Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HIS WELL-TIMBRED MISTRESS, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, heard you not fame's latest breath rehearse Last Line: To work within, and wainscot her with praise. | ||||||||
SWEET, heard you not fame's latest breath rehearse How I left hewing blocks to hack a verse, Now grown the master-log, while others be But shavings and the chips of poetry? And thus I saw deal-boards of beauty forth, To make my love a warehouse of her worth. Her legs are heart of oak, and columns stand To bear the amorous bulk; then, Muse, command That beech be work'd for thighs unto those legs, Turn'd round and carv'd, and joined fast with pegs. Contrive her belly round, a dining-room, When love and beauty will a-feasting come, Another storey make from waist to chin, With breasts like ports to nest young sparrows in. Then place the garret of her head above, Thatch'd with a yellow hair to keep in love. Thus have I finish'd beauty's master-prize, Were but the glazier here to make her eyes. Then, Muse, her outworks cease to raise, To work within, and wainscot her with praise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE TO MASTER ANTHONY STAFFORD [TO HASTEN HIM INTO COUNTRY] by THOMAS RANDOLPH UPON HIS PICTURE by THOMAS RANDOLPH A CHARACTER by THOMAS RANDOLPH A COMPLAINT AGAINST CUPID, THAT HE NEVER MADE HIM IN LOVE by THOMAS RANDOLPH A DIALOGUE BETWIXT A NYMPH AND A SHEPHERD by THOMAS RANDOLPH A MASK FOR LYDIA by THOMAS RANDOLPH A PARENETICON TO THE TRULY NOBLE GENTLEMAN MASTER ENDYMION PORTER by THOMAS RANDOLPH A PARLEY WITH HIS EMPTY PURSE by THOMAS RANDOLPH A PASTORAL COURTSHIP by THOMAS RANDOLPH |
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