Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES TO A REVIEWER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Good friend, what profit can you see Last Line: To pine into a sound with hating me. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics | ||||||||
Alas! good friend, what profit can you see In hating such a hateless thing as me? There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side: in vain would you assuage Your frowns upon an unresisting smile, In which not even contempt lurks to beguile Your heart, by some fain sympathy of hate. Oh, conquer what you cannot satiate! For to your passion I am far more coy Than ever yet was coldest maid or boy In winter noon. Of your antipathy If I am the Narcissus, you are free To pine into a sound with hating me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOME THOUGHTS, FROM THE 'TIMES' by JOHN UPDIKE TO CRITICS, AND TO HELL WITH THEM by JAMES WRIGHT THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: PROLOGUE by DELARIVIERE MANLEY EPIGRAM: ON A CRITIC by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS FOR A CRITIC WHO TRIES TO WRITE POEMS by THOMAS MCGRATH A DIRGE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |
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