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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 SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 13 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON JEALOUSY by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE INDIAN NAMES by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY ADVICE TO A LADY [IN AUTUMN] by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE SONGS OF TRAVEL: 16 by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ALL HAIL TO THE CZAR! by ALFRED AUSTIN |
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