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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINE AND CITRON, by ABU ABD ALLAH First Line: Leave the rest, and take the wine Last Line: Cloth of gold, to make her bed. | |||
Leave the rest, and take the wine Freshly from the tangled vine; Gay and amorous is she, Proof of her virginity. If the others, praising her, Aught omitted to repair, Rhymes I'd string melodious, Ear-rings fit for Sirius. Take therewith my golden maid: She at love has never played, Of sweet union innocent, Uninformed of banishment. Between Pleiades and Earth Climbs the ladder of her birth; If you wish to know her sire, Of green bough and cloud enquire. Liken her, if fancy bid, To an ostrich-egg, well-hid, And the fragrant rushes spread Cloth of gold, to make her bed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WATER WHEEL by ABU ABD ALLAH LILAC: FIRST EMOTIONS OF LOVE by ROBERT BURNS THE CASTAWAY by WILLIAM COWPER EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM DYER by KATHERINE DYER DEATH AND THE MONK by ARTHUR E. BAKER SINCE WE PARTED by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THE LAST CUP OF CANARY; SIR HARRY LOVELOCK, 1645 by HELEN GRAY CONE PINDARIC ODE: TO DR. SCARBOROUGH by ABRAHAM COWLEY |
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