Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HIS LOVE WHEN HE HAD OBTAINED HER, by WALTER RALEIGH Poet's Biography First Line: Now serena be not coy Last Line: That can count all they have and more. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter | ||||||||
Now Serena be not coy, Since we freely may enjoy Sweet embraces, such delights, As will shorten tedious nights. Think that beauty will not stay With you always, but away, And that tyrannizing face That now holds such perfect grace Will both changed and ruined be; So frail is all things as we see, So subject unto conquering Time. Then gather flowers in their prime, Let them not fall and perish so; Nature her bounties did bestow On us that we might use them, and 'Tis coldness not to understand What she and youth and form persuade With opportunity that's made As we could wish it. Let's, then, meet Often with amorous lips, and greet Each other till our wanton kisses In number pass the days Ulysses Consumed in travail, and the stars That look upon our peaceful wars With envious luster. If this store Will not suffice, we'll number o'er The same again, until we find No number left to call to mind And show our plenty. They are poor That can count all they have and more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (2) by WALTER RALEIGH LOVE AND TIME by WALTER RALEIGH ON THE LIFE OF MAN by WALTER RALEIGH THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF by WALTER RALEIGH THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD by WALTER RALEIGH THE PASSIONATE MAN'S PILGRIMAGE by WALTER RALEIGH A POEM ENTREATING OF SORROW by WALTER RALEIGH |
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