The Phoenix and Turtle William Shakespeare Barbara A. Mowat Paul Werstine Edited for XML and encoded by Michael Poston Rebecca Niles Text released without textual notes Folger Shakespeare Library PhT
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Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License July, 2016 The Folger Shakespeare (formerly Folger Digital Texts) William Shakespeare Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems Barbara A. Mowat Paul Werstine New York Washington Square Press 2006 Adobe Digital Edition The current version of the base text

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Soft end-of-line hyphens (i.e., those added only because of the line break) are silently removed. Editors Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine determine whether the hyphen should be retained.

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 The Phoenix and 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 . From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing , Save the eagle , feathered king ; Keep the obsequy so strict . Let the priest in surplice white , That defunctive music can , 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 In a mutual flame from hence . So they loved , as love in twain Had the essence but in one , Two distincts , division none ; Number there in love was slain . Hearts remote yet not asunder , Distance and no space was seen ’Twixt this turtle and his queen ; But in them it were a wonder . So between them love did shine That the turtle saw his right Flaming in the phoenix’ sight ; Either was the other’s mine . Property was thus appalled That the self was not the same ; Single nature’s double name Neither two nor one was called . Reason , in itself confounded , Saw division grow together , To themselves yet either neither , Simple were so well compounded That it cried , How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one ! Love hath reason , Reason none , If what parts can so remain , Whereupon it made this threne To the phoenix and the dove , Co-supremes and stars of love , As chorus to their tragic scene . Beauty , truth , and rarity , Grace in all simplicity , Here enclosed , in cinders lie . Death is now the phoenix’ nest , And the turtle’s loyal breast To eternity doth rest , Leaving no posterity ; ’Twas not their infirmity , It was married chastity . Truth may seem , but cannot be ; Beauty brag , but ’tis not she ; Truth and beauty buried be . To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair ; For these dead birds sigh a prayer . William Shakespeare