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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 13, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebus was judge between jove, mars, and love
Last Line: The first, thus matched, were scarcely gentlemen.
Subject(s): Love; Stars
First Line: Phoebus was judge between jove, mars, and love
Last Line: The first, thus matched, were scarcely gentlemen.
Subject(s): Love; Stars
Phoebus was judge between Jove, Mars, and Love,
Of those three gods, whose arms the fairest were.
Jove's golden shield did eagle sables bear,
Whose talents held young Ganymede above:
But in vert field Mars bare a golden spear
Which through a bleeding heart his point did shove.
Each had his crest: Mars carried Venus' glove,
Jove on his helm the thunderbolt did rear.
Cupid then smiles, for on his crest there lies
Stella's fair hair, her face he makes his shield,
Where roses gules are borne in silver field.
Phoebus drew wide the curtains of the skies
To blaze these last, and sware devoutly then,
The first, thus matched, were scarcely gentlemen.
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