Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, THE LORD HIGH TREASURER OF ENGLAND, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord / poor wretched states, pressed by extremities Last Line: A bedrid wit, than a besieged town. Subject(s): Weston, Richard. 1st Earl Of Portland | ||||||||
My lord; Poor wretched states, pressed by extremities, Are fain to seek for succours, and supplies Of princes' aids, or good men's charities. Disease, the enemy, and his engineers, Wants, with the rest of his concealed compeers, Have cast a trench about me, now five years. And made those strong approaches, by false braies, Reduicts, half-moons, horn-works, and such close ways, The muse not peeps out, one of hundred days; But lies blocked up, and straitened, narrowed in, Fixed to the bed, and boards, unlike to win Health, or scarce breath, as she had never bin. Unless some saving honour of the crown, Dare think it, to relieve, no less renown, A bedrid wit, than a besieged town. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 1. HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID by BEN JONSON A FIT OF RHYME AGAINST RHYME [OR, RIME] by BEN JONSON A NYMPH'S PASSION by BEN JONSON A SONNET, TO THE NOBLE LADY, THE LADY MARY WROTH by BEN JONSON AN ODE TO HIMSELF by BEN JONSON ANSWER TO MASTER WITHER'S SONG, 'SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?' by BEN JONSON EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS by BEN JONSON |
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