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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MAN OF ONE POEM, by LAURA BELL EVERETT First Line: I like it well to turn aside Last Line: Within a half a hundred lines. Subject(s): Dyer, Sir Edward (1540-1607) | |||
(Sir Edward Dyer, Author of My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is.) (1550-1607) I like it well to turn aside From names that time can never blot To those the world hear, dignified With word of praise, and then forgot. One poem, forty lines or ten, Should rank the singer as a sage. Why smile? Slow-moving though the pen He lived a life and left a page. Ask but his name and date; the rest Irradiant through his poem shines -- His life, or long or short, compressed Within a half a hundred lines. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PASTORAL: UPON HIS MEETING WITH TWO WORTHY FRIENDS ... DYER & GREVILLE by PHILIP SIDNEY SONNET: 16. IN ANSWER TO SIR EDWARD DYER by PHILIP SIDNEY DEATH-GRAPPLE by LAURA BELL EVERETT THE LAMENT OF THE VOICELESS by LAURA BELL EVERETT THE MISER by LAURA BELL EVERETT THE SKEIN OF GRIEVOUS WAR by LAURA BELL EVERETT WORLD-WINTER by LAURA BELL EVERETT THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES; THE 10TH SATIRE OF JUVENAL, IMITATED by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |
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