Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PSALM 49, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE First Line: World dwellers all give heed to what I say Last Line: Do live and dy of whom is no record. | ||||||||
World dwellers all give heed to what I say To all I speake, to rich poore high and low Knowledg the subject in my heart conceives Wisdom the Words shall from my mouth proceed Which I will measure by melodious eare And ridled speech to tuned harp accord. The times of Evill why should they me dismay When mischeif shall my footstepps overflow. And first from him whom fickle trust deceaves Of wealth which his vain confidence doth breed Since no man can his Brothers life outbeare Nor yeild for him his ransom to the Lord. For deare the price that for a soul must pay And death in bargaining is endlesse slow Nay tell me whom a longer time he leaves Rejected from the tomb for treasures meed? At his sure summons Wise and fools appeare And others spend the riches they did leave. A second thinks his house shall not decay Nor time his glorious buildings overthrow Nam'd proudly of his name, where folly reaves Such honourd fooles of sense, and they indeed A brutish life and death as beasts they were Do live and dy of whom is no record. These though their race approve their peevish way Death in the pitt his carrion food doth stow And lo the first succeding life perceives The just installed in the great mans stead Yea farr his prince: for soon that lovely cheare Lovely in house, in tomb becomes abhorrd. But God my God to interrupt the pray Of my life from the grave shall not foreslow For hee it is he only me receaves Then though one rich do grow and honours seed Spring with increase yet stand Thou free from feare Of all his pomp death shall him naught afford. Please they themselves, which think at happyest stay To please themselves: yet to their Fathers go Shall they to endless dark; for Folly reaves Exalted men of sense; and they indeed A brutish life and death as beasts they were Do live and dy of whom is no record. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PSALM 121 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 136 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 139 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 8. MAN'S PLACE IN CREATION by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE DEBORAH: THE SONG OF DEBORAH by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ECCLESIASTES by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ECCLESIASTES: THE LIGHT IS SWEET by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ELIJAH AND THE PRIESTS OF BAAL: IN A TIME OF FAMINE by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE EXODUS 15. SONG OF ISRAEL FOR THE OVERTHROW OF EGYPT IN THE RED SEA by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |
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