HARRY whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas ears, committing short and long; Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan; To after age thou shalt be writ the man, That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue. Thou honour'st verse, and verse must send her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus' quire That tun'st their happiest lines in hymn, or story. Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higher Than his Casella, whom he wooed to sing Met in the milder shades of Purgatory. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPITAPH ON THOMAS CLERE, SURREY'S FAITHFUL FRIEND AND FOLLOWER by HENRY HOWARD MOLLY PITCHER [JUNE 28, 1778] by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD IN AN OLD CEMETERY by LILLAH A. ASHLEY INVITES POETS AND HISTORIANS TO WRITE IN CYNTHIA'S PRAISE by PHILIP AYRES PARAPHRASE; FAILURE AND SUCCESS by LEVI BISHOP THE PILGRIM SOUL by MATHILDE BLIND MY FOOLISH DEEDS by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH WARNING; SUGGESTED BY THE CHRISTIANA (PA.) TREASON TRIALS by ALFRED GIBBS CAMPBELL |