Well, here we are at the end of National Poetry Month, alas. That means I will occasionally have to post original content. Feh. The England's Heroicall Epistles installments will, of course, continue on a more or less weekly basis, and I may actually finish the Civil Wars posts now that I have been given assurance that people are reading them.To
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The Shakespeare tribute is coming later; here's a poem for the other Significant English Thing today (and a major reason April 23 is celebrated as Shakespeare's birthday).
A hymn to St. George Anon., 15th centuryEnfors we us with all our might
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Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist -- slack they may be -- these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can
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Probably of more historical than artistic interest. I did most of the Latin glosses myself, with occasional reference back to the TEAMS edition.
Tax has tenet us alle Anon., c. 1381
Tax has tenet us alle, probat hoc mors tot validorum; [the death of so many worthy people proves it] The kyng therof hade smalle, ffuit in
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