Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN ANSWER TO SOME VERSES MADE IN HIS PRAISE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poet's Biography First Line: The ancient poets and their learned rhymes Last Line: Be well contented, since you do't with art. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
THE ancient poets and their learned rhymes We still admire in these our later times, And celebrate their fames. Thus, though they die, Their names can never taste mortality: Blind Homer's muse and Virgil's stately verse, While any live, shall never need a hearse. Since then to these such praise was justly due For what they did, what shall be said to you? These had their helps: they writ of gods and kings, Of temples, battles, and such gallant things; But you of nothing: how could you have writ, Had you but chose a subject to your wit? To praise Achilles or the Trojan crew, Show'd little art, for praise was but their due. To say she's fair that's fair, this is no pains: He shows himself most poet, that most feigns. To find out virtues strangely hid in me--- Ay, there's the art and learned poetry! To make one striding of a barbed steed, Prancing a stately round---I use indeed To ride Bat Jewel's jade---this is the skill, This shows the poet wants not wit at will. I must admire aloof, and for my part Be well contented, since you do't with art. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING by JOHN SUCKLING A SUPPLEMENT OF AN IMPERFECT COPY OF VERSES OF MR. WILL. SHAKESPEARE'S by JOHN SUCKLING |
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