Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TRAGEDY OF VALENTINIAN: THE POWER OF LOVE, by JOHN FLETCHER Poet's Biography First Line: Hear ye, ladies that despise Last Line: He can build, and once more fire. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
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...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD ASPATIA'S SONG, FR. THE MAID'S TRAEGDY by JOHN FLETCHER |
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