Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LUCASIA, ROSANIA, AND ORINDA PARTING AT A FOUNTAIN, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, here are our enjoyments done Last Line: The fears and sorrows of this day. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Grief; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men | ||||||||
I Here, here are our enjoyments done, And since the Love and grief we weare Forbids us either word or teare, And Art wants here expression, See Nature furnish us with one. II The kind and mournfull Nimph which here Inhabits in her humble Cells, No longer her own Sorrow tells, Nor for it now concern'd appears, But for our parting sheds these tears. III Unless she may afflicted be, Least we should doubt her Innocence; Since she hath lost her best pretence Unto a matchless purity; Our love being clearer far than she. IV Cold as the streams that from her flow, Or (if her privater recess A greater coldness can express) Then cold as those dark beds of snow Our hearts are at this parting blow. V But Time, that has both wings and feet, Our suffering Minutes being Spent, Will visit us with new content; And sure, if kindness be so sweet 'Tis harder to forget then meet. VI Then though the sad Adieu we say, Yet as the wine we hither bring, Revives, and then exalts the Spring; So let our hopes to meet allay, The fears and Sorrows of this day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FEMALE MASCULINITY by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM THE ASS FESTIVAL by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM DOSSIER OF IRRETRIEVABLES by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM THIS ONE'S FOR YOU by JAN HELLER LEVI I KNOW MY HUSBAND'S BODY by TIMOTHY LIU FRIENDSHIP'S MYSTERY, TO MY DEAREST LUCASIA by KATHERINE PHILIPS TO MY ANTENOR, MARCH 16, 1661/2 by KATHERINE PHILIPS TO MY EXCELLENT LUCASIA, ON OUR FRIENDSHIP. 17TH JULY 1651 by KATHERINE PHILIPS |
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