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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ORLANDO FURIOSO: WOMAN, by ROBERT GREENE Poet's Biography First Line: Discourteous women, nature's fairest ill Last Line: Brought for eternal pestilence to the world. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sexism; Women | |||
Discourteous women, Nature's fairest ill, The woe of man, that first created curse, Base female sex, sprung from black Ates' loins, Proud and disdainful, cruel and unjust; Whose words are shaded with enchanting wiles Worse than Medusa, mateth all our minds: And in their heart sits shameless treachery, Turning a truthless, vile circumference. O, could my fury paint their furies forth! For hell's no hell, comparèd to their hearts; Too simple devils to conceal their arts; Born to be plagues unto the thoughts of men; Brought for eternal pestilence to the world. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV A FAREWELL TO FOLLY: CONTENT by ROBERT GREENE |
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