Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON HIS LOVE AFTER DEATH, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poet's Biography First Line: Let lovers that like honey-flies Last Line: Lives, though not in thine eyes, yet in my heart. Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The | ||||||||
LET lovers that like honey-flies After balm-dropping showers Swarming in sunshine of thine eyes, Kissing thy beauty's flowers -- Believe that they do live, while they do taste Of all those dainty sweetnesses thou hast. Let them believe while they do sip, Or while that they have suckt, The rosy nectar of thy lip, Or from the rose unpluckt Of thy fair cheek, or of thy fragrant breasts, The aromatic odours of the East. Let them believe, that they do live, So long as they are fed Upon the honey thou dost give, Which wanting, they are dead: For if thou that ambrosial food deny, Their loves, like souls of beasts, do with them die. But, Cynthia, that ne'er-ending love Wherewith I honour thee, To be immortal, thus I prove, For though that absence be A truer portraiture of death than sleep, Nay, a true death, for absent lovers weep: Yet like a long-departed soul That hath a body lost, Hath yet a being to condole, So my love like a ghost, Remaining follows thee, whose Heaven thou art, Lives, though not in thine eyes, yet in my heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON CONCEALMENT OF HER BEAUTY by FRANCIS KYNASTON |
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