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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VAIN ADVICE, by CATHERINE TROTTER COCKBURN First Line: Ah, gaze not on those eyes! Forbear Last Line: Is too far lost to have the power to fly. | |||
Ah, gaze not on those eyes! forbear That soft enchanting voice to hear: Not looks of basilisks give surer death Nor Syrens sing with more destructive breath. Fly, if thy freedom thou'dst maintain: Alas! I feel the advice is vain! A heart whose safety but in flight does lie, Is too far lost to have the power to fly. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FRANCIS II, KING OF NAPLES; SONNET by AMY LOWELL DOMESDAY BOOK: WIDOW FORTELKA by EDGAR LEE MASTERS LETTERS TO DEAD IMAGISTS by CARL SANDBURG PLAYING SOMEONE ELSE'S PIANO by KAREN SWENSON FREEDOM AND LOVE by THOMAS CAMPBELL THE BARBER'S by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE HABEAS CORPUS by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON LONE DOG by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD |
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