Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON SEEING A PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poet's Biography First Line: Such were the lively eyes and rosy hue Last Line: False to his friend, and traitor to his trust.' Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Walpole, Robert (1676-1745) | ||||||||
SUCH were the lively eyes and rosy hue Of Robin's face, when Robin first I knew, The gay companion and the favourite guest, Loved without awe, and without views caressed. His cheerful smile and open honest look Added new graces to the truth he spoke. Then every man found something to commend, The pleasant neighbour, and the worthy friend: The generous master of a private house, The tender father, and indulgent spouse. The hardest censors at the worst believed, His temper was too easily deceived (A consequential ill good-nature draws, A bad effect, but from a noble cause). Whence then these clamours of a judging crowd, 'Suspicious, griping, insolent, and proud-- Rapacious, cruel, violent, and unjust: False to his friend, and traitor to his trust.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPISTLE TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE (2) by HENRY FIELDING TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT WALPOLE, ESQ. by AMBROSE PHILIPS CHARACTER OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE by JONATHAN SWIFT A RECEIPT TO CURE THE VAPOURS by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU EPITAPH by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU SIX TOWN ECLOGUES: SATURDAY; THE SMALL-POX by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU THE LOVER: A BALLAD by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU VERSES ADDRESSED TO IMITATOR OF FIRST SATIRE OF HORACE by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU A MAN IN LOVE by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU A SYNOPSIS OF LORD LYTTLETON'S 'ADVICE TO A LADY' by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU |
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