HEAR ye, ladies, that despise, What the mighty love has done; Fear examples, and be wise: Fair Callisto was a nun; Leds, sailing on the stream To deceive the hopes of man, Love accounting but a dream, Doted on a silver swan; Danae, in a brazen tower, Where no love was, loved a shower. Hear, ye ladies that are coy, What the mighty love can do; Fear the fierceness of the boy: The chaste moon he makes to woo; Vesta, kindling holy fires, Circled round about with spies, Never dreaming loose desires, Doting at the altar dies; Ilion, in a short hour, higher He can build, and once more fire. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM FRANCE by ISAAC ROSENBERG DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 6 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 4. THE MARKET-GIRL by THOMAS HARDY TELLING THE BEES (A COLONIAL CUSTOM) by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE LINES TO A NASTURTIUM (A LOVER MUSES) by ANNE SPENCER |