Social Commentaries
To the same (You have a Genius pleas'd with Verse, (I heare))
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
You have a Genius pleas'd with Verse, (I heare)
That smoothly passeth through your cleansed eare,
As water of Pactôlus, where no stay,
Nor downe-fall interrupts his golden way:
For such your merits I your praise shall sing,
Whilst you still harpe on so divine a string.
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MLA
Bancroft, Thomas. “To the same (You have a Genius pleas'd with Verse, (I heare)).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/29/.
Chicago
Bancroft, Thomas. “To the same (You have a Genius pleas'd with Verse, (I heare)).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/29/.
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