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The Phoenix and the Turtle (also spelled The Phœnix and the Turtle) is an allegorical poem by William Shakespeare, first published in 1601 as a supplement to a longer work, Love's Martyr, by Robert Chester.
Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his right. And thou treble-dated crow, That thy sable gender mak'st. With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st, 'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. Here the anthem doth commence: Love and constancy is dead; Phoenix and the Turtle fled.
The Phoenix And The Turtle poem by Shakespeare is perhaps his most obscure work, verging on the metaphysical as an allegorical poem about the death of a perfect love. The Phoenix And The Turtle was published untitled in 1601 as one of the Poetical Essays appended to Robert Chester’s ‘Love’s Martyr’.
Jul 31, 2015 · Shakespeare's poem now known as “The Phoenix and Turtle” (or as “The Phoenix and the Turtle”) appears to be his only occasional poem. It was first printed without any title as one of a handful of additional poems in Robert…
William Shakespeare. The Phoenix and the Turtle. Let the bird of loudest lay On the sole Arabian tree Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger, Foul precurrer of the fiend, Augur of the fever's end, To this troop come thou not near.
Introduction to the poem. Shakespeare’s poem now known as “The Phoenix and Turtle” (or as “The Phoenix and the Turtle”) appears to be his only occasional poem. It was first printed without any title as one of a handful of additional poems in Robert Chester’s 1601 Loves Martyr or, Rosalins Complaint.
“The Phoenix and Turtle” first appeared in 1601 in Robert Chester’s Loves Martyr: or, Rosalins Complaint. The present edition is based directly upon these printings. 1 The only other poem that might have been included in this edition is “A Louers Complaint.”
