Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT OLD SARUM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, if thou canst boast the noble name Last Line: An individual's rights, how happy all! Subject(s): England; History; Law & Lawyers; Legislation; Patriotism; English; Historians | ||||||||
READER, if thou canst boast the noble name Of Englishman, it is enough to know Thou standest in Old Sarum. But if chance 'Twas thy misfortune in some other land, Inheritor of slavery, to be born, Read and be envious! dost thou see yon hut, Its old mud mossy walls with many a patch Spotted? know, foreigner! so wisely well In England it is ordered, that the laws Which bind the people, from themselves should spring; Know that the dweller in that little hut, That wretched hovel, to the senate sends Two delegates. Think, foreigner, where such An individual's rights, how happy all! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES by JAMES MCMICHAEL THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE by JOHN ASHBERY INITIAL CONDITIONS by MARVIN BELL THE DREAM SONGS: 290 by JOHN BERRYMAN THE EROTICS OF HISTORY by EAVAN BOLAND THEM AND US by LUCILLE CLIFTON BISHOP BRUNO by ROBERT SOUTHEY |
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