|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WEEPING, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See where she sits, and in what comely wise Last Line: So cold, that I admire they fall not haile. Subject(s): Tears | |||
1. SEE where she sits, and in what comely wise, Drops Teares more faire then others' Eyes! Ah, charming Maid, let not ill Fortune see Th' attire thy sorrow weares, Nor know the beauty of thy Teares: For she'll still come to dresse her selfe in Thee. 2. As starres reflect on waters, so I spye In every drop (me thinks) her Eye. The Baby, which lives there, and alwaies plays In that illustrious sphear, Like a Narcissus does appear, Whilst in his flood the lovely Boy did gaze. 3. Nere yet did I behold so glorious weather As this Sun-shine and Rain together. Pray Heaven her Forehead, that pure Hill of Snow, (For some such Fountain we must find To Waters of so fair a kind) Melt not, to feed that beauteous stream below. 4. Ah, mighty Love, that it were inward Heat Which made this pretious Lymbeck sweat! But what, alas, ah what does it avail That she weeps Tears so wond'rous cold, As scarce the Asse's hoof can hold, So cold, that I admire they fall not Haile. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BANGLA DESH: 2. THE BLOOD IN MY EYES by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ TIME ROCKING ON by ANSELM HOLLO TEARS AND KISSES by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DOMESDAY BOOK: GEORGE JOSLIN ON LA MENKEN by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HOW FAR IS IT TO THE LAND WE LEFT? by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE TEARS FALL IN MY HEART by PAUL VERLAINE |
| |