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...TO THE MEMORY OF INEZ MILHOLLAND by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON GRANDFATHER'S LOVE by SARA TEASDALE SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 1 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING LOVE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE SONNET: ADDRESSED TO HAYDON (2) by JOHN KEATS IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE by RUDYARD KIPLING KATHLEEN O'MORE by GEORGE NUGENT REYNOLDS |