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JOHN DRYDEN

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Poems found: 272

A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY

A SONG TO A FAIR YOUNG LADY GOING OUT OF TOWN IN THE SPRING

ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL

ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC

ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PART 2. EPILOGUE

AURENG-ZEBE, OR THE GREAT MOGUL: PROLOGUE

CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: SONG

ELEONORA; A PANEGYRICAL POEM

MACFLECKNOE; OR, A SATIRE UPON THE TRUE-BLUE-PROTESTANT POET

MARRIAGE A LA MODE: SONG

MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG

ON SIR PALMES FAIRBORNE'S TOMB, IN WESTERMINSTER ABBEY

ON THE DEATH OF MR. PURCELL

RELIGIO LAICI; OR, A LAYMAN'S FAITH

ROUNDELAY

SONG

THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG

THE LOVER'S MESSAGE; SONG

THE MAIDEN QUEEN: SONG

THE MEDAL; A SATIRE AGAINST SEDITION

THE SPANISH FRIAR: 1-3. LOVE'S DESPAIR

THE TEMPEST: PROLOGUE

TO MY DEAR FRIEND, MR. CONGREVE, ON HIS COMEDY, 'THE DOUBLE-DEALER'

TO MY HONORED FRIEND SIR ROBERT HOWARD

TO MY HONOURED FRIEND DR. CHARLETON

TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER

TO THE MEMORY OF MR. OLDHAM

TO THE PIOUS MEMORY OF THE YOUNG LADY MRS. ANNE KILLIGREW

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: SONG

TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: EPILOGUE

TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: PROLOGUE

TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG

UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS

VERSES TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF YORK

ARISE, YE SUBTERRANEAN WINDS

COME, IF YOU DARE, OUR TRUMPETS SOUND, FR. KING ARTHUR

A LETTER TO SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE

A PROLOGUE

A SONG

A SONG

ALL FOR LOVE, OR THE WORLD WELL LOST: EPILOGUE

ALL FOR LOVE, OR THE WORLD WELL LOST: PROLOGUE

ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PART 2. PROLOGUE

ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PROLOGUE

ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG

ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE

ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE2

AMBOYNA: EPILOGUE

AMBOYNA: EPITHALAMIUM

AMBOYNA: PROLOGUE

AMBOYNA: SONG OF THE SEA FIGHT

AMPHITRYON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: EPILOGUE

AMPHITRYON: PASTORAL DIALOGUE

AMPHITRYON: SONG

AMPHITRYON: SONG

AMPHITYRON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: PROLOGUE

AN EVENING'S LOVE, OR THE MOCK ASTROLOGER: EPILOGUE

AN EVENING'S LOVE, OR THE MOCK ASTROLOGER: PROLOGUE

AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG

AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG

AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG

AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG

ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666

ARVIRAGUS AND PHILICA, REVIVED: PROLOGUE

AURENG-ZEBE, OR THE GREAT MOGUL: EPILOGUE

CALISTO, OR THE CHASTE NYMPH: EPILOGUE

CASEAR BORGIA, SON OF POPE ALEXANDER THE SIXTH: PROLOGUE

CIRCE: PROLOGUE

CIRCE: PROLOGUE (EARLIER VERSION)

CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: EPILOGUE

CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: PROLOGUE

DON SEBASTIAN, ACT 3: TO ACCOUNT RENDERED

DON SEBASTIAN: EPILOGUE

DON SEBASTIAN: PROLOGUE

ELEONORA; ELEGY ON THE COUNTESS OF ABINGDON

EPILOGUE ON OCCASION OF REPRESENTATION FOR DRYDEN'S BENEFIT

EPILOGUE TO 'TAMERLANE THE GREAT'

EPILOGUE TO 'THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES'

EPILOGUE TO 'THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE, OR THE EARL OF ESSEX'

EPILOGUE TO KING AND QUEEN, AT THE OPENING OF THEIR THEATRE

EPILOGUE TO MITHRIDATES, KING OF PONTIUS, BY MR. N. LEE

EPILOGUE TO THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA BY THE SPANIARDS

EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673

EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674

EPITAPH ON A NEPHEW, IN CATWORTH CHURCH, HUNTINGDONSHIRE

EPITAPH ON [OR INTENED FOR] HIS WIFE

FORTUNE (A FRAGMENT)

FRAGMENT OF A CHARACTER OF JACOB TONSON (HIS PUBLISHER)

HEROIC STANZAS, CONSECRATED TO MEMORY OF OLIVER [CROMWELL]

IMPROMPTU LINES ADDRESSED TO HIS COUSIN, MRS. CREED

KING ARTHUR, OR THE BRITISH WORTHY: EPILOGUE

KING ARTHUR: SONG

KING ARTHUR: SONG

KING ARTHUR: SONG

KING ARTHUR: SONG

KING ARTHUR: SONG OF AEOLUS

KING ARTHUR: SONG OF PAN AND NEREIDE

KING ARTHUR: SONG OF VENUS

LINES IN A LETTER TO HIS LADY COUSIN, HONOR DRIDEN

LINES PRINTED UNDER THE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF MILTON

LOVE TRIUMPHANT, OR NATURE WILL PREVAIL: EPILOGUE

LOVE TRIUMPHANT, OR NATURE WILL PREVAIL: PROLOGUE

LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG FOR A GIRL

LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG OF JEALOUSIE

MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG

MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: EPILOGUE

MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: PROLOGUE

OEDIPUS: EPILOGUE

OEDIPUS: PROLOGUE

OEDIPUS: SONG TO APOLLO

ON MRS. MARGARET PASTON

ON THE DEATH OF A VERY YOUNG GENTLEMAN

ON THE DEATH OF AMYNTAS; A PASTORAL ELEGY

ON THE MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, WHO DIED AT BATH

ON THE MONUMENT OF THE MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER

POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO 'THE UNHAPPY FAVORITE,' BY JOHN BANKS

POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

PROLOGUE FOR THE WOMEN, WHEN THEY ACTED AT THE OLD THEATRE

PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOUSE, 1674

PROLOGUE TO 'THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES'

PROLOGUE TO KING AND QUEEN, AT THE OPENING OF THEIR THEATRE

PROLOGUE TO MISTAKES, OR THE FALSE REPORT

PROLOGUE TO NAHUM TATE'S 'THE LOYAL GENERAL'

PROLOGUE TO THE PROPHETESS, BY BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER

PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673

PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674

PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1680

PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (1)

PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (2)

SECRET LOVE, OR THE MAIDEN QUEEN: PROLOGUE

SIR MARTIN MAR-ALL, OR THE FEIGNED INNOCENCE: EPILOGUE

SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL, OR THE FEIGNED INNOCENCE: PROLOGUE

SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL: SONG

SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL: SONG

SONG A SCHOLAR AND HIS MISTRESS

THE ASSIGNATION, OR LOVE IN A NUNNERY: EPILOGUE

THE ASSIGNATION, OR LOVE IN A NUNNERY: PROLOGUE

THE ASSIGNATION: SONG

THE DUKE OF GUISE: EPILOGUE: 1

THE DUKE OF GUISE: EPILOGUE: 2

THE DUKE OF GUISE: PROLOGUE

THE DUKE OF GUISE: SONG BETWIXT A SHEPHERD AND A SHEPHERDESS

THE FAIR STRANGER; A SONG

THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 1

THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 2

THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 3

THE HUSBAND HIS OWN CUCKOLD: EPILOGUE

THE INDIAN EMPEROR: EPILOGUE

THE INDIAN EMPEROR: PROLOGUE

THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG

THE INDIAN QUEEN: HYMN TO THE SUN

THE INDIAN QUEEN: SONG OF AERIAL SPIRITS

THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: EPILOGUE

THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: PROLOGUE

THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: SONG FROM THE ITALIAN

THE MAN OF MODE, OR SIR FOPLING FLUTTER: EPILOGUE

THE PORTRAIT OF MILTON

THE RIVAL LADIES: PROLOGUE

THE SECULAR MASQUE

THE SPANISH FRIAR, OR THE DOUBLE DISCOVERY: PROLOGUE

THE TEARS OF AMYNTA FOR THE DEATH OF DAMON; A SONG

THE TEMPEST: EPILOGUE

THE TRUE WIDOW: PROLOGUE

THE WILD GALLANT

THE WILD GALLANT, REVIVED: EPILOGUE

THE WILD GALLANT, REVIVED: PROLOGUE

THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS: A FUNERAL PINDARIC ODE

TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY; A PANEGYRIC ON HIS CORNONATION

TO JOHN HODDESDON

TO MR. CONGREVE , ON 'THE OLD BACHELOR'

TO MR. GRANVILLE

TO MR. MOTTEUX, ON HIS TRAGEDY CALLED BEAUTY IN DISTRESS

TO MR. SOUTHERN

TO THE DUCHESS OF ORMOND, WITH THE POEM 'PALAMON AND ARCITE'

TO THE LADY CASTLEMAIN

TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: EPILOGUE

TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG

UPON YOUNG MASTER ROGERS

AND COULD WE CHOOSE THE TIME AND CHOOSE ARIGHT

I AM A MONARCH, THE KING OF TREES

O SOULS, IN WHOM NO HEAVENLY FIRE

BIRCH, THE MYRTLE, AND THE BAY

WHAT SHALL I DO?

CHARM

PLANT THAT WILL NOT GROW

SIMILE

ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL: PART 2 (IN POEM BY NAHUM TATE)

ALBION AND ALBANIUS, SELS.

ALBION AND ALBANIUS: EPILOGUE

ALBION AND ALBANIUS: PROLOGUE

ALL FOR LOVE, OR THE WORLD WELL LOST, SELS.

EPILOGUE

ODE TO ... MRS. ANNE KILLIGREW, SELS.

ANNUS MIRABILIS: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENSUING POEM, IN A LETTER TO THE

ANNUS MIRABILIS: TO THE METROPOLIS OF GREAT BRITAIN, THE MOST RENOWNED

ANNUS MIRABILIS: VERSES TO HER HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS ON THE MEMORABLE

ARABIAN WINDS

ASTRAEA REDUX: A POEM ON THE HAPPY RESTORATION AND RETURN OF HIS

AUCTION

BEES

BRITANNIA REDIVIVA; A POEM ON BIRTH OF JAMES PRINCE OF WALES

CLEOPATRA

DIANA

DISAPPOINTMENT, OR THE MOTHER IN FASHION: PROLOGUE

DULLNESS IS DECENT

EPILOGUE SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOUSE, 1674

EPILOGUE TO THE INDIAN QUEEN

EPILOGUE TO THE LOYAL BROTHER, OR THE PERSIAN PRINCE

EPISTLE TO THE WHIGS

EPITAPH ON THE LADY WHITMORE

EPOLOGUE TO CONSTANTINE THE GREAT, BY LEE

FABLES ANCIENT AND MODERN: TO MY HONOURED KINSMAN, JOHN DRIDEN, OF

FREEDOM OF THE SAVAGE

GRIEF

HENRY II, WITH THE DEATH OF ROSAMOND: EPILOGUE

HUMAN LIFE

KING ARTHUR, SELS.

KING ARTHUR: PROLOGUE

LIMIT OF FATE

MIDNIGHT

MOMUS' SONG TO MARS (FRM THE SECULAR MASQUE)

NAT LEE'S IMAGES

NEREIDS RISE OUT OF THE SEA AND SING, TRITONS DANCE

OG AND DOES (THE WRITERS SHADWELL AND SETTLE)

ON THE DEATH OF LORD HASTINGS

ON THE YOUNG STATESMAN

ONE LONG NUPTIAL DAY

PARADISE

POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO THE DUCHESS OF YORK

PROLOGUE ON OCCASION OF REPRESENTATION FOR DRYDEN'S BENEFIT

PROLOGUE SPOKEN THE FIRST DAY OF THE KING'S HOUSE

PROLOGUE TO 'ALBUMAZAR'

PROLOGUE TO 'MISTAKES, OR THE FALSE REPORT'

PROLOGUE TO LOVE TRIUMPHANT

PROLOGUE TO THE INDIAN QUEEN

PROLOGUE TO THE LOYAL BROTHER, OR THE PERSIAN PRINCE

PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (3)

SIPPETS OF GRUEL

SONG

SONG, IN ANSWER TO THE PRECEDING

STAGE POETS

STATE OF INNOCENCE: DEATH THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE FALL

STATE OF INNOCENCE: PREDESTINATION AND FREE WILL

SYREN'S SONG

BOY CHANGED TO AN EFT, OR A SMALL LIZARD

BRIGHT VISION

EPILOGUE SPOKEN TO THE KING AT THE OPENING THE PLAYHOUSE AT

LADY'S ANSWER

LADY'S SONG

MAIDEN QUEEN: EPILOGUE, WHEN ACTED BY THE WOMEN ONLY

MAIDEN QUEEN: PROLOGUE, WHEN ACTED BY THE WOMEN ONLY

OAK OF STATE

ODE ON ST. CELIA'S DAY, SELS.

OLD AGE OF THE TEMPERATE

POET SHADWELL'S CORONATION

RIVAL LADIES, SELS.

RUDE MILITIA

SIXTH SATYR OF JUVENAL: 254

SONG OF SECRET LOVE

SPANISH GALLEONS SEEN BY AN AZTEC

SPANISH SHIPS REACH MEXICO

SWALLOW

TO MR. LEE, ON HIS ALEXANDER

TO MY FRIEND MR. NORTHLEIGH

TO MY INGENIOUS FRIEND, HENRY HIGDEN, ESQ.

TO THE EARL OF ROSCOMMON, ON HIS EXCELLENT ESSAY

TO THE METROPOLIS OF GREAT BRITAIN

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, SELS.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: PROLOGUE

VOX POPULI

WILD WEATHER



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