KINGS, when to private audience they descend, And make the baffled courtier their prey, Do use an orange, as they treat a friend -- Extract the juice, and cast the rind away. When thou art favour'd by thy sovereign's eye, Let not his glance thine inmost thoughts discover; Or he will scan thee through, and lay thee by, Like some old book which he has read all over. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY: 9. THE AUTUMNAL [BEAUTY] by JOHN DONNE LEARNING TO READ by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER SONNET: 53 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO AMERICA, ON HER FIRST SONS FALLEN IN THE GREAT WAR by E. M. WALKER THE FUGITIVE by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA DRUM TAPS TO HEAVEN by JAMES CHURCH ALVORD |