Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN AMOURET ANACREONTICK, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most good, most faire Last Line: Happie so loving. Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
Most good, most faire. Or Thing as rare, To call you's lost; For all the cost Words can bestow, So poorely show Upon your prayse, That all the wayes Sense hath, come short: Whereby Report Falls them under; That when Wonder More hath seyzed, Yet not pleased, That it in kinde Nothing can finde, You to expresse: Neverthelesse, As by Globes small, This Mightie ALL Is shew'd, though farre From Life, each Starre A World being: So wee seeing You, like as that, Onely trust what Art doth us teach; And when I reach At Morall Things, And that my Strings Gravely should strike, Straight some mislike Blotteth mine ODE. As with the Loade, The Steele we touch, Forc'd ne'r so much, Yet still removes To that it loves, Till there it stayes; So to your prayse I turne ever, And though never From you moving, Happie so loving. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB CANZONET: TO HIS COY LOVE by MICHAEL DRAYTON |
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