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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEFIANCE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: O wide the way your beauty goes
Last Line: When all is excellently done.
Subject(s): Praise; Protestantism
First Line: O wide the way your beauty goes
Last Line: When all is excellently done.
Subject(s): Praise; Protestantism
O WIDE the way your beauty goes,
For all its feigned indifference,
And every folly's path it knows,
And every humour of pretence.
But I can be as false as are
The rainbow loves which are your days,
And I will gladly go and far,
Content with your immediate praise.
Your lips, the shyer lover's bane,
I take with disputation none,
And am your kinsman in disdain
When all is excellently done.
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