I will be short, and having quickly hurl'd This line about, live Thou throughout the world; Who art a man for all Sceanes; unto whom (What's hard to others) nothing's troublesome. Can'st write the Comick, Tragick straine, and fall From these to penne the pleasing Pastorall: Who fli'st at all heights: Prose and Verse run'st through Find'st here a fault, and mend'st the trespasse too: For which I might extoll thee, but speake lesse, Because thy selfe art comming to the Presse: And then sho'd I in praising thee be slow, Posterity will pay thee what I owe. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN OLD WOMAN: 2. HARVEST by EDITH SITWELL AFTER AUGHRIM by ARTHUR GERALD GEOGHEGAN THE DARK-EYED GENTLEMAN by THOMAS HARDY THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 72. THE CHOICE (2) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SIC VITA by HENRY DAVID THOREAU |