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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 21. TO CYRIACK SKINNER, by JOHN MILTON Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Cyriack, whose grandsire on the royal bench
Last Line: And when god sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 18;""cyriack, Whose Grandsire On The Royal Bench"";
Subject(s): Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634); Skinner, Cyriack (1627-1700)
First Line: Cyriack, whose grandsire on the royal bench
Last Line: And when god sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 18;""cyriack, Whose Grandsire On The Royal Bench"";
Subject(s): Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634); Skinner, Cyriack (1627-1700)
CYRIACK, whose grandsire on the royal bench
Of British Themis, with no mean applause
Pronounced and in his volumes taught our laws,
Which others at their bar so often wrench:
To-day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench
In mirth, that after no repenting draws;
Let Euclid rest and Archimedes pause,
And what the Swede intend, and what the French.
To measure life, learn thou betimes, and know
Toward solid good what leads the nearest way;
For other things mild Heaven a time ordains,
And disapproves that care, though wise in show,
That with superfluous burden loads the day,
And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
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