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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MADRIGAL: THE RESTLESS LOVER, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds to wanton in the air desire
Last Line: Cannot the fire which burns my heart allay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De
First Line: The birds to wanton in the air desire
Last Line: Cannot the fire which burns my heart allay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De
THE birds to wanton in the air desire;
The Salamander sports himself in fire;
The fish in water plays; and of the earth,
Man ever takes possession at his birth.
Only unhappy I, who born to grieve,
In all these Elements at once do live --
Grief does with air of sighs my mouth supply,
My wretched body on cold earth does lie,
The streams which from mine eyes flow night and day,
Cannot the fire which burns my heart allay.
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ROME BURIED IN HER RUINS by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS
THE FLY by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS
TO ROME; BURIED IN ITS RUINS by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS
WOMAN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
A PHONECALL FROM FRANK O'HARA by ANNE WALDMAN
BLACK SAMSON OF BRANDYWINE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
THE HOUSE OF LIFE: JENNY by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI