greykit.poetry — #song

• 1807 [william-wordsworth] The Solitary Reaper
  Poems, in Two Volumes

  A Highland girl singing alone as she reaps, in a language the traveller cannot understand — which is why the song has no bottom, and why he carries it in his heart long after he has climbed the hill and heard it no more.

  #lyric#nature#song#1800s
• 1616 [ben-jonson] Simplex Munditiis
  Epicoene, or The Silent Woman

  Against the powdered, perfumed, endlessly adjusted face: where art hides its causes, nothing is sound — give him instead robes loosely flowing and hair as free, a sweet neglect that strikes the heart and not just the eye.

  #song#dress#artifice#1610s
• 1616 [ben-jonson] Song: To Celia
  The Forest

  Drink to me only with thine eyes — a courtship conducted entirely in pledges and substitutions, ending with a rosy wreath sent back not withered but breathing, the poet insists, of her and not of itself.

  #song#love#1610s