Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN ELEGY (4), by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you must go, and I must bid farewell Last Line: Till I may see both it and you again. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of | ||||||||
Since you must go, and I must bid farewell, Hear, mistress, your departing servant tell What it is like: and do not think they can Be idle words, though of a parting man; It is as if a night should shade noon-day, Or that the sun was here, but forced away; And we were left under that hemisphere, Where we must feel it dark for half a year. What fate is this to change men's days and hours, To shift their seasons, and destroy their powers! Alas I have lost my heat, my blood, my prime, Winter is come a quarter ere his time, My health will leave me; and when you depart, How shall I do, sweet mistress, for my heart? You would restore it? No, that's worth a fear, As if it were not worthy to be there: O, keep it still; for it had rather be Your sacrifice, than here remain with me. And so I spare it. Come what can become Of me, I'll softly tread unto my tomb; Or like a ghost walk silent amongst men, Till I may see both it and you again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROSE AND MURRAY by CONRAD AIKEN THOUGH WE NO LONGER POSSESS IT by MARK JARMAN THE GLORY OF THE DAY WAS IN HER FACE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON LOVE COME AND GONE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 33 by JAMES JOYCE A SCOTCH SONG by JOANNA BAILLIE A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 1. HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID by BEN JONSON |
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