Pan loved his neighbour Echo -- but that child Of Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping; The Satyr loved with wasting madness wild The bright nymph Lyda, -- and so three went weeping. As Pan loved Echo, Echo loved the Satyr, The Satyr, Lyda; and so love consumed them. -- And thus to each -- which was a woful matter -- To bear what they inflicted Justice doomed them; For, inasmuch as each might hate the lover, Each, loving, so was hated. -- Ye that love not Be warned -- in thought turn this example over, That when ye love, the like return ye prove not. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON BRODSKY'S COLLECTED by MICHAEL S. HARPER THE ROAD TO AVIGNON by AMY LOWELL THE WITCH by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE THE ICE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON TORTOISE SHELL by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE THE LADY POVERTY by ALICE MEYNELL JESUS - THE CONQUEROR RENOWNED by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 7 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |