Living

Acrostick (II)

by Samuel Pordage 1633–1691?

From Poems upon Several Occasions (1660)

Living

AGe bles't I hope thou art: May many years
Run their swift courses, and the rouling spheres
Tire in their motions; May the circl'ing Sun
About this round globe th'row the zodiack run
Giving a hund'red springs and Autumns e're
Earth or the Silent grave entomb thee there.
Bles't be thou here with Age: with vertues more,
Let graces, with thy years encrease; thy store
E're multiply: So as thou hast begun
Shine thou in vertue till thy race be run:
Death fear to touch this blooming blossom; Now
In Aprill stay untill December bow
Her head with age and mak't the earth to kiss;
Ope then thy fatal arms; bear her to bliss.
Pluck her from hence, 'fore Age doth call thee to her,
E're curs'd be, for thou pulls the worlds cheif flower.

MLA

Pordage, Samuel. “Acrostick (II).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/pordage/25/.

Chicago

Pordage, Samuel. “Acrostick (II).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/pordage/25/.

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