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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO SAINT MARGARET, by HENRY CONSTABLE Poet's Biography First Line: Fair amazon of heaven, who took'st in hand Last Line: And let my soul, made chaste, pass for a maid. Subject(s): Margaret, Saint | |||
Fair Amazon of Heaven who tookst in hand Saint Michael and Saint George to imitate, And for a tyrant's love transformed to hate Wast for thy lily faith retained in band, Alone on foot and with thy naked hand Thou didst like Michael and his host; and that For which on horse armed George we celebrate Whilst thou, like them, a dragon didst withstand. Behold my soul shut in my body's gaol, The which the Drake of Hell gapes to devour. Teach me (O virgin) how thou didst prevail. Virginity, thou sayest, was all thy aid: Give me then purity instead of power, And let my soul, made chaste, pass for a Maid. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DAMELUS' SONG TO HIS DIAPHENIA by HENRY CONSTABLE LOVE'S FRANCISCAN by HENRY CONSTABLE TO GOD THE FATHER by HENRY CONSTABLE TO OUR BLESSED LADY (2) by HENRY CONSTABLE TO SAINT CATHERINE by HENRY CONSTABLE TO SIR PHILIP SIDNEY'S SOUL by HENRY CONSTABLE CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS by HAYDEN CARRUTH YOU SAY YOU SAID by MARIANNE MOORE THE PROGRESS OF POETRY; A VARIATION by MATTHEW ARNOLD |
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