Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poet's Biography First Line: Turne the agayne o phebus fayre Last Line: Earths sole delight and heauens care. Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Faces; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sun; World; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
Turne the agayne o phebus fayre Earths sole delight and heauens care O turne thee to ye soutth o turne Lest wee doe freeze whilest others burne Sest thou not how our cloudes doe weepe And send there sorrowes to the deepe Sest thou how fieldes and meads doe mourne/ Hast then fayre phebus to returne Least ye sadd winters wrinkled face Thrust into merry harvests place Lest thou doe make our Earth for lorne, Oh hast thee phebus to returne Soe maye our duller swaynes arise And giue thee songes and sacrifise soe neuer may noe shadye night darken thy beames and hide thy sight So may the worlde thy worth adorne And blese thy face more then before turne thee a gayne o Phebus fayre Earths sole delight and heauens Care. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS AN EPIGRAM ON JOHN MARSTON by JOSEPH HALL ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 1 by JOSEPH HALL ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 2. ANTHEME FOR CHRISTMAS DAY by JOSEPH HALL |
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