WELCOME, fairest, thee our rhyme Congratulates, rather than him, Who shines obliquely on our clime. The beams directly pointed fall, That we our Bear the Cancer call, This zone still Equinoctial. The mists our German seas create, They eyes, though Phoebus meditate, Originally dissipate. Cassiope, though heavenly fair, Hides her new face, and burnish'd chair, When you enlighten the day's air. They only rule material sense; Your Love's example may dispense To inflam'd souls chaste influence. Unto that flame, which doubly warms Thy beauty's Summer, and Love's charms, May time nor sickness threaten harms. May Hymen's torch on northern shore Dilate into a Pharos; for Besieg'd by cold fire burns the more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOVE RIVER ANTHOLOGY, BY OWN WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: LUCY GRAY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS DOST THOU ASK? by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS THE VIERZIDE CHAIRS by WILLIAM BARNES WHEN LOVE MEETS LOVE by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN BALLADE OF DREAMS TRANSPOSED by FRANK GELETT BURGESS VERSES: THE FIRST BOY by JOHN BYROM PARISINA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON STANZAS COMPOSED DURING A THUNDERSTORM by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |