Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO CAELIA; ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me my heart again (fair treachery) Last Line: Unless you give me back my heart again. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
I GIVE me my heart again (fair Treachery) You ravished from me with a smile, Oh! let it in some nobler quarrel die Than a poor trophy of your guile. And faith (bright Caelia) tell me, what should you, Who are all falsehood, do with one so true? II Or lend me yours awhile instead of it, That I in time my skill may try, Though ill I know it will my bosom fit, To teach it some fidelity; Or that it else may teach me to begin To be to you what you to me have been. III False and imperious Caelia, cease to be Proud of a conquest is your shame, You triumph o'er an humble enemy, Not one you fairly overcame. Your eyes alone might have subdued my heart, Without the poor confed'racy of art. IV But to the pow'r of Beauty you must add The witchcraft of a sigh and tear: I did admire before, but yet was made By those to love; they fix'd me there: I else, as other transient lovers do, Had twenty lov'd e'er this as well as you. V And twenty more I did intend to love, E'er twenty weeks are past and gone, And at a rate so modish, as shall prove My heart a very civil one: But oh (false Fair!) I thus resolve in vain, Unless you give me back my heart again. | 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 AN EPITAPH ON M.H. by CHARLES COTTON LAURA SLEEPING; ODE by CHARLES COTTON RESOLUTION OF A POETICAL QUESTION CONCERNING FOUR RURAL SISTERS: 2 by CHARLES COTTON |
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