Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CLOE TO ARTIMESA, by ANONYMOUS First Line: While vulgar souls their vulgar love pursue Last Line: "we'll scorn the monster and his mistress to, / and show the world what women ought to do" Subject(s): Women | ||||||||
WHILE vulgar souls their vulgar love pursue, And in the common way themselves undo; Impairing health and fame, and risking life, To be a mistress or, what's worse, a wife: We, whom a nicer taste has raised above The dangerous follies of such slavish love, Despise the sex, and in our selves we find Pleasures for their gross senses too refined. Let brutish men, made by our weakness vain, Boast of the easy conquest they obtain; Let the poor loving wretch do all she can, And all won't please th' ungrateful tyrant, Man; We'll scorn the monster and his mistress too, And show the world what women ought to do. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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