Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HUNTING OF CUPID, by GEORGE PEELE Poet's Biography First Line: What thing is love (for wel I wot) love is a thing Last Line: Some prettie lye he coined. Subject(s): Love - Complaints | ||||||||
Love. What thing is love (for wel I wot) love is a thing it is a pricke, it is a sting it is a prettie, prettie thing it is a fire, it is a cole whose flame creepes in at eurie hole. and is [read as] my wit doth best devise loves dwelling is in ladys eies: from whence do glance loves piercing darts that mak such holes into o@5r harts and al the world herin accord love is a great and mightie lord And when he list to mount so hie With Venus he in heaven doth lie And ever more hath been a god Since Mars and sche plaid even and od. Kis a litle and use not. Q. why kissings good. R. to stirre zour bloud to make zou wel dispos'd to play. ab aquilone omne malum. wold have moued teares in vreath [i. e. wrath] herselfe. wrinckled sorrow sate in furrowes of a faire face. famous for his il fortune. zou that think ther is no heaven but on earth. zou that sucke poison insteed of honney. he excedeth fiends in crueltie and fortune in unconstancie. set up Cynthea by day and Citherea by nig@5t sche strakid his head and mist his hornes. who bluntly bespake her grew this sueet rose in this soure stalke Cupids At Venus entreate for Cupid her sone Arrowes these arrowes by Vlcan are cunningly done the first is love the second shafte is hate but this is hope from whence sueet comfort springs this jelousie in bassest minds doth duell his mettall Vlcan's Cyclops fetcht from Hel a smaking kis that wakt me w@5t the dine know good and eschew it praise chastnesse and follow lustful love like the old [one or two words illegible here] al quicklie com home by weeping crosse. highest imperial orbe and throne of the thunder Et non morieris inultus. schelter and shade. holdeth them faster than Vlcan's fine wires kept Mars. a song to be sung for a wager a dish of damsons new gathered off the trees. Melampus when wil love be voide of feares when jelousie hath nather eies nor eires Melampus tel me when is love best fed when it hath suck[t]e the sueet y@5t ease hath bred Licoris as sueet to him as licorice. Cor sapit et [some words illegible here] a hot liver must be in a lover. To commend anay thing is the Italian way of crauing. my hart is like a point of geometrie indiuisible, and wher it goes it goes al. Hard hart that did thy reed (poore shephard) brake thy reed y@5t was the trumpet of thy wit Zet though unworthie sound thy phenix's praise and with this slender pipe her glorie raise Cupid enraged to see a thousand boyes as faire as he sit shooting in her eies fell doune and sche pluckt al his plumes and made herselfe a fan suering him her true litle seruing man. Muse chuse My mistres feeds the ayre ayre feeds not her ly@5t of the ly@5t sche is, delyt supreame. Zet so far from the lytness of her sex for sche is the bird whose name doth end in X. Not clouds cast from the spungie element nor darknesse shot from Orcus pitchie eyes Zet both her shines vailed w@5t her arche beauties her words such quickning odors cast as raise the sicke and make the soundest thinke ayre is not wholsome, til her walke be past more then the fontaynes til the vnicornes drinke a thousand echoes vat [i. e. wait] upon her voice. Cupid. Those milkie mounts he eurie morning hants wher to their drink his mothers doues he calls. in my younger dayes when my witts ran a wool gathering some prettie lye he coined. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY QUICK AND BITTER by YEHUDA AMICHAI FAREWELL TO ARMS by GEORGE PEELE A FAREWELL TO SIR JOHN NORRIS AND SIR FRANCIS DRAKE by GEORGE PEELE |
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