Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO CHLORIS; ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my sweet, until I come Last Line: Sole prince of all the world beside. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
FAREWELL, my Sweet, until I come, Improv'd in merit, for thy sake, With Characters of Honour home, Such, as thou canst not then but take. To Loyalty my love must bow, My Honour too calls to the Field, Where, for a lady's busk, I now Must keen, and sturdy iron wield. Yet, when I rush into those arms, Where Death, and Danger do combine, I shall less subject be to harms, Than to those killing eyes of thine. Since I could live in thy disdain, Thou art so far become my Fate, That I by nothing can be slain, Until thy sentence speaks my date. But, if I seem to fall in War, T' excuse the murder you commit, Be to my memory just so far, As in thy heart t' acknowledge it; That's all I ask; which thou must give To him that dying, takes a pride It is for thee; and would not live Sole Prince of all the world beside. | 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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