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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: TO THE READER, by WILLIAM BASSE Poet's Biography First Line: This shepheard's plaine apologie (deare friend) Last Line: Colliden. Subject(s): Friendship; Shepherds & Shepherdesses | |||
THIS Shepheards plaine apologie (deare Freind) To me addres'd, to you I recommend: Since I conceiue, and (sure) I not mistake, Tis done for yours, as well as for my sake. Let this therefore, at my request, suffize Into the rest to leade your gentle eyes; (Though little to expect from promise lesse; They onely much doe owe that much professe). But you shall finde, as tis true Shepheards part In simple weeds to masque an honest heart, So in his songes, of slender composition, Some vertue is his innocent ambition. If brightest Iewell, and of richest worth, Is by the darkest foyle the more set forth, Without all question we the more should prize Any true vertue found in swaynish guize. Hee (if he gaine your loue) has his designe; And, if his workes deserue it, I haue mine: your servant CLIO and the Shepheard COLLIDEN. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOVING SHEPHERDESS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE SHEPHERD by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON A TIMOROUS SHEPHERD by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP THE HEART'S RETURN by EDWIN MARKHAM THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDS by EDWIN MARKHAM THE GREEN SHEPHERD by LOUIS SIMPSON AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2 by CESAR VALLEJO THE STORY THE SHEPHERD TELLS THE SHEEP by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE SHEPHERD, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by WILLIAM BASSE |
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