Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN EPIGRAM ON JOHN MARSTON, by JOSEPH HALL Poet's Biography First Line: I ask't phisitions what their counsell was Last Line: Whether thou be a mad dog, or a mankind asse. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Dogs; Mankind; Mules; Human Race | ||||||||
I Ask't Phisitions what their counsell was For a mad dogge, or for a mankind Asse? They told me though there were confections store Of Poppie-seede, and soueraigne Hellebore, The dog was best cured by cutting & kinsing, The Asse must be kindly whipped for winsing. Now then S.K. I little passe Whether thou be a mad dog, or a mankind Asse. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW MUCH EARTH by PHILIP LEVINE THE SHEEP IN THE RUINS by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH THE CONQUERORS by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY THE MARMOZET by HILAIRE BELLOC MEN, WOMEN, AND EARTH by ROBERT BLY BROTHERS: 3. AS FOR MYSELF by LUCILLE CLIFTON ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 1 by JOSEPH HALL ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 2. ANTHEME FOR CHRISTMAS DAY by JOSEPH HALL |
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