I will be short, and having quickly hurl'd This line about, live Thou throughout the world; Who art a man for all Sceanes; unto whom (What's hard to others) nothing's troublesome. Can'st write the Comick, Tragick straine, and fall From these to penne the pleasing Pastorall: Who fli'st at all heights: Prose and Verse run'st through Find'st here a fault, and mend'st the trespasse too: For which I might extoll thee, but speake lesse, Because thy selfe art comming to the Presse: And then sho'd I in praising thee be slow, Posterity will pay thee what I owe. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PIED BEAUTY by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE LAND O' THE LEAL by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 74 by PHILIP SIDNEY NEAR DOVER, SEPTEMBER 1802 by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH TRUST by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |