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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 6. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE SECOND EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Cease, fond wretch, to love, so oft deluded
Last Line: Whom in vain so long thy folly loved.
Subject(s): Love
First Line: Cease, fond wretch, to love, so oft deluded
Last Line: Whom in vain so long thy folly loved.
Subject(s): Love
Cease, fond wretch, to love, so oft deluded,
Still made rich with hopes, still unrelieved.
Now fly her delays; she that debateth,
Feels not true desire; he that, deferred,
Others' times attends, his own betrayeth:
Learn t'affect thyself, thy cheeks deformed
With pale care revive by timely pleasure,
Or with scarlet heat them, or by paintings
Make thee lovely; for such art she useth
Whom in vain so long thy folly loved.
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