Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEAUTIES ECLIPSED, by FRANCIS LENTON


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BEAUTIES ECLIPSED, by                    
First Line: Ladies who gild the glittering moon
Last Line: Since charles and mary lost their beams.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


LADIES who gild the glittering moon,
And by reflection mend its ray,
Whose lustre makes the sprightful sun
To dance as on an Easter Day:
What are ye now the Queen's away?

Courageous eagles which have whet
Your eyes upon majestic light,
And thence derived such martial heat
As still your looks maintained the fight;
What are ye, since the King's good night.

As an obstructed fountain's head
Cuts the entail off from the streams,
All brooks are disinherited;
Honour and beauty are but dreams,
Since Charles and Mary lost their beams.





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