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To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.Translated from Ronsard Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies For more adornment a full thousand years; She took their cream of Beauty’s fairest dyes, And shap’d and tinted her above all Peers: Meanwhile Love kept her dearly with his wings, And underneath their shadow fill’d her eyes With such a richness that the cloudy Kings Of high Olympus utter’d slavish sighs. When from the Heavens I saw her first descend My heart took fire, and only burning pains They were my pleasures—they my Life’s sad end; Love pour’d her beauty into my warm veins…
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Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies For more adornment a full thousand years; She took their cream of Beauty’s fairest dyes, And shap’d and tinted her above all Peers: Meanwhile Love kept her dearly with his wings, And underneath their shadow fill’d her eyes With such a richness that the cloudy Kings Of high Olympus utter’d slavish sighs. When from the Heavens I saw her first descend My heart took fire, and only burning pains They were my pleasures—they my Life’s sad end; Love pour’d her beauty into my warm veins…
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John Keats: To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.
- John Keats: To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.
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- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Current Events This Week: January 2023
- African Americans by the Numbers
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
- The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
