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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by JOHN SHEFFIELD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From all uneasy passions free Last Line: Tis worth a life to die within your arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of | |||
FROM all uneasy passions free, Revenge, ambition, jealousy, Contented, I had been too blest, If love, and you had let me rest; Yet that dull life I now despise: Safe from your eyes I feared no griefs, but then I found no joys. Amidst a thousand kind desires, Which beauty moves, and love inspires, Such pangs I feel of tender fear, No heart so soft as mine can bear. Yet I'll defy the worst of harms; Such are your charms, 'Tis worth a life to die within your arms. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN ESSAY UPON SATIRE by JOHN SHEFFIELD INCONSTANCY EXCUSED by JOHN SHEFFIELD ODE ON THE DEATH OF MR. HENRY PURCELL: THE BLUE PENCIL by JOHN SHEFFIELD ON BRUTUS, AN ODE: HEAVY GOING by JOHN SHEFFIELD ON ONE WHO DIED DISCOVERING HER KINDNESS by JOHN SHEFFIELD THE RECOVERY by JOHN SHEFFIELD COLORS by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET LOW BAROMETER by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES THE CROCODILE, FR. ALICE IN WONDERLAND by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON |
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