@3C.@1 WHY dost thou all address deny? Hard-hearted Parthenissa, why? See how the trembling lovers come, That from thy lips expect their doom. @3P.@1 Cloris! I hate them all, they know, Nay I have often told them so; Their silly politics abhorr'd: I scorn to make my slave my lord. @3C.@1 But Strephon's eyes proclaim his love Too brave, tyrannical to prove. @3P.@1 Ah, Cloris! when we lose our pow'r We must obey the conqueror. @3C.@1 Yet where a gentle Prince bears sway, It is no bondage to obey. @3P.@1 But if like Nero, for awhile, With arts of kindness he beguile; How shall the tyrant be withstood When he has writ his laws in blood! @3C.@1 Love, Parthenissa, all commands: It fetters Kings in charming bands; Mars yields his arms to Cupid's darts, And Beauty softens savage hearts. Chorus. @3If nothing else can pull the Tyrant down, Kill him with kindness, and the day's your own.@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOUNTAIN FARM by MALCOLM COWLEY ON THE MEMORABLE VICTORY OF PAUL JONES by PHILIP FRENEAU OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE DESCRIPTION OF COOKHAM by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER BELISARIUS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 7 by PHILIP SIDNEY THE CATARACT OF LODORE by ROBERT SOUTHEY THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: NOVEMBER by EDMUND SPENSER A NYMPH TO A YOUNG SHEPHERD, INSENSIBLE OF LOVE by PHILIP AYRES |