Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PARADOX, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true the beauteous star Last Line: To love a bear or cow. | ||||||||
'Tis true the beauteous star To which I first did bow Burnt quicker, brighter far Than that which leads me now; Which shines with more delight; For gazing on that light So long near lost my sight. Through foul we follow fair, For had the world one face, And earth been bright as air, We had known neither place: Indians smell not their nest; A Swiss or Finn tastes best The spices of the East. So from the glorious sun, Who to his height hath got, With what delight we run To some black cave or grot! And heav'nly Sidney you Twice read, had rather view Some odd romance so new. The god that constant keeps Unto his deities Is poor in joys, and sleeps Imprison'd in the skies: This knew the wisest, who From Juno stole, below To love a bear or cow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LA BELLA BONA ROBA by RICHARD LOVELACE THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON by RICHARD LOVELACE THE SCRUTINY; SONG by RICHARD LOVELACE TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON by RICHARD LOVELACE TO AMARANTHA, THAT SHE WOULD DISHEVEL HER HAIR by RICHARD LOVELACE TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING BEYOND THE SEAS by RICHARD LOVELACE TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS by RICHARD LOVELACE A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (1) by RICHARD LOVELACE A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (2) by RICHARD LOVELACE |
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