Social Commentaries
On Proud
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1
Social Commentaries
Proud swels like Boreas, with face red as fire,
And keeps a blustring stir in fuming ire,
So Rubies; do resemble flames, and yet
Are neither hot or capable of heat,
Since ther's no fire can warm them: So art thou
As cold with inward fear, as hot in show.
'Tis but false fire thy seeming Passion givs;
Then thine, there's not a tamer spirit livs.
Cite this poem
MLA
Heath, Robert. “On Proud.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/139/.
Chicago
Heath, Robert. “On Proud.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/139/.
Read this poem with the Codex →