Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: TO FANNY, by JOHN KEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cry your mercy, pity, love -- aye love! Last Line: Losing its gust, and my ambition blind! Variant Title(s): "i Cry Your Mercy-pity-love!-aye, Love""; Subject(s): Brawne, Fanny; Desire; Love | ||||||||
I CRY your mercy--pity--love!--aye, love! Merciful love that tantalizes not, One-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love, Unmask'd, and being seen--without a blot! O! let me have thee whole,--all--all--be mine! That shape, that fairness, that sweet minor zest Of love, your kiss,--those hands, those eyes divine, That warm, white, lucent, million-pleasured breast,-- Yourself--your soul--in pity give me all, Withhold no atom's atom or I die, Or living on perhaps, your wretched thrall, Forget, in the mist of idle misery, Life's purposes,--the palate of my mind Losing its gust, and my ambition blind! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DREAM, AFTER READING DANTE'S EPISODE OF PAULO & FRANCESCA by JOHN KEATS |
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