Against Fruition

No; thou’rt a fool, I’ll swear, if e’er thou grant;

Much of my veneration thou must want,

When once thy kindness puts my ignorance out,

For a learn’d age is always least devout.

Keep still thy distance; for at once to me

Goddess and woman too thou canst not be;

Thou’rt queen of all that sees thee, and as such

Must neither tyrannize nor yield too much;

Such freedom give as may admit command,

But keep the forts and magazines in thine hand.

Thou’rt yet a whole world to me, and dost fill

My large ambition; but ’tis dang’rous still,

Lest I like the Pellæan prince* should be,

And weep for other worlds, having conquered thee.

When Love has taken all thou hast away,

His strength by too much riches will decay.

Thou in my fancy dost much higher stand

Than women can be placed by Nature’s hand;

And I must needs, I’m sure, a loser be,

To change thee, as thou’rt there, for very thee.

Thy sweetness is so much within me placed,

That shouldst thou nectar give, ‘twould spoil the taste.

Beauty at first moves wonder and delight;

‘Tis Nature’s juggling trick to cheat the sight;

We admire it, whilst unknown, but after more

Admire ourselves for liking it before.

Love, like a greedy hawk, if we give way,

Does overgorge himself with his own prey;

Of very hopes a surfeit he’ll sustain

Unless by fears he cast them up again:

His spirit and sweetness dangers keep alone;

If once he lose his sting, he grows a drone.

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• Post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier by T. Wignesan. by Poetry In English
• Plaidoirie for a “Prince” of Jaffna by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Petrarchan Sonnet: If no one else breathed in this wide, wide world by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Paris, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: Paris by T. Wignesan. by Poetry In English
• Nevermore, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet: Nevermore by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Master Valluvan, the long-misunderstood Tamil Mentor by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Limerick: Once a Great Leader with empty pockets by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Criss-Cross Acrostic*: Ai My Eye ! by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Copla Suelta: The One and the Same Dream by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Ballade: In favour of those called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Ballade: En faveur des dénommés Déca by T Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Am I the Assassin or the Undertaker by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Song Of The Jellicles by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Rum Tum Tugger by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Old Gumbie Cat by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Naming Of Cats by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Boston Evening Transcript by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• The Ad-Dressing Of Cats by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Sweeney Erect by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)

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