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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: carew, thomas Matches Found: 137 Carew, Thomas Poet's Biography 137 poems available by this author A DEPOSITION FROM LOVE Poem Text First Line: I was foretold your rebel sex Last Line: Only deposed kings can know. Subject(s): Love A DIVINE MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: In nature's pieces still I see Last Line: You gods, teach her some more humanity. Subject(s): Love A FANCY Poem Text First Line: Mark how this polish'd eastern sheet Last Line: To fold up silks may wrap up wit. Subject(s): Cosmetics A FLY THAT FLEW INTO MY MISTRESS HER EYE Poem Text First Line: When this fly liv'd she us'd to play Last Line: Funeral, flame, tomb, obsequy. Subject(s): Flies A LADY'S PRAYER TO CUPID Poem Text First Line: Since I must needs into thy school return Last Line: Weare all his beard, and none uppon his chinn. Subject(s): Love A LOOKING-GLASS Poem Text First Line: That flatt'ring glass, whose smooth face wears Last Line: And melt that ice to floods of joy. Subject(s): Mirrors A LOVER, ON AN ACCIDENT NECESSITATING DEPARTURE, CONSULTS WITH REASON Poem Text First Line: Weep not, nor backward turn your beams Last Line: The wheel of fortune, not the sphere of love. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Reason; Parting; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A MARRIED WOMAN Poem Text First Line: When I shall marry, if I do not find Last Line: Unpunish'd: his consent made hers a sin. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE QUEEN Poem Text First Line: Thou great commandress, that dost move Last Line: The water, earth, and air inspire. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE KING Poem Text First Line: Look back, old janus, and survey Last Line: In his blest reign the temple door. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A NEW YEAR'S SACRIFICE; TO LUCINDA Poem Text First Line: Those that can give, open their hands this day Last Line: Behold the blaze of thy immortal name. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A PASTORAL DIALOGUE: CELIA, CLEON Poem Text First Line: As celia rested in the shade Last Line: The nymph fled fast away. Subject(s): Courtship A PASTORAL DIALOGUE: SHEPHERD, NYMPH, CHORUS Poem Text First Line: This mossy bank they pressed Last Line: Grief interrupted speech with tears' supplies. Subject(s): Country Life A PRAYER TO THE WIND Poem Text First Line: Go, thou gentle whispering wind Last Line: Or else quite extinguish mine. Variant Title(s): Love's Errand Subject(s): Desire; Wind A RAPTURE Poem Text First Line: I will enjoy thee, now, my celia, come Last Line: Should make men atheists and not women whores. Subject(s): Love - Erotic A SONG Poem Text First Line: In her fair cheeks two pits do lie Last Line: For if thou let me live, I die. Subject(s): Admiration AN ELEGY ON THE LADY PEN; SENT TO MY MISTRESS OUT OF FRANCE Poem Text First Line: Let him who from his tyrant mistress did Last Line: In either eye a tear, each hand a verse. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Grief; Separation AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF DOCTOR DONNE, DEAN OF PAUL'S Poem Text First Line: Can we not force from widowed poetry Last Line: Apollo's first, at last the true god's priest. Variant Title(s): An Elegy Upon The Death Of The Dean Of Paul's, John Donne Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets AN HYMENAL SONG, ON THE NUPTIALS OF ANNE WENTWORTH AND LORD LOVELACE Poem Text First Line: Break not the slumbers of the bride Last Line: Rules to make love an almanac. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium AN HYMENEAL DIALOGUE: BRIDE AND GROOM Poem Text First Line: Tell me, my love, since hymen ti'd Last Line: Each by contraction multipli'd. Subject(s): Weddings;; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BOLDNESS IN LOVE Poem Text First Line: Mark how the bashful morn, in vain Last Line: With open ears, and with unfolded arms. Subject(s): Love CELIA BLEEDING, TO THE SURGEON Poem Text First Line: Fond man, that canst believe her blood Last Line: Shed all the blood, felt all the smart. Subject(s): Surgery CELIA SINGING Poem Text First Line: You that think love can convey Last Line: Awake and see the rising sun. Variant Title(s): Celia Sings;to Celia Singing Subject(s): Love COMPLIMENT First Line: I do not love thee for that fair DISDAIN RETURNED Poem Text First Line: He that loves a rosy cheek Last Line: That love to her I cast away. Variant Title(s): The True Beauty;a Proper Woman;the Unfading Beauty Subject(s): Admiration; Love EPILOGUE TO A PLAY BEFORE THE KING AND QUEEN ... AT WHITEHALL Poem Text First Line: Hunger is sharp, the sated stomach dull Last Line: He should do penance, when the sin was his. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (1) Poem Text First Line: This little vault, this narrow room Last Line: The flames, the arrows, all lie here. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (2) Poem Text First Line: The lady mary villiers lies Last Line: May'st find thy darling in an urn. Variant Title(s): On The Lady Mary Villiers Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (3) Poem Text First Line: The purest soule that e're was sent Last Line: Of room to lodge th' inhabitant. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY SALTER, WIFE TO SIR WILLIAM SALTER Poem Text First Line: The harmony of colours, features, grace Last Line: To purchase that, she sold death all the rest. Subject(s): Epitaphs ETERNITY OF LOVE PROTESTED Poem Text First Line: How ill doth he deserve a lovers name Last Line: Shall, like a hallowed lamp, for ever burn. Subject(s): Love - Complaints EXCUSE OF ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: You will ask, perhaps, wherefore I stay Last Line: To wander far from you, the centre. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FOR A PICTURE WHERE A QUEEN LAMENTS OVER THE TOMB OF A SLAIN KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Brave youth, to whom fate in one hour Last Line: I'll die thy valour's sacrifice. Subject(s): Courage; Grief; Valor; Bravery; Sorrow; Sadness FOUR SONGS BY WAY OF CHORUS TO A PLAY: 1. OF JEALOUSY. A DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: From whence was first this fury hurl'd Last Line: And raging as the northern wind. Subject(s): Jealousy FOUR SONGS BY WAY OF CHORUS TO A PLAY: 2. FEMININE HONOURS Poem Text First Line: In what esteem did the gods hold Last Line: Than her false echo in the ear. Subject(s): Women FOUR SONGS BY WAY OF CHORUS TO A PLAY: 3. SEPARATION OF LOVERS Poem Text First Line: Stop the chafed boar, or play Last Line: Love of a consumption dies. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FOUR SONGS BY WAY OF CHORUS TO A PLAY: 4. INCOMMUNICABILITY OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: By what power was love confin'd Last Line: Without a rival, monarch of the breast. Subject(s): Love - Complaints GARDEN First Line: This garden does not take my eyes GOOD COUNSEL TO A YOUNG MAID Poem Text First Line: When you the sunburnt pilgrim see Last Line: When no streams shall be left but in thine eye. Subject(s): Advice; Love – Nature Of GRIEF ENGROSS'D Poem Text First Line: Wherefore do thy sad numbers flow Last Line: Or blow my tears away or speak my death. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN ANSWER OF AN ELEGIACAL LETTER UPON THE DEATH OF THE KIND OF SWEDEN Poem Text First Line: Why dost thou sound, my dear aurelian Last Line: And dance and revel then, as we do now. Subject(s): Townshend, Aurelian (1583-1651) IN PRAISE OF HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: You that will a wonder know Last Line: May admire, but cannot show it. Subject(s): Praise; Love INGRATEFUL [OR UNGRATEFUL] BEAUTY THREATENED Poem Text First Line: Know, celia, since thou art so proud Last Line: Knew her themselves through all her veils. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets INQUIRY First Line: Amongst the myrtles as I walk'd LIPS AND EYES Poem Text First Line: In celia's face a question did arise Last Line: Weeping or smiling pearls, to celia's face. Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Lips LOVE'S COURTSHIP Poem Text First Line: Kiss, lovely celia, and be kind Last Line: Ere they set foot in nuptial bed. Subject(s): Courtship LOVE'S FORCE Poem Text First Line: In the first ruder age, when love was wild Last Line: Itself for its own proper object melt. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of MARIA WENTWORTH Poem Text First Line: And here the precious dust is laid Last Line: Fraile as our flesh, crumble to dust. Variant Title(s): The Inscription On The Tomb;epitaph For Maria Wentworth;the Inscription On The Tomb Of The Lady Mary Wentworth Subject(s): Bedfordshire, England; Mourning; Wentworth, Maria (d. 1632); Bereavement MEDIOCRITY IN LOVE REJECTED Poem Text First Line: Give me more love, or more disdain Last Line: Give me more love or more disdain. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints MR. CAREW TO HIS FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Like to the hand that hath been us'd to play Last Line: That something more than bodies us combine. Subject(s): Friendship MY MISTRESS COMMANDING ME TO RETURN HER LETTERS Poem Text First Line: So grieves th' advent'rous merchant, when he throws Last Line: "bid her but send me hers, and we are friends." Subject(s): Letters OBSEQUIES TO THE LADY ANNE HAY Poem Text First Line: I heard the virgins sigh, I saw the sleek Last Line: Thus even by rivals to be deifi'd. ON A DAMASK ROSE STICKING UPON A LADY'S BREAST Poem Text First Line: Let pride grow big, my rose, and let the clear Last Line: Would be transform'd into a rose as thou. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ON HIS MISTRESS CROSSING THE SEA Poem Text First Line: Farewell, fair saint, may not the sea and wind Last Line: Whilst both contribute to your own undoing. Variant Title(s): To His Mistress Going To Sea Subject(s): Sea Voyages ON MISTRESS NEVILLE; TO THE GREEN SICKNESS Poem Text First Line: Stay, coward blood, and do not yield Last Line: Here war alone makes beauty reign. Subject(s): Illness ON THE DEATH OF DONNE First Line: The muses' garden, with pedantic weeds Last Line: Adored again with new apostasy ON THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM Poem Text First Line: When in the brazen leaves of fame Last Line: Whilst she wept all this monument. Subject(s): Buckingham, George Villiers, 2d Duke Of ON THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, ANOTHER Poem Text First Line: Reader, when these dumb stones have told Last Line: To make one happy man, make all men just? Subject(s): Villiers, George. 2d Duke Of Buckingham ON THE MARRIAGE OF THOMAS KILLIGREW & CECILIA CROFTS: MORNING STORMY Poem Text First Line: Such should this day be, so the sun should hide Last Line: Her pleasing shrieks, and fan thy panting joys. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE SIGHT OF A GENTLEWOMAN'S FACE IN THE WATER Poem Text First Line: Stand still, you floods! Do not deface Last Line: A second venus rise. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces PARTING, CELIA WEEPS Poem Text First Line: Weep not, my dear, for I shall go Last Line: Thou wert thus loth to part with me. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting PERSUASIONS TO JOY: A SONG Poem Text First Line: If the quick spirits in your eye Last Line: In vain, or else in vain his wings. Subject(s): Joy PRIMROSE First Line: Ask me why I send you here Subject(s): Mnemonics; Primroses PROLOGUE TO A PLAY PRESENTED BEFORE THE KING AND QUEEN .. AT WHITEHALL Poem Text First Line: Since you have been pleas'd this night to unbend Last Line: Painters and us, and gilds your poet's bays. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights RAPTURE, SELS. RED AND WHITE ROSES Poem Text First Line: Read in these roses the sad story Last Line: And then they both shall grow together. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SECRECY PROTESTED Poem Text First Line: Fear not (dear love) that I'll reveal Last Line: The world will see thy picture there. Subject(s): Love SONG Poem Text First Line: Ask me no more where jove bestows Last Line: And in your fragrant bosom dies. SONG Poem Text First Line: Ask me no more where jove bestows Last Line: And in your fragrant bosom dies. Subject(s): Love; Marriag SONG First Line: Ask me no more whither do stray Last Line: And in your fragrant bosome dyes SONG First Line: Ask me no more whither dost hast Last Line: She winters, and keeps warm her note SONG TO A LADY NOT YET ENJOY'D BY HER HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: Come, celia, fix thine eyes on mine Last Line: Though the blind mole discern not day. SONG TO HER AGAIN, SHE BURNING IN FEVER Poem Text First Line: Now she burns, as well as I Last Line: So shalt thou quench her fire, and mine. Subject(s): Desire SONG TO MY MISTRESS, I BURNING IN LOVE Poem Text First Line: I burn, and cruel you in vain Last Line: Till you burn, as well as I. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Unrequited SONG TO ONE THAT DESIRED TO KNOW MY MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Seek not to know my love, for she Last Line: Yet here 'tis wisdom not to know. SONG TO ONE WHO, WHEN I PRAIS'D MY MISTRESS' BEAUTY, SAID I WAS BLIND Poem Text First Line: Wonder not, though I am blind Last Line: Then are you blinder far than I. Subject(s): Beauty; Blindness; Visually Handicapped SONG: A BEAUTIFUL MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: If, when the sun at noon displays Last Line: Both light and darkness, night and day. Variant Title(s): Night And Day To His Mistress Subject(s): Beauty SONG: A LADY, RESCUED FROM DEATH BY A KNIGHT, WHO LEAVES HER Poem Text First Line: Oh, whither is my fair sun fled Last Line: Give me his dart, keep thou his flame. Subject(s): Rescues; Parting SONG: CELIA SINGING Poem Text First Line: Hark how my celia, with the choice Last Line: Are all turn'd into stones again. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Love SONG: CONQUEST BY FLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Ladies, fly from love's smooth tale Last Line: Conquer love that run away. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG: GOOD COUNSEL TO A YOUNG MAID Poem Text First Line: Gaze not on thy beauty's pride Last Line: A perpetual blush to thine. Subject(s): Pride; Beauty; Love – Nature Of SONG: LOVER, IN DISGUISE OF AN AMAZON, DEARLY BELOVED OF HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Cease, thou afflicted soul, to mourn Last Line: Myself, that mine own rival am. Subject(s): Love – Complaints SONG: MURDERING BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: I'll gaze no more on her bewitching face Last Line: I surfeit with excess of joy, and die. Subject(s): Beauty SONG: THE WILLING PRISONER TO HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Let fools great cupid's yoke disdain Last Line: And wounds themselves have made discover. Subject(s): Love SPRING Poem Text First Line: Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost Last Line: June in her eyes, in her heart january. Subject(s): Spring THE AIRS OF SPRING Poem Text First Line: Sweetly breathing, vernal air Last Line: To bind him an iron chain. Subject(s): Spring THE COMPARISON Poem Text First Line: Dearest, thy tresses are not threads of gold Last Line: So be within as fair, as good, as true. Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue THE COMPLEMENT Poem Text First Line: O my dearest, I shall grieve thee Last Line: But, wouldst thou know, dear sweet, for all. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Beauty THE CRUEL MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: We read of kings and gods that kindly took Last Line: That burned the temple where she was adored. Subject(s): Nebuchadrezzar Ii (630-562 B.c.) THE DART Poem Text First Line: Oft when I look I may descry Last Line: May serve for darts to kill withal. THE DEPARTURE Poem Text First Line: By all thy glories willingly I go Last Line: Cause you are fair, he loves himself, not you. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE LADY TO HER INCONSTANT SERVANT Poem Text First Line: When on the altar of my hand Last Line: Thee too ungrateful, me too kind. Variant Title(s): In The Person Of A Lady To Her Inconstant Servant Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE MISTAKE Poem Text First Line: When on fair celia I did spy Last Line: A wounded heart like mine. Subject(s): Love – Llss Of THE PROTESTATION Poem Text First Line: No more shall meads be decked with flowers Last Line: If ere I leave bright celia's love. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE SECOND RAPTURE Poem Text First Line: No, worldling, no, 'tis not thy gold Last Line: There is no other happiness. Subject(s): Aging; Lust THE SPARK Poem Text First Line: My first love, whom all beauties did adorn Last Line: Many less faces in her place are born. Subject(s): Love – Beginnings; Infidelity; Guilt THE TINDER Poem Text First Line: Of what mould did nature frame me? Last Line: Flint and steel I 'll ever name ye. Subject(s): Desire THE TOOTHACHE CURED BY A KISS Poem Text First Line: Fate's now grown merciful to men Last Line: As to his heaven, retir'd. Subject(s): Kisses; Teeth; Toothaches TO A LADY THAT DESIRED I WOULD LOVE HER Poem Text First Line: Now you have freely given me leave to love Last Line: You but unlock, so we each other bless. Subject(s): Love TO A STRUMPET Poem Text First Line: Hail, thou true model of a cursed whore Last Line: That once did know thee in the state of grace. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO A.D. UNREASONABLE DISTRUSTFUL OF HER OWN BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Fair doris, break thy glass, it hath perplex'd Last Line: I die a martyr, you an heretic. Subject(s): Beauty; Modesty TO A.L.; PERSUASIONS TO LOVE Poem Text First Line: Think not, 'cause men flattering say Last Line: Both bud and fade, both blow and wither. Subject(s): Love TO BEN JONSON; UPON OCCASION OF HIS ODE OF DEFIANCE ... Poem Text First Line: Tis true, dear ben, thy just chastising hand Last Line: Than all men else, than thyself only less. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO CELIA, UPON LOVE'S UBIQUITY Poem Text First Line: As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death Last Line: I'll think on you, and by you think on heaven. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TO HER IN ABSENCE; A SHIP Poem Text First Line: Toss'd in a troubled sea of griefs, I float Last Line: Where it for ever shall at anchor lie. Subject(s): Absence; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation TO HIS JEALOUS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Admit, thou darling of mine eyes Last Line: To blind the world, but only thine. Subject(s): Jealousy TO HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Grieve not, my celia, but with haste Last Line: But canker'd nature only alters th' heart. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO HIS MISTRESS CONFINED First Line: Think not, my phoebe, 'cause a cloud TO HIS MISTRESS RETIRING IN AFFECTION Poem Text First Line: Fly not from him whose silent misery Last Line: Then know my reason hates thee, though I love thee. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TO MASTER W. MONTAGUE Poem Text First Line: Sir, I arrest you at your country's suit Last Line: Give you fair leave to wound me so agen. Subject(s): Revenge; Exiles TO MISTRESS KATHERNE NEVILLE, ON HER GREEN SICKNESS Poem Text First Line: White innocence, that now lies spread Last Line: I in your heart, he in your face. Subject(s): Illness TO MY COUSIN CAREW RALEGH MARRYING MY LADY ALTHAM Poem Text First Line: Happy youth! That shalt possess Last Line: Oft destroy both smell and sight. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY FRIEND D'AVENANT, UPON HIS EXCELLENT PLAY, 'THE JUST ITALIAN' Poem Text First Line: I'll not mis-spend in praise the narrow room Last Line: Wise men, that govern fate, shall entertain. Subject(s): D'avenant, William (1606-1668); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO MY FRIEND GILBERT NEVILLE, FROM WREST Poem Text First Line: I breathe, sweet ghib, the temperate air of wrest Last Line: To keep the memory of our arms alive. Subject(s): Country Life TO MY HONOURED FRIEND MASTER THOMAS MAY, UPON HIS COMEDY, 'THE HEIR' Poem Text First Line: The heir' being born, was in his tender age Last Line: Nature allow'd me was not large enough Subject(s): May, Thomas (1595-1650); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO MY INCONSTANT MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: When thou, poor excommunicate Last Line: Damned for thy false apostasy. Variant Title(s): Song. To My Inconstant Mistress;song Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy TO MY MISTRESS IN ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: Though I must live here, and by force Last Line: Till souls and bodies both may meet. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO MY MISTRESS SITTING BY A RIVER'S SIDE; AN EDDY Poem Text First Line: Mark how yon eddy steals away Last Line: Within these arms for ever swim. Subject(s): Rivers TO MY MUCH HONOURED FRIEND HENRY LORD CAREY OF LEPPINGTON, UPON HIS TRANSLATION OF MALVEZZI Poem Text First Line: My lord, in every trivial work 'tis known Last Line: He writes, and you translate, both to your peers. Subject(s): Carey, Henry, 1st Baron Hunsdon; Translating & Interpreting TO MY RIVAL Poem Text First Line: Hence, vain intruder, haste away! Last Line: Servant to her, rival with me. Subject(s): Enemies; Love TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. GEORGE SANDYS Poem Text First Line: I press not to the choir, nor dare I greet Last Line: Than all the flour'shing wreaths by laureates worn. Subject(s): Sandys, George (1578-1644); Translating & Interpreting TO SAXHAM Poem Text First Line: Though frost, and snow, lock'd from mine eyes Last Line: They cannot steal, thou giv'st so much. Subject(s): Houses; Saxham, England TO T.H., A LADY RESEMBLING MY MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Fair copy of my celia's face Last Line: Only because you are her coin. Subject(s): Identity TO THE COUNTESS OF ANGLESEY UPON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: Madam, men say you keep with dropping eyes Last Line: Shall sing the trophies of your conquering eye. Subject(s): Death TO THE KING, AT HIS ENTRANCE INTO SAXHAM, BY MASTER JOHN CROFTS Poem Text First Line: Ere you pass this threshold, stay Last Line: Should jove descend, they could no more. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Saxham, England TO THE NEW YEAR, FOR THE COUNTESS OF CARLISLE Poem Text First Line: Give lucinda pearl nor stone Last Line: As shall crown both her and thee. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE PAINTER Poem Text First Line: Fond man, that hop'st to catch that face Last Line: When the glad world shall see their heir. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO THE READER OF MASTER WILLIAM D'AVENANT'S PLAY, 'THE WITS' Poem Text First Line: It hath been said of old that plays are feasts Last Line: Take the just elevation of your wit. Subject(s): D'avenant, William (1606-1668); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO WILL D'AVENANT, MY FRIEND, UPON HIS POEM, 'MADAGASCAR' Poem Text First Line: When I behold, by warrant from thy pen Last Line: Than the dull issue of the lawful sheets. Subject(s): Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668) TRUCE IN LOVE ENTREATED Poem Text First Line: No more, blind god! For see, my heart Last Line: Wound her, for 'tis for her I die. Subject(s): Love UPON A MOLE IN CELIA'S BOSOM Poem Text First Line: That lovely spot which thou dost see Last Line: Of the bee's honey and her sting. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mole (skin Growth); Beekeeping; Bugs UPON A RIBBAND Poem Text First Line: This silken wreath, which circles in mine arm Last Line: This makes my arm your prisoner; that, my heart. Variant Title(s): Upon A Ribbon Subject(s): Love UPON MASTER WALTER MONTAGUE HIS RETURN FROM TRAVEL Poem Text First Line: Lead the black bull to slaughter, with the boar Last Line: As laymen clasp their hands, we join our feet. Subject(s): Homecoming; Exiles UPON MY LORD CHIEF JUSTICE HIS ELECTION OF MY LADY ANNE WENTWORTH FOR HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Hear this, and tremble, all Last Line: I know no heaven but fair wentworth's eyes! Subject(s): Judges; Love UPON SOME ALTERATION IN MY MISTRESS, AFTER MY DEPARTURE INTO FRANCE Poem Text First Line: O gentle love, do not forsake the guide Last Line: In the deep flood she drown'd her beamy face. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting UPON THE KING'S SICKNESS Poem Text First Line: Sickness, the minister of death, doth lay Last Line: Shows a good king is sick, and good men mourn. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sickness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Illness UPON THE SICKNESS OF ELIZABETH SHELDON Poem Text First Line: Must she then languish, and we sorrow thus Last Line: Convey into his hand thy golden dart. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness |
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