Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 47, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, have I thus betrayed my liberty? Last Line: Doth make my heart give to my tongue the lie! Variant Title(s): "what, Have I Thus Betrayed My Libertie?""; Subject(s): Desire; Freedom; Liberty | ||||||||
What, have I thus betrayed my liberty? Can those black beams such burning marks engrave In my free side? or am I born a slave, Whose neck becomes such yoke of tyranny? Or want I sense to feel my misery? Or sprite, disdain of such disdain to have? Who for long faith, though daily help I crave, May get no alms but scorn of beggary. Virtue, awake! Beauty but beauty is; I may, I must, I can, I will, I do Leave following that which it is gain to miss. Let her go. Soft but here she comes. Go to, Unkind, I love you not! O me, that eye Doth make my heart give to my tongue the lie! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE THE WILD SWAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE QUARTET IN F MAJOR by WILLIAM MEREDITH CROSS THAT LINE by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE EMANCIPATION by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER ARCADIA: SESTINA by PHILIP SIDNEY |
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