Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE: TO THE QUEENES MAJESTYE, by ARTHUR GORGES


Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE: TO THE QUEENES MAJESTYE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If sorrow comment on a text of woe
Last Line: In that your sonne lives with the king of kings?
Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England; Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612)


If sorrow comment on a text of woe,
Shee takes her arguments from passions:
By whose dull Sophysmes shee would overthrow
The force of reasons demonstrations.
But Lynx-eyed reason (with her truths touchstone)
Finds them not inlye, as they outward seeme.
Who therefore makes theyr fallacyes well knowne
To you (great Empresse of our hopes esteeme)
And thus doth intimate, that if you shold
Take (to your Royall care) a Subjects childe
Would you suppose, that his deare mother would
Lament her happe, or thinke her hope beguilde?
Then how much lesse shold greife straine your hart-strings
In that your sonne lives with the king of kings?





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...
Home: PoetryExplorer.net