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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BETHINK THEE!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY First Line: Ere thou begin to love, choose well the school Last Line: Or be thy psyche's immortality? Subject(s): Desire; Love | |||
"Wonder it is to see in diverse minds How diversely love doth his pageants play." ERE thou begin to love, choose well the school Wherein to graduate, the fitting rule. For wilt thou love with traitors who forswore Themselves at Argos and at Elsinore,— Set sword and serpent and the funeral pyre For milestones on the road of thy desire? Wilt thou infect thy passionate lips and breath, And be the cup that holds thy Juliet's death? Condemn to rosemary and asphodel A Sigismonde or gentle Isabelle? Wilt thou, with Paris, set a world at strife, Or give, with Perseus and Alcestis, life?— With Orpheus half redeem Eurydice Or be thy Psyche's immortality? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A CHILD'S THOUGHTS by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY |
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