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...A VOYAGE TO CYTHERA by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE A SONG OF A YOUNG LADY TO HER ANCIENT LOVER by JOHN WILMOT A BLESSING FOR THE BLESSED by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA DESCRIBES THE PLACE WHERE CYNTHIA IS SPORTING HERSELF by PHILIP AYRES LINES TO SAMUEL ROGERS IN WALES ON EVE OF BASTILLE DAY 1791 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD TWELVE SONNETS: 12. AFTER BATTLE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |