StoryTitle("caps", "The Phoenix and the Turtle") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let the bird of loudest lay", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the sole Arabian tree,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Herald sad and trumpet be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To whose sound chaste wings obey.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But thou shrieking harbinger, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Foul precurrer of the fiend,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Augur of the fever's end,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To this troop come thou not near.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From this session interdict", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Every fowl of tyrant wing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Save the eagle, feather'd king:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Keep the obsequy so strict.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let the priest in surplice white", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That defunctive music can,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Be the death-divining swan, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lest the requiem lack his right.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thou, treble-dated crow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That thy sable gender mak'st", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here the anthem doth commence:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Love and constancy is dead;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Phoenix and the turtle fled", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a mutual flame from hence.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So they loved, as love in twain ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Had the essence but in one;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Two distincts, division none;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Number there in love was slain.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hearts remote, yet not asunder;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Distance, and no space was seen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Twixt the turtle and his queen:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But in them it were a wonder.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So between them love did shine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That the turtle saw his right", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Flaming in the phoenix' sight; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Either was the other's mine.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Property was thus appall'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That the self was not the same;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Single nature's double name", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Neither two nor one was call'd. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Reason, in itself confounded,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Saw division grow together;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To themselves yet either neither;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Simple were so well compounded,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That it cried, \"How true a twain ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Seemeth this concordant one!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Love hath reason, reason none", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If what parts can so remain.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whereupon it made this threne", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the phoenix and the dove, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Co-supremes and stars of love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As chorus to their tragic scene.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
Threnos
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beauty, truth, and rarity,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Grace in all simplicity,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here enclosed in cinders lie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Death is now the phoenix' nest;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the turtle's loyal breast", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To eternity doth rest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leaving no posterity:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Twas not their infirmity,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was married chastity.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Truth may seem, but cannot be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beauty brag, but 'tis not she;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Truth and beauty buried be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To this urn let those repair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That are either true or fair; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For these dead birds sigh a prayer.", "") ?>
Poet("William Shakespeare", "1564-1616") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>