Representative Poetry Online
On this day: June 12th
Random Poem of the Day
2 Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of thy reign,
3Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife,
4 And so turns wine to water back again.
Notes
1] First published in Steps to the Temple, 1646. Some of the epithets were revised in the enlarged edition of 1648, and in Carmen Deo Nostro (1652). There are also earlier Latin versions. Back to Line