Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ARCADIA: SAPPHICS, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If mine eyes can speak to do hearty errand Last Line: Hope, we do live yet. | ||||||||
If mine eyes can speak to do hearty errand, Or mine eyes' language she do hap to judge of, So that eyes' message be of her received, Hope, we do live yet. But if eyes fail then, when I most do need them, Or if eyes' language be not unto her known, So that eyes' message do return rejected, Hope, we do both die. Yet, dying, and dead, do we sing her honor; So become our tombs monuments of her praise; So becomes our loss the triumph of her gain; Hers be the glory. If the senseless spheres do yet hold a music, If the swan's sweet voice be not heard, but at death, If the mute timber when it hath the life lost, Yieldeth a lute's tune, Are then human minds privileged so meanly As that hateful death can abridge them of power With the voice of truth to record to all worlds That we be her spoils? Thus, not ending, ends the due praise of her praise; Fleshly veil consumes, but a soul hath his life, Which is held in love, love it is, that hath joined Life to this our soul. But if eyes can speak to do hearty errand, Or mine eyes' language she do hap to judge of, So that eyes' message be of her received, Hope, we do live yet. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARCADIA: THE BARGAIN by PHILIP SIDNEY ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 1 by PHILIP SIDNEY ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 109 by PHILIP SIDNEY ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 110 by PHILIP SIDNEY ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 14 by PHILIP SIDNEY ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 20 by PHILIP SIDNEY ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 24 by PHILIP SIDNEY ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 25 by PHILIP SIDNEY ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 31 by PHILIP SIDNEY ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 32 by PHILIP SIDNEY |
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