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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
KEEPING ENDLESS HOLIDAY, by TITUS PETRONIUS NIGER First Line: Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short Last Line: Can this decay, but is beginning ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Petronius Arbiter; Tactitus Arbiter Elegantiae Variant Title(s): "chaste Lust;""doing, A Filthy Pleasure Is, And Short""; Subject(s): Love | |||
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not then rush blindly on unto it, Like lustfull beasts, that onely know to doe it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endlesse Holy-day, Let us together closely lie, and kisse, There is no labour, nor no shame in this; This hath pleas'd, doth please, and long will please; never Can this decay, but is beginning ever. | 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 ENCOURAGEMENT TO EXILE by TITUS PETRONIUS NIGER |
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