WERE there a thought so strange as to deny That happy @3Bayes@1 doe some mens @3Births@1 adorne, Thy work alone might serue to iustifie That @3Poets@1 are not made so, but so borne. How could thy plumes thus soone haue soard thus hie Hadst thou not @3Lawrell@1 in thy Cradle worne? Thy Birth o'er-took thy Youth: and it doth make Thy youth (herein) thine elders ouer-take. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666 by ANNE BRADSTREET FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER PSALM 121 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE AFFINITES: 3 by MATHILDE BLIND GRISELDA: CHAPTER 3 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |