"WOE to you, Prelates! rioting in ease "And cumbrous wealth -- the shame of your estate; "You, on whose progress dazzling trains await "Of pompous horses; whom vain titles please; "Who will be served by others on their knees, "Yet will yourselves to God no service pay; "Pastors who neither take nor point the way "To Heaven; for, either lost in vanities "Ye have no skill to teach, or if ye know "And speak the word -- -- " Alas! of fearful things 'Tis the most fearful when the people's eye Abuse hath cleared from vain imaginings; And taught the general voice to prophesy Of Justice armed, and Pride to be laid low. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 27. AS-SAMI'H by EDWIN ARNOLD THE SEAMSTRESS by HENRI BARBUSSE RECOMPENSE by HAZEL CANNON BRINSON THE HAPPY HUSBAND by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE EPITAPH ON A LADY, WHO HAD LABOURED UNDER A CANCER by NATHANIEL COTTON THE CONSTANT by ABRAHAM COWLEY UNDER WHICH KING (VERSES READ AT OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB, 1903) by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |