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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 30, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When laura smiles her sight revives both night and day Last Line: And fills with heavenly spirits my humble muse. Subject(s): Love | |||
WHEN Laura smiles her sight revives both night and day; The earth and heaven view with delight her wanton play: And her speech with ever-flowing music doth repair The cruel wounds of sorrow and untamed despair. The sprites that remain in fleeting air Affect for pastime to untwine her tressed hair: And the birds think sweet Aurora, Morning's Queen, doth shine From her bright sphere, when Laura shows her looks divine. Diana's eyes are not adorned with greater power Than Laura's, when she lists awhile for sport to lower: But when she her eyes encloseth, blindness doth appear The chiefest grace of beauty, sweetly seated there. Love hath no power but what he steals from her bright eyes; Time hath no power but that which in her pleasure lies: For she with her divine beauties all the world subdues, And fills with heavenly spirits my humble Muse. | 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 A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 by THOMAS CAMPION |
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