Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NYMPH TO A YOUNG SHEPHERD, INSENSIBLE OF LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou fly me thus? Last Line: Thus led by sports, and wing'd by thy disdain. Subject(s): Love - Complaints | ||||||||
WHY dost thou fly me thus? Oh cruel boy! I am no wolf that would thy life destroy: But a fond Nymph, admirer of thy face, As Echo once of fair Narcissus was. Thou e'en in dangers dost thy fancy please, Striving with toil the hunted game to seize: While wretched me, who languish for thy sake, When in thy net thou dost refuse to take. But I, alas, in vain attempt to find Effects of pity in a hard'ned mind: As soon the hare its hunters may pursue, As I with prayers thy cruel heart subdue. My pow'r, I see, cannot thy steps retain, Thus led by sports, and wing'd by thy disdain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY QUICK AND BITTER by YEHUDA AMICHAI ON A FAIR BEGGAR by PHILIP AYRES |
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