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BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. TO WILLIAM, EARL OF PEMBROKE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that the gift, great lord, deserves your hand Last Line: W. Browne. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Great Britain; Herbert, William, 3d Earl Of Pembroke | ||||||||
NOT that the gift, great Lord, deserves your hand, Held ever worth the rarest works of men, Offer I this; but since in all our land None can more rightly claim a poet's pen: That noble blood and virtue truly known, Which circular in you united run, Makes you each good, and every good your own, If it can hold in what my Muse hath done. But weak and lowly are these tuned lays, Yet though but weak to win fair Memory, You may improve them, and your gracing raise; For things are priz'd as their possessors be. If for such favour they have worthless striven, Since love the cause was, be that love forgiven! Your Honour W. BROWNE. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO WILLIAM, EARL OF PEMBROKE by BEN JONSON EPITAPH: IN OBITUM M.S. XO MAIJ, 1614 by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) VISIONS: 4. A ROSE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) VISIONS: 5 by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) WELCOME by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) A ROUND by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) AMOUR by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) AN ELEGY by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) AN ELEGY OF HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) AN ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM HOPTON by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) AN ELEGY ON SIR THOMAS OVERBURY; POISONED IN THE TOWER OF LONDON by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |
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