This poet observed "Yet happy they whom Grief doth bless, / That weep the more, and see the less" in a poem that was written as a response to Richard Crashaw's "The Weeper."
This poet observed "Yet happy they whom Grief doth bless, / That weep the more, and see the less" in a poem that was written as a response to Richard Crashaw's "The Weeper." This author of "Eyes and Tears" addresses a man by noting "But thou, the war's and fortune's son, / March indefatigably on" and likening him to "A Caesar he ere long to Gaul, / To Italy an Hannibal." He told the story of Isabel Thwaites in a poem about Thomas Fairfax's country home, Appleton House. In another poem by him, the speaker notes "the grave's a fine and private place / but none, I think, do there embrace," and describes hearing "Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near." For 10 points, name this English metaphysical poet of "An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" and "To His Coy Mistress."
This poet observed "Yet happy they whom Grief doth bless, / That weep the more, and see the less" in a poem that was written as a response to Richard Crashaw's "The Weeper."
Andrew Marvell