Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S SONNET, MADE IN THE PRIME OF HIS PENANCE, by ROBERT GREENE Poet's Biography First Line: With sweating brows I long have plough'd the Last Line: I find no time too late for to amend! Subject(s): Penance; Repentance; Youth; Penitence | ||||||||
WITH sweating brows I long have plough'd the sands; My seed was youth, my crop was endless care; Repent hath sent me home with empty hands At last, to tell how rife our follies are; And time hath left experience to approve, The gain is grief to those that traffic love. The silent thoughts of my repentant years, That fill my head, have call'd me home at last; Now Love unmask'd a wanton wretch appears, Begot by guileful thought with over-haste; In prime of youth a rose, in age a weed, That for a minute's joy pays endless need. Dead to delights, a foe to fond conceit, Allied to wit by want and sorrow bought, Farewell, fond youth, long foster'd in deceit; Forgive me, time, disguis'd in idle thought; And, love, adieu: lo, hasting to mine end I find no time too late for to amend! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RING AND THE CASTLE by AMY LOWELL OLNEY HYMNS: 9. THE CONTRITE HEART by WILLIAM COWPER A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER by JOHN DONNE THE RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 7 by OMAR KHAYYAM RECONCILIATION by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A FAREWELL TO FOLLY: CONTENT by ROBERT GREENE |
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