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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESCRIPTION AND PRAISE OF HIS LOVE GERALDINE, by HENRY HOWARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: From tuscan came my lady's worthy race
Last Line: Happy is he that can obtain her love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of
Subject(s): Fitzgerald, Elizabeth (b. 1528)
First Line: From tuscan came my lady's worthy race
Last Line: Happy is he that can obtain her love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of
Subject(s): Fitzgerald, Elizabeth (b. 1528)
From Tuscan came my lady's worthy race,
Fair Florence was sometime her ancient seat,
The western isle whose pleasant shore doth face
Wild Camber's cliffs did give her lively heat;
Fostered she was with milk of Irish breast,
Her sire an earl, her dame of princes' blood;
From tender years in Britain she doth rest
With king's child, where she tastes ghostly food.
Hunsdon did first present her to mine eyen;
Bright is her hue, and Geraldine she hight;
Hampton me taught to wish her first for mine,
And Windsor, alas, doth chase me from her sight.
Beauty of kind, her virtues from above;
Happy is he that can obtain her love.
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