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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LA BELLE CONFIDENTE, by THOMAS STANLEY Poet's Biography
First Line: You earthly souls that court a wanton flame
Last Line: And marries either's dust.
First Line: You earthly souls that court a wanton flame
Last Line: And marries either's dust.
You earthly Souls that court a wanton flame,
Whose pale weak influence
Can rise no higher then the humble name
And narrow laws of Sence,
Learn by our friendship to create
An immaterial fire,
Whose brightnesse Angels may admire,
But cannot emulate.
Sicknesse may fright the roses from her cheek,
Or make the Lilies fade,
But all the subtile wayes that death doth seek
Cannot my love invade:
Flames that are kindled by the eye,
Through time and age expire;
But ours that boast a reach far higher
Can nor decay, nor die.
For when we must resign our vital breath,
Our Loves by Fate benighted,
We by this friendship shall survive in death,
Even in divorce united.
Weak Love through fortune or distrust
In time forgets to burn,
But this pursues us to the Urn,
And marries either's Dust.
Other Poems of Interest...
ANSWER TO 'SONG' BY M. W. M. by THOMAS STANLEY
ANSWER TO 'THE UNION' BY WILLIAM FAIRFAX by THOMAS STANLEY
ANSWER TO 'TO A BLIND MAN IN LOVE' by THOMAS STANLEY
CELIA SINGING by THOMAS STANLEY
CHANG'D, YET CONSTANT by THOMAS STANLEY
DESIRING HER TO BURN HIS VERSES by THOMAS STANLEY