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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO DELIA: 39, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Read in my face a volume of despairs
Last Line: The temple where her name was honored still.
Subject(s): Despair; Helen Of Troy; Love; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Similes
First Line: Read in my face a volume of despairs
Last Line: The temple where her name was honored still.
Subject(s): Despair; Helen Of Troy; Love; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Similes
Read in my face a volume of despairs,
The wailing Iliads of my tragic woe,
Drawn with my blood, and printed with my cares,
Wrought by her hand, that I have honored so;
Who whilst I burn, she sings at my soul's wrack,
Looking aloft from turret of her pride;
There my soul's tyrant joys her in the sack
Of her own seat, whereof I made her guide.
There do these smokes that from affliction rise
Serve as an incense to a cruel dame,
A sacrifice thrice grateful to her eyes,
Because their power serve to exact the same.
Thus ruins she, to satisfy her will,
The temple where her name was honored still.
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