Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMORETTI: 35, by EDMUND SPENSER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hungry eyes, through greedy covetise Last Line: And all their showes but shadowes, saving she. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Eyes | ||||||||
My hungry eyes, through greedy covetize Still to behold the object of their paine, With no contentment can themselves suffize, But having pine, and having not complaine. For lacking it, they cannot lyfe sustayne, And having it, they gaze on it the more: In their amazement lyke Narcissus vaine, Whose eyes him starv'd: so plenty makes me poore. Yet are mine eyes so filled with the store Of that faire sight, that nothing else they brooke, But lothe the things which they did like before, And can no more endure on them to looke. All this worlds glory seemeth vayne to me, And all their showes but shadowes, saving she. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BANGLA DESH: 2. THE BLOOD IN MY EYES by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ DUST IN THE EYES by ROBERT FROST THE CEREMONY OF OPENING THE MOUTH AND THE EYES by FORREST GANDER YOUR EYES by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THROUGH A GLASS EYE, LIGHTLY by CAROLYN KIZER |
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