Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HIS FAITHFULL FRIEND, MASTER JOHN CROFTS, CUP-BEARER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all thy many courtesies to me Last Line: Here to be paid; ile pay't I'th'world to come. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens | ||||||||
For all thy many courtesies to me, Nothing I have (my Crofts) to send to Thee For the requitall; save this only one Halfe of my just remuneration. For since I've travail'd all this Realm throughout To seeke, and find some few Immortals out To circumspangle this my spacious Sphere, (As Lamps for everlasting shining here:) And having fixt Thee in mine Orbe a Starre, (Amongst the rest) both bright and singular, The present Age will tell the world thou art If not to th' whole, yet satisfy'd in part. As for the rest, being too great a summe Here to be paid; Ile pay't i'th'world to come. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN IN PHARAOH'S TOMB by HAYDEN CARRUTH FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY VASHTI by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA by EMMA LAZARUS TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA) by EMMA LAZARUS A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL by ROBERT HERRICK A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by ROBERT HERRICK A TERNARIE OF LITTLES, UPON A PIPKIN OF JELLIE by ROBERT HERRICK |
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