SUCH days as wear the badge of holy red Are for devotion marked and sage delight: The vulgar low-days, undistinguished, Are left for labour, games, and sportful sights. This several and so differing use of time, Within th' enclosure of one week we find; Which I resemble in my Notes and Rhyme, Expressing both in their peculiar kind. Pure Hymns, such as the Seventh Day loves, do lead; Grave age did justly challenge those of me: These weekday works, in order that succeed, Your youth best fits; and yours, young Lord, they be, As he is who to them their being gave: If th' one, the other you of force must have. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DEEPER THOUGHT by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE SCHRECKHORN by THOMAS HARDY IAMBICUM TRIMETRUM, FR. LETTER TO HARVEY by EDMUND SPENSER SONG OF THE SERPENT-CHARMERS by EDWIN ARNOLD MEDITATIONS IN GREAT BEALINGS CHURCH-YARD by BERNARD BARTON |