Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THYSELF, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me thyself Last Line: Each pines alone and may not issue thence. | ||||||||
GIVE me thyself! It were as well to cry: Give me the splendor of this night of June! Give me yon star upon the swart lagoon Trembling in unapproach'd serenity! Our gondola, that four swift oarsmen ply, Shoots from the darkening Lido's sandy dune, Splits with her steel the mirrors of the moon, Shivers the star-beams that before us fly. Give me thyself! This prayer is even a knell, Warning me back to mine own impotence. Self gives not self; and souls sequester'd dwell In the dark fortalice of thought and sense, Where, though life's prisoners call from cell to cell, Each pines alone and may not issue thence. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CHRISTMAS LULLABY by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS AN EPISODE by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS FAREWELL (1) by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS IL FIOR DEGLI EROICI FURORI (SAXIFRAGA PYRAMIDALIS) by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS LUX EST UMBRA DEI by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS TEMA CON VARIAZONI: PRELUDE by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS THE CAMERA OBSCURA by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS THE FALL OF A SOUL by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS THE JEWS' CEMETERY ON THE LIDO by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS THE SONNET by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS |
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