Song - Stay, Phoebus, stay!

Edmund Waller 1606 (Coleshill) – 1687



Stay, Phoebus, stay!
The world to which you fly so fast,
Conveying day
From us to them, can pay your haste
With no such object, not salute your rise
With no such wonder, as De Mornay's eyes.

Well does this prove
The error of those antique books,
Which made you move
About the world; her charming looks
Would fix your beams, and make it ever day,
Did not the rolling earth snatch her away.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXAXBB CDCDAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 387
Words 76
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6

Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller, FRS was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679. more…

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