Stand still, you floods, do not deface That image which you bear: So votaries from every place To you shall altars rear. No winds but lovers' sighs blow here To trouble these glad streams, On which no star from any sphere Did ever dart such beams. To crystal then in haste congeal, Lest you should lose your bliss; And to my cruel fair reveal How cold, how hard she is. But if the envious nymphs shall fear Their beauties will be scorned, And hire the ruder winds to tear That face which you adorned, Then rage and foam amain, that we Their malice may despise; When from your froth we soon shall see A second Venus rise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LAMB, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE THE BLACK RIDERS: 38 by STEPHEN CRANE ODE FOR THE AMERICAN DEAD IN ASIA by THOMAS MCGRATH CUPID MISTAKEN by MATTHEW PRIOR FOUR PRELUDES ON PLAYTHINGS OF THE WIND by CARL SANDBURG EPISTLES ON THE CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF WOMEN: 1 by LUCY AIKEN |