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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ACTS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: We shape our deeds and then are shapen by them
Last Line: Were they born fair, hell can defile them not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Activity; Exercise
First Line: We shape our deeds and then are shapen by them
Last Line: Were they born fair, hell can defile them not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Activity; Exercise
WE shape our deeds and then are shapen by them:
We are children of the things ourselves begot.
Were they born foul, Heaven cannot purify them;
Were they born fair, Hell can defile them not.
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