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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VERSES FOUND IN A SUMMER HOUSE AT HALES-OWEN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dryden's fool, 'unknowing what he sought' Last Line: The filth they leave still points out where they crawl. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700) | |||
WHEN Dryden's fool, 'unknowing what he sought,' His hours in whistling spent, 'for want of thought,' This guiltless oaf his vacancy of sense Supplied, and amply too, by innocence; Did modern swains, possess'd of Cymon's powers, In Cymon's manner waste their leisure hours, The offended guests would not, with blushing, see These fair green walks disgraced by infamy. Severe the fate of modern fools, alas! When vice and folly mark them as they pass. Like noxious reptiles o'er the whiten'd wall, The filth they leave still points out where they crawl. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ.; POET LAUREATE AND HISTOGRAPHER ROYAL by PHILIP AYRES DRYDEN AND THACKERAY (HISTORICAL CONTRAST) by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES URANIA: THE DIVINE MUSE, ON THE DEATH OF JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ. by SARAH PIERS EPISTLE TO MR. JERVAS, WITH FRESNOY'S ART OF PAINTING by ALEXANDER POPE EPITAPH DESIGNED FOR MR. DRYDEN'S MONUMENT by ALEXANDER POPE IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.1 by ALEXANDER POPE THE DREAM. AN EPISTLE TO MR. DRYDEN by ELIZABETH THOMAS RETROGRESSION by WILLIAM WATSON ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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