HEAR ye, ladies, that despise, What the mighty love has done; Fear examples, and be wise: Fair Callisto was a nun; Leds, sailing on the stream To deceive the hopes of man, Love accounting but a dream, Doted on a silver swan; Danae, in a brazen tower, Where no love was, loved a shower. Hear, ye ladies that are coy, What the mighty love can do; Fear the fierceness of the boy: The chaste moon he makes to woo; Vesta, kindling holy fires, Circled round about with spies, Never dreaming loose desires, Doting at the altar dies; Ilion, in a short hour, higher He can build, and once more fire. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE NAPOLEON by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE A MONA LISA by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE THE SLAVE AUCTION by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SONNET by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI |