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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE SAME LADY UPON MR. BURTON'S MELANCHOLY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If in this glass of humours you do find Last Line: By others' melancholy, not your own. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection | |||
IF in this Glass of Humours you do find The passions or diseases of your mind, Here without pain, you safely may endure, Though not to suffer, yet to read your cure. But if you nothing meet you can apply, Then, ere you need, you have a remedy. And I do wish you never may have cause To be adjudg'd by these fantastic laws; But that this book's example may be known, By others' Melancholy, not your own. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLAD OF THE LADIES OF OLDEN TIMES by FRANCOIS VILLON THE FOUR HUMOURS by RAFAEL CAMPO DEJECTION by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT DEJECTION: AN ODE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE MELANCHOLIA by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A CONTEMPLATION UPON FLOWERS by HENRY KING (1592-1669) |
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