 | Joshua Scodel - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 388 pages
...final stanza of the poem sounds soberly Stoic in imagining a contented state higher than mere kingship: Thus richer than untempted Kings are we, That asking...Though Lord of all what Seas embrace; yet he That wants himselfe, is poore indeed. (11. 37-40) Despite its drunken "restoration" of "monarchy," the poem concludes... | |
 | 1831 - 740 pages
...he hath his crown again ! * Night, as clear Hesper, shall our tapers whip From the light casements where we play, And the dark hag from her black mantle...embrace, yet he That wants himself, is poor indeed !' We must now turn back a few hundred pages, to transcribe two quaint but noble sonnets by Donne.... | |
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Bewail th' usurping of his reign; But when, in showers of old Greek we begin, Shall cry, He hath his crown again! Night, as clear HESPER, shall our tapers whip From the light casements where we play; And the dark Hag, from her black mantle strip; And... 
