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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A PLANT OF VIRGIN'S BOWER; DESIGNED TO COVER GARDEN-SEAT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrive, gentle plant! And weave a bower
Last Line: Be crowned with virgin's bower?
Subject(s): Virgin's-bower (plant)
First Line: Thrive, gentle plant! And weave a bower
Last Line: Be crowned with virgin's bower?
Subject(s): Virgin's-bower (plant)
THRIVE, gentle plant! and weave a bower
For Mary and for me,
And deck with many a splendid flower
Thy foliage large and free.
Thou camest from Eartham, and wilt shade
(If truly I divine)
Some future day the illustrious head
Of him who made thee mine.
Should Daphne show a jealous frown,
And Envy seize the bay,
Affirming none so fit to crown
Such honoured brows as they,
Thy cause with zeal we shall defend,
And with convincing power;
For why should not the Virgin's Friend
Be crowned with Virgin's Bower?
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