I How, Chloris, can I e'er believe The vows of woman-kind, Since yours I faithless find, So faithless, that you can refuse To him your shadow, t' whom, to choose, Your swore you could the substance give? II Is't not enough that I must go Into another clime, Where feather-footed Time May turn my hopes into despair, My downy youth to bristled hair, But that you add this torment too? III Perchance you fear idolatry Would make the image prove A woman fit for love; Or give it such a soul as shone Through fond Pigmalion's living stone, That so I might abandon thee. IV O no! 'twould fill my Genius' room, My honest one, that when Frailty would love agen, And, falt'ring, with new objects burn, Then, Sweetest, would thy picture turn My wand'ring eyes to thee at home. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MAYFLOWER [DECEMBER 21, 1620] by ERASTUS WOLCOTT ELLSWORTH LAVENDER'S BLUE (1) by MOTHER GOOSE RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP by HENRY DAVID THOREAU COLIN AND LUCY by THOMAS TICKELL GOD EVERYWHERE by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA SESTET SENT TO A FRIEND WITH A VOLUME OF TENNYSON by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: LEBID by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |