Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE MOST DISCONSOLATE GREAT BRITAIN, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pale famine fed on thee Last Line: Yet could'st thou not in show more amply mourn. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement | ||||||||
1. WHEN pale famine fed on thee, With her unsatiate jaws; When civil broils set murder free Contemning all thy laws; When heav'n enraged consumed thee so With plagues that none thy face could know, Yet in thy looks affliction then showed less Than now for one's fate all thy parts express. 2. Now thy highest states lament A son, and brother's loss; Thy nobles mourn in discontent, And rue this fatal cross; Thy commons are with passion sad To think how brave a Prince they had: If all thy rocks from white to black should turn Yet could'st thou not in show more amply mourn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNGERFIELD by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE MOURNER by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN HECUBA MOURNS by MARILYN NELSON THERE IS NO GOD BUT by AGHA SHAHID ALI IF I COULD MOURN LIKE A MOURNING DOVE by FRANK BIDART A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 by THOMAS CAMPION |
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