|
Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 15. To one of a great memory, but depraved life
Though many things your memory containe:
If by your mind, to matters it be led,
Which are lesse profitable to retaine,
Then to commit t’oblivion, it is bad:
And whatsoever arts it comprehend:
If it remember not on piety:
Repentance for enormous sins: the end
Of life, Gods judgements, and his clemencie;
Those necessary precepts while you lake,
You but forget your selfe: and it is weake.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
- Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
- Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities
- Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 42. The speech of a noble spirit to his adversary, whom af∣ter he had defeated, he acknowledgeth to be nothing in∣feriour to himselfe in worth, wit, or valour, thereby insinuating that a wise man cannot properly bee subdued: though he be orthrown in body, and worldly commodities
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
Print
2103 Views
Last Poems
To Russian version
|
|