Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON HIS MAJESTY'S RECOVERY FROM THE SMALL-POX, 1633, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do confess, the over-forward tongue Last Line: That plac'd him on his throne; this makes him reign. Subject(s): Small Pox | ||||||||
I do confess, the over-forward tongue Of public duty turns into a wrong, And after-ages, which could ne'er conceive Our happy Charles so frail as to receive Such a disease, will know it by the noise Which we have made in shouting forth our joys. And our informing duty only be A well-meant spite, or loyal injury. Let then the name be alter'd; let us say They were small stars fix'd in a Milky-way, Or faithful turquoises, which Heaven sent For a discovery, not a punishment; To show the ill, not make it; and to tell By their pale looks the bearer was not well. Let the disease forgotten be, but may The joy return us yearly as the day; Let there be new computes, let reckoning be Solemnly made from his recovery; Let not the Kingdom's Acts hereafter run From his (though happy) Coronation, But from his health, as in a better strain. That plac'd him on his throne; this makes him reign. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY TO THE SIOUX by NORMAN DUBIE SIX TOWN ECLOGUES: SATURDAY; THE SMALL-POX by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU ANNA BULLEN, ACT 1: SHORT CURSE by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-) INOCULATION FOR THE SMALL POX by JOHN BYROM ON THE DEATH OF THE EMINENTLY ENOBLED CHARLES CAPELL, ESQ. by THOMAS FLATMAN TO THOMAS STANLEY, RECOVERED OF THE SMALL-POX by WILLIAM HAMMOND TO STELLA, AFTER THE SMALL-POX by MARY JONES ALICE WADE VERSUS SMALL-POX by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER NO PLATONIQUE LOVE by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT ON A VIRTUOUS YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN THAT DIED SUDDENLY by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT TO CHLOE WHO FOR HIS SAKE WISHED HERSELF YOUNGER by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT |
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