Caelica, when I did see you every day, I saw so many worths so well united, As in this union while but one did play, All others eyes both wondred and delighted: Whence I conceav'd you of some heavenly mould, Since Love, and Vertue, noble Fame and Pleasure, Containe in one no earthly metall could, Such enemies are flesh, and blood to measure. And since my fall, though I now onely see Your backe, while all the world beholds your face, This shadow still shewes miracles to me, And still I thinke your heart a heavenly place: For what before was fil'd by me alone, I now discerne hath roome for every one. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SHADOWS by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR THE BIRTH SONG OF CHRIST by EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS TWO SONGS FROM THE PERSIAN: 1 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH IN ENVY OF COWS by JOSEPH AUSLANDER TO SARAH TAYLOR by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD PURIM, 1900 by ALICE D. BRAHAM |