Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE: TO THE READER, by ARTHUR GORGES Poet's Biography First Line: No praise for poesie do I affect Last Line: Which antheam sunge, my muse for ever sleepes Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612) | ||||||||
No praise for Poesie do I affect Nor flatteries hoped meed doth me encite Such base borne thoughts, as servile I reject Sorrow doth dictate, what my zeale doth write Sorrow for that rich tresor wee have lost Zeale to the memory of what wee had And that is all they cann, that cann say most So sings my Muse, in zeale and sorrow clad. So sunge Achilles to his silver harpe When fowle affrount, had reft his faire delight, So sings sweet Philomell, against the sharpe, So sings the Swann, when life is taking flight So sings my zeale, the noats that sorrowe weepes Which Antheam sunge, my Muse for ever sleepes | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: DEDICATION TO HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES by WILLIAM BASSE AN ELEGY OF HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) AN ELEGY UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY by THOMAS CAMPION SONNET: TO HIS ENTOMBED BODYE by ARTHUR GORGES THE LAMENTATION OF RICHMOND; SONNET by ARTHUR GORGES THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE by ARTHUR GORGES THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE: TO THE PRINCES .. ELIZABETHS GRACE by ARTHUR GORGES THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE: TO THE QUEENES MAJESTYE by ARTHUR GORGES WRITTEN UPON THE DEATH OF THE MOST NOBLE PRINCE HENRIE by ARTHUR GORGES A PASTORALL UNFYNYSHED by ARTHUR GORGES AN ECOLOGE BETWEN A SHEPHEARDE AND A HEARDMAN by ARTHUR GORGES |
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