Bathing River

The fish around her crowded, as they do

To the false light that treacherous fisher shew,

And all with as much ease might taken be,

As she at first took me;

For ne’er did light so clear

Among the waves appear,

Though every night the sun himself set there.

Why to mute fish shouldst thou thyself discover

And not to me, thy no less silent lover?

As some from men their buried gold commit

To ghosts, that have no use of it;

Half their rich treasures so

Maids bury; and for aught we know,

(Poor ignorants!) They’re mermaids all below.

The amorous waves would fain about her stay,

But still new amorous waves drive them away,

And with swift current to those joys they haste

That do as swiftly waste:

I laugh’d the wanton play to view;

But ‘t is, alas! at land so too,

And still old lovers yield the place to new.

Kiss her, and as you part, you amorous waves

(My happier rivals, and my fellow-slaves)

Point to your flowery banks, and to her shew

The good your bounties do;

Then tell her what your pride doth cost,

And how your use and beauty’s lost,

When rigorous winter binds you up with frost.

Tell her, her beauties and her youth, like thee,

Haste without stop to a devouring sea;

Where they will mix’d and undistinguish’d lie

With all the meanest things that die;

As in the ocean thou

No privilege dost know

Above th’ impurest streams that thither flow.

Tell her, kind flood! When this has made her sad,

Tell her there’s yet one remedy to be had;

Show her how thou, though long since past, dost find

Thyself yet still behind:

Marriage (say to her) will bring

About the self-same thing.

But she, fond maid, shuts and seals-up the spring.

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Poems in English 

• A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Song poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• The Parabolic Ballad poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Self-Portrait poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• The AntiWorlds poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Russian-American Romance poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Rubber Souls poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Modern Nature poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• My Friend’s Light poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Her Story poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Fate poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Abuses and Awards poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• A Ballad (Thesis for a Doctor’s Degree) poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems by Андрей Вознесенский
• Arrow through the bellybutton poem by Poetry Slave
• In shadows of night by Poetry Slave
• The Snake by Poetry Slave
• 永遠 by André Rodriguez
• Forever by André Rodriguez
• 歐盟 by André Rostant
• Storm poem – André Rostant poems by André Rostant

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