today's poem

[angevin2]

Here's one by my beloved Samuel Daniel.

The edition that I got this from, which contains Daniel's shorter poems (Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond), as well as Musophilus and A Defence of Ryme, has this whole spiel about how The Civil Wars was a mistaken endeavor because it's just "verse chronicle" and thus Not Beautiful. Feh. Arthur Quiller-

Comments

[speak_me_fair]

Arthur Quiller-Couch misses out on many of the finer things in life...like the point, quite often.

Pity him *G*

[ricardienne]

I really like this one.