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LUCASTA WEEPING; SONG by RICHARD LOVELACE

Poet Analysis

First Line: LUCASTA WEPT, AND STILL THE BRIGHT
Last Line: KINDLED AGAIN HIS FIRES.
Subject(s): GRIEF; SORROW; SADNESS;

LUCASTA wept, and still the bright
Enamour'd God of Day,
With his soft handkercher of light,
Kiss'd the wet pearls away.

But when her tears his heat o'ercame,
In clouds he quench'd his beams,
And griev'd, wept out his eye of flame,
So drowned her sad streams.

At this she smil'd, when straight the sun
Clear'd with her kind desires,
And by her eyes' reflection
Kindled again his fires.



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