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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUATORZAINS: 6. A FANTASTIC SIMILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lover is a slender, glowing urn Last Line: Deep-caverned in a fringed lake of blue. Subject(s): Love; Metaphor; Vases; Similes | |||
A LOVER is a slender, glowing urn On beauty's shrine, his heart is incense sweet, Which with his eye-lit torch young love doth burn; Then from its ardour cloudy ringlets fleet, That we call sighs, and they with perfume turn Upwards, his mistress' whisperings to meet. The breezy whispers and the sighs embrace, Like pink-wing'd clouds mixing above the hill, And from their lovely toyings spring a race Of tears, which saunter down in cheek-bank'd rill, Silvering with sparkling coil the fair one's face; Twin dew-drops which her startled senses spill From violet's eyes, that hide their tender hue Deep-caverned in a fringed lake of blue. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN) by NORMAN DUBIE NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN by CAROLYN KIZER MAROON BELLS by KENNETH REXROTH THINKING OF A RELATION BETWEEN THE IMAGES OF METHAPHORS by WALLACE STEVENS MY FATHER'S GARDEN by DAVID WAGONER |
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