Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your fair looks urge my desire Last Line: This place shall I remember. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
YOUR fair looks urge my desire: Calm it, sweet, with love! Stay; O why will you retire? Can you churlish prove? If love may persuade, Love's pleasures, dear, deny not: Here is a grove secured with shade: O then be wise, and fly not. Hark, the birds delighted sing, Yet our pleasure sleeps: Wealth to none can profit bring, Which the miser keeps. O come, while we may, Let's chain love with embraces; We have not all times time to stay, Nor safety in all places. What ill find you now in this, Or who can complain? There is nothing done amiss That breeds no man pain. 'Tis now flowery May; But even in cold December, When all these leaves are blown away, This place shall I remember. | 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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