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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 65, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE
First Line: Twixt scylla and charybdis now of fate
Last Line: What pity won gave love but one tear less.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints
First Line: Twixt scylla and charybdis now of fate
Last Line: What pity won gave love but one tear less.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints
'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis now of Fate,
On rock or whirlpool his riven heart must break.
Was ever knight in such a parlous strait?
Doth Fortune evermore her son forsake?
Ah, only ye who met and loved too late
Can judge of Love's illimitable ache!
He now endured, not sought his wife's caress—
What pity won gave love but one tear less.
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