Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CALLED INCONSTANT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY



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First Line: Ha! Ha! You think you've killed my fame
Last Line: As men in motion think the trees move too.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


1.

HA! ha! you think you've killd my fame,
By this not understood, yet common Name:
A Name, that's full and proper when assigned
To Womankind:
But when you call us so,
It can at best but for a Metaphor go.

2.

Can you the shore Inconstant call,
Which still as Waves passe by, embraces all?
That had as leife the same waves always love,
Did they not from him move?
Or can you faults with Pilots finde
For changing course, yet never blame the wind?

3.

Since drunk with vanity you fell,
The things turne round to you that stedfast dwell;
And you your selfe, who from us take your flight,
Wonder to find us out of sight;
So the same errour ceazes you,
As Men in motion think the Trees move too.





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