What others have with cheapnesse seene, and ease, In Varnisht maps; by'th' helpe of Compasses; Or reade in Volumes, and those Bookes (with all Their large Narrations, Incanonicall) Thou hast beheld those seas, and Countries farre; And tel'st to us, what once they were, and are. So that with bold truth, thou canst now relate This Kingdomes fortune, and that Empires fate: Canst talke to us of Sharon; where a spring Of Roses have an endlesse flourishing. Of Sion, Sinai, Nebo, and with them, Make knowne to us the now Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives; Calverie, and where Is (and hast seene) thy Saviours Sepulcher. So that the man that will but lay his eares, As Inapostate, to the thing he heares, Shall by his hearing quickly come to see The truth of Travails lesse in bookes then Thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LAST WORD OF A BLUEBIRD; AS TOLD TO A CHILD by ROBERT FROST ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD by THOMAS GRAY THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT by EDWARD LEAR THE QUAKER POET; VERSES ON SEEING MYSELF SO DESIGNATED by BERNARD BARTON MY GARDEN OF FRIENDS by NETTIE STEPHENSON BOWEN THE DEAD BRONCHO-BUSTER by BERTON BRALEY |