Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AGAINST DRESS, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poet's Biography First Line: Why will neaera fondly deck Last Line: Untaught and artless charm the vale. Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress; Nature; Vanity | ||||||||
I. WHY will Neæra fondly deck With pearly Rows her polish'd Neck; Why with the feathery Tippet hide, Her swelling Bosom's spotless Pride? With genuine Beauties, all your own, You need not borrow Venus' Zone. II. Whence all this fashionable Care, To curl that lovely Length of Hair. Which Nature meant shou'd flow profuse, In Ringlets beautifully loose: The studied Fopperies of Art No real Elegance impart. III. Mark, fair One, in its native Bed, How blooms the Cowslip's velvet Head; What luscious Clusters load the Vines, Whose Growth no skilful Hand confines; How sweet the Lark and Nightingale Untaught and artless charm the Vale. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THROUGH A GLASS EYE, LIGHTLY by CAROLYN KIZER EPITAPH: FOR A PREACHER by COUNTEE CULLEN THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT by ANNE BRADSTREET THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS by ANNE BRADSTREET THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH by ROBERT BROWNING ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON AGING: ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS by ARTHUR GUITERMAN THE SPIDER AND THE FLY by MARY HOWITT A FAREWELL TO POETRY by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER A FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER |
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