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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by VAUQUELIN DE LA FRESNAYE Poet's Biography First Line: If far from earth's short-lived and narrow bound Last Line: When therefore death can we more fitly bless? | |||
IF far from earth's short-lived and narrow bound, Full of woe, weariness, affliction, pain, This holy virgin's soul (as she was fain) At length a refuge with her Saviour found; If angels now her kindred soul surround On that high seat of bliss, all hope to gain, 'Scaped from this restless world, where hope is vain, To live one single day without a wound; Why, being dead, should we her fate lament, Since she to certain good from evil went Through death, which gives her perfect happiness? Who ever grieved to see in port arrive The hard-pressed barque which mighty tempests drive, When therefore death can we more fitly bless? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG by VAUQUELIN DE LA FRESNAYE SONNET by VAUQUELIN DE LA FRESNAYE THE PROGRESS OF POETRY; A VARIATION by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE FLY by BARNABY (BARNABE) GOOGE HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 7. 'SIENA MI FE' by EZRA POUND DEFEAT AND VICTORY by WALLACE RICE PAX BRITANNICA by ALFRED AUSTIN POSSESSED by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT ROAD AND HILLS by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET LILIA'S TRESS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |
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