Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO HIS FRIEND R.L. IN PRAISE OF MUSIQUE AND POETRIE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poet's Biography First Line: If musique and sweet poetrie agree Last Line: One knight loves both, and both in thee remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Music And Poetry;song, Fr. The Passionate Pilgrim Subject(s): Dowland, John (1563-1626); Love; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs (the sister and the brother), Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus' lute (the queen of music) makes; And I in deep delight am chiefly drowned Whenas himself to singing he betakes One god is god of both (as poets feign), One knight loves both, and both in thee remain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB ODE, FR. THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM by RICHARD BARNFIELD |
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