Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOUR SONGS BY WAY OF CHORUS TO A PLAY: 4. INCOMMUNICABILITY OF LOVE, by THOMAS CAREW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By what power was love confin'd Last Line: Without a rival, monarch of the breast. Subject(s): Love - Complaints | ||||||||
Question. BY what power was love confin'd To one object? Who can bind, Or fix a limit to the free-born mind? Answer. Move at once but in one way, So nor can minds to more than one love stray. Question. Love's twinn'd flame, his forked dart. Answer. Question. Question. Should th' effect not multiply As fast i' th' heart, as doth the cause i' th' eye? Answer. Sense preferring neither fair, Desire stands still, distracted 'twixt the pair. So in equal distance lay Two fair lambs in the wolf's way: The hungry beast will starve ere choose his prey. But where one is chief, the rest Cease, and that's alone possess'd, Without a rival, monarch of the breast. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY QUICK AND BITTER by YEHUDA AMICHAI A DEPOSITION FROM LOVE by THOMAS CAREW A PASTORAL DIALOGUE: SHEPHERD, NYMPH, CHORUS by THOMAS CAREW |
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