Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMORETTI: 28, by EDMUND SPENSER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The laurel-leaf which you this day do wear Last Line: But in your brest his leafe and love embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology) | ||||||||
The laurel leafe which you this day doe weare Gives me great hope of your relenting mynd: For since it is the badg which I doe beare, Ye, bearing it, doe seeme to me inclind. The powre thereof, which ofte in me I find, Let it lykewise your gentle brest inspire With sweet infusion, and put you in mind Of that proud mayd whom now those leaves attyre. Proud Daphne, scorning Phoebus lovely fyre, On the Thessalian shore from him did flie: For which the gods, in theyr revengefull yre, Did her transforme into a laurell tree. Then fly no more, fayre love, from Phebus chace, But in your brest his leafe and love embrace. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...APOLLO AND DAPHNE by PHILIP AYRES DAPHNE; FOR GRAHAM ROBERTSON by GORDON BOTTOMLEY TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE COAST OF LIGURIA by EDWARD CARPENTER AN ECOLOGE BETWEN A SHEPHEARDE AND A HEARDMAN by ARTHUR GORGES APOLLO AND DAPHNE by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI DAPHNE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
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