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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS TO BOTHWELL: 1, by MARY Poet's Biography First Line: O you high gods, have pity, and let me find Last Line: What's left to prove my love always the same? Alternate Author Name(s): Stuart, Mary; Mary, Queen Of Scots Variant Title(s): Unfinished Sonnet Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy | |||
O you High Gods, have pity, and let me find Somehow some incontestable way to prove (So that he must believe in it) my love And this unwavering constancy of mind! Alas, he rules already with no let A body and a heart which must endure Pain and dishonour in a life unsure, The obloquy of friends and worse things yet. For him I would account as nothing those Whom I named as friends, and put my faith in foes: For him I'd let the round world perish, I Who have hazarded both conscience and good name, And, to advance him, happily would die . . . What's left to prove my love always the same? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARGUING BARTUSIAK by ALBERT GOLDBARTH THE VISIONARY by EMILY JANE BRONTE THE PROTESTATION by THOMAS CAREW A VALEDICTION: OF MY NAME IN THE WINDOW by JOHN DONNE ELEGY: 11. THE BRACELET; UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESS'S CHAIN by JOHN DONNE WOMAN'S CONSTANCY by JOHN DONNE NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON |
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