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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SONG, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She alone of shepherdesses Last Line: To be worth her is my all. | |||
SHE alone of Shepherdesses With her blue disdayning eyes, Wo'd not hark a Kyng that dresses All his lute in sighes: Yet to winne Katheryn, I elect for mine Emprise. None is like her, none above her, Who so lifts my youth in me, That a littel more to love her Were to leave her free! But to winne Katheryn, Is mine utmost love's degree. Distaunce, cold, delay, and danger, Build the four walles of her bower; She's noe Sweete for any stranger, She's noe valley flower: And to winne Katheryn, To her height my heart can Tower! Uppe to Beautie's promontory I will climb, not loudlie call Perfect and escaping glory Folly, if I fall: Well to winne Katheryn! To be worth her is my all. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LEINSTER by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY ON FIRST ENTERING WESTMINSTER ABBEY by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY OPEN, TIME by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY SANCTUARY by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY THE KINGS by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY THE WILD RIDE by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY TO A DOG'S MEMORY by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY WHEN ON THE MARGE OF EVENING by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY A BALLAD OF KENELM by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY A FOOTNOTE TO A FAMOUS LYRIC by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY |
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