Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S RECORDING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poet's Biography First Line: Come, boy, and where the grass is thickest pied Last Line: How for love's sake I suffer and make moan. Subject(s): April; Life; Love | ||||||||
COME, boy, and where the grass is thickest pied, With robber hand cut the green season's bloom, Then flinging open armfuls strew the room With flowers that April bears in her young pride. Then set my lyre, song's handmaid, by my side -- For if I may, I'll charm away the gloom That like a poison worketh to consume My life, through power of beauty undefied. Then bring me ink and countless papers white -- White paper shall bear witness to my woe, Whereon the record of this love I'll write. White paper, that endures when diamond stone Is worn away, shall bid the ages know How for love's sake I suffer and make moan. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD RETURN OF SPRING by PIERRE DE RONSARD |
|