Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN IMITATION OF COWLEY: 1. WEEPING, by ALEXANDER POPE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While celia's tears make sorrow bright Last Line: To set, like him, heav'n too on fire. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) | ||||||||
While Celia's tears make sorrow bright, Proud grief sits swelling in her eyes: The sun (next those the fairest light) Thus from the ocean first did rise. And thus thro' mists we see the sun, Which else we durst not gaze upon. These silver drops, like morning dew, Foretell the fervour of the day; So from one cloud soft show'rs we view, And blasting lightnings burst away. The stars that fall from Celia's eye, Declare our doom in drawing nigh. The baby, in that sunny sphere So like a Phaeton appears, That heav'n, the threaten'd world to spare, Thought fit to drown him in her tears: Else might th' ambitious nymph aspire, To set, like him, heav'n too on fire. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WINDSOR FOREST by ALEXANDER POPE IN EMULATION OF MR. COWLEYS POEM CALL'D THE MOTTO by MARY ASTELL SONNET ON PIETRO REGGIO HIS SETTING TO MUSIC MR. COWLEY'S POEMS by PHILIP AYRES BEAUTY; PINDARIC ODE by CHARLES COTTON TO CUPID, A FOOLISH POET, OCCASION'D BY AS FOOLISH A POEM OF HIS ... by CHARLES COTTON UPON TWO GREENE APRICOCKES SENT TO COWLEY BY SIR CRASHAW by RICHARD CRASHAW ON MR. ABRAHAM COWLEY'S DEATH AND BURIAL AMONGST THE...POETS by JOHN DENHAM DEDICATORY SONNET TO THE REV. WILLIAM PHILPOT by ALEXANDER B. GROSART TO FRIEND AND SCHOOL-FELLOW ABRAHAM COWLEY ON BLOSSOMES by BEN MASTERS A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715 by ALEXANDER POPE |
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