Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UPON M. WILLIAM LAWES, THE RARE MUSITIAN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sho'd I not put on blacks, when each one here Last Line: Musique had both her birth, and death with thee. Subject(s): Lawes, William (1602-1645) | ||||||||
Sho'd I not put on Blacks, when each one here Comes with his Cypresse, and devotes a teare? Sho'd I not grieve (my Lawes) when every Lute, Violl, and Voice, is (by thy losse) struck mute? Thy loss brave man! whose Numbers have been hurl'd, And no less prais'd, then spread throughout the world. Some have Thee call'd Amphion; some of us, Nam'd thee Terpander, or sweet Orpheus: Some this, some that, but all in this agree, Musique had both her birth, and death with Thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by ROBERT HERRICK A TERNARIE OF LITTLES, UPON A PIPKIN OF JELLIE by ROBERT HERRICK A THANKSGIVING TO GOD [FOR HIS HOUSE] by ROBERT HERRICK ANOTHER GRACE FOR A CHILD by ROBERT HERRICK ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMASSE EVE by ROBERT HERRICK CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS (1) by ROBERT HERRICK CLOTHES DO BUT CHEAT AND COZEN US by ROBERT HERRICK COMFORT [TO A YOUTH THAT HAD LOST HIS LOVE] by ROBERT HERRICK |
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