Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INOCULATION FOR THE SMALL POX, by JOHN BYROM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard two neighbours talk the other night Last Line: As when in health to drive it there by art? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Health; Sickness; Small Pox; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Illness | ||||||||
I HEARD two neighbours talk the other night About this new distemper-giving plan, Which someso wrong, and others thinkso right; Short was the dialogue, and thus it ran, "If I had twenty children of my own, "I would inoculate them ev'ry one." Ay, but should any of them die, what moan Would then be made for venturing thereupon! "No; I should think that I had done the best, "And be resign'd whatever should befall." But could you really be so quite at rest? "I could."Then why inoculate at all, Since to resign a child to God, who gave, Is full as easy and as just a part When sick and led by nature to the grave, As when in health to drive it there by art? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL AFTERNOON AT MACDOWELL by JANE KENYON HAVING IT OUT WITH MELANCHOLY by JANE KENYON SONNET: 9. HOPE by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY (2) by JOHN BYROM |
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