Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNDER FIRE, by ANNA MAY DUDLEY First Line: Now has love wrought a fever in my veins Last Line: With his own weapons, will I love ensnare. | ||||||||
Now has love wrought a fever in my veins And when I would be here, I would be there, And would I rest, no rest for me remains. This gown, or that, I know not what to wear. What, must I to love's tyranny confess? A pother on it all! I will not thus That love, who was my erstwhile friend, no less, Should me besiege with senses amorous. For this offense, I will inflict, I swear, Such wounds as he cannot in truth deny! I'll feign indifference, or he forbear, And weave the while a potent spell thereby Shall him disarm; then taken unaware, With his own weapons, will I love ensnare. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUT BEAUTIFUL EN MASSE by ANNA MAY DUDLEY THE SOPHISTICATES by ANNA MAY DUDLEY THE WISE WOMAN by SARA TEASDALE THE WANDERER: A ROCOCO STUDY (FIRST VERSION) by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS BYRON by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER BALLADE OF A TRAVELLER'S JINX by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THE WELFORD WEDDING by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST TO MY FRIENDS, WHO RIDICULED A TENDER LEAVE-TAKING by MATTHEW ARNOLD MY LITTLE TASK by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON |
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