Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UPON THE DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faithlesse and fond mortality! Last Line: Thus much, hee's dead, and weepe the rest. Subject(s): Chambers, Michael (d. 1634) | ||||||||
Faithlesse and fond Mortality, Who will ever credit thee? Fond and faithlesse thing! that thus, In our best hopes beguilest us. What a reckoning hast thou made, Of the hopes in him we laid? For Life by volumes lengthened, A Line or two, to speake him dead. For the Laurell in his verse, The sullen Cypresse o're his Herse. For so many hoped yeares Of fruit, so many fruitlesse teares. For a silver-crowned Head, A durty pillow in Death's Bed. For so deare, so deep a trust, Sad requitall, thus much dust! Now though the blow that snatcht him hence, Stopt the Mouth of Eloquence, Though shee be dumbe e're since his Death, Not us'd to speake but in his Breath, Leaving his death ungarnished Therefore, because hee is dead, Yet if at least shee not denyes, The sad language of our eyes, We are contented: for then this Language none more fluent is. Nothing speakes our Griefe so well As to speake Nothing, Come then tell Thy mind in Teares who e're Thou be, That ow'st a Name to misery. Eyes are vocall, Teares have Tongues, And there be words not made with lungs; Sententious showers, o let them fall, Their cadence is Rhetoricall. Here's a Theame will drinke th' expence, Of all thy watry Eloquence, Weepe then, onely be exprest Thus much, Hee's Dead, and weepe the rest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SONG [OF DIVINE LOVE] by RICHARD CRASHAW AN EPITAPH UPON HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO DIED AND WERE BURIED by RICHARD CRASHAW CHARITAS NIMIA; OR THE DEAR BARGAIN by RICHARD CRASHAW IN THE HOLY NATIVITY [OF OUR LORD GOD]; AS SUNG BY SHEPHERDS by RICHARD CRASHAW ON GEORGE HERBERT'S BOOK, THE TEMPLE, SENT TO A GENTLEWOMAN by RICHARD CRASHAW THE FLAMING HEART by RICHARD CRASHAW WISHES TO HIS SUPPOSED MISTRESS by RICHARD CRASHAW A HYMN IN THE GLORIOUS EPIPHANIE OF OUR LORD, GOD by RICHARD CRASHAW AN ELEGIE ON THE DEATH OF DR. PORTER by RICHARD CRASHAW AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF MR. STANNINOW, FELLOW OF QUEENE'S by RICHARD CRASHAW AN EPITAPH UPON DOCTOR BROOKE by RICHARD CRASHAW AN EPITAPH UPON MR. ASHTON A COMFORTABLE CITIZEN by RICHARD CRASHAW |
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