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ON A PLANT OF VIRGIN'S BOWER; DESIGNED TO COVER GARDEN-SEAT by WILLIAM COWPER

Poet Analysis

First Line: THRIVE, GENTLE PLANT! AND WEAVE A BOWER
Last Line: BE CROWNED WITH VIRGIN'S BOWER?
Subject(s): VIRGIN'S-BOWER (PLANT);
THRIVE, gentle plant! and weave a bower
For Mary and for me,
And deck with many a splendid flower
Thy foliage large and free.

Thou camest from Eartham, and wilt shade
(If truly I divine)
Some future day the illustrious head
Of him who made thee mine.

Should Daphne show a jealous frown,
And Envy seize the bay,
Affirming none so fit to crown
Such honoured brows as they,

Thy cause with zeal we shall defend,
And with convincing power;
For why should not the Virgin's Friend
Be crowned with Virgin's Bower?



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