Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Chorus Of Youths And Virgins Comments

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Semichorus.
Oh Tyrant Love! hast thou possest
The prudent, learn'd, and virtuous breast?
Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim,
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Alexander Pope
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Mahtab Bangalee 27 October 2020

What is loose love? a transient gust, Spent in a sudden storm of Iust, A vapour fed from wild desire, A wand'ring, self-consuming fire, ......wonderful// both choruses are beautiful to read

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Edward Kofi Louis 27 October 2020

Desire! ! ! Virgin light! ! Aim, calm, claim, reclaim! Thoughts and surprises. 🤗 Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Vanidia Kwamboka Ogega 27 October 2020

Ay I can taste the Shakespearean english in this poem.JULIUS CAESAR play..herein lies a description of why youths and virgins cry wolf and engage in sexual fantasies and other vices as an excuse to efface their virtue. Love as envisaged in the first stanza is authoritarian and depicts what happened in the Elizabethan Era.whether desire leads to love or love is desire the hymen is at their mercy i.e tyrannized.

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Deluke Muwanigwa 27 October 2020

Lovely raunchy archaeic poem. Didnt know they were this naughty then.

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a transient gust, Spent in a sudden storm of, A vapour fed from wild desire, unparalleled

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Kumarmani Mahakul 27 October 2020

" Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim, And Arts but soften us to feel thy flame..." Love makes beautiful art. Love dignifies art and art reflects love and wisdom. This poem is very interestingly and excellently penned. A nice poem of the day is chosen today.

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