Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEFIANCE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wide the way your beauty goes Last Line: When all is excellently done. Subject(s): Praise; Protestantism | ||||||||
O WIDE the way your beauty goes, For all its feigned indifference, And every folly's path it knows, And every humour of pretence. But I can be as false as are The rainbow loves which are your days, And I will gladly go and far, Content with your immediate praise. Your lips, the shyer lover's bane, I take with disputation none, And am your kinsman in disdain When all is excellently done. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RELIGIO LAICI; OR, A LAYMAN'S FAITH by JOHN DRYDEN HERE IS MUSIC: LIP-SERVICE by AUSTIN PHILIPS ON HIS MAJESTY'S CONQUESTS IN IRELAND by THOMAS SHADWELL FORTY CENTS A YEAR by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA: 3 by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH EPILOGUE TO THE LOYAL BROTHER, OR THE PERSIAN PRINCE by JOHN DRYDEN MONSIGNOR BENVENISTE WRITES FROM LEWIS by DEENA LINETT |
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