Though perchance it seeme to some but a toy and a trifle, Seeme to some in vaine, to bestowe but a part of an houre, In penning Poemes: in hon'ring him with a Poeme. Yet I appeale to the pen of pierelesse Poet Amyntas, Matchles Amintas minde, to the minde of Matchles Amintas, Sweete bonny Phillis love, to the love of sweet bonny Phillis, Whether pen, or minde, or love, of Phillis Amintas Love, or minde, or pen, of pen-love-minder Amintas: Thinke of him (perhaps) as some doe thinke of Amintas: Oh that I might be lovde, of Phillis lover: Amintas. Oh that I might be thought, as I thinke of Phillis: Amintas. Oh that I might be iudgde as I iudge of Phillis: Amintas: Then would I never care for such base beggarly make-bookes That in veigh against the dead, like deadly maligners. What if he were a man, as bad or worse than a Hel-hound? As shall I thinke that he was as bad or worse than a Hel-hound? Yet it ill became sweete mindes to haunt in Avernus: Ill became such Cutes, to barke at a poore silly carcas Some had cause to mone, and mourne, & murmur against him: Others none at all, yet none at all, so against him. For my selfe I wish, that none had written against him But such men which had iust cause t'have written against him. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A STRIP OF BLUE by LUCY LARCOM PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 23. AL-KHAFIZ by EDWIN ARNOLD LINES TO A TEAPOT by JOANNA BAILLIE DOVECOTT MILL: 1. THE HOMESTEAD by PHOEBE CARY ANTHEM FOR THE CHILDREN OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE VISIONS IN VERSE; AN EPISTLE TO THE READER by NATHANIEL COTTON LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW-SHUTTER AT WESTON by WILLIAM COWPER |