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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever, chloe, I begin / your heart, like mine, to move Last Line: A holy day in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Errors; Repentance; Sin; Singing & Singers; Mistakes; Fallacies; Penitence | |||
WHENEVER, Chloe, I begin Your heart, like mine, to move, You tell me of the crying sin Of unchaste lawless love. How can that passion be a sin, Which gave to Chloe birth? How can those joys but be divine, Which make a heaven on earth? To wed, mankind the priests trepanned By some sly fallacy, And disobeyed God's great command, Increase and multiply. You say that love's a crime; content: Yet this allow you must, More joy's in heav'n if one repent, Than over ninety just. Sin then, dear girl, for heaven's sake, Repent and be forgiven; Eless me, and by repentance make A holy day in heaven. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RING AND THE CASTLE by AMY LOWELL OLNEY HYMNS: 9. THE CONTRITE HEART by WILLIAM COWPER A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER by JOHN DONNE THE RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 7 by OMAR KHAYYAM RECONCILIATION by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL ADVICE TO A LADY [IN AUTUMN] by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE A REBUS by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE ON A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF BEAU MARSH; BETWEEN BUSTS NEWTON AND POPE by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE |
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