Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HE WOULD HAVE HIS LADY SING, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me the men ere this Last Line: And see him in the face. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth | ||||||||
SING me the men ere this Who, to the gate that is A cloven pearl uprapt, The big white bars between With dying eyes have seen The sea of jasper, lapt About with crystal sheen; And all the far pleasance Where linked Angels dance, With scarlet wings that fall Magnifical, or spread Most sweetly over-head, In fashion musical, Of cadenced lutes instead. Sing me the town they saw Withouten fleck or flaw, Aflame, more fine than glass Of fair Abbayes the boast, More glad than wax of cost Doth make at Candlemas The Lifting of the Host: Where many Knights and Dames, With new and wondrous names, One great Laudate Psalm Go singing down the street; -- 'Tis peace upon their feet, In hand 'tis pilgrim palm Of Goddes Land so sweet: -- Where Mother Mary walks In silver lily stalks, Star-tired, moon-bedight; Where Cecily is seen, With Dorothy in green, And Magdalen all white, The maidens of the Queen. Sing on -- the Steps untrod, The Temple that is God, Where incense doth ascend, Where mount the cries and tears Of all the dolorous years, With moan that ladies send Of durance and sore fears: -- And Him who sitteth there, The Christ of purple hair, And great eyes deep with ruth, Who is of all things fair That shall be, or that were, The sum, and very truth. Then add a little prayer, That since all these be so, Our Liege, who doth us know, Would fend from Sathanas, And bring us, of His grace, To that His joyous place: So we the Doom may pass, And see Him in the Face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A POEM WITHOUT A NAME: 1 by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN A POEM WITHOUT A NAME: 2 by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN A PRAYER by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN A SEA SONG by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN A SONG OF EIGHTEEN by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN AFTER READING AESCHYLUS by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN AFTER READING HOMER by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN ANACREONTIC by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN BEYOND by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN BREVI TEMPORE MAGNUM PERFECIT OPUS by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN CORE by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN DUM AGONIZATUR ANIMA, ORENT ASSISTENTES; FRAGMENT by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN |
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