Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGY: 3.25. REVENGE TO COME, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poet's Biography First Line: I was a joke at dinners; aye, any would-be wit Last Line: Your beauty waits this ending. Woman, believeand fear! Subject(s): Aging; Revenge | ||||||||
I WAS a joke at dinners; aye, any would-be wit Might use me for a target, and I must stomach it. Five years I could be loyal; but now, you'll often mourn, Biting your nails for anguish, the faith at last outworn, Nay, weeping will not touch meI know that trick of old; You always weep from ambush, I cannot be cajoled. I shall depart in tears, but my wrongs will check their flow; Ours was a team well sortedyou could not leave it so. So now, my mistress' threshold, where oft my tear-drops fell, And thou, the door I haunted, I bid ye both farewell. May age afflict you, Cynthia, with ill-dissembled years, And may you see the wrinkles your fading beauty fears. And when your glass flings at you the ruin pictured there, Go curse them, every wrinkle, and every whitening hair. Be you in turn excluded, and suffer proud disdain, And all you did to others be done to you again. So fate shall soon avenge memy page bids you give ear Your beauty waits this ending. Woman, believeand fear! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MOUNTAIN MOTHER by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY DOG AFTER LOVE by YEHUDA AMICHAI THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN by ROBERT BROWNING MINE ENEMY IS GROWING OLD by EMILY DICKINSON A BOOK OF AIRS: WHEN THOU MUST HOME by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS ELEGY: 1.2. BEAUTY UNADORNED by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS ELEGY: 3.26. PRAYER FOR HIS LADY'S LIFE by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS |
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