Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN I WAS FAIR AND YOUNG, by EDWARD DE VERE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was fair and young, then favour graced me Last Line: Go, go, go, seek some other where, importune me no more Alternate Author Name(s): Bulbeck, Lord; Oxford, 17th Earl Of; Vere, Edward De | ||||||||
When I was fair and young then favour graced me; Of many was I sought their mistress for to be. But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere, Importune me no more. How many weeping eyes I made to pine in woe; How many sighing hearts I have no skill to show; Yet I the prouder grew, and answered them therefore, Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere, Importune me no more. Then spake fair Venus' son, that proud victorious boy, And said, you dainty dame, since that you be so coy, I will so pluck your plumes that you shall say no more Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere, Importune me no more. When he had spake these words such change grew in my breast, That neither night nor day I could take any rest. Then, lo ! I did repent, that I had said before Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere, Importune me no more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A RENUNCIATION by EDWARD DE VERE THE SHEPHERD'S COMMENDATION OF HIS NYMPH by EDWARD DE VERE WHITE AND RED by EDWARD DE VERE SITTING ALONE UPON MY THOUGHT by EDWARD DE VERE THE BARREL-ORGAN by ALFRED NOYES ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 72 by PHILIP SIDNEY AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH by WALT WHITMAN THE ENGINE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON |
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