Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VISION (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting alone (as one forsook) Last Line: Herrick, thou art too coorse to love. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited | ||||||||
Sitting alone (as one forsook) Close by a Silver-shedding Brook; With hands held up to Love, I wept; And after sorrowes spent, I slept: Then in a Vision I did see A glorious forme appeare to me: A Virgins face she had; her dresse Was like a sprightly Spartanesse. A silver bow with green silk strung, Down from her comely shoulders hung: And as she stood, the wanton Aire Dandled the ringlets of her haire. Her legs were such Diana shows, When tuckt up she a hunting goes; With Buskins shortned to descrie The happy dawning of her thigh: Which when I saw, I made accesse To kisse that tempting nakednesse: But she forbad me, with a wand Of Mirtle she had in her hand: And chiding me, said, Hence, Remove, Herrick, thou art too coorse to love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TUTTO E SCIOLTO by JAMES JOYCE APPULDURCOMBE PARK by AMY LOWELL TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON by GLYN MAXWELL ELEGY FOR AN ENEMY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ESSAY ON WHAT I THINK ABOUT MOST by ANNE CARSON 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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