Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE SIGHT OF A GENTLEWOMAN'S FACE IN THE WATER, by THOMAS CAREW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand still, you floods! Do not deface Last Line: A second venus rise. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces | ||||||||
Stand still, you floods, do not deface That image which you bear: So votaries from every place To you shall altars rear. No winds but lovers' sighs blow here To trouble these glad streams, On which no star from any sphere Did ever dart such beams. To crystal then in haste congeal, Lest you should lose your bliss; And to my cruel fair reveal How cold, how hard she is. But if the envious nymphs shall fear Their beauties will be scorned, And hire the ruder winds to tear That face which you adorned, Then rage and foam amain, that we Their malice may despise; When from your froth we soon shall see A second Venus rise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHEN WE LOOK UP by DENISE LEVERTOV HISTORY OF MY FACE by KHALED MATTAWA WOMAN IN FRONT OF POSTER OF HERSELF by ALICE NOTLEY THE HOUSE OF DUST: 1 by CONRAD AIKEN LOOKING AT AGING FACES by ROBERT BLY WHAT MAKES THIS STATUE NOBLE SEEMING by KENNETH KOCH A DEPOSITION FROM LOVE by THOMAS CAREW A PASTORAL DIALOGUE: SHEPHERD, NYMPH, CHORUS by THOMAS CAREW |
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