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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO PHILLIP AYRES, ESQ.; ON HIS POEMS, by C. DARTIQUENAVE First Line: As when with utmost skill some architect Last Line: In plenty does th' ambrosial food produce. Alternate Author Name(s): Dartineuf, C. Subject(s): Ayres, Philip (1638-1712) | |||
AS when with utmost skill some architect Designs a noble structure to erect, Searches whate'er each country does produce For outward ornament, or inward use: So, Friend, from divers books thy lab'ring thought Has all the huddled am'rous notions sought, And into form and shape the unlickt cubs has brought. Here Proteus-Love thou show'st in various dress, From gaudy France to more majestic Greece; Something thou gather'st too from Roman ore, And Spain contributes to thy well-got store, Whence (each by thee refin'd in English mould) Verse smooth as oil does flow, and pure as gold. Thus the laborious Bee with painful toil From various flowers of a various soil, Duly concocting the abstracted juice, In plenty does th' ambrosial food produce. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE by ANNE BRADSTREET THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE by THOMAS HARDY TWICE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI AMORETTI: 68 by EDMUND SPENSER THE WINDS OF FATE by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA by HENRY CLAY WORK THE TUTELAGE by ROBERT MOWRY BELL |
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