Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE FOURTH PEARLE. TEMPERANCE, by DIANA PRIMROSE First Line: The golden bridle of bellerophon Last Line: In sacred concord, and sweete symphonie! Subject(s): Love; Passion; Pearls; Temperance; Prohibition | ||||||||
The Golden Bridle of Bellerophon Is Temperance, by which our Passion, And Appetite we conquer and subdue To Reasons Regiment: else may we rue Our yeelding to Mens Syren-blandishments, Which are attended with so foule Events. This Pearle in Her was so conspicuous, As that the King Her Brother still did use To stile Her His sweete Sister Temperance; By which Her much-admir'd Selfe-governance, Her Passions still Shee checkt, and still Shee made The World astonisht, that so undismaid Shee did with equall Tenor still proceede In one faire course, not shaken as a reed: But built upon the Rocke of Temperance: Not daz'd with feare, not maz'd with any Chance; Not with (sic) vaine Hope (as with an emptie Spoone) Fed or allur'd to cast beyond the Moone: Not with rash Anger to precipitate, Not fond to love, nor too too prone to hate: Not charm'd with Parasites, or Syren Songs, Whose hearts are poison'd, though their sugred Tongues Sweare, vow, and promise all Fidelity, When they are bruing deepest Villany. Not led to vaine or too profuse Expence, Pretending thereby State Magnificence: Not spending on these momentany pleasures Her precious Time: but deeming her best Treasures Her Subjects Love, which Shee so well preserv'd, By sweete and milde Deameanour, as it serv'd To guard Her surer, then an Armie Royall; So true their Loves were to Her, and so Loyall: O Golden Age! O blest and happie Yeares! O Musicke sweeter then that of the Spheares! When Prince and people mutually agree In sacred Concord, and sweete Symphonie! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE FOR A SOCIAL MEETING, WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES TEMPER by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN A TRUCKER DRIVES THROUGH HIS LOST YOUTH by DAVID BOTTOMS THE FIGHTING WORD by BERTON BRALEY THE METHOD OF THE MAD MULLAH by BERTON BRALEY ON A PROHIBITIONIST POEM by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON A MAIDEN'S DREAM by ROBERT GREENE OUR PROGRAM by ARTHUR GUITERMAN A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE EIGHT PEARLE. SCIENCE by DIANA PRIMROSE A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE FIRST PEARLE. RELIGION by DIANA PRIMROSE A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE SIXTH PEARLE. JUSTICE by DIANA PRIMROSE |
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