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 THE LOVER IN HELL by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET REAR-PORCHES OF AN APARTMENT-BUILDING by MAXWELL BODENHEIM THE CORAL GROVE by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 74 by PHILIP SIDNEY SPORTSMEN IN PARADISE by T. P. CAMERON WILSON SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 16. VENUS INCARNATE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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