Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 10, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reason, in faith thou art well served that still Last Line: By reason good, good reason her to love. Subject(s): Love; Stars | ||||||||
Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still Would'st brabbling be with sense and love in me. I rather wished thee climb the muses' hill, Or reach the fruit of nature's choicest tree, Or seek heaven's course, or heaven's inside, to see. Why should'st thou toil our thorny soil to till? Leave sense, and those which sense's objects be: Deal thou with powers of thoughts, leave love to will. But thou would'st needs fight both with love and sense, With sword of wit giving wounds of dispraise, Till downright blows did foil thy cunning fence: For soon as they strake thee with Stella's rays, Reason, thou kneeled'st, and offered'st straight to prove By reason good, good reason her to love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS HYMN TO THE STARS by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS CHRISTMAS TREE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS CLEMATIS MONTANA by MADELINE DEFREES THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE by JAMES GALVIN TO SEE THE STARS IN DAYLIGHT by JAMES GALVIN ARCADIA: SESTINA by PHILIP SIDNEY |
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