Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET (1), by CHARLES KINGSLEY


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First Line: Oh, thou hadst been a wife for shakespeare's self!
Last Line: In martyrdom, than throned as caesar's mate.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists


OH, thou hadst been a wife for Shakespeare's self!
No head, save some world-genius, ought to rest
Above the treasures of that perfect breast,
Or nightly draw fresh light from those keen stars
Through which thy soul awes ours: yet thou art bound --
Oh waste of nature! -- to a craven hound;
To shameless lust, and childish greed of pelf;
Athene to a Satyr: was that link
Forged by The Father's hand? Man's reason bars
The bans which God allowed. -- Ay, so we think:
Forgetting, thou hadst weaker been, full blest,
Than thus made strong by suffering; and more great
In martyrdom, than throned as Caesar's mate.





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