Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN EPIGRAM. TO THE HOUSEHOLD, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can the cause be, when the king hath given Last Line: The king's fame lives. Go now, deny his tierce. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) | ||||||||
What can the cause be, when the king hath given His poet sack, the Household will not pay? Are they so scanted in their store, or driven For want of knowing the poet, to say him nay? Well, they should know him, would the king but grant His poet leave to sing his Household true; He'ld frame such ditties of their store, and want, Would make the very green-cloth to look blue: And rather wish, in their expense of sack, So, the allowance from the king to use, As the old bard, should no canary lack, 'Twere better spare a butt, than spill his muse. For in the genius of a poet's verse, The king's fame lives. Go now, deny his tierce. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL by ROBERT HERRICK BY THE STATUE OF KING CHARLES AT CHARING CROSS by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON ON THE FUNERAL OF CHARLES I; AT NIGHT, IN ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES CROMWELL'S SOLILOQUY OVER THE DEAD BODY OF CHARLES by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON ON A ROYAL VISIT TO THE VAULTS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON WINDSOR POETICS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES by THOMAS CAMPION TO THE KING, AT HIS ENTRANCE INTO SAXHAM, BY MASTER JOHN CROFTS by THOMAS CAREW ELEGY UPON KING CHARLES THE FIRST, MURDERED PUBLICLY BY HIS SUBJECTS by JOHN CLEVELAND A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 1. HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID by BEN JONSON |
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