Mythology & Folklore

Orpheus to Woods. Song

by Richard Lovelace 1617–1657

From Lucasta (1649)

Mythology & Folklore

Heark! Oh heark! you guilty trees,
In whose gloomy galleries
Was the cruell'st murder done,
That e're yet eclipst the sunne.
Be then henceforth in your twigges
Blasted, e're you sprout to sprigges;
Feele no season of the yeere,
But what shaves off all your haire,
Nor carve any from your wombes
Ought but coffins and their tombes.

MLA

Lovelace, Richard. “Orpheus to Woods. Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lovelace/62/.

Chicago

Lovelace, Richard. “Orpheus to Woods. Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lovelace/62/.

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