George Chapman Earth Poems

  • 1.
    There is no truth of any good
    To be discerned on earth ; and, by conversion,
    Nought therefore simply bad; but as the stuff
    Prepared for Arras pictures, is no picture
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  • 2.
    ...
    Fall, Hercules, from heaven, in tempests hurl'd,
    And cleanse this beastly stable of the world;
    Or bend thy brazen bow against the Sun,
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  • 3.
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    To this great Hector said:
    "Be well assur'd, wife, all these things in my kind cares are weigh'd,
    But what a shame and fear it is to think how Troy would scorn
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  • 4.
    No longer could the Day nor Destinies
    Delay the Night, who now did frowning rise
    Into her throne; and at her humorous breasts
    Visions and Dreams lay sucking: all men's rests
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  • 5.
    New light gives new directions, fortunes new,
    To fashion our endeavours that ensue.
    More harsh, at least more hard, more grave and high
    Our subject runs, and our stern Muse must fly.
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  • 6.
    See where she issues in her beauty's pomp,
    As Flora to salute the morning sun;
    Who when she shakes her tresses in the air,
    Rains on the earth dissolved pearl in showers,
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Total 6 Earth Poems by George Chapman

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