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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEDICATION. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MY LADY ANNE LOVELACE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the richest treasury Last Line: (with devotion) these toys. | |||
To the richest treasury That e'er fill'd ambitious eye; To the fair bright magazine Hath impoverish'd Love's Queen; To th' exchequer of all honour (All take pensions but from her); To the taper of the thore, Which the god himself but bore; To the sea of chaste delight, Let me cast the drop I write. And as at Loretto's shrine Cæaesar shovels in his mine, Th' empress spreads her carcanets, The lords submit their coronets, Knights their chased arms hang by, Maids diamond-ruby fancies tie; Whilst from the pilgrim she wears One poor false pearl, but ten true tears: So, among the orient prize (Sapphire-onyx eulogies) Offer'd up unto your fame, Take my garnet-dublet name, And vouchsafe 'midst those rich joys (With devotion) these toys. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LA BELLA BONA ROBA by RICHARD LOVELACE THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON by RICHARD LOVELACE THE SCRUTINY; SONG by RICHARD LOVELACE TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON by RICHARD LOVELACE TO AMARANTHA, THAT SHE WOULD DISHEVEL HER HAIR by RICHARD LOVELACE TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING BEYOND THE SEAS by RICHARD LOVELACE TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS by RICHARD LOVELACE A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (1) by RICHARD LOVELACE A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (2) by RICHARD LOVELACE |
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