Reading for Wednesday, 2/23

Hey Guys.  Sorry for the delay in posting this.  Here it is:

1. Please being printouts of the poems we've already discussed.  We may refer back to them.
2. "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound.  (below)
3. "The Red Wheelbarrow."  You should already have it.
4. "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"by Christopher Marlowe (p. 412)
5. "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" Sir Walter Raleigh (below)
6. William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXXXVIII (When my love swears...) (p. 413)
7. "To His Coy Mistress" (p. 416) This may be the most challenging of the bunch.  Do your best to understand who is speaking to whom and what the message is.

In a Station of the Metro

BY EZRA POUND

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Raleigh

If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.

Time drives the flocks from field to fold
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,
And Philomel becometh dumb;
The rest complains of cares to come.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields;
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten
In folly ripe, in season rotten.

Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
Thy coral clasps and amber studs,
All these in me no means can move
To come to thee and be thy love.

But could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love.