Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF POOR BEN TO .. KING CHARLES, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doth most humbly show it Last Line: You'ld read a snake, in his next song. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) | ||||||||
Doth most humbly show it, To your majesty your poet: That whereas your royal father, James the blessèd, pleased the rather, Of his special grace to letters, To make all the muses debtors To his bounty; by extension Of a free poetic pension, A large hundred marks annuity, To be given me in gratuity For done service, and to come: And that this so accepted sum, Or dispensed in books, or bread, (For with both the muse was fed) Hath drawn on me, from the times, All the envy of the rhymes, And the rattling pit-pat noise, Of the less-poetic boys; When their pot-guns aim to hit, With their pellets of small wit, Parts of me (they judged) decayed, But we last out, still unlaid. Please your majesty to make Of your grace, for goodness sake, Those your father's marks, your pounds; Let their spite (which now abounds) Then go on, and do its worst; This would all their envy burst: And so warm the poet's tongue You'ld read a snake, in his next song. | 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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