TO THE MOST VERTUOUS AND BEAUTIFULL LADY, THE LADY CAREW NE may I, without blot of endlesse blame, You, fairest Lady, leave out of this place, But with remembraunce of your gracious name, Wherewith that courtly garlond most ye grace, And deck the world, adorne these verses base. Not that these few lines can in them comprise Those glorious ornaments of hevenly grace, Wherewith ye triumph over feeble eyes, And in subdued harts do tyranyse; For thereunto doth need a golden quill And silver leaves, them rightly to devise; But to make humble present of good will: Which, whenas timely meanes it purchase may, In ampler wise it selfe will forth display. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELIOT'S OAK; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW VENICE; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SHILOH; A REQUIEM by HERMAN MELVILLE NEARER by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS A MORNING HYMN by CHARLES WESLEY LOVE'S ARROW POISONED by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES PSALM 48 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |