|
Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The First Booke. № 9. How a valiant man ought to behave himselfe towards those, that basely offer to offend him
HEE is beyond the reach of common men,
Who can despise an injury; for as
The billowes of the Sea insult in vaine,
Against a Rocke: a stout breast finds no cause,
Of being commov'd at wrongs, whereof the Dart,
Resiles from him, as from a brasen Wall,
On the offender, while his mighty heart,
And noble mind, far more sublime, then all
The Regions of the Ayre, most bravely scorne
Th'inferiour dangers of a boystrous storme.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 31. As it was a precept of antiquity, to leane more to vertue, then parentage: so is it a tenet of christianity, to repose more trust on the blood of christ, then our owne merits
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 18. That we ought not to be sorie at the losse of worldly goods
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 25. Vertue, and goodnesse are very much opposed by the selfe-conceit, that many men have of their owne sufficiencie
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 38. How Fortune oftentimes most praeposterously pond'ring the aections of men, with a great deale of injustice bestoweth her favours
Print
1300 Views
Last Poems
To Russian version
|
|