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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TASSO TO LEONORA: 1, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poet's Biography
First Line: Reproach me not because the many chide
Last Line: Or the forgetful dead sleeping appear to scorn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Immortality; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)
First Line: Reproach me not because the many chide
Last Line: Or the forgetful dead sleeping appear to scorn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Immortality; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)
REPROACH me not because the many chide,
Calling me prouder than an Emperor's son,
For so the shepherds called Endymion,
When he had won the mateless moon to bride.
Proud?—Oh, a monarch must forget his pride,
On whom the light of such a love hath shone,
Showing him worth but dim oblivion,
A mortal set at an Immortal's side.
Rather one face, one hour, one master-thought
Stamped on the body and soul of him he bore,
And the world's business like a distant roar
To that tense mind his slackened senses brought.
And men he scorned not, save as the unborn
Or the forgetful dead sleeping appear to scorn.
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