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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I behold a forest spread Last Line: Dotes less on nature, then on art. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics | |||
When I behold a Forrest spread With silken trees upon thy head; And when I see that other Dresse Of flowers set in comlinesse: When I behold another grace In the ascent of curious Lace, Which like a Pinacle doth shew The top, and the top-gallant too. Then, when I see thy Tresses bound Into an Ovall, Square, or round; And knit in knots far more then I Can tell by tongue; or true-love tie: Next, when those Lawnie Filmes I see Play with a wild civility: And all those airie silks to flow, Alluring me, and tempting so: I must confesse, mine eye and heart Dotes less on Nature, then on Art. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO HIS MISTRESS by ABRAHAM COWLEY EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS by BEN JONSON NEGRO GIRL by IRENE COOPER ALLEN OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 8. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE FOURTH EPIGRAM by THOMAS CAMPION SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO SECUNDO. LOVE'S PILGRIMS by THOMAS CAMPION THE TOILETTE; A TOWN ECLOGUE by JOHN GAY UPON A PAINTED GENTLEWOMAN by ROBERT HERRICK A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL by ROBERT HERRICK A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by ROBERT HERRICK A TERNARIE OF LITTLES, UPON A PIPKIN OF JELLIE by ROBERT HERRICK |
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