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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO CHLOE, WHO WISHED HERSELF YOUNG ENOUGH FOR ME, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe, why wish you that your years Last Line: Too old for you as you for me. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences | |||
Chloe, why wish you that your years Would backward run, till they meet mine, That perfect likeness which endears Things unto things might us combine? Our ages so in date agree That twins do differ more than we. There are two births; the one when light First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite; And we must count our life from thence. When you loved me and I loved you, The both of us were born anew. Love then to us did new souls give, And in those souls did plant new powers; Since when another life we live, The breath we breathe is his, not ours; Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps young still. Love, like that angel that shall call Our bodies from the silent grave, Unto one age doth raise us all, None too much, none too little have. Nay, that the difference may be none, He makes two not alike, but one. And now since you and I are such, Tell me what's yours, and what is mine? Our eyes, our ears, our taste, smell, touch, Do, like our souls, in one combine. So by this, I as well may be Too old for you as you for me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GHOST IN THE MARTINI by ANTHONY HECHT THE NIGHT BEFORE FATHER'S DAY by DENISE DUHAMEL PREFERENCE by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES I REMEMBER by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH A SONG OF A YOUNG LADY TO HER ANCIENT LOVER by JOHN WILMOT FROM A YOUNG WOMAN TO AN OLD OFFICER WHO COURTED HER by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST ON THE MARRIAGE OF A BEAUTEOUS YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN WITH AN ANCIENT MAN by FRANCIS BEAUMONT WHAT CAN A YOUNG LASSIE DO by ROBERT BURNS LINES ON MY NEW CHILD SWEETHEART by THOMAS CAMPBELL NO PLATONIQUE LOVE by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT ON A VIRTUOUS YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN THAT DIED SUDDENLY by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT TO CHLOE WHO FOR HIS SAKE WISHED HERSELF YOUNGER by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT |
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