Today’s Wednesday Wisdom is brought to you by a great poet, mister John Dunne.
Welcome back, my Lexual friends.
Enjoy today’s #WordyWednesday quote from John Dunne’s poem, “To His Mistress Going to Bed”.
Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defy,
Until I labour, I in labour lie.
The foe oft-times having the foe in sight,
Is tirâd with standing though he never fight.
Off with that girdle, like heavenâs Zone glistering,
But a far fairer world encompassing.
Unpin that spangled breastplate which you wear,
That thâeyes of busy fools may be stopped there.
Unlace yourself, for that harmonious chime,
Tells me from you, that now it is bed time.
Off with that happy busk, which I envy,
That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
Your gown going off, such beauteous state reveals,
As when from flowery meads thâhillâs shadow steals.
Off with that wiry Coronet and shew
The hairy Diadem which on you doth grow:
Now off with those shoes, and then safely tread
In this loveâs hallowâd temple, this soft bed.
In such white robes, heavenâs Angels used to be
Received by men; Thou Angel bringst with thee
A heaven like Mahometâs Paradise; and though
Ill spirits walk in white, we easily know,
By this these Angels from an evil sprite,
Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.
Licence my roving hands, and let them go,
Before, behind, between, above, below.
O my America! my new-found-land,
My kingdom, safeliest when with one man mannâd,
My Mine of precious stones, My Empirie,
How blest am I in this discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds, is to be free;
Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be.
Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothâd must be,
To taste whole joys. Gems which you women use
Are like Atlantaâs balls, cast in menâs views,
That when a foolâs eye lighteth on a Gem,
His earthly soul may covet theirs, not them.
Like pictures, or like booksâ gay coverings made
For lay-men, are all women thus arrayâd;
Themselves are mystic books, which only we
(Whom their imputed grace will dignify)
Must see revealâd. Then since that I may know;
As liberally, as to a Midwife, shew
Thy self: cast all, yea, this white linen hence,
There is no penance due to innocence.
To teach thee, I am naked first; why then
What needst thou have more covering than a man.
Hmm.. maybe I should change that to #WetWednesday…
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Lexi
Quote: “To His Mistress Going to Bed” by John Dunne
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