Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 3. CHARLES THE SECOND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who comes - with rapture greeted, and caressed Last Line: By poets loathed; from which historians shrink! Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) | ||||||||
WHO comes -- with rapture greeted, and caressed With frantic love -- his kingdom to regain? Him Virtue's Nurse, Adversity, in vain Received, and fostered in her iron breast: For all she taught of hardiest and of best, Or would have taught, by discipline of pain And long privation, now dissolves amain, Or is remembered only to give zest To wantonness. -- Away, Circean revels! But for what gain? if England soon must sink Into a gulf which all distinction levels -- That bigotry may swallow the good name, And, with that draught, the life-blood: misery, shame, By Poets loathed; from which Historians shrink! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPITAPH ON CHARLES II by JOHN WILMOT IMPROMPTU ON CHARLES II (2) by JOHN WILMOT ODE UPON HIS MAJESTIE'S RESTORATION AND RETURN by ABRAHAM COWLEY UPON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCESSE ELIZABETH by RICHARD CRASHAW UPON THE KING'S CORONATION (1) by RICHARD CRASHAW THE KING'S HEALTH by THOMAS D'URFEY POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO 'THE UNHAPPY FAVORITE,' BY JOHN BANKS by JOHN DRYDEN POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS by JOHN DRYDEN THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS: A FUNERAL PINDARIC ODE by JOHN DRYDEN A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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