Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 13, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, thou spring of speaking grace, mute rest becomes Last Line: Do it not in slumber smother! Subject(s): Language | ||||||||
AWAKE, thou spring of speaking grace! mute rest becomes not thee! The fairest women, while they sleep, and pictures, equal be. O come and dwell in love's discourses! Old renewing, new creating. The words which thy rich tongue discourses Are not of the common rating! Thy voice is as an Echo clear which Music doth beget, Thy speech is as an Oracle which none can counterfeit: For thou alone, without offending, Hast obtained power of enchanting; And I could hear thee without ending, Other comfort never wanting. Some little reason brutish lives with human glory share; But language is our proper grace, from which they severed are. As brutes in reason man surpasses, Men in speech excel each other: If speech be then the best of graces, Do it not in slumber smother! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOWYOUBEENS' by TERRANCE HAYES MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN CANADA IN ENGLISH by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THERE IS NO WORD by TONY HOAGLAND CONSIDERED SPEECH by JOHN HOLLANDER A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 by THOMAS CAMPION |
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