Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CAELICA: 80, by FULKE GREVILLE


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First Line: Clear spirits, which in images set forth
Last Line: Can place, or stamp make current aught but worth?
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord


Clear spirits, which in images set forth
The ways of nature by fine imitation,
Are oft forced to hyperboles of worth,
As oft again to monstrous declination,
So that their heads must lined be, like the sky,
For all opinion's arts to traffic by.

Dull spirits again, which love all constant grounds,
As comely veils for their unactiveness,
Are oft forced to contract, or stretch their bounds,
As active power spreads her beams more or less,
For though in nature's wane these guests come forth,
Can place, or stamp make current aught but worth?





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