Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HUNTER'S SONG, by WILLIAM BASSE Poet's Biography First Line: Long ere the morn Last Line: And carouseth to his career. Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters | ||||||||
I. LONG e're the Morn Expects the Return Of Apollo from th' Ocean Queen; Before the Creak Of the Crow and the Break Of the day in the welkin seen; Mounted he'd hallow And chearfully follow To the Chace with his Bugle clear: Eccho doth he make And the Mountains-shake With the Thunder of his Career. II. Oft doth he trace Through Wood, Parke and Chase, When he mounteth his Steed aloft: Oft he doth runne Beyond farre his home And deceiveth his pillow soft: Oft he expects, Yet still hath defects, For still he is crost by the Hare: But more often he bounds To the cry of his Hounds, And doth thunder out his Careere. III. Now bonny Bay With his foame waxeth gray, Dapple Gray waxeth bay with blood; White Lilly stops With the scent in her chaps, And Black-Lady makes it good. Sorrowful Watte Her widowes estate Forgets, these delights for to hear; Nimbly she bounds To the cry of the Hounds And the Musick of their Career. IV. Hills with the heat Of the Gallopers sweat, Reviving their Frozen Tops; The Dales purple Flowres, The[y] spring from the showers That down from the Rowels drops: Swains their repast, And Strangers their haste Neglect when the Horns they do hear; To see a fleet Pack of Hounds in a Sheet, And the Hunter in his Career. V. Thus he Careers Over Heaths, over Meers, Over Deeps, over Downs, over Clay; Till he hath wonne The day from the Sunne, And the Evening from the Day. His sport then he ends, And joyfully wends Home again to his Cottage, where Frankly he feasts Himself and his Guests And carouseth to his Career. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LAMENT OF QUARRY by LEONIE ADAMS KILLDEER by KENNETH SLADE ALLING THE YOUNG FOWLER THAT MISTOOK HIS GAME by PHILIP AYRES A POEM ABOUT THE HOUNDS AND THE HARES by LISEL MUELLER ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by WILLIAM BASSE |
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