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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S BURNING-GLASS, by JOHN SUCKLING Poet's Biography First Line: Wondering long, how I could harmless see Last Line: This flame shall purge me of the dross, desire. | |||
WONDERING long how I could harmless see Men gazing on those beams that fired me, At last I found it was the crystal, love, Before my heart that did the heat improve: Which, by contracting of those scatter'd rays Into itself, did so produce my blaze. Now, lighted by my love, I see the same Beams dazzle those, that me are wont t' inflame; And now I bless my love, when I do think By how much I had rather burn than wink. But how much happier were it thus to burn, If I had liberty to choose my urn! But since those beams do promise only fire, This flame shall purge me of the dross, desire. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SUPPLEMENT OF AN IMPERFECT COPY OF VERSES OF MR. WILL. SHAKESPEARE'S by JOHN SUCKLING UPON MY LADY CARLISLE'S WALKING IN HAMPTON COURT GARDEN by JOHN SUCKLING IF, WHEN DON CUPID'S DART by JOHN SUCKLING |
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