Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 23, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness Last Line: But only stella's eyes and stella's heart. Subject(s): Love; Stars | ||||||||
The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness Bewray itself in my long settled eyes, Whence these same fumes of melancholy rise With idle pains, and missing aim, do guess. Some, that know how my spring I did address, Deem that my muse some fruit of knowledge plies; Others, because the prince my service tries, Think that I think state errors to redress. But harder judges judge ambition's rage, Scourge of itself, still climbing slippery place, Holds my young brain captived in golden cage. O fools, or over-wise: alas, the race Of all my thoughts hath neither stop nor start But only Stella's eyes and Stella's heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS HYMN TO THE STARS by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS CHRISTMAS TREE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS CLEMATIS MONTANA by MADELINE DEFREES THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE by JAMES GALVIN TO SEE THE STARS IN DAYLIGHT by JAMES GALVIN ARCADIA: SESTINA by PHILIP SIDNEY |
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