A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Come gentle Air! th’ AEolian shepherd said,
While Procris panted in the secret shade:
Come, gentle Air, the fairer Delia cries,
While at her feet her swain expiring lies.
Lo the glad gales o’er all her beauties stray,
Breathe on her lips, and in her bosom play!
In Delia’s hand this toy is fatal found,
Nor could that fabled dart more surely wound:
Both gifts destructive to the givers prove;
Alike both lovers fall by those they love.
Yet guiltless too this bright destroyer lives,
At random wounds, nor knows the wound she gives:
She views the story with attentive eyes,
And pities Procris, while her lover dies.
A few random poems:
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- In Darkness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ode To Apollo poem – John Keats poems
- Олег Бундур – Будильник
- Ольга Ермолаева – Когда распрямлюсь, озирая работу мою
- Hughley Steeple poem – A. E. Housman
- Picture by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Senses by Rabindranath Tagore
- It was a Lover and his Lass by William Shakespeare
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 118. Contemplate all this work of Tim poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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- The Five Adorations poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee: With an Impression of the Author’s Portrait.
- In Imitation of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life of a Country Parson poem – Alexander Pope
- Федор Тютчев – 23 Fevrier 1861
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Poems in English
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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