TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR FR. WALSINGHAM, KNIGHT, PRINCIPALL SECRETARY TO HER MAJESTY AND OF HER HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNSELL THAT Mantuane poetes incompared spirit, Whose girland now is set in highest place, Had not Mecaenas, for his worthy merit, It first advaunst to great Augustus grace, Might long, perhaps, have lien in silence bace, Ne bene so much admir'd of later age. This lowly Muse, that learns like steps to trace, Flies for like aide unto your patronage; That are the great Mecenas of this age, As wel to al that civil artes professe, As those that are inspir'd with martial rage, And craves protection of her feeblenesse: Which if ye yield, perhaps ye may her rayse In bigger tunes to sound your living prayse. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHANSON D'AUTOMNE by PAUL VERLAINE LITTLE BOY BLUE by EUGENE FIELD A BOY'S MOTHER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY THE REVENGE; A BALLAD OF THE FLEET by ALFRED TENNYSON EDONI: THE WORSHIP OF COTYS by AESCHYLUS LINES PLACED OVER A CHIMNEY-PIECE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 3 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |