Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord

Content

• Classic complaint: why do sinners prosper while I fight for my faith and am constantly disappointed?
• Title is ironic because poem expresses just the opposite

Style

• Very plain, not so artificial
• His sad poems are simple, while his happy ones are redolent and full to bursting with description (purple poesy)

Quotes

• send my roots rain.”
• “not breed one work that wakes”