Social Commentaries
To some Great Ones
From Poems on Several Occasions (1689)
Social Commentaries
Poets are great Mens Trumpets, Poets fein,
Create them Vertues, but dare hint no stain:
This makes the Fiction constant, and does shew
You make the Poets, not the Poets you.
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Cotton, Charles. “To some Great Ones.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/162/.
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Cotton, Charles. “To some Great Ones.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/162/.
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