Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN COMMENDATION OF GEORGE GASCOIGNE'S STEEL GLASS (1576), by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet were the sauce would please each kind of taste Last Line: I fear me much, shall hardly reach so high. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Books; Gascoigne, George (1525-1577); Reading | ||||||||
Sweet were the sauce would please each kind of taste; The life likewise were pure that never swerved: For spiteful tongues in canker'd stomachs placed Deem worst of things which best (percase) deserved. But what for that? This medicine may suffice To scorn the rest, and seek to please the wise. Though sundry minds in sundry sort do deem, Yet worthiest wights yield praise for every pain; But envious brains do nought, or light, esteem Such stately steps as they cannot attain: For whoso reaps renown above the rest, With heaps of hate shall surely be opprest. Wherefore, to write my censure of this book, This Glass of Steel unpartially doth show Abuses all to such as in it look, From prince to poor, from high estate to low. As for the verse, who list like trade to try, I fear me much, shall hardly reach so high. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO SONNETS: 1 by DAVID LEHMAN THE ILLUSTRATION?ÇÖA FOOTNOTE by DENISE LEVERTOV FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID by ROBERT LOWELL POETRY MACHINES by CATE MARVIN LENDING LIBRARY by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (1) by WALTER RALEIGH A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (2) by WALTER RALEIGH |
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