Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMORETTI: 13, by EDMUND SPENSER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that proud port which her so goodly graceth Last Line: Such lowlinesse shall make you lofty be. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Pride | ||||||||
In that proud port which her so goodly graceth, Whiles her faire face she reares up to the skie, And to the ground her eie lids low embaseth, Most goodly temperature ye may descry: Myld humblesse mixt with awfull majesty. For looking on the earth, whence she was borne, Her minde remembreth her mortalitie: What so is fayrest shall to earth returne. But that same lofty countenance seemes to scorne Base thing, and thinke how she to heaven may clime, Treading downe earth as lothsome and forlorne, That hinders heavenly thoughts with drossy slime. Yet lowly still vouchsafe to looke on me; Such lowlinesse shall make you lofty be. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROCK AND HAWK by ROBINSON JEFFERS GODOLPHIN HORNE, WHO WAS CURSED WITH THE SIN OF PRIDE, AND BECAME A BOOT-BLACK by HILAIRE BELLOC PRIDE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1 by KENNETH REXROTH PRIMER LESSON by CARL SANDBURG HAEC FABULA DOCET by ROBERT FROST VICTIM OF HIMSELF by MARVIN BELL |
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