Harke newes, o envy, thou shalt heare descry'd My @3Julia@1; who as yet was ne'r envy'd. To vomit gall in slander, swell her vaines With calumny, that hell it selfe disdaines, Is her continuall practice; does her best, To teare opinion even out of the brest Of dearest friends, and (which is worse than vilde) Sticks jealousie in wedlock; her owne childe Scapes not the showres of envie, To repeate The monstrous fashions, how, were, alive, to eate Deare reputation. Would to God she were But halfe so loath to act vice, as to heare My milde reproofe. Liv'd @3Mantuan@1 now againe, That foemall Mastix, to limme with his penne This she @3Chymera@1, that hath eyes of fire, Burning with anger, anger feeds desire, Tongued like the night-crow, whose ill boding cries Give out for nothing but new injuries, Her breath like to the juice in @3Tenarus@1 That blasts the springs, though ne'r so prosperous, Her hands, I know not how, us'd more to spill The food of others, then her selfe to fill. But oh her minde, that @3Orcus@1, which includes Legions of mischiefs, countlesse multitudes Of formlesse curses, projects unmade up, Abuses yet unfashion'd, thoughts corrupt, Mishapen Cavils, palpable untroths, Inevitable errours, self-accusing oaths: These, like those Atoms swarming in the Sunne, Throng in her bosome for creation. I blush to give her halfe her due; yet say, No poyson's halfe so bad as @3Julia@1. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON READING -- . by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH DREAM-PEDLARY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES ODE FOR THE BURIAL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON IN MEMORIAM (EASTER 1915) by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |