Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SELF BANISHED (2), by EDMUND WALLER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not that I love you less Last Line: The vow I made to love you too. Subject(s): Love - Complaints | ||||||||
It is not that I love you less, Than when before your feet I lay, But to prevent the sad increase Of hopeless love, I keep away. In vaine (alas!) for everything Which I have knowne belong to you, Your forme does to my fancy bring, And make my old wounds bleed anew. Who in the Spring from the new Sun Already has a Fever got, Too late begins these shafts to shun Which Phoebus through his veines has shot. Too late he would the paine assuage, And to thick shadowes does retire; About with him he beares the rage, And in his tainted blood the fire. But vow'd I have, and never must Your banish'd servant trouble you; For if I breake, you may mistrust The vow I made to love you too. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY QUICK AND BITTER by YEHUDA AMICHAI OF A FAIR LADY PLAYING WITH A SNAKE by EDMUND WALLER |
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