History & Politics

A Victorious Paean to our Albions Saint

by Richard Brathwaite 1588?–1673

From A Strappado for the Divell (1615)

History & Politics

Iö Pean then must wee
Giue St George the victorie:
Whose desert
Grac't each part;
Where so ere he vs'd to be,
None more grac't, or lou'd then he.

Perseus though his renowne,
Did to all the world come;
Yet one staine,
Dimm'd his same:
But the worlds spatious roome,
Shrines St George in honours tombe.

MLA

Brathwaite, Richard. “A Victorious Paean to our Albions Saint.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/40/.

Chicago

Brathwaite, Richard. “A Victorious Paean to our Albions Saint.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/40/.

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