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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire, fire, fire, fire! Last Line: That else must burn, and with me fall. Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Pain; Rivers; Suffering; Misery | |||
Fire, fire, fire, fire! Lo here I burn in such desire That all the tears that I can strain Out of mine idly empty brain Cannot allay my scorching pain. Come Trent, and Humber, and fair Thames, Drear Ocean, haste with all thy streams; And, if you cannot quench my fire, O drown both me and my desire. Fire, fire, fire, fire! There is no hell to my desire: See, all the Rivers backward fly, And the Ocean doth his waves deny, For fear my heat should drink them dry. Come, heavenly showers, then, pouring down; Came, you that once the world did drown: Some then you spared, but now save all, That else must burn, and with me fall. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARTHENOPHIL AND PARTHENOPHE: MADRIGAL 14 by BARNABE BARNES SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 1 by ARLO BATES IN PRAISE OF PAIN by HEATHER MCHUGH THE SYMPATIZERS by JOSEPHINE MILES LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 by THOMAS CAMPION |
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