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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MADRIGAL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before me, careless lying Last Line: Its sorrow and undoing. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin | |||
BEFORE me, careless lying, Young Love his ware comes crying: Full soon the elf untreasures His pack of pains and pleasures, -- With roguish eye, He bids me buy From out his pack of treasures. His wallet's stuffed with blisses, With true-love-knots and kisses, With rings and rosy fetters, And sugared vows and letters; -- He holds them out With boyish flout, And bids me try the fetters. Nay, Child (I cry), I know them; There's little need to show them! Too well for new believing I know their past deceiving, -- I am too old (I say), and cold, To-day, for new believing! But still the wanton presses, With honey-sweet caresses, And still, to my undoing, He wins me, with his wooing, To buy his ware With all its care, Its sorrow and undoing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A GAGE D'AMOUR by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON A GARDEN SONG by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON ARS VICTRIX (IMITATED FROM THEOPHILE GAUTIER) by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON BEFORE SEDAN by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON DORA VERSUS ROSE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON GROWING GRAY by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON IN AFTER DAYS; RONDEAU by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE BALLAD OF PROSE AND RHYME by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON WHEN THERE IS PEACE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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