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LOVELY DAMES, by                 Poet Analysis    
First Line: Few are my books, but my small few have told
Last Line: Substance to those fine ghosts, and make them live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Women


FEW are my books, but my small few have told
Of many a lovely dame that lived of old;
And they have made me see those fatal charms
Of Helen, which brought Troy so many harms;
And lovely Venus, when she stood so white
Close to her husband's forge in its red light.
I have seen Dian's beauty in my dreams,
When she had trained her looks in all the streams
She crossed to Latmos and Endymion;
And Cleopatra's eyes, that hour they shone
The brighter for a pearl she drank to prove
How poor it was compared to her rich love:
But when I look on thee, love, thou dost give
Substance to those fine ghosts, and make them live.





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