TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, BOTH IN BIRTH AND VIRTUE, FRANCIS EARL OF CUMBERLAND WHAT patron could I choose, great Lord, but you? Grave words your years may challenge as their own: And every note of music is your due, Whose house the Muses' Palace I have known. To love and cherish them, though it descends With many honours more on you, in vain Preceding fame herein with you contends, Who hath both fed the Muses and their train. These leaves I offer you, Devotion might Herself lay open. Read them, or else hear How gravely, with their tune, they yield delight To any virtuous and not curious ear: Such as they are, accept them, noble Lord: If better, better could my zeal afford. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY MURRAY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 9. VILLA SEBELLONI, BELLAGGIO by SARA TEASDALE THE ORACLES by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 47 by PHILIP SIDNEY SONGS OF TRAVEL: 45. TO S.R. CROCKETT by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IN MEMORY OF GENERAL GRANT by HENRY ABBEY |