Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A BEAUTY WITH ILL QUALITIES, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poet's Biography First Line: Mistaken nature here has join'd Last Line: As unsuspected, as unseen. Subject(s): Beauty; Deception; Duplicity; Deceit | ||||||||
I. MISTAKEN Nature here has join'd A beauteous Face and ugly Mind; In vain the faultless Features strike, When Soul and Body are unlike; Pity, those snowy Breasts should hide, Deceit, and Avarice, and Pride. II. So in rich Jars from China brought, With glowing Colours gayly wrought, Oft-times the subtle Spider dwells, With secret Venom bloated swells, Weaves all his fatal Nets within, As unsuspected, as unseen. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW TO KNOW LOVE FROM DECEIT by WILLIAM BLAKE TO FINE LADY WOULD-BE by BEN JONSON THE LOVE OF DECEIT by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE LINES WRITTEN IN ROUSSEAU'S LETTERS OF AN ITALIAN NUN. by GEORGE GORDON BYRON TALE: 9. ARABELLA by GEORGE CRABBE TO CASTARA, OF TRUE DELIGHT by WILLIAM HABINGTON OJISTOH by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON 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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