Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 20. A FAREWELL, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I mused, but now at length I find Last Line: From joy I part, still living in annoy. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation | ||||||||
Oft have I mused, but now at length I find Why those that die, men say they do depart; 'Depart', a word so gentle to my mind, Weakly did seem to paint death's ugly dart. But now the stars with their strange course do bind Me one to leave, with whom I leave my heart, I hear a cry of spirits faint and blind, That, parting thus, my chiefest part I part. Part of my life, the loathed part to me, Lives to impart my weary clay some breath; But that good part, wherein all comforts be, Now dead, doth show departure is a death, Yea, worse than death; death parts both woe and joy; From joy I part, still living in annoy. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN ARCADIA: SESTINA by PHILIP SIDNEY |
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