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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO WILLIAM, EARL OF PEMBROKE, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do but name thee, pembroke, and I find Last Line: The commonwealth still safe, must study thee. Subject(s): Herbert, William, 3d Earl Of Pembroke | |||
I do but name thee Pembroke, and I find It is an epigram, on all mankind; Against the bad, but of, and to the good: Both which are asked, to have thee understood. Nor could the age have missed thee, in this strife Of vice, and virtue; wherein all great life Almost, is exercised: and scarce one knows, To which, yet, of the sides himself he owes. They follow virtue, for reward, today; Tomorrow vice, if she give better pay: And are so good, and bad, just at a price, As nothing else discerns the virtue or vice. But thou, whose noblesse keeps one stature still, And one true posture, though besieged with ill Of what ambition, faction, pride can raise; Whose life, even they, that envy it, must praise; That art so reverenced, as thy coming in, But in the view, doth interrupt their sin; Thou must draw more: and they, that hope to see The commonwealth still safe, must study thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. TO WILLIAM, EARL OF PEMBROKE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) 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 A FIT OF RHYME AGAINST RHYME [OR, RIME] by BEN JONSON A NYMPH'S PASSION by BEN JONSON A SONNET, TO THE NOBLE LADY, THE LADY MARY WROTH by BEN JONSON AN ODE TO HIMSELF by BEN JONSON ANSWER TO MASTER WITHER'S SONG, 'SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?' by BEN JONSON EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS by BEN JONSON |
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