Social Commentaries

On Lazarus in Abrahams Bosome

by Thomas Bancroft fl. 1633–1658

From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II

Social Commentaries

From sorrowes straights, wherein we launch our lives,
In his hopes Haven Lazarus arrives,
And wonders in how short a flight of time,
He to that Crowne of happinesse could climbe;
From Ragges and company of Dogges, to sort
Himselfe with Princes of that glorious Court,
There with those armes, that on the Altar plac'd,
Our dying Saviours lively type embrac'd.
O blissefull change! to be incircled so,
What King would not his Diadem forgoe?

MLA

Bancroft, Thomas. “On Lazarus in Abrahams Bosome.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/215/.

Chicago

Bancroft, Thomas. “On Lazarus in Abrahams Bosome.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/215/.

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