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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE: TO THE READER, by WILLIAM BASSE Poet's Biography First Line: Reade if you will: and if you will not chuse Last Line: I rest your honest, carelesse friend Subject(s): Books; Reading | |||
READE if you will: And if you will not chuse, My booke (Sir) shall be read though you refuse: But if you doe, I pray commend my wit, For, by my faith, 'tis first that ere I writ. Who reades and not commends, it is a rule To hold him very wise, or very foole. But whosoere commends, and doth not reede, What ere the other is, he's a foole indeede: But who doth neither reade nor yet commend, God speed him well; his labour's at an end. But reade, or praise, or not, or how it pas, I rest your honest, carelesse friend | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO SONNETS: 1 by DAVID LEHMAN THE ILLUSTRATION?ÇÖA FOOTNOTE by DENISE LEVERTOV FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID by ROBERT LOWELL POETRY MACHINES by CATE MARVIN LENDING LIBRARY by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by WILLIAM BASSE |
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