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SONNET. THE DOUBLE ROCK by HENRY KING (1592-1669)

Poet Analysis

First Line: SINCE THOU HAST VIEW'D SOME GORGON, AND ART GROWN
Last Line: TO MAKE TWO ROCKS EACH OTHERS MONUMENT.
Subject(s): WINTER;
SINCE thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grown
A solid stone:
To bring again to softness thy hard heart
Is past my art.
Ice may relent to water in a thaw;
But stone made flesh Loves Chymistry ne're saw.

Therefore by thinking on thy hardness, I
Will petrify;
And so within our double Quarryes Wombe,
Dig our Loves Tombe.
Thus strangely will our difference agree;
And, with our selves, amaze the world, to see
How both Revenge and Sympathy consent
To make two Rocks each others Monument.



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