Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER SONG, by ELIZABETH TOLLET First Line: Ask me no more, my truth to prove, / what I would suffer for my love Last Line: To banish danger from thy sleep. | ||||||||
Ask me no more my truth to prove, What I would suffer for my love; With thee I would in exile go To regions of eternal snow; O'er floods by solid ice confin'd, Through forest bare, with northern wind; While all around my eyes I cast, Where all is wild, and all is waste. If there the timorous stag you chase, Or rouse to fight a fiercer race, Undaunted, I thy arms would bear, And give thy hand the hunter's spear. When the low sun withdraws his light, And menaces an half-year's night, The conscious moon and stars above Shall guide me with my wandering love. Beneath the mountain's hollow brow, Or in its rocky cells below, Thy rural feast I would provide, Nor envy palaces their pride; The softest moss should dress thy bed, With savage spoils about thee spread; Whilst faithful love the watch should keep, To banish danger from thy sleep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON A DEATH'S HEAD by ELIZABETH TOLLET ON THE PROSPECT FROM WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, MARCH 1750 by ELIZABETH TOLLET TO MY BROTHER AT ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE by ELIZABETH TOLLET HERITAGE by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND by THOMAS MOORE EDGE by CHARLOTTE FARRINGTON BABCOCK THE LOST COLORS by MARY A. BARR |
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