Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CALLED INCONSTANT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF by PETER JOHNSON THE RING AND THE CASTLE by AMY LOWELL SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. MERRITT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. PURKAPILE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TOM MERRITT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS IF THERE'S A GOD... by GREGORY ORR |
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