|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT WALPOLE, ESQ., by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Votary to public zeal Last Line: Soon with silver-accent, sung. Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Subject(s): Walpole, Robert (1676-1745) | |||
VOTARY to public zeal, Minister of England's weal, Have you leisure for a song, Tripping lightly o'er the tongue, Swift and sweet in every measure, Tell me, Walpole, have you leisure? Nothing lofty will I sing, Nothing of the favourite king, Something, rather, sung with ease, Simply elegant to please. Fairy virgin, British Muse, Some unheard-of story choose: Choose the glory of the swain, Gifted with a magic strain, Swaging grief of every kind, Healing, with a verse, the mind: To him came a man of power, To him, in a cheerless hour; When the swain, by Druids taught, Soon divin'd his irksome thought, Soon the maple harp he strung, Soon with silver-accent, sung. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPISTLE TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE (2) by HENRY FIELDING ON SEEING A PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU CHARACTER OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE by JONATHAN SWIFT TO CHARLOTTE PULTENEY [IN HER MOTHER'S ARMS] by AMBROSE PHILIPS ODE: TO MISS MARGARET PULTENEY, DAUGHTER OF DANIEL, IN THE NURSERY by AMBROSE PHILIPS THE HAPPY SWAIN by AMBROSE PHILIPS TO MISS GEORGIANA CARTERET by AMBROSE PHILIPS TO THE EARL OF DORSET by AMBROSE PHILIPS TO THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES LORD HALIFAX: SALUTE TO PROPERTY by AMBROSE PHILIPS A PORTRAIT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
| |