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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S TOKEN, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poet's Biography First Line: To you, my conqueror, this ivy wound Last Line: And clasp at will your ivory and roses? Subject(s): Birds; Ivy; Love | |||
To you, my conqueror, this ivy wound In wreaths I give -- the ivy that alway Holds trees and walls close twined in spray on spray, Tendril on tendril, wrapt, embraced, and bound. It is your right to be with ivy crowned! Would it were mine to wind me, night and day, Round you, my column, in the ivy's way, And lie along your breast in love's deep swound. . . . Ah, will the time not come, will it not be -- When, just as dawn awakes the world to life, 'Neath branches of a bower thick shade encloses, Under soft skies, at prattling birds' first glee, I shall at last be conqueror in love's strife, And clasp at will your ivory and roses? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD RETURN OF SPRING by PIERRE DE RONSARD |
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