Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNDER MR. HALES PICTURE, by ANNE KING 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. | 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 INSCRIPTION ON MONUMENT OF DOROTHY, LADY HUBERT AT LANGLEY by ANNE KING REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY BOOKS by WILLIAM COWPER |
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