Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PARENETICON TO THE TRULY NOBLE GENTLEMAN MASTER ENDYMION PORTER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, bashful muse: thy message is to one Last Line: He turn'd love's wanton god, and so do you. Subject(s): Porter, Endymion (1587-1649) | ||||||||
GO, bashful Muse: thy message is to one That drinks and fills thy Helicon, Who, when his quill a sportive number seeks, Plants roses in the ladies' cheeks, And with a sad note from their eyes can call Pearl-show'rs to dew those buds withal; Whose lays, when I by chance am blest to hear, My soul climbs up into mine ear, And bids your sisters challenge from the moon The learned, as the fair, Endymion. Sing of his faith to the bright soul that's fled, And left you all, poor girls, struck dead With just despair of any future men T'employ or to reward a pen. A soul, that staying would have wonders wrought, High as himself or his great thought, And full of days and honours (with our prayers, Instead of beads summ'd up with tears), Might of her own free flight to heaven have gone, Offer what's heart, his hand, his sword had done, But sing not thou a tale of discontent To him whose joy is to lament. We ought to pay true tears upon the hearse, And lay some up in faithful verse, And so cast off our black; for more than thus Troubles the saints for troubling us. Say to him, Cupid, being once too kind, Wept out his eyes, and so grew blind. For dead Adonis, grief being paid her due, He turn'd love's wanton god, and so do you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ECLOGUE, OR PASTORALL .. ENDIMION PORTER & LYCIDAS HERRICK by ROBERT HERRICK THE COUNTRY LIFE, TO THE HONOURED M. END. PORTER by ROBERT HERRICK TO THE HONOURED, MASTER ENDIMION PORTER by ROBERT HERRICK FAIRIES' SONG by THOMAS RANDOLPH ODE TO MASTER ANTHONY STAFFORD [TO HASTEN HIM INTO COUNTRY] by THOMAS RANDOLPH UPON HIS PICTURE by THOMAS RANDOLPH A CHARACTER by THOMAS RANDOLPH A COMPLAINT AGAINST CUPID, THAT HE NEVER MADE HIM IN LOVE by THOMAS RANDOLPH A DIALOGUE BETWIXT A NYMPH AND A SHEPHERD by THOMAS RANDOLPH |
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