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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO NYSUS, by CHARLES SEDLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we please this age? If in a song Last Line: Vex th'ill-natur'd fools we cannot please. | |||
How shall we please this age? If in a song We put above six lines, they count it long; If we contract it to an epigram, As deep the dwarfish poetry they damn; If we write plays, few see above an act, And those lewd masks, or noisy fops, distract: Let us write satire then, and at our ease Vex th'ill-natur'd fools we cannot please. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MULBERRY GARDEN: CHILD AND MAIDEN by CHARLES SEDLEY ADVICE TO THE OLD BEAUX by CHARLES SEDLEY PHILLIS KNOTTING by CHARLES SEDLEY THE POET SPEAKS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON UTOPIA by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |
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