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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FAIR BUT CRUEL GIRL, by ANONYMOUS First Line: The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind Last Line: "who sees her must love; who loves her, must die" Subject(s): Beauty;love | |||
THE Nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind, No less than a wonder by nature designed She's the grief of my heart, but joy of my eye, The cause of my flame, that never can die. Her lips, from whence wit obligingly flows, Has the colour of cherries, and smell of the rose; Love and Destiny both attend on her will, She saves with a smile, with a frown she can kill. The desperate lover can hope no redress, Where beauty and rigour, are both in excess: In Celia they meet, so unhappy am I; Who sees her must love; who loves her, must die. | 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 TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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