Mans life's a Tragedy: his mothers womb (From which he enters) is the tyring room; This spacious earth the Theater; and the Stage That Country which he lives in: Passions, Rage, Folly, and Vice are Actors: The first cry The Prologue to th' ensuing Tragedy. The former act consisteth of dumb shows; The second, he to more perfection grows; I'th third he is a man, and doth begin To nuture vice, and act the deeds of sin: I'th fourth declines; i'th fifth diseases clog And trouble him; then Death's his Epilogue. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OZYMANDIAS REVISITED by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP A LOVER'S QUARREL by ROBERT BROWNING THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 31. HER GIFTS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 23 by ALFRED TENNYSON IN THE ST. GOTTHARDT PASS by MATHILDE BLIND |