Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poet's Biography First Line: Whilome the sisters nine were vestall maides Last Line: From common trulls, and loathsome brothelry. Subject(s): Fate; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Temples; Destiny; Mosques | ||||||||
Whilome the sisters nine were Vestall maides, And held their Temple in the secret shades Of fayre Pernassus that two-headed hill, Whose auncient fame the Southern world did fill. And in the steed of their eternall flame, Was the coole streame, that tooke his endles name From out the fertile hoofe of winged steed: There did they sit and do their holy deed, That pleas'd both heauen and earth: till that of late, Whom should I fault? or the most righteous Fate? Or heauen, or men, or fiends, or ought beside, That euer made that foule mischance betide? Some of the sisters in securer shades Defloured were: And euer since disdaining sacred shame, Done ought that might their heauenly stock defame. Now is Pernassus turned to the stewes: And on Bay-stockes the wanton Myrtle growes. Cytheron hill's become a Brothel-bed, And Pyrene sweet, turnd to a poysoned head Of cole-blacke puddle: whose infectuous staine Corrupteth all the lowly fruitfull plaine. Their modest stole, to garish looser weed, Deck't with loue-fauors: their late whordoms meed, And where they wont sip of the simple floud, Now tosse they bowles of Bacchus boyling blood. I maruel'd much with doubtfull iealousie, Whence came such Litturs of new Poetry? Meethought I fear'd, least the hors-hoofed well His natiue banks did proudly ouer-swell In some late discontent thence to ensue Such wondrous rablements of Rimsters new. But since, I saw it painted on Fames wings, The Muses to be woxen Wantonnings. Each bush, each banke, and each base Apple-squire, Can serue to sate their beastly lewd desire. Ye bastard Poets see your Pedegree, From common Trulls, and loathsome Brothelry. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BAYADERE by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS AT DENDERA by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR RAMESES WORSHIPS RAMESES AT ABU SIMBEL by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 5. LIKE PAESTUM'S TEMPLE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON MAYAN TEMPLE by ADA CLARKE CARMICHIEL THE EARTHLY HOUSE by PHOEBE CARY THE DESERTED SHRINE by GLADYS CROMWELL THE ARK OF THE COVENANT by NINA DAVIS THE MENORAH by MIRIAM DEL BANCO AN EPIGRAM ON JOHN MARSTON by JOSEPH HALL 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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