Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 151, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Recitation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is too young to know what conscience is Last Line: Her 'love' for whose dear love I rise and fall. Variant Title(s): "love Is Too Young To Know What Conscience Is""; Subject(s): Conscience | ||||||||
Love is too young to know what conscience is; Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss, Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove: For, thou betraying me, I do betray My nobler part to my gross body's treason; My soul doth tell my body that he may Triumph in love; flesh stays no father reason; But, rising at thy name, doth point out thee As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride, He is contented thy poor drudge to be, To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side. No want of conscience hold it that I call Her 'love' for whose dear love I rise and fall. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOUND WANTING by EMILY DICKINSON CONSCIENCE AND REMORSE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE by SEAMUS HEANEY TO HIS CONSCIENCE by ROBERT HERRICK A COWBOY ALONE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE by JAMES BARTON ADAMS THE COMBAT, BETWEENE CONSCIENCE AND COVETOUSNESSE by RICHARD BARNFIELD TO HIS WORSHIPFULL GOOD FRIEND, MAISTER JOHN STEVENTON by RICHARD BARNFIELD FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MURDERER'S HAUNTED COUCH by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES AIRY NOTHINGS. FR. THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE APRIL, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ARIEL'S SONG (1) [OR, DIRGE] [OR, A SEA DIRGE]. FR. THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE |
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