Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON BRUTUS, AN ODE: HEAVY GOING, by JOHN SHEFFIELD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From mighty caesar, and his boundless grace Last Line: And if, alas, he fail'd, 'twas only by mistake. Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of Subject(s): Brutus (marcus Junius Brutus); Errors; Friendship - False Friends; Ingratitude; Mistakes; Fallacies; Fair Weather Friends; Ungratefulness | ||||||||
FROM mighty Cæsar, and his boundless grace, Tho' Brutus once, at least, his life receiv'd, Such obligations, tho' so high believ'd, Are yet but slight in such a case. Where friendship so possesses all the place, There is no room for gratitude, since he, Who so obliges, is more pleas'd than his sav'd friend can be. ... From such a friendship unprovok'd to fall Is horrid, yet I wish the fact were all, Which does with too much cause ungrateful Brutus call. ... He whom thus Brutus doom'd to bleed, Did, setting his own race aside, Nothing less for him provide, Than in the world's great empire to succeed; Which we are bound in justice to allow Is all-sufficient proof to show That Brutus did not strike for his own sake: And if, alas, he fail'd, 'twas only by mistake. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INGRATITUDE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH INGRATITUDE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES INGRATITUDE by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON THE JOURNEY AND OBSERVATIONS OF A COUNTRYMAN: A DEATHBED by JOHN HAWTHORN THE STAFF AND THE SCRIP by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SONNET: INGRATITUDE by ANNA SEWARD FRANCISCA DILIGENTE; MAY TO AUGUST, 1906 by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL THE RECONCILEMENT by JOHN SHEFFIELD AN ESSAY UPON SATIRE by JOHN SHEFFIELD INCONSTANCY EXCUSED by JOHN SHEFFIELD ODE ON THE DEATH OF MR. HENRY PURCELL: THE BLUE PENCIL by JOHN SHEFFIELD |
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