<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=498160" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Against the Dispraisers of Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chaucer is dead; and Gower lies in grave; <br>The Earl of Surrey long ago is gone; <br>Sir Philip Sidney's soul the heavens have; <br>George Gascoigne him before was tombed in stone. <br>Yet, though their bodies lie full low in ground, <br>As every thing must die that erst was born, <br>Their living fame no fortune can confound, <br>Nor ever shall their labors be forlorn. <br>And you, that discommend sweet poetry, <br>(So that the subject of the same be good) <br>Here may you see your fond simplicity, <br>Sith kings have favored it, of royal blood. <br>The King of Scots (now living) is a poet, <br>As his Lepanto and his Furies show it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Barnfield">Richard Barnfield</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=498160" data-title="Against the Dispraisers of Poetry de Richard Barnfield" data-description="Chaucer is dead; and Gower lies in grave; The Earl of Surrey long ago is gone; Sir Philip Sidney's soul the heavens have; George Gascoigne him before was tombed in stone. Yet, though their bodies lie full low in ground, As every thing must di..."></div> </div> </div>

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