Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE READER, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The times are swoll'n so big with nicer wits Last Line: I am as confident as they are nice. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Great Britain | ||||||||
THE times are swoll'n so big with nicer wits, That nought sounds good but what Opinion strikes Censure with Judgment seld together sits; And now the man more than the matter likes. The great rewardress of a poet's pen, Fame, is by those so clogg'd she seldom flies; The Muses sitting on the graves of men, Singing that Virtue lives and never dies, Are chas'd away by the malignant tongues Of such, by whom Detraction is ador'd: Hence grows the want of ever-living songs, With which our isle was whilom bravely stor'd. If such a basilisk dart down his eye (Impoison'd with the dregs of utmost hate), To kill the first blooms of my poesy, It is his worst, and makes me fortunate. Kind wits I vail to, but to fools precise I am as confident as they are nice. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POSTCARDS ON MY WINDOW LEDGE by JOHN UPDIKE AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN by WASHINGTON ALLSTON THE SNUG LITTLE ISLAND by THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN 1782 by ALFRED TENNYSON A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, TO MRS. S. W. by PHILLIS WHEATLEY ON THE DESERTED VILLAGE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD GREAT BRITTAINES SUNNES-SET by WILLIAM BASSE MIDNIGHT FIRES by GORDON BOTTOMLEY BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO LORD ZOUCH by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) EPITAPH: IN OBITUM M.S. XO MAIJ, 1614 by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |
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