Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S SUBMISSION, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poet's Biography First Line: What though it please you light my heart with fire Last Line: Stricken and bleeding at your beauty's feet. Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven; Love; Sacrifices; Paradise | ||||||||
WHAT though it please you light my heart with fire (Heart that is yours, your subject, your domain), With fire of Furies, not with Love's sweet pain, To waste me body and bone till life expire! The ill that others deem too cruel-dire Is sweet to me -- I will not once complain, For I love not my life, nor hold it fain Save as to love it pleases your desire. But yet, if Heaven hath made me, Lady mine, To be your victim, may it not suffice To lay my loyal service at your shrine? 'Twere better you should have my service meet Than horror of a human sacrifice Stricken and bleeding at your beauty's feet. | 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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