Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE DUKE DE NOAILLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poet's Biography First Line: Vain the concern which you express Last Line: But to secure our rest? Variant Title(s): An Epigram Subject(s): Advice; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology | ||||||||
VAIN the concern which you express, That uncalled Alard will possess Your house and coach, both day and night, And that Macbeth was haunted less By Banquo's restless sprite. With fifteen thousand pounds a year, Do you complain, you cannot bear An ill, you may so soon retrieve? Good Alard, faith, is modester By much, than you believe. Lend him but fifty louis-d'or, And you shall never see him more: Take the advice, probatum est. Why do the gods indulge our store, But to secure our rest? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BEDTIME READING FOR THE UNBORN CHILD by KHALED MATTAWA EAST OF CARTHAGE: AN IDYLL by KHALED MATTAWA SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 7 by CONRAD AIKEN VICARIOUS ATONEMENT by RICHARD ALDINGTON NOTHING ABOUT THE MOMENT by LUCILLE CLIFTON VENUS IN A GARDEN by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AN OFFERING FOR TARA by GARY SNYDER A BETTER ANSWER (TO CHLOE JEALOUS) by MATTHEW PRIOR A DUTCH PROVERB by MATTHEW PRIOR A LETTER TO LADY [MISS] MARGARET-CAVANDISH-HOLLES-HARLEY, WHEN A CHILD by MATTHEW PRIOR |
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