That poets are far rarer births than kings Your noblest father proved; like whom before, Or then, or since, about our Muses springs, Came not that soul exhausted so their store. Hence was it that the destines decreed (Save that most masculine issue of his brain) No male unto him; who could so exceed Nature, they thought, in all that he would fain. At which she, happily displeased, made you, On whom, if he were living now to look, He should those rare and absolute numbers view, As he would burn or better far his book. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT DOVER CLIFFS, JULY 20, 1787 by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES FROM THE ANTIQUE (1) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI HESPERIDES by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 8 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT NATALIA'S RESURRECTION: 11 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |