Social Commentaries

On Wylde

by Robert Heath fl. 1636–1659

From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1

Social Commentaries

His father sick and dying, Wylde mourn'd sore,
But 'twas because he died not before:
At's burial he in mourning weeds was clad,
This was cause th' Mother was not also dead:
She dead, sad soul! he cloath'd himself in Sack
(Cloath I not mean) for th' belly, not the back.
Oh Viperous age! when children shal so soon
Through envy wish their parents dead and gone!

MLA

Heath, Robert. “On Wylde.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/115/.

Chicago

Heath, Robert. “On Wylde.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/115/.

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