Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVES CONQUEST, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wer't granted me to choose Last Line: To get out of this maze. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
Wer't granted me to choose, How I would end my dayes; Since I this Life must loose, It should be in Your praise; For there is no Bayes Can be set above you. S'impossibly I love You And for You sit so hie, Whence none may remove You In my cleere Poesie, That I oft deny You so ample Merit. The freedome of my Spirit Maintayning (still) my Cause, Your Sex not to inherit, Urging the Salique Lawes; But your Vertue drawes From Me every due. Thus still You me pursue, That no where I can dwell, By Feare made just to You, Who Naturally rebell, Of You that excell That should I still Endyte, Yet will You want some Ryte. That lost in Your high praise I wander to and fro, As seeing sundry Waies: Yet which the right not know To get out of this Maze. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD CANZONET: TO HIS COY LOVE by MICHAEL DRAYTON |
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