Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE FRONTISPIECE OF ISAACSONS CHRONOLOGIE EXPLAINED (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let hoary time's vast bowels be the grave Last Line: That, the world's morning, this her midnight is. Subject(s): Andrewes, Lancelot,(1555-1626); Clergy; Isaacson, Henry (1581-1657); Bishop Of Winchester; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops | ||||||||
Let hoary TIME's vast Bowels be the Grave To what his Bowels birth and being gave; Let Nature die, if (PHAENIX-like) from death Revived Nature take a second breath; In on TIMES right hand, sit faire HISTORIE; If, from the seed of empty Ruine, she Can raise so faire an HARVEST: Let Her be Ne're so farre distant, yet CHRONOLOGIE (Sharpe sighted as the EAGLES eye, that can Out-stare the broad-beam'd Dayes Meridian) Will have a PERSPICILL to finde her out, And, through the NIGHT of error and dark doubt, Discerne the DAWNE of Truth's eternall ray, As when the rosie MORNE budds into Day. Now that TIME'S Empire might be amply fill'd, BABELS bold Artists strive (below) to build Ruine a Temple; on whose fruitfull fall HISTORY reares her PYRAMIDS more tall Then were th' AEgyptian (by the life, these give, Th' AEgyptian Pyramids themselves must live:) On these she lifts the WORLD; and on their base Shewes the two termes and limits of TIME'S race: That, the CREATION is; the JUDGEMENT, this; That, the World's MORNING, this her MIDNIGHT is. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SONG OF THE DEMENTED PRIEST by JOHN BERRYMAN HORATIO ALGER (1834-1899) by MADELINE DEFREES ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX by NORMAN DUBIE IN THE TIME OF FALSE MESSIAHS; CIRCA 1648 by NORMAN DUBIE THE GUARDIAN OF THE RED DISK (SPOKEN BY A CITIZEN OF MALTA - 1300) by EMMA LAZARUS DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS DOMESDAY BOOK: REV. PERCY FERGUSON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THIS SIDE OF CALVIN by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY WHAT WAS LEFT OVER; FOR SUJATA BHATT by ELEANOR WILNER A HYMN [TO THE NAME AND] IN HONOR OF SAINT TERESA by RICHARD CRASHAW A SONG [OF DIVINE LOVE] by RICHARD CRASHAW AN EPITAPH UPON HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO DIED AND WERE BURIED by RICHARD CRASHAW |
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