LOVE mocks us all. Then cast aside These tuneful plaints, my Albius tried For heartless Glycera, from thee Fled to a younger lover. See, Low-browed Lycoris burns denied For Cyrus; he -- though goats shall bide With wolves ere she in him confide -- Turns, with base suit, to Pholoe: -- Love mocks us all! So Venus wills, and joys to guide 'Neath brazen yoke pairs ill-allied In form and mind. So linked she me (Whom worthier wooed) to Myrtale, Fair, but less kind than Hadria's tide: -- Love mocks us all! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY GARDEN by RALPH WALDO EMERSON FELISE by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE SAVONAROLA BROWN, SELECTION by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM FORMALITY AND THE SOUL: 2. JAMES MACNEIL WHISTLER by KARL W. BIGELOW AN ODD CONCEIT by NICHOLAS BRETON TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE BODY AND THE BOOK by EDWARD CARPENTER TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A MIGHTIER THAN MAMMON by EDWARD CARPENTER |