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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: campion, thomas Matches Found: 291 Campion, Thomas Poet's Biography 291 poems available by this author A BOOK OF AIRS SONG 18 Poem Text First Line: The man of life upright Last Line: And quiet pilgrimage. Variant Title(s): The Armour Of Innocence;integer Vitae;justvm Et Tenacem;dovine And Moral Songs: 2 Subject(s): Contentment; Courage; Honor; Masculinity (psychology); Valor; Bravery A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 1 Poem Text First Line: My sweetest lesbia, let us live and love Last Line: And crown with love my ever-during night. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Dead, The A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 1 Poem Text First Line: Author of light, revive my dying sprite Last Line: But god his own will guard, an their sharp pains and grief in time assuage. Subject(s): God A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10 Poem Text First Line: Wise men patience never want Last Line: Whereon human love displays. Subject(s): Love; Human Behavior A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10. THE DYING FALL Poem Text First Line: Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet! Last Line: It shall suffice that they were breathed and died for her delight. Variant Title(s): Devotion (2);song From Lute Books Subject(s): Love A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12 Poem Text First Line: Fair, if you expect admiring Last Line: I'll fly to her again, and sue for pity to renew my hopes distressed. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12. A RENUNCIATION Poem Text First Line: Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white Last Line: Embrace, and kiss, and love me, in despite. Subject(s): Flattery; Love; Praise A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 13 Poem Text First Line: See where she flies enraged from me! Last Line: Let all other comforts vanish. Subject(s): Love A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 13 Poem Text First Line: Lo, when back mine eye Last Line: Henceforth to be my guard and guide. A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 14 Poem Text First Line: Blame not my cheeks, though pale with love they be Last Line: Poor cupid sits and blows his nails for cold. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 14 Poem Text First Line: As by the streams of babylon Last Line: And 'gainst the stones dash out their brains! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Travel A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 15 Poem Text First Line: When the god of merry love Last Line: The old wretch lived ever crying. Subject(s): Love – Complaints A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 15 Poem Text First Line: Sing a song of joy Last Line: And bless on earth our peaceful days. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16 Poem Text First Line: Mistress, since you so much desire Last Line: I climb to crown my chaste desire. Subject(s): Cupid; Ambition; Love A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16 Poem Text First Line: Awake, awake, thou heavy sprite Last Line: Then watch and labour, while time is! Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 17 Poem Text First Line: Your fair looks inflame my desire Last Line: O farewell, my life's treasure! Subject(s): Beauty; Desire A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18 Poem Text First Line: Seek the lord, and in his ways persever Last Line: That all who taste it are from death restored. Subject(s): God A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19 Poem Text First Line: Lighten, heavy heart, thy sprite Last Line: To view a stream that brightly flows. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19. THE FAIRY QUEEN PROSERPINA Poem Text First Line: Hark, all you ladies that do sleep! Last Line: Apes in avernus. Subject(s): Fairies; Love; Morning; Elves A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 2 Poem Text First Line: Though you are young and I am old Last Line: Thou fool! To-morrow thou must die!' Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Youth A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20 Poem Text First Line: When thou must home to shades of underground Last Line: Then tell, o tell, how thou didst murther me Subject(s): Murder A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21 Poem Text First Line: Sweet, come again / your happy sight, so much desired Last Line: To me return again. Subject(s): Absence A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21 Poem Text First Line: Come, let us sound with melody Last Line: Infinite honours. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 22 Poem Text First Line: And would you see my mistress' face? Last Line: And this is that my soul pursueth. Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Love A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23. YET STILL I LIVE Poem Text First Line: No grave for woe, yet earth my watery tears devours Last Line: My day is night, my life my death, and all but sense of sorrow. Subject(s): Grief A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 25 Poem Text First Line: If I urge my kind desires Last Line: Never lived or loved to die. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 26 Poem Text First Line: What hearts content can he find Last Line: His steadfast heart that is ... Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 27 Poem Text First Line: Let him that will be free and keep his heart from care Last Line: Load not your guilty souls with wrong, and heaven then will soon relent. Subject(s): Grief A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 28 Poem Text First Line: Reprove not love, though fondly thou hast lost Last Line: Receives her due increase. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Beauty A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 29 Poem Text First Line: And would you fain the reason know Last Line: To fight till both be overthrown. Subject(s): Love – Complaints A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3 Poem Text First Line: Where are all thy beauties now, all hearts enchanting? Last Line: None ever lived more just, none more abused.' Subject(s): God A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3. AMARYLLIS Poem Text First Line: I care not for these ladies, / that must be wooed and prayed Last Line: She never will say no. Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Virginity; Vestals A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 30 Poem Text First Line: When laura smiles her sight revives both night and day Last Line: And fills with heavenly spirits my humble muse. Subject(s): Love A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 31 Poem Text First Line: Long have mine eyes gazed with delight Last Line: My doubtful hopes like wind do move. Subject(s): Love A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 32 Poem Text First Line: Shall I come, if I swim? Wide are the waves, you see: Last Line: So through the streams leander did enjoy her sight. Subject(s): Desire A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 33 Poem Text First Line: Aye me! That love should natures works accuse Last Line: A grief, o death! To live and love in vain. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 34. HOPE AND FEAR Poem Text First Line: If I hope, I pine; if I fear, I faint and die Last Line: Must sing glad notes, or speak in happier verse. Subject(s): Hope; Fear A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 35 Poem Text First Line: Shall then a traitorous kiss or a smile Last Line: All their ways are full of errors, which no true feet can find. Subject(s): Love A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 36 Poem Text First Line: Unless there were consent 'twixt hell and heaven Last Line: I waver, whether saved or condemned. Subject(s): Love – Complaints A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 37 Poem Text First Line: If she forsake me, I must die Last Line: Then come, death, and end my pain! Subject(s): Love – Unrequited A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 38 Poem Text First Line: What is a day, what is a year Last Line: Our souls are in heaven placed. Subject(s): Time A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 39 Poem Text First Line: Kind in unkindness, when will you relent Last Line: And place my joys where my desires would be. Subject(s): Love – Complaints A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 4 Poem Text First Line: Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow! Last Line: The sun still proud, the shadow still disdained. Variant Title(s): Follow Subject(s): Love; Shadows; Sun; Time A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 4 Poem Text First Line: Out of my soul's depth to thee my cries have sounded Last Line: Their sin-sick souls by him shall be recured Subject(s): God A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 40. COME AWAY! BRING ON THE BRIDE Poem Text First Line: What then is love but mourning? Last Line: Come away! Come away, my darling!' Subject(s): Love – Nature Of A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 41 Poem Text First Line: Whether men do laugh or weep Last Line: And that happy men disdain. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 42 Poem Text First Line: Though far from joy, my sorrows are as far Last Line: Through the flowery banks, and still in the midst his course guideth. Subject(s): Moderation A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 5 Poem Text First Line: View me, lord, a work of thine Last Line: Yet thy grace can lift me high. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 6 Poem Text First Line: Bravely decked, come forth, bright day Last Line: May his heart the love of peace and wisdom learn from thee! Subject(s): Worshiip A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 6. CORRINA Poem Text First Line: When to her lute corinna sings Last Line: Even from my heart the strings do break. Variant Title(s): Of Corina's Singing Subject(s): Lutes; Passion; Singing & Singers; Songs A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. BASIA Poem Text First Line: Turn back, you wanton flyer Last Line: With our lips let us reap, love's gains dividing. Subject(s): Love A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 8 Poem Text First Line: It fell on a summer's day Last Line: She sleeps every afternoon. Subject(s): Sleep A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 8 Poem Text First Line: Tune thy music to thy heart Last Line: Love alone to him is ever pleasing. Subject(s): God; Conduct Of Life A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 Poem Text First Line: The cypress curtain of the night is spread Last Line: As this poor one, the worser part of me. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 Poem Text First Line: Most sweet and pleasing are thy ways, o god Last Line: Not one of them in paradise remains. Subject(s): God A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG(5 Poem Text First Line: Lo, when baxk mine eye Last Line: I will go no more a-maying. Subject(s): Love – Complaints A HYMN IN PRAISE OF NEPTUNE Poem Text First Line: Of neptune's empire let us sing Last Line: The praise of neptune's empery. Variant Title(s): A Hymn In Praise Of Neptune Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Praise; Sea; Ocean AD INVICTISSIMUM, SERENISSIMUMQUE IACOBUM First Line: Anglice, et unanimis scotice pater, anne AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: 4 Poem Text First Line: Come follow me, my wand'ring mates Subject(s): Friendship AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: A BALLAD Poem Text First Line: Dido was the carthage queen Last Line: So you get daily new. Subject(s): Dido AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: DIALOGUE SUNG THE FIRST NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tune thy cheerful voice to mine Last Line: That hath our fortunes raised. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Music & Musicians AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: SHADOWS Poem Text First Line: The shadows dark'ning our intents Last Line: Our nightly sports and prophecies we end. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Beginnings; Night; Youth; Bedtime AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: THE DANCE Poem Text First Line: Robin is a lovely lad Last Line: March around and make a stand. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Beginnings; Youth AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: THE KINGS GOOD NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Welcome, welcome, king of guests Last Line: And so, best king, good rest. Subject(s): Homecoming AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: THE LORDS WELCOME Poem Text First Line: Welcome is the word Last Line: Far may it shine, long may it live, to all a public blessing. Subject(s): Togetherness ALL THE SQUIRES TOGETHER First Line: Thus speakes in us th' affection of our AN ELEGY UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY Poem Text First Line: Read, you that have some tears left yet unspent Last Line: Which best sort with the sorrows we sustain. Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Mourning; Bereavement ANOTHER DIALOGUE, TO BE SUNG AT THE SAME TIME First Line: Now is the time, now is the hower ATTACH TO ALPHONSO FERRABOSCO'S 'AIRS': TO THE WORTHY AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: Music's rich master and the offspring Last Line: Beyond thine own deserts can never raise thee. Subject(s): Ferrabosco, Alphonso (1575-1628) CHANCE AND CHANGE Poem Text First Line: What if a day, or a month, or a year Last Line: Both in mirth and mourning. CHERRY RIPE (WITH MUSIC) First Line: There is a garden in her face Last Line: Those sacred cherries to come nigh %till 'cherry-ripe' themselves do cry Subject(s): Faces CHORUS First Line: That pleasure is of all most bountifull DE INSTITUTO AUTHORIS First Line: Famam, posteritas quam dedit orpheo DESCRIPTION OF A MASKE ON S. STEPHENS NIGHT DESCRIPTION OF A MASKE PRESENTED BEFORE THE ... First Line: As in battailes, so in all other actions DESCRIPTION, SPEECHES, AND SONGS OF THE LORDS MASKE DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS: 12 First Line: Lift up to heaven, sad wretch, thy heavy sprite Last Line: The son needs not the father's fury fear DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS: 21. LAMENT FOR PRINCE HENRY Poem Text First Line: All looks be pale, hearts cold as stone Last Line: Since more him none shall see. Variant Title(s): A Lamentation Subject(s): Consolation; Henry Frederick, Prince (1729-1751); Mourning; Worship; Henry Frederick, Prince Of Wales; Bereavement DO NOT, O DO NOT PRIZE THY BEAUTY AT TOO HIGH A RATE Poem Text Subject(s): Beauty ELEGIARVM LIBER (IN LATIN) ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: SONG 1 Poem Text First Line: Dance now and sing; the joy and love we owe Last Line: For she is all divine. ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: SONG 2 Poem Text First Line: Yet once again let us our measures move Last Line: Which you vouchsafe to grace. ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: SONG 3 Poem Text First Line: O joys exceeding Last Line: Now leap as they were moved by enchanting. ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: SONG 4 Poem Text First Line: Night as well as the brightest day hath her delight Last Line: That retains so sweet a friend. Variant Title(s): A Song Of Three Voices With Divers Instruments Subject(s): Love ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: SONG BY THE GARDNER'S BOY AND MAN Poem Text First Line: Welcome to this flowery place Last Line: Spring out of the silly briar. ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: SONG OF THREE VOICES Poem Text First Line: Can you, the author of our joy Last Line: But the word of parting never. ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: SYLVANUS SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: That health which harbours in the fresh-aired groves Last Line: Which though it be not given, 'tis fairly meant. ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: THE GARDENER SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: Stay, goddess! Stay a little space Last Line: With a mournful parting song. EPIGRAMMA First Line: Hoeredem (vt spes est) pariet nupta EPIGRAMMATVM (IN LATIN) FAREWELL SONG First Line: O stay! Sweet is the least delay FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: 20. A HAPPY MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: Jack and joan [or, jacke and jone], they think no ill Last Line: Securer lives the silly swain. Variant Title(s): Fortunati Nimium;rustic Joys Subject(s): Class Struggle; Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Simplicity; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11 Poem Text First Line: Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore Last Line: O come quickly, glorious lord, and raise my sprite to thee! Subject(s): Catholics; Heaven; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise; Theology FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 17. SIC TRANSIT Poem Text First Line: Come, cheerful day, part of my life, to me Last Line: So every day we live a day we die. Variant Title(s): Day And Night Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Impermanence FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7 Poem Text First Line: To music bent is my retired mind Last Line: Such heat they cast as lifts the spirit high. Subject(s): Consolation; Music & Musicians FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 1. A LITTLE BREATH I'LL BORROW Poem Text First Line: Leave prolonging thy distress! Last Line: I die alone through her despite. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10 Poem Text First Line: Love me or not, love her I must or die Last Line: So would I love that neither should repent. Subject(s): Love FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11 Poem Text First Line: What means this folly, now to brave it so Last Line: That made choice with discretion. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12 Poem Text First Line: Dear, if I with guile would gild a true intent Last Line: But to find as fair as you. Subject(s): Truth; Flattery FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 13 Poem Text First Line: O love, where are thy shafts, thy quiver, and thy bow? Last Line: Yet, love, thou knowest, by right, I should not thus complain. Subject(s): Love FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 14 Poem Text First Line: Beauty is but a painted hell Last Line: Is the excess of sadness. Subject(s): Love – Complaints FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 15 Poem Text First Line: Are you what your fair looks express? Last Line: For pure meetings are most sweet. Variant Title(s): "are You, What Your Faire Lookes Expresse?""; Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Truth FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16 Poem Text First Line: Since she, even she, for whom I lived Last Line: Happy are they that neither know. Subject(s): Love – Complaints FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 17 Poem Text First Line: I must complain, yet do enjoy my love Last Line: She hath more beauty than becomes the chaste. Subject(s): Love – Complaints FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18 Poem Text First Line: Think'st thou to seduce me with words that have no meaning? Last Line: But alas! Who less could do that found so good occasion! Variant Title(s): "think'st Thou To Seduce Me Then""; Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Seduction; Words; Vocabulary FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19 Poem Text First Line: Her fair inflaming eyes Last Line: With a spirit to contend. Subject(s): Beauty FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 2 Poem Text First Line: Respect my faith, regard my service past Last Line: My faith reward and from me scandal take. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20 Poem Text First Line: Turn all thy thoughts to eyes Last Line: In spite of jealousy! Subject(s): Jealousy FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21 Poem Text First Line: If any hath the heart to kill Last Line: Now though she sees, she'll not believe. Subject(s): Impotence FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 22 Poem Text First Line: Beauty, since you so much desire Last Line: There, there, o there lies cupid's fire. Subject(s): Ambition; Cupid; Love; Eros FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23 Poem Text First Line: Your fair looks urge my desire Last Line: This place shall I remember. Subject(s): Love FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 24 Poem Text First Line: Fain would I wed a fair young man that day and night could please me Last Line: As I was by one brought forth I would bring forth another. Subject(s): Mothrers; Marriage FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3 Poem Text First Line: Thou joyest, fond boy, to be by many loved Last Line: Than every hour to triumph lord of new. Variant Title(s): In Love Subject(s): Modesty FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 4 Poem Text First Line: Veil, love, mine eyes! O hide from me Last Line: To beauty's faults must still be blind. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 5 Poem Text First Line: Every dame affects good fame, whate'er her doings be Last Line: Happy dame, content that lives and breaks no sleep for toys! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Contentment FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 6 Poem Text First Line: So sweet is thy discourse to me Last Line: As with it all must shadowed be! Subject(s): Beauty FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. CHERRY RIPE Poem Text First Line: There is a garden in her face Last Line: Till cherry-ripe themselves do cry! Subject(s): Beauty; Conceit; Faces; Love; Youth FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 8 Poem Text First Line: To his sweet lute apollo sung the motions of the spheres Last Line: And phœbus' right-revenged grudge. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pan (mythology) FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 Poem Text First Line: Young and simple though I am Last Line: Love he must or flatter me. Subject(s): Youth; Love FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: TO JOHN MOUNSON, SON AND HEIR TO SIR THOMAS Poem Text First Line: On you th' affections of your fathers friends Last Line: On each side placing you as near my heart! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Friendship HIDE NOT Poem Text First Line: Hide not, sweetest love, a sight so pleasing Last Line: Here's the way, bar not the door. ILLVSTRISSIMO, POETENTISSIMOQVE PRINCIPI, FREDRICO First Line: Cogimur; inuitis (clarissime) parce querelis IN HONOR OF BARNABE BARNES' 'FOUR BOOKS OF OFFICES': TO THE READER Poem Text First Line: Though neither thou dost keep the keys of state Last Line: Then, reader, love this book, or rather buy. Subject(s): Barnes, Barnabe (1569-1609) MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: A SQUIRE SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: Since knights by valour rescue dames distrest Last Line: (great queen) vouchsafe us a divine touched bough. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: CHORUS (1) Poem Text First Line: Vanish, vanish hence, confusion Last Line: Who pass through all enchantments free. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: CHORUS (2) Poem Text First Line: Since knightly by valour rescue dames distressed Last Line: By virtuous dames let charmed knights be released MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: CHORUS (3) Poem Text First Line: Virtue and grace, in spite of charms Last Line: Where fate directs the happy hand. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: ETERNITY SINGS ALONE Poem Text First Line: Bring away this sacred tree Last Line: Against a charm, that charm shall fade away. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: FIRST SQUIRE (1) Poem Text First Line: That fruit that neither dreads the syrian Last Line: Let these relate, my tongue's too weak to tell. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: FIRST SQUIRE (2) Poem Text First Line: All that was ever asked by vow of jove Last Line: Ever attend your triple majesty. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: FOURTH SQUIRE Poem Text First Line: Thus with prodigious hate and cruelty Last Line: Turn all the world into confusion. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: MASQUERS FIRST DANCE Poem Text First Line: While dancing rests, fit place to music granting Last Line: We leave with charms enclosing, closing. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: MASQUERS SECOND DANCE Poem Text First Line: Let us now sing of loves delight Last Line: That fades not straight, but leaves a living joy behind. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: SECOND SQUIRE (1) Poem Text First Line: A strange and sad osten our knights distress Last Line: And all was hushed. As storm had never been. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: SECOND SQUIRE (2) Poem Text First Line: All blessings which the fates, propheticke Last Line: The honoured bridegroom and the honoured bride. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: SONG (1) Poem Text First Line: Go, happy man, like th' evening star Last Line: For now are you long-looked-for here. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: SONG (2) Poem Text First Line: Come ashore, come, merry mates Last Line: And so good-night to all, good-night to all. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: SONG (3) Poem Text First Line: Haste aboard, haste now away Last Line: And so good-night to all, good-night to all. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: THIRD SQUIRE Poem Text First Line: At sea their mischiefs grew, but ours at land Last Line: Fair to our eyes, but woeful to behold. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: AN EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Merlin, the great king arthur being slain Last Line: Save only that thou didst mistake the name. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: FLORA SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: Flowers and good wishes flora doth present Last Line: Off'ring your marriage song with changes new. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: HESPERUS SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: Hail reverend angry night, hail queen of flowers Last Line: There's little tedious time in such delay. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG Poem Text First Line: Time, that leads the fatal round Last Line: But all as starres glist'ring fair and blithe appear. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG Poem Text First Line: Move now with measured sound Last Line: Now to release apollo's knights from these enchanted trees. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG Poem Text First Line: Shows and nightly revels, signs of joy and peace Last Line: Both to ourselves and faithful friends, our undermining foes aftrighting. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG Poem Text First Line: Triumph now with joy and mirth! Last Line: That gives us blest and joyful days. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG IN FORM OF A DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Who is the happier of the two Last Line: Cho. Sing io, hymen! Io, io, hymen! MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG OF THE TRANSFORMATION Poem Text First Line: Night and diana charge Last Line: And so fall, etc. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG. NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Vanish, dark veils! Let night in glory shine Last Line: And at her stormy words their boughs shall break. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG. ROSES Poem Text First Line: Now hath flora robbed her bowers Last Line: So doth a bridegroom his bride's bed adorn. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: THE MASQUE-WRITER'S APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Neither buskin now, nor bays Last Line: A retailer of such fame. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: TO JAMES KING OF BRITAIN Poem Text First Line: The disunited scythians when they sought Last Line: If he that marries kingdoms, marries men? Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: TO LORD AND LADY HAYES Poem Text First Line: Should I presume to separate you now Last Line: To propagate the honoured name of hayes. MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: TO THEOPHILUS HOWARD Poem Text First Line: If to be sprung of high and princely blood Last Line: She'll strive to raise you with a loftier song. Subject(s): Howard, Theophilus. 2d Earl Of Suffolk MOUNTEBANK'S MASK: DISMISSAL First Line: The hours of sleepy night decay apace O NEUER TO BE MOUED OBSERUATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY First Line: There is no writing too breefe that OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 1 Poem Text First Line: Go, numbers, boldly pass, stay not for aid Last Line: Phœbus shuns none but in their flight from him. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 10. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE SIXTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: What though harry brags, let him be noble Last Line: Noble harry hath not half a noble. Subject(s): Nobility OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 11. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE SEVENTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Phoebe, all the rights elisa claimeth Last Line: That she's only true, thou only feigned. Subject(s): Truth OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 12. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE EIGHTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Barnzy stiffly vows that he's no cuckold Last Line: Harvy bears the wrong, he proves the cuckold. Subject(s): Barnes, Barnabe (1569-1609); Harvey, Gabriel (1545-1630) OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 13. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE NINETH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Buffe loves fat viands, fat ale, fat all things Last Line: Him fat only wish to feast the gallows. Subject(s): Obesity OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 14. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE TENTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Smith, by suit divorced, the known adult'ress Last Line: Tree embrace, again the fatal halter. Subject(s): Divorce OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 15. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE ELEVENTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: His late loss the wiveless higs in order Last Line: Hadst no heart I think, I know no liver. Subject(s): Murder; Loss; Marriage OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 16. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE TWELFTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Why droopst thou, trefeild? Will hurst the banker Last Line: They're all grown so pocky and so rotten. Subject(s): Grief OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 17. AN ELEGY Poem Text First Line: Constant to none, but ever false to me Last Line: If graced firm he stands, if not, eas'ly falls. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 18. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE FIRST EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Arthur brooks only those that brook not him Last Line: But finds none that holds twenty due for him. OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 19. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE SECOND EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: If fancy cannot err which virtue guides Last Line: In thee, laura, then fancy cannot err. Subject(s): Virtue OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 2 Poem Text First Line: Some from the starry throne his fame derives Last Line: Renowned in every art there lives not any. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 20. ELEGIAC VRSE: THE THIRD EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Drue feasts no puritans; the churls, he saith Last Line: Thank no men, but eat, praise god, and depart. Subject(s): Puritans OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 21. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE FOURTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: A wise man wary lives, yet most secure Last Line: Th' earth his sober inn, but still heav'n his home Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Heaven OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 22. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE FIFTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Thou tell'st me, barnzy, dawson hath a wife Last Line: Thine he hath, I grant; dawson hath a wife. Subject(s): Barnes, Barnabe (1569-1609); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 23. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE SIXTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Drue gives thee money, yet thou thank'st not him Last Line: And he saith 'god help!' who's the godly man? Subject(s): Gratitude OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 24. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE SEVENTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: All wonders barnzy speaks, all grossly feigned Last Line: Speak some wonder once, barnzy; speak the truth. Subject(s): Barnes, Barnabe (1569-1609); Lies OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 25. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE EIGHTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: None then should through thy beauty, laura, pine Last Line: Hope of friendly deeds, kill the love-sick heart. Subject(s): Love – Unrerquited OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 26. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE NINETH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: At all thou frankly throw'st, while frank, thy wife Last Line: Bars not luke the main; oteny bat the bye. Subject(s): Infidelity OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 27 Poem Text First Line: Faith's pure shield, the christian diana Last Line: And thick heads do vanish. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Rain OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 28 Poem Text First Line: Rose-cheeked laura, come Last Line: Selves eternal. Variant Title(s): Silent Music;laura Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Seduction; Singing & Singers; Songs OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 29 Poem Text First Line: Just beguiler Last Line: Jet not still secure. Subject(s): Virtue; Love OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 3 Poem Text First Line: Raving war, begot Last Line: Th' unknown multitude. Subject(s): War OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 30 Poem Text First Line: Follow, follow Last Line: Beg for mercy. Subject(s): Courtship; Love OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 31 Poem Text First Line: Kind in every kind Last Line: Can praise truly none. Subject(s): Praise OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 4 Poem Text First Line: Greatest in thy wars Last Line: Worthy half thy fame. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 5. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE FIRST EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Lockly spits apace, the rheum he calls it Last Line: Tis no humour hurts, it is thy humour. Subject(s): Illness OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 6. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE SECOND EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Cease, fond wretch, to love, so oft deluded Last Line: Whom in vain so long thy folly loved. Subject(s): Love OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 7. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE THIRD EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Kate can fancy only beardless husbands Last Line: Her smooth youths she finds all hugely bearded. Subject(s): Beards; Courtship OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 8. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE FOURTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: All in satin oteny will be suited Last Line: Oteny sure will have the bastinado. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 9. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE FIFTH EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Toasts as snakes or as the mortal henbane Last Line: But it drinks up ale: that hunks detesteth. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: THE WRITER TO HIS BOOK Poem Text First Line: Whither thus hastes my little book so fast? Last Line: Thy lightness cannot help or hurt my fame. Subject(s): Books; Reading OF COUNTERPOINT First Line: The parts of musicke are in all but foure ... OF THE TAKING OF ALL CONCORDS, PERFECT AND IMPERFECT First Line: Of all the latter writers in musicke OF THE TONES OF MUSICKE First Line: Of all things that belong to the making ...' PILGRIMAGE TOWARDS LOVES HOLY LAND PREFACE First Line: There is nothing doth trouble, and PREFIXED TO THOMAS RAVENSCROFT'S 'DISCOURSE...' Poem Text First Line: Marks that did limit lands in former times Last Line: And th' author praise for his good work and mind. Subject(s): Ravenscroft, Thomas (1592-1635) RELATION OF ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT GIUEN BY LORD KNOWLES SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: 7. THE MEASURE OF BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Give beauty all her right Last Line: My sovereign is as sweet and fair. Subject(s): Beauty; Worship SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 1 Poem Text First Line: Vain men, whose follies make a god of love Last Line: Men must be men, and women women still. Subject(s): Love SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10 Poem Text First Line: What harvest half so sweet is Last Line: None can deny us. Subject(s): Harvest; Kisses SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11 Poem Text First Line: Sweet, exclude me not, nor be divided Last Line: Here's the way, bar not the door. Subject(s): Marriage SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12 Poem Text First Line: The peaceful western wind Last Line: Twill yield thee little grace. Subject(s): Love; Spring SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 13 Poem Text First Line: There is none, o! None but you Last Line: Or man a woman half so fair. Subject(s): Fidelity; Flattery; Love; Oaths; Faithfulness; Constancy SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 14 Poem Text First Line: Pined I am and like to die Last Line: Ere long I'll try what it will do. Subject(s): Despair SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 15 Poem Text First Line: So many loves have I neglected Last Line: That strange be but for fashion. Subject(s): Love – Complaints SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16 Poem Text First Line: Though your strangeness frets my heart Last Line: Is this fair excusing? O, no! All is abusing! Subject(s): Love SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 17 Poem Text First Line: Come away, armed with love's delights Last Line: Attending as the starry flower that the sun's noontide knows. Subject(s): Love SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18 Poem Text First Line: Come, you pretty false-eyed wanton Last Line: And you my saint unnamed. Subject(s): Carpe Diem SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19 Poem Text First Line: A secret love or two I must confess Last Line: Judge then what debtor can keep touch truly. Subject(s): Confessions; Secrets; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 2 Poem Text First Line: How eas'ly wert thou chained Last Line: From paradise to part. Subject(s): Love – Complaints SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20 Poem Text First Line: Her rosy cheeks, her ever smiling eyes Last Line: Are only greedy of reward. Subject(s): Beauty; Love – Unrequited SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21 Poem Text First Line: Where shall I refuge seek, if you refuse me? Last Line: My only grief and kindness pity need! Subject(s): Courtship; Anxiety SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3 Poem Text First Line: Harden now thy tyred hart, with more then flinty rage Last Line: Too oft, I feare, thou wilt remember me. Variant Title(s): Second Book Of Airs: 3 Subject(s): Anger; Jealousy; Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 4 Poem Text First Line: O what unhoped for sweet supply Last Line: Since I am hers, and she is mine. Subject(s): Love SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 5 Poem Text First Line: Where she her sacred bower adorns Last Line: Shall in her temple rest. Subject(s): Love SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 66 Poem Text First Line: Fain would I my love disclose Last Line: As they are wise they will be caught. Subject(s): Courtship SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 8 Poem Text First Line: O dear, that I with thee might live Last Line: Such a flame the more you quench the more it burneth. Subject(s): Love SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 Poem Text First Line: Good men, show, if you can tell Last Line: Where pity ever yet did bide. SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: TO HENRY, LORD CLIFFORD Poem Text First Line: Such days as wear the badge of holy red Last Line: If th' one, the other you of force must have. Subject(s): Clifford, Henry. 5th Earl (1591-1643) SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: TO THE READER Poem Text First Line: That holy hymns with lovers' cares are knit Last Line: And some matched worse. Yet none of him complain. Subject(s): Grief SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO QUARTO Poem Text First Line: Love whets the dullest wits, his plagues be such Last Line: O let me dote! So love be bent to please. SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO QUINTO. CONTENT Poem Text First Line: A day, a night, an hour of sweet content Last Line: But hast thou bliss in youth? O sweet estate! Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO SECUNDO. LOVE'S PILGRIMS Poem Text First Line: What fair pomp have I spied of glittering ladies Last Line: Come, we'll associate this jolly pilgrimage! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO TERTIO. KISSES Poem Text First Line: My love bound me with a kiss Last Line: Kisses make men loath to go. Subject(s): Kisses SO TIR'D ARE ALL MY THOUGHTS SONG First Line: Tenants, to fulfill their landlord's pleasured SONG FROM A MASQUE First Line: Tell me, gentle hour of night SONG OF THE LORDS MASKE (2) First Line: Powerfull ioue, that hast giuen fower THE LORD'S MASQUE: ORPHEUS Poem Text First Line: Again, again, fresh kindle phoebus' sounds Last Line: And call her gently forth; sound, sound again. THE LORD'S MASQUE: THE STARS DANCE; SONG Poem Text First Line: Advance your choral motions now Last Line: The kind delights you breed. Variant Title(s): To The Masquers Representing Stars Subject(s): Pleasure THE LORDS' MASQUE: A FULL SONG Poem Text First Line: Supported now by clouds descend Last Line: Even on the clearest day. Subject(s): Prometheus THE LORDS' MASQUE: A SONG AND DANCE TRIUMPHANT OF THE MASQUERS Poem Text First Line: Dance, dance, and visit now the shadowes Last Line: So let good night present excuse. THE LORDS' MASQUE: CHORUS (1) Poem Text First Line: Live with thy bridegroom happy, sacred bride Last Line: How blest is he that is for love envied! Subject(s): Envy; Freedom; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LORDS' MASQUE: CHORUS (2) Poem Text First Line: Now in thy revels frolic-fair delight Last Line: To heap joy on this ever-honoured night. Subject(s): Honor; Pleasure; Rites & Ceremonies THE LORDS' MASQUE: ENTHEUS AND PROMETHEUS Poem Text First Line: Patron of mankind, powerful and bounteous Last Line: While we admire prometheus' dancing lights. THE LORDS' MASQUE: ENTHEUS SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: Divinest orpheus, o how all from thee Last Line: These clouds, that you hid beauty may appear. THE LORDS' MASQUE: ENTHEUS SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: Make clear the passage to sibylla's sight Last Line: The room with sounds of triumph, sweet and shrill. THE LORDS' MASQUE: FINAL SONG Poem Text First Line: No longer wrong the night Last Line: Dance then and go! THE LORDS' MASQUE: FIRST DANCE Poem Text First Line: Breathe you now, while io hymen Last Line: Beauty and youth unite them both in one. THE LORDS' MASQUE: FOUR STATUES Poem Text First Line: See, see, prometheus, four of these first dames Last Line: Let orpheus deck thy hymn, since pray we must. Subject(s): Statues THE LORDS' MASQUE: MANIA AND ORPHEUS Poem Text First Line: What powerful noise is this importunes me Last Line: Wild beasts it once tamed, now let frantics bow. THE LORDS' MASQUE: SONG Poem Text First Line: Come triumphing, come with state Last Line: And speak them plain, now be not coy. THE LORDS' MASQUE: SONG Poem Text First Line: Cease, cease you revels, rest a space Last Line: Full of beauty and of grace. Subject(s): Pleasure THE LORDS' MASQUE: SONG Poem Text First Line: Come away; bring thy golden theft Last Line: How lovely would their presence be, how full of grace! THE LORDS' MASQUE: THE FIRST INVOCATION IN A FULL SONG Poem Text First Line: Powerful jove, that of bright stars Last Line: When words and music please, let none despair. THE LORDS' MASQUE: THE MASQUERS SECOND DANCE Poem Text First Line: Breathe again, while we with music Last Line: Taken or left, none discontent must be. Subject(s): Marriage THE LORDS' MASQUE: THE SONG Poem Text First Line: Woo her, and win her, he that can! Last Line: That on strange beauties venter. Subject(s): Courtship THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 1 Poem Text First Line: Oft have I sighed for him that hears me not Last Line: For him that can break vows but not return. THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10 Poem Text First Line: Breake now, my heart, and dye! Oh no, she may relent Last Line: At last a shaft daunted, which his hart did feele. Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11 Poem Text First Line: If love loves truth, then women do not love Last Line: To have fair women false than none at all. Subject(s): Women; Love - Complaints; Deception THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12 Poem Text First Line: Now winter nights enlarge / the number of their hours Last Line: They shorten tedious nights. Variant Title(s): Winter Nights Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Night; Parties; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 13 Poem Text First Line: Awake, thou spring of speaking grace, mute rest becomes Last Line: Do it not in slumber smother! Subject(s): Language THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 14. GOOD WIFE Poem Text First Line: What is it all that men possess, among themselves conversing? Last Line: Bad with bad in ill suit well; but good with good live blessed. Subject(s): Marriage THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 15 Poem Text First Line: Fire that must flame is with apt fuell fed Last Line: But with one touch of grace cure all my pain. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16 Poem Text First Line: If thou longest so much to learn, sweet boy, what 'tis to love Last Line: They would make thee straight return. Subject(s): Youth; Time; Love THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 17. A LOVER'S PLEA Poem Text First Line: Shall I come, sweet love, to thee Last Line: While these cold nights freeze me dead. Variant Title(s): Love's Request;a Lover's Plea Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Love THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18. THE CHARM Poem Text First Line: Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air Last Line: She hath an art to break them with her eyes. Variant Title(s): Spells;charms;the Third Book Of Ayres: 28;love-charms Subject(s): Love; Seduction; Supernatural THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19 Poem Text First Line: Be thou then my beauty named Last Line: Ile love thee, serve thee, and adore. Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Flattery; Love THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 2 Poem Text First Line: Now let her change and spare not Last Line: Faith is not had, where none is. Subject(s): Love – Complaints THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20 Poem Text First Line: Fire, fire, fire, fire! Last Line: That else must burn, and with me fall. Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Pain; Rivers; Suffering; Misery THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21 Poem Text First Line: O, sweet delight, o more than human bliss Last Line: Which till their eyes ache, let iron men envy! Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Love THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 22 Poem Text First Line: Thus I resolve, and time hath taught me so Last Line: Wild born be wild still, though by force you tame. Variant Title(s): Thus I Resolve Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23 Poem Text First Line: Come, oh, come, my life's delight Last Line: As swift to me as heavenly light! Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Love; Seduction THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 24 Poem Text First Line: Could my heart more tongues employ Last Line: Than to lose all at the best. Subject(s): Grief THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 25 Poem Text First Line: Sleep, angry beauty, sleep, and fear not me Last Line: That she in peace may wake and pity me. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Sleep THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 26. FIRST LOVE Poem Text First Line: Silly boy, 'tis full moon yet, thy night as day shines clearly Last Line: Lives of all that ever breathed most worthy the envying. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Relationships THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 27. LOVE, AND NEVER FEAR Poem Text First Line: Never love unless you can / bear with all the faults of man Last Line: Then like, and love, and never fear! Variant Title(s): Advice To A Girl Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Complaints; Masculinity (psychology); Trust THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 28 Poem Text First Line: So quick, so hot, so mad is thy fond suit Last Line: But never, as you dream, in bed, or grave. Subject(s): Love – Absence Of THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 29 Poem Text First Line: Shall I then hope when faith is fled? Last Line: Faith failing her, love died in me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Hope THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3 Poem Text First Line: Were my heart as some men's are Last Line: Hidden mischief to conceal in state and love is treason. THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 4 Poem Text First Line: Maids are simple, some men say Last Line: Ever let me simple be. THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 5 Poem Text First Line: So tired are all my thoughts, that sense and spirits fail Last Line: Virtue dies with too much rest. Subject(s): Grief THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 6 Poem Text First Line: Why presumes thy pride on that that must so private be Last Line: So shalt thou to all more fair than thou wert born appear. Subject(s): Pride THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. OF PLEASURE AND PAIN Poem Text First Line: Kind are her answers Last Line: But one night went betwixt. Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Waiting; Women THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 8 Poem Text First Line: O grief, o spite, to see poor virtue scorned Last Line: And the true wisdom that is just and plain. Subject(s): Human Behavior THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 Poem Text First Line: O never to be moved Last Line: Some pity show, though you relief deny! Subject(s): Grief THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: TO SIR THOMAS MOUNSON, KNIGHT AND BARONET Poem Text First Line: Since now these clouds, that lately over-cast Last Line: That innocence doth pity and defend. Subject(s): Innocence; Mounson, Sir Thomas (16th Century) THIS TIME DOTH WELL DISPENSE TO THE FLOWRE OF PRINCES, CHARLES, PRINCE OF GREAT First Line: The first inuentor of musicke (most sacred ... TO THE MOST DISCONSOLATE GREAT BRITAIN Poem Text First Line: When pale famine fed on thee Last Line: Yet could'st thou not in show more amply mourn. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES Poem Text First Line: Fortune and glory may be lost and won Last Line: Which to his brother's life men wished, and wished them right. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND MIGHTY FREDERICK THE FIFTH, OF THE RHINE Poem Text First Line: How like a golden dream you met and parted Last Line: So must our griefs; day breaks when night is past. Subject(s): Frederick V. Elector Of Palatine TO THE MOST PRINCELY AND VERTUOUS THE LADY ELIZABETH Poem Text First Line: So parted you as if the world for ever Last Line: To change should subject be and suffer earth's infection! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST SCARED KING JAMES Poem Text First Line: O grief, how divers are thy shapes wherein men languish Last Line: When we were least aware. Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST SCARED QUEEN ANNE Poem Text First Line: Tis now dead night, and not a light on earth Last Line: Since fate in taking one hath thus disordered all. Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England; Mourning; Bereavement TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, BOTH IN BIRTH AND VIRTUE, EARL OF CUMBERLAND Poem Text First Line: What patron could I choose, great lord, but you? Last Line: If better, better could my zeal afford. Subject(s): Clifford, Francis. 4th Earl Cumberland TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND WORTHILY HONOURD, THE LORD First Line: In two things(right honorable) it is TO THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: O poor distracted world partly a slave Last Line: In thine expect the hopes were ripe in thee. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TORCH-BEARERS DAUNCE First Line: Wait, spirits, wait, while through the TRUTH, SPRUNG FROM HEAUEN, SHALL SHINE VMBRA (IN LATIN) WOMEN ONLY ARE MEN'S GOOD |
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