Famous Arth Poems by Famous Poets

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241. Written in Friars' Carse Hermitage (Second Version)

...round,
Saws of experience, sage and sound:
Say, man’s true, genuine estimate,
The grand criterion of his fate,
Is not,—Arth thou high or low?
Did thy fortune ebb or flow?
Did many talents gild thy span?
Or frugal Nature grudge thee one?
Tell them, and press it on their mind,
As thou thyself must shortly find,
The smile or frown of awful Heav’n,
To virtue or to Vice is giv’n,
Say, to be just, and kind, and wise—
There solid self-enjoyment lies;
That foolish, selfish, faithles...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


On Margaret Ratcliffe

...of fashion I n these times.  Few so have rued F ate in a brother.  To conclude, F or wit, feature, and true passion, E arth, thou hast not such another.[ AJ Note:    Margaret Ratcliffe was one of Queen Elizabeth's     ladies-in-waiting. She wasted away from grief in    November 1599, after long mourning the deaths     of four of her brothers. ] ...Read more of this...
by Jonson, Ben

She is Overheard Singing

...OH, Prue she has a patient man,
And Joan a gentle lover,
And Agatha's Arth' is a hug-the-hearth,­
But my true love's a rover! 

Mig, her man's as good as cheese
And honest as a briar,
Sue tells her love what he's thinking of,­
But my dear lad's a liar! 

Oh, Sue and Prue and Agatha
Are thick with Mig and Joan!
They bite their threads and shake their heads
And gnaw my name like a bone; 

And Prue says, "Mine's a patient man,
As...Read more of this...
by St. Vincent Millay, Edna

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