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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO CHARLES LAMB, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thee I would think one of the many wise Last Line: Showing the unreality of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) | |||
THEE I would think one of the many Wise, Who in Eliza's time sat eminent, To our now world, his Purgatory, sent To teach us what true English Poets prize. Pasquilant froth and foreign galliardize Are none of thine; but, when of gay intent, Thou usest staid old English merriment, Mannerly mirth, which no one dare despise. The scoffs and girds of our poor critic rout Must move thy pity, as amidst their mime, Monk of Truth's Order, from thy memories Thou dost updraw sublime simplicities, Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out, Showing the unreality of Time. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHARLES LAMB by PAKENHAM THOMAS BEATTY TO A FRIEND, WHO HAD DECLARED INTENTION OF WRITING NO MORE POETRY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE NOCTES AMBROSIANAE by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER LINES ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES LAMB by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR TO THE SISTER OF ELIA by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR CHARLES AND MARY (DECEMBER 27, 1834) by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF A CHILD NAMED AFTER CHARLES LAMB by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD WRITTEN AFTER THE DEATH OF CHARLES LAMB by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ALL, ALL ARE GONE, THE OLD FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS by OGDEN NASH COLUMBUS AND THE MAYFLOWER by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES |
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