Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OF HIS LADYE, by MELLIN DE SAINT-GELAIS Poet's Biography First Line: Not all the shippes bye venice quay Last Line: Can halve the wisdom in her kenne. Subject(s): Love; Praise | ||||||||
NOT all the shippes bye Venice quay, Nor oyster-shells bye Norman shore, Nor all the swannes in Temmes that be With archéd neck and ebon oar, Can reach the tallie of her lore. Not wooinges made in holye guise, Nor pryde of princelynges got from Spayne, Nor all the lure of cunnynge lies, Nor all the golde that misers gaine, Can match the brightnesse of her brayne. Not all the beasts bye man untamed, Nor all the wiles of warrynge men, Nor all reprieves bye Rome proclaimed, Nor all the words ere writ by penne, Can halve the wisdom in her kenne. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PRAISE PREMATURE by SAMUEL BISHOP ON GIFTS FOR GRACE by BERNADETTE MAYER AFTERTHOUGHTS OF DONNA ELVIRA by CAROLYN KIZER OUR DEATHLESS DEAD by EDWIN MARKHAM SIR JOHN CHIVERTON: DEDICATORY STANZAS. by WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12. A RENUNCIATION by THOMAS CAMPION TO MY HONORED FRIEND SIR ROBERT HOWARD by JOHN DRYDEN PRAISE OF LITTLE WOMEN by JUAN RUIZ EPIGRAM by MELLIN DE SAINT-GELAIS |
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