Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AD AMICUM LITIGANTEM, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you commence a poet, sir, and be Last Line: And then 'tis ta'en for granted you are mad. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
WOULD you commence a poet, sir, and be A graduate in the threadbare mystery? The Ox's ford will no man thither bring, Where the horse-hoof rais'd the Pegasian spring; Nor will the bridge, through which low Cham doth run, Direct you to the banks of Helicon. If in that art you mean to take degrees, Bedlam's the best of universities. There study it; and when you would no more A poet be, go drink some hellebore. Which drug when I had tasted, soon I left The bare Parnassus and the barren cleft; And can no more one of their nation be, Because recover'd of my lunacy. But you may then succeed me in my place Of poet, no pretence to make your grace Denied you; for you go to law, 'tis said; And then 'tis ta'en for granted you are mad. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB FAIRIES' SONG by THOMAS RANDOLPH ODE TO MASTER ANTHONY STAFFORD [TO HASTEN HIM INTO COUNTRY] by THOMAS RANDOLPH |
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