Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UNDER MR. HALES PICTURE, by ANNE KING



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UNDER MR. HALES PICTURE, by                    
First Line: Though by a sodaine and unfeard surprise
Last Line: Which less resemblance of the persons have.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Graves; Hales, John (1585-1656); Memory; Portraits; Tombs; Tombstones


Though by a sodaine and unfeard surprise,
thou lately taken wast from thy friends eies:
Even in that instant, when they had design'd
to keipe thee, by thy picture still in minde:
least thou like others lost in deths dark night
shouldst stealing hence vanish quite out of sight;
I did contend with greater zeale then Art,
This shadow of my phancie to impart:
which all shood pardon, when they understand
the lines were figur'd by a womans hand,
who had noe copy to be guided by
but Hales imprinted on her memory.
Thus ill cut Brasses serve uppon a grave,
Which less resemblance of the persons have.





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