Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO CLEMENT EDMONDS, ON HIS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OBSERVED (2), by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who edmonds, reads thy book and doth not see Last Line: They murder him again, that envy thee. Subject(s): Edmondes, Clement (1564-1622); History; Rome, Italy; Historians | ||||||||
Who Edmonds, reads thy book, and doth not see What the antique soldiers were, the moderns be? Wherein thou show'st, how much the latter are Beholding, to this master of the war; And that, in action, there is nothing new, More, than to vary what our elders knew: Which all, but ignorant captains, will confess: Nor to give Caesar this, makes ours the less. Yet thou, perhaps, shall meet some tongues will grutch, That to the world thou should'st reveal so much, And thence, deprave thee, and thy work. To those Caesar stands up, as from his urn late rose, By thy great help: and doth proclaim by me, They murder him again, that envy thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES by JAMES MCMICHAEL THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE by JOHN ASHBERY INITIAL CONDITIONS by MARVIN BELL THE DREAM SONGS: 290 by JOHN BERRYMAN THE EROTICS OF HISTORY by EAVAN BOLAND THEM AND US by LUCILLE CLIFTON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 1. HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID by BEN JONSON |
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