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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINE AND CITRON, by ABU ABD ALLAH First Line: Leave the rest, and take the wine Last Line: Cloth of gold, to make her bed. | |||
Leave the rest, and take the wine Freshly from the tangled vine; Gay and amorous is she, Proof of her virginity. If the others, praising her, Aught omitted to repair, Rhymes I'd string melodious, Ear-rings fit for Sirius. Take therewith my golden maid: She at love has never played, Of sweet union innocent, Uninformed of banishment. Between Pleiades and Earth Climbs the ladder of her birth; If you wish to know her sire, Of green bough and cloud enquire. Liken her, if fancy bid, To an ostrich-egg, well-hid, And the fragrant rushes spread Cloth of gold, to make her bed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WATER WHEEL by ABU ABD ALLAH THISTLE by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A TOAST TO OUR NATIVE LAND by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941) EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (1) by THOMAS CAREW THE LIVING DEAD by RALPH CHAPLIN INDIAN WOMAN'S DEATH-SONG by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS THE POTATOES' DANCE by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY LA BELLA BONA ROBA by RICHARD LOVELACE SUMMER DAWN by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) |
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