Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN DEAR VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poet's Biography First Line: My des autels, whose true Last Line: Your friend, ronsard. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Justice; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Wind; World; Paradise | ||||||||
My des Autels, whose true, Pure utterance Transforms to gold anew The speech of France, List while I celebrate My dear Vendome. O land thrice fortunate, The Muses' home, For thee ungrudging Heaven Has emptied free The horn of plenty, and given All grace to thee. Two ridges, circling, long, With summits bold Shut out the South-winds strong, The North-winds cold; On one, my loved Gastine, The sacred wood, Lifts high its head of green, Holy, and proud; Along the other's side Spring countless vines, That almost match the pride Of Anjou wines; In winding meadow-ways The Loir soft-flowing With its own wavelets plays, Nor hastes its going. Though none from distant lands, By hope cajoled, Come seeking 'mongst thy sands The toilsome gold, Though gems of Orient price Hide not in thee To tempt man's avarice Across the sea, Afric, nor boastful Ind Can thee outvie, Honored, by Gods more kind, With gifts more high. For Justice, fled from earth And dispossessed, Left thee, to mark thy worth, Her footprints blest; And while no more we see The golden age, Virtue has chosen thee For hermitage. The nymphs, that tune their voice To notes of streams Have made of thee their choice To list high themes, Singing with happy grace And sweet accords Praise to the Heaven-born race, Our Bourbon lords. The Muses, whom I woo, Worship, and fear, The golden Graces too, Inhabit here. Though ever back and forth My steps may roam, This little plot of earth Alone is home. Hence may my fated end, When time is full, Me into exile send Perdurable. And here you'll come to weep From lands afar, While dust and darkness keep Your friend, RONSARD. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX IF THIS IS PARADISE by DORIANNE LAUX RETURN OF SPRING by PIERRE DE RONSARD |
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