Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAPPHO AND PHAON: 18. TO PHAON, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou changed? O phaon! Tell me why? Last Line: Ah! Why is rapture so allied to pain? | ||||||||
Why art thou changed? O Phaon! tell me why? Love flies reproach, when passion feels decay; Or, I would paint the raptures of that day, When, in sweet converse, mingling sigh with sigh, I marked the graceful languor of thine eye As on a shady bank entranced we lay: O! Eyes! whose beamy radiance stole away As stars fade trembling from the burning sky! Why art thou changed? dear source of all my woes! Though dark my bosom's tint, through every vein A ruby tide of purest luster flows, Warmed by thy love, or chilled by thy disdain; And yet no bliss this sensate being knows; Ah! why is rapture so allied to pain? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LONDON'S SUMMER MORNING by MARY DARBY ROBINSON SAPPHO AND PHAON: 2. THE TEMPLE OF CHASTITY by MARY DARBY ROBINSON ALL ALONE by MARY DARBY ROBINSON LAURA TO PETRARCH by MARY DARBY ROBINSON MARIE ANTOINETTE'S LAMENTATION, IN HER PRISON OF THE TEMPLE by MARY DARBY ROBINSON MISTRESS GURTON'S CAT; A DOMESTIC TALE by MARY DARBY ROBINSON SAPPHO AND PHAON: 1. SONNET INTRODUCTORY by MARY DARBY ROBINSON SAPPHO AND PHAON: 10. DESCRIBES PHAON by MARY DARBY ROBINSON SAPPHO AND PHAON: 11. REJECTS THE INFLUENCE OF REASON by MARY DARBY ROBINSON SAPPHO AND PHAON: 12. PREVIOUS TO HER INTERVIEW WITH PHAON by MARY DARBY ROBINSON SAPPHO AND PHAON: 13. SHE ENDEAVOURS TO FASCINATE HIM by MARY DARBY ROBINSON SAPPHO AND PHAON: 14. TO THE EOLIAN HARP by MARY DARBY ROBINSON |
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