Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMPROMPTU LINES ADDRESSED TO HIS COUSIN, MRS. CREED, by JOHN DRYDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So much religion in your name doth dwell Last Line: And practice is with endless glory crown'd. Subject(s): Names; Religion; Soul; Theology | ||||||||
So much Religion in your Name doth dwell, Your Soul must needs with Piety excel. Thus Names, like [ ] Pictures drawn of old, Their owners' Nature and their Story told. Your Name but half expresses, for in you Belief and Practice do together go. My Pray'rs shall be, while this short Life endures, These may go Hand in Hand, with you and yours; Till Faith hereafter is in Vision drown'd, And Practice is with endless Glory crown'd. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY by JOHN DRYDEN A SONG TO A FAIR YOUNG LADY GOING OUT OF TOWN IN THE SPRING by JOHN DRYDEN |
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