Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CAELIA: SONNETS: 7, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest, when I am gone, as now the glass Last Line: As for the smell we like the rose's beauty. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love; Absence; Separation; Isolation | ||||||||
FAIREST, when I am gone, as now the glass Of Time is mark'd how long I have to stay, Let me entreat you, ere from hence I pass, Perhaps from you for evermore away, Think that no common love hath fir'd my breast, Nor base desire, but virtue truly known, Which I may love, and wish to have possess'd, Were you the high'st as fair'st of any one; 'Tis not your lovely eye enforcing flames, Nor beauteous red beneath a snowy skin, That so much binds me yours, or makes you fame's, As the pure light and beauty shrin'd within: Yet outward parts I must affect of duty, As for the smell we like the rose's beauty. | 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 EPITAPH: IN OBITUM M.S. XO MAIJ, 1614 by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |
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