the bright sun admire no more; Go bask in Serenissa's eyes, And turn a bird of paradise. In those fair beams thy wings display, Take shorter journies to the day, And at an humbler pitch prefer Thy musick to an angel's ear. Nor, tho' her slave, thy lot deplore; The god of love himself's no more: Ev'n him to constancy she brings, And clips, like thine, his wav'ring wings. She gains from us, as now from thee, Our songs by our captivity; But happier you attention gain, While wretched lovers sing in vain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WINDSOR FOREST by ALEXANDER POPE IN EMULATION OF MR. COWLEYS POEM CALL'D THE MOTTO by MARY ASTELL SONNET ON PIETRO REGGIO HIS SETTING TO MUSIC MR. COWLEY'S POEMS by PHILIP AYRES BEAUTY; PINDARIC ODE by CHARLES COTTON TO CUPID, A FOOLISH POET, OCCASION'D BY AS FOOLISH A POEM OF HIS ... by CHARLES COTTON UPON TWO GREENE APRICOCKES SENT TO COWLEY BY SIR CRASHAW by RICHARD CRASHAW ON MR. ABRAHAM COWLEY'S DEATH AND BURIAL AMONGST THE...POETS by JOHN DENHAM DEDICATORY SONNET TO THE REV. WILLIAM PHILPOT by ALEXANDER B. GROSART TO FRIEND AND SCHOOL-FELLOW ABRAHAM COWLEY ON BLOSSOMES by BEN MASTERS A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715 by ALEXANDER POPE |
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