Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by CHARLES SEDLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis is my only joy Last Line: What need lovers wish for more? | ||||||||
PHILLIS is my only joy Faithless as the wind or seas; Sometimes coming, sometimes coy, Yet she never fails to please. If with a frown I am cast down, Phillis, smiling And beguilling, Makes me happier than before. Though, alas! too late I find Nothing can her fancy fix; Yet the moment she is kind I forgive her all her tricks; Which though I see, I can't get free; She deceiving, I believing, What need lovers wish for more? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MULBERRY GARDEN: CHILD AND MAIDEN by CHARLES SEDLEY ADVICE TO THE OLD BEAUX by CHARLES SEDLEY PHILLIS KNOTTING by CHARLES SEDLEY EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM DYER by KATHERINE DYER GENTLEMEN-RANKERS by RUDYARD KIPLING RETRIBUTION by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU JUGGLING JERRY by GEORGE MEREDITH EUROPE; THE 72ND AND 73RD YEARS OF THESE STATES by WALT WHITMAN |
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