Category: Poetry
It will be readily apparent that the aim of this volume is to collect the choicest poems on Cupid scattered throughout English literature. A large harvest has been gleaned, and what my judgment counts excellent, so far as practicable, is represented. The attitude towards Cupid...
It will be readily apparent that the aim of this volume is to collect the choicest poems on Cupid scattered throughout English literature. A large harvest has been gleaned, and...
2. Part 2So dead he is, who once was so alive! In summer, when the ardent days were long, He was as warm as June, as gay and glad As any bird that swelled its throat with song.
3. Part 3Let dirge be sung, and trentals rightly read! For Love is dead. Sir Wrong his tomb ordaineth, My Mistress’ marble heart; Which epitaph containeth— “Her eyes were once his dart.”...