Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PASTICHE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poet's Biography First Line: Love, oh, love's a dainty sweeting Last Line: Lost when most securely won! Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Nature Of | ||||||||
I. LOVE, oh, Love's a dainty sweeting, Wooing now, and now retreating; Brightest joy and blackest care, Swift as light, and light as air. II. Would you seize and fix and capture All his evanescent rapture? Bind him fast with golden curls, Fetter with a chain of pearls? III. Would you catch him in a net, Like a white moth prankt with jet? Clutch him, and his bloomy wing Turns a dead, discoloured thing! IV. Pluck him like a rosebud red, And he leaves a thorn instead; Let him go without a care, And he follows unaware. V. Love, oh Love's a dainty sweeting, Wooing now, and now retreating; Lightly come, and lightly gone, Lost when most securely won! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RESCUE THE DEAD by DAVID IGNATOW BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON by MARK JARMAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 27 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 30 by JAMES JOYCE HE WHO KNOWS LOVE by ELSA BARKER LOVE'S HUMBLENESS by ELSA BARKER SONG (IN THE LUCKY CHANCE) by APHRA BEHN |
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