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TO DELIA: 13 by SAMUEL DANIEL

Poet Analysis

First Line: BEHOLD WHAT HAP PYGMALION HAD TO FRAME
Last Line: UNHAPPY I, TO LOVE A STONY HEART.
Subject(s): LOVE; PYGMALION;
Behold what hap Pygmalion had to frame
And carve his proper grief upon a stone;
My heavy fortune is much like the same:
I work on flint, and that's the cause I moan.
For hapless, lo, ev'n with mine own desires,
I figured on the table of my heart
The fairest form the world's eye admires,
And so did perish by my proper art.
And still I toil to change the marble breast
Of her whose sweetest grace I do adore,
Yet cannot find her breathe unto my rest;
Hard is her heart, and woe is me therefore.
O happy he that joyed his stone and art;
Unhappy I, to love a stony heart.



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