Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE DEATH AND WORKS OF MASTER GREENHAM, by JOSEPH HALL Poet's Biography First Line: Some skilfull caruer helpe me to endorse Last Line: But emulate thy works eternitie. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Time; Trees; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
Some skilfull Caruer helpe me to endorse The blessed stone that hideth GREENHAMS corse, Make me a tree whose branches withered beene, And yet the leaues and fruit are euer greene. The more the stock dyes let them flourish more, And grow more kindly greene then earst before. Set Time and Enuy gazing at the roote, Cursing their bootlesse hand, and sliding foote. Let all the Graces sit them in the shade, And pull those leaues whose beautie cannot fade. GREENHAM, if this cannot thy worth descriue, That thou once dead, thy workes are still aliue, Would I might say thy selfe could neuer die, But emulate thy works eternitie. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL AN EPIGRAM ON JOHN MARSTON by JOSEPH HALL ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 1 by JOSEPH HALL ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 2. ANTHEME FOR CHRISTMAS DAY by JOSEPH HALL |
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