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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO THE TURTLE DOVE, by ROYALL TYLER Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet child of woe! Who pour'st thy love lorn lays
Last Line: In all your sorrows, for your joys are mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Della Cruscanism (poetic Style); Turtledoves
First Line: Sweet child of woe! Who pour'st thy love lorn lays
Last Line: In all your sorrows, for your joys are mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Della Cruscanism (poetic Style); Turtledoves
SWEET CHILD OF WOE!! who pour'st thy love lorn lays
On the dull ear of PENSIVE night,
Who with THY sighs protract'st the pitying gale,
WHICH seeks with GOS'MER wing the INFANT LIGHT.
DAUGHTER OF SIGHS, whose plumy pinions wave
In one dank circle of despair,
WHO in the surge OF MISERY lov'st to lave,
And draw'st rich solace from the realms of CARE.
OFFSPRING OF GRIEF! child of EXTATIC woes!
NOW night sheds soft her curtain'd sleep,
AND greedy wealth, and vulgar bliss REPOSE,
And only sorrow JOYS to wake and weep.
COME, CHILD OF WOE, and let Eliza join
In all your SORROWS, for your JOYS are MINE.
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