Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN ANNIVERSARY [ON THE HYMNALS OF MY NOBLE KINSMAN], by RICHARD LOVELACE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is curled about again Last Line: Thousands of new-born loves with your chaste eyes. Subject(s): Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678) | ||||||||
The day is curled about again To view the splendour she was in, When first with hallowed hands The holy man knit the mysterious bands; When you two your contracted souls did move, Like cherubims above, And did make love, As your un-understanding issue now, In a glad sigh, a smile, a tear, a vow. Tell me, O self-reviving Sun, In thy peregrination Hast thou beheld a pair Twist their soft beams like these in their chaste air? As from bright numberless embracing rays Are sprung th' industrious days, So when they gaze, And change their fertile eyes with the new morn, A beauteous offspring is shot forth, not born. Be witness then, all-seeing Sun, Old spy, thou that thy race hast run In full five thousand rings; To thee were ever purer offerings Sent on the wings of faiths? And thou, O Night! Curtain of their delight, By these made bright, Have you not marked their celestial play, And no more peeked the gaieties of day? Come then, pale virgins, roses strew, Mingled with Io's, as you go; The snowy ox is killed, The fane with pros'lyte lads and lasses filled; You too may hope the same seraphic joy Old Time cannot destroy, Nor fulness cloy, When, like these, you shall stamp by sympathies Thousands of new-born loves with your chaste eyes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MR. STANLEY, AFTER HIS RETURN FROM FRANCE by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) TO MY HONOURED NOBLE FRIEND, THOMAS STANLEY, ESQ. ON HIS POEMS by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) TO THOMAS STANLEY (1) by WILLIAM HAMMOND TO THOMAS STANLEY (2) by WILLIAM HAMMOND TO THOMAS STANLEY, ON HIS POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS by WILLIAM HAMMOND TO THOMAS STANLEY, ON HIS POEMS, .. MANIFEST HIS MORE SERIOUS LABOURS by WILLIAM HAMMOND TO THOMAS STANLEY, ON HIS TRANSLATION OF TWO SPANISH NOVELS by WILLIAM HAMMOND TO THOMAS STANLEY, ON MY LIBRARY by WILLIAM HAMMOND TO THOMAS STANLEY, RECOVERED OF THE SMALL-POX by WILLIAM HAMMOND GRATIANA DANCING AND SINGING by RICHARD LOVELACE LA BELLA BONA ROBA by RICHARD LOVELACE THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON by RICHARD LOVELACE |
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