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Faerie Queene - 1. Picture of Charley
The title allusion is to The Fairie Queen of Edmund Spenser. The collection contains poetry written in many different forms from sonnet to free verse.
Of all the many views you gave to me
Why did I save the one of when you slept?
While other men the hard and brazen surely kept,
I, the tender spirit chose to see -
Like young Endymion who slept upon
The hillside, soft and bare beneath the moon,
And lay uncaring, open; and yet soon
Awoke and stretched and then was gone.
With beard and sinew, stern and callous gaze
You draw those men who win more oft than I
To taste those battles lasting but a night.
Yet I am victor, glad for endless days
When I can keep you to myself, and spy
Into your heart, and feed my selfish sight.
Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
Note: While authors are asked to place warnings on their stories for some moderated content, everyone has different thresholds, and it is your responsibility as a reader to avoid stories or stop reading if something bothers you.
Note: While authors are asked to place warnings on their stories for some moderated content, everyone has different thresholds, and it is your responsibility as a reader to avoid stories or stop reading if something bothers you.
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