Yet Look on me-Take not Thine Eyes Away
The speaker asks a beloved to keep looking and speaking, hearing continued love in the beloved's voice but comparing their attention to someone absorbed in their own reflection. Watching the beloved consumes the speaker's life, sometimes sweetly; the beloved offers kindness and pity when the speaker is sick.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 142 words
First lines
Yet look on me-take not thine eyes away, / Which feed upon the love within mine own, / Which is indeed but the reflected ray / Of thine own beauty from my spirit thrown. / Yet speak to me-thy voice is as the tone / Of my heart's echo, and I think I hear / That thou yet lovest me; yet thou alone / Like one before a mirror, without care / Of aught but thine own features, imaged there;
And yet I wear out life in watching thee; / A toil so sweet at times, and thou indeed / Art kind when I am sick, and pity me...
Genres
- Love Poetry — The speaker addresses a beloved, asking for continued attention and weighing signs of love against apparent self-absorption.
- Lyric Poetry — Twelve lines express the speaker's immediate longing, uncertainty, and consuming attention to the beloved.
Tags
longing · love · self-absorption · reflection · illness · pity
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 142 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Difficult (10th-12th Grade)
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