Great Goddess @3Peace@1 does Wealth on us bestow, From her our Sciences and Learning flow, Our Arts improve, and we the Artists prize, Our Altars fume with richest Sacrifice: Youths mind their active sports -- they often meet, Revel and dance with Maydens in the Street; The useless Shield serves to adorn the Hall, Whence Spiders weave their Nets against the Wall; Gauntlets and Spears lye covered over with Dust, And slighted Swords half eaten up with Rust; No Trumpets sound, no rattling Drums we hear, No frightful Clamours pierce the tim'rous Ear; Our weary Eyes emjoying nat'ral Rest, Refresh the Heart when 'tis with Cares opprest: Days steal away in Feasting and Delight, And Lovers spend in Serenades the Night. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OCTAVES: 7 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON DAYBREAK by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE QUAKER POET; VERSES ON SEEING MYSELF SO DESIGNATED by BERNARD BARTON EASTER (TO A BASE AND TWO TREBLES) by JOSEPH BEAUMONT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 40. FAREWELL TO JULIET (2) by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |