Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 25, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I urge my kind desires Last Line: Never lived or loved to die. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited | ||||||||
IF I urge my kind desires, She unkind doth them reject; Women's hearts are painted fires To deceive them that affect. I alone love's fires include; She alone doth them delude. She hath often vowed her love; But, alas! no fruit I find. That her fires are false I prove, Yet in her no fault I find: I was thus unhappy born, And ordained to be her scorn. Yet if human care or pain, May the heavenly order change, She will hate her own disdain And repent she was so strange: For a truer heart than I, Never lived or loved to die. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LA PALMA by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA BEAUTY SHOPPE by MARILYN NELSON EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, IN ANSWER TO SOME LINES TO BE CHEERFUL by GEORGE GORDON BYRON A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 33 by THOMAS CAMPION A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 37 by THOMAS CAMPION SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20 by THOMAS CAMPION A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 by THOMAS CAMPION |
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