Lucasta

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Sonnets, Single author, Elegies & Odes

Authors: Richard Lovelace In Year : 1864

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Lucasta

Dedication
To Lucasta. Going Beyond the Seas
To Lucasta. Going Beyond the Warres
To Amarantha; That She Would Dishevel Her Hair
Sonnet: Depose your finger of that ring
To Lucasta. The Rose
Sonnet: When I by thy faire shape did sweare
Lucasta Weeping
To Lucasta, From Prison
To Lucasta
Upon the Curtain of Lucasta's Picture, It was Thus Wrought
Lucasta's World
To Ellinda, That Lately I Have Not Written
To Chloe, Courting Her for His Friend
Gratiana Dancing and Singing
The Scrutinie
The Vintage to the Dungeon
To Althea, from Prison
To His Fairest Valentine, Mrs. A.L.
The Faire Begger
To Lucasta. Her Reserved Looks
Lucasta Laughing
Love Inthron'd
To Lucasta. I laugh and sing
To Lucasta. Like the Sentinel Stars
The Ant
Song: Strive not, vain lover
Courante Monsieur
Song: In mine one monument I lye
Another
The Snayl

"Lucasta" is of Latin origin meaning "Pure Light". Besides the dedication of the first poem to his wife, Anne Lovelace, this selection of poems are written from the viewpoint of a soldier who is going off to war - to his lover, who is the love of his life, his Lucasta. While pouring his heart out with memories of her beauty and the joy's that they have shared, he fears she will think badly of him for leaving, and will not wait for him. Therefore, he makes pleas for her loyalty, her love, for her understanding, and for the sacrifice he feels he must make. (Summary by Laur)