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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 1. OF A LADY SINGING TO HER LUTE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair charmer, cease, nor make your voice's prize
Last Line: This vocal wood had drawn the poet too.
Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
First Line: Fair charmer, cease, nor make your voice's prize
Last Line: This vocal wood had drawn the poet too.
Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Fair charmer cease, nor make your voice's prize
A heart resign'd the conquest of your eyes:
Well might, alas! that threaten'd vessel fail,
Which winds and lightning both at once assail.
We were too blest with these inchanting lays,
Which must be heav'nly when an angel plays;
But killing charms your lover's death contrive,
Lest heav'nly musick should be heard alive.
Orpheus could charm the trees, but thus a tree
Taught by your hand, can charm no less than he;
A poet made the silent wood pursue;
This vocal wood had drawn the poet too.
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