Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FOREIGN ADDRESS: YE NATIONS, TREMBLE! PARLIAMENT HAS MET, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frown you? Frown on; your hour is past! Last Line: And not abash'd shrink back into their graves. Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament | ||||||||
FROWN you? Frown on; your hour is past! The signal wafted in that blast Speaks Britain's awful Senate met; beware Lest in her scale (the womb of right!) With all your arms, you're found too light, Till smiles increase that weight your frowns impair. For, mark the scene of deep debate, Where Britons sit on Europe's fate; What loom'd exploit adorns it and inspires? The walls, the very walls advise, Each mean, degenerate thought chastise, And rouse the sons with all their fathers' fires; Teach them the style they used of old. Would Britain have her anger told? Oh, never let a meaner language sound Than that which through black ether rolls, Than that which prostrates human souls, And rocks pale realms, when angry gods have frown'd! Gods, and their noblest offspring here, Soft terms refused, impose severe: Ye nations know! know, all ye sceptred powers! In sulphurous night, and massy balls, And floods of flame, the tempest falls, When Pride presumes, and Britain's Senate lours. A brighter era is begun; Our fame advances with the sun; A virgin Senate blooms: her bosom heaves With something great, with something new; Something our god-like sires may view, And not abash'd shrink back into their graves. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VERSES ON SEEING THE SPEAKER ASLEEP IN HIS CHAIR by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: FEBRUARY. UNDER THE SPEAKER'S GALLERY by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'AND WILL YOU NOW TO PEACE INCLINE' by PATRICK CAREY BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'BUT THAT NE'ER TROUBLES ME, BOYS' by PATRICK CAREY BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'I'LL TELL THEE, DICK, THAT I HAVE BEEN' by PATRICK CAREY ON THE ADMISSION OF JEWS INTO PARLIAMENT by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON THE PARLIAMENT OF ROSES TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK MY SHADOW by W. HODGSON BURNETT TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 13. 1867 by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE EPISTLE TO MR. POPE: AUTHORS AND CRITICS by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) EPISTLE TO MR. POPE: THE BLACK MILITIA OF THE PEN by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) EXTEMPORE TO VOLTAIRE CRITICISING MILTON by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) |
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