Greatest of virtues is humility As Solomon saith, son of sapience, Most was accept unto the Deity: Taketh heed hereof, giveth to his words credence. How Maria, which had a preminence Above all women, in Bedlem when she lay At Christes birth, no cloth of great dispence, She weared a coverchief, horns were cast away. Made stable in God by ghostly confidence This Rose of Jericho, there grew none such in May Poor in spirit, perfect in patience, In whom all horns of pride were put away. Was never clerk by rhetoric nor science, Could all her virtues rehearse unto this day Noble Princess of much benevolence By example of her your horns cast away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ECSTASY [EXTASIE] by JOHN DONNE A BED OF FORGET-ME-NOTS by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE VOICE OF THE SEA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO THE BARTHOLDI STATUE by AMBROSE BIERCE THE GIFT by ALICE EWING BLACKWELL THE WEDDING FEAST: 2 by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH |