Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DIALOGUE BETWIXT A NYMPH AND A SHEPHERD, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why sigh you, swain? This passion is not common Last Line: And thaws the icy frost of cold desire. Subject(s): Passion | ||||||||
Nymph. WHY sigh you, swain? this passion is not common Is't for your kids or lambkins? Shep. For a woman. Nymph. How fair is she that on so sage a brow Prints lowering looks? Shep. Just such a toy as thou. Nymph. Is she a maid? Shep. What man can answer that? Nymph. Or widow? Shep. No. Nymph. What then? Shep. I know not what; Saint-like she looks, a Syren if she sing. Her eyes are stars, her mind is everything. Nymph. If she be fickle, shepherd, leave to woo, Or fancy me. Shep. No, thou art woman too. Nymph. But I am constant. Shep. Then thou art not fair. Nymph. Bright as the morning. Shep. Wavering as the air. Nymph. What grows upon this cheek? Shep. A pure carnation. Nymph. Come, taste a kiss. Shep. O sweet, O sweet temptation! Chorus. Ah, Love! and canst thou never lose the field? Where Cupid lays the siege, the town must yield. He warms the chiller blood with glowing fire, And thaws the icy frost of cold desire. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...APPULDURCOMBE PARK by AMY LOWELL FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN by WILLIAM MEREDITH ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION by JOHN CIARDI LES GRANDES PASSIONS MANQUEES by IRVING FELDMAN FAIRIES' SONG by THOMAS RANDOLPH ODE TO MASTER ANTHONY STAFFORD [TO HASTEN HIM INTO COUNTRY] by THOMAS RANDOLPH |
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