Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DUELL, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT First Line: Sad fruit of misapplyed valour! Here Last Line: Yf thou in courage faylst, thy name of spirit? Subject(s): Fights; Future Life; God; Retribution; Eternity; After Life | ||||||||
SAD fruit of misapplyed Valour! Here Lies Shandoys wounded, & there Compton slayn. O goodly gain Of gallant Duells! are Not Wounds & Death fine things, when they are bought Humor and private Grudge to garnish out? 2 Surely there is another kinde of Duell As hardy, smart & generously brave, Though not so cruel: A Duell which will save One of the Champions from the miseries Of Wounds & Death, though in the fight he dies. 3 Yea & so lawfull 'tis, that never Laws Were kept, but by this Duells good success. Nor is it less Strange in the Lists it draws, For though this fight through all the world be fought, The feild is pitcht within & not without. 4 The Duellers are none but onely I Or onely You; for I & You, alone Are more than One. In every heart do ly Two active Parties, Flesh & Spirit, whose Immortal hate makes them most mortal foes. 5 How strangely solemne's this Incounter! where God, Men, & Angels, all Spectators be; Where Victorie Doth no less prize conferr Than Heavn or Hell: Where the fights consummation On this side's Death, on that Mortification. 6 Since then no Quarter heer can given be, Courage, my Spirit, as thou lovst thy life. On this short strife Depends eternitie Of rest & peace, & how how canst thou merit Yf thou in courage faylst, thy name of Spirit? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL by DENISE LEVERTOV LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2 by HAYDEN CARRUTH WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE by BILLY COLLINS Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT A CONCLUSORIE HUMNE TO THE SAME WEEK; & FOR MY FRIEND by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |
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