Summe for thy sake rych Monuments doo frame of marble pillars Porfry Jett and gold Engravynge depe thy tytles in the same worthy because such worthy lymmes they hold And summe agayne whose love surmounts theyr skill and of thy wytt devyne the treasures lacke In prayse of the have cloathed with theyr quyll the papers whyte in lynes of moornynge blacke But thow the whyle doest us to understande that men obscure those helpes of Honor crave Who for thy selfe with valyante feyghtinge hande more lardge haste carvde thy glory and thy grave For doo the ryght thy sworde shoulde be the penn thy noble blood the yncke whearwith to wryte Thy monument the fylde of martyall menn wheare lastinge tyme thy glorye should indyte. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE ARCHITECT (1) by KAREN SWENSON SONNET TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI by DANTE ALIGHIERI THE PLOUGHMAN by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE HERONS OF ELMWOOD by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW VISIONS OF THE WORLDS VANITIE by EDMUND SPENSER ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 3. TO A FRIEND UNSUCCESSFUL IN LOVE by MARK AKENSIDE |