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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRIPLETS, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virtue, and you, so intermix that we Last Line: To see you, she is most her own reward. | |||
VIRTUE, and you, so intermix that we Believe you one with safer piety Than were the knowledge which is you, which she. If you are several, you are several so That after subtle words a difference show, Conceits of one must into the other flow. The understanding doth the truth admit Of your distinction, but straight looseth it, Painful distraction if it intermit. No place confines [to] here or there fair virtue Present to all: in that sense 'tis as true You are in it, as it is all in you: All services done her give an access Nearer to you, all who have worthiness Enough, are rivals, though Antipodes: Yet after all our careful time confer'd In seeking her, when any is prefer'd, To see you, she is most her own reward. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A LOVER AND HIS MISTRESS by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN A FAREWELL by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN ELEGIE ON D.D. by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN |
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