Greatest of virtues is humility As Solomon saith, son of sapience, Most was accept unto the Deity: Taketh heed hereof, giveth to his words credence. How Maria, which had a preminence Above all women, in Bedlem when she lay At Christes birth, no cloth of great dispence, She weared a coverchief, horns were cast away. Made stable in God by ghostly confidence This Rose of Jericho, there grew none such in May Poor in spirit, perfect in patience, In whom all horns of pride were put away. Was never clerk by rhetoric nor science, Could all her virtues rehearse unto this day Noble Princess of much benevolence By example of her your horns cast away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHILD OF THE ROMANS by CARL SANDBURG THE LAST LOOK O' HAME by HEW AINSLIE EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 8. BE QUICK AND SURE by PHILIP AYRES CHARACTERS: JOHN AIKEN by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD TO MRS. AIKIN by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE BROTHERS OF BIRCHINGTON; A LAY OF ST. THOMAS A BECKET by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |