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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: cleveland john Matches Found: 43 Cleveland, John Poet's Biography 43 poems available by this author A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO ZEALOTS UPON THE &C. IN THE OATH Poem Text First Line: Sir roger, from a zealous piece of frieze Last Line: They and their tribe were all &c. Subject(s): Booker, John (1603-1677); Oaths; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict A FAIR NYMPH SCORNING A BLACK BOY COURTING HER Poem Text First Line: Stand off, and let me take the air Last Line: Than wash thy ethiopian skin. Subject(s): Blacks; Courtship; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry A SONG OF SACK, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: The whining lover that doth place Last Line: Who drinks the deepest? Here's to him! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A YOUNG MAN TO AN OLD WOMAN COURTING HIM Poem Text First Line: Peace, beldam eve, surcease thy suit Last Line: An aged chronicle's new cover. Subject(s): Almanacs; Courtship; Love - Age Differences AN ELEGY ON BEN JONSON Poem Text First Line: Who first reformed our stage with justest laws Last Line: Than can be now, when plenty makes me poor. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets AN ELEGY UPON THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Poem Text First Line: I need no muse to give my passion vent Last Line: Tis height makes grantham steeple stand awry. ELEGY UPON DOCTOR CHADDERTON, THE FIRST MASTER OF EMANUEL COLLEGE Poem Text First Line: Pardon, dear saint, that we so late Last Line: Than at thy many years before. Subject(s): Cambridge University ELEGY UPON KING CHARLES THE FIRST, MURDERED PUBLICLY BY HIS SUBJECTS Poem Text First Line: Were not my faith buoyed up by sacred blood Last Line: This our josias had a jeremy. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) EPITAPH ON THE EARL OF STRAFFORD Poem Text First Line: Here lies wise and valiant dust Last Line: Speechless still, and never cry. Variant Title(s): Gravestones Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Wentworth, Thomas. Earl Of Strafford; Dead, The FUSCARA; OR, THE BEE ERRANT Poem Text First Line: Nature's confectioner, the bee Last Line: The bee committed parricide. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs HOW THE COMMENCEMENT GROWS NEW Poem Text First Line: It is no coranto-news I undertake Last Line: And so the commencement grows new. Subject(s): Cambridge University MARK ANTONY Poem Text First Line: Whenas the nightingale chanted her vespers Last Line: With the fair egyptian queen. Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark MARY'S SPIKENARD Poem Text First Line: Shall I presume / without perfume Last Line: For then for grief they will grow grey. NEWS FROM NEWCASTLE; UPON THE COAL-PITS ABOUT NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Poem Text First Line: England's a perfect world, has indies too Last Line: And gives her a black bag for a green gown. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Newcastle-upon-tyne, England ON I.W. A.B. OF YORK Poem Text First Line: Say, my young sophister, what think'st of this? Last Line: Who god's anointed, and his church, betrayed. Subject(s): Williams, John. Archbishop Of York ON SCOTLAND Poem Text First Line: Had cain been scot, god would have changed his doom Last Line: Not forced him wander, but confined him home. Subject(s): Scotland ON THE MEMORY OF MR. EDWARD KING, DROWNED IN THE IRISH SEAS Poem Text First Line: I like not tears in tune, nor will I prize Last Line: We floating islands, living hebrides. Subject(s): Drowning; King, Edward (1612-1637) REBELL SCOT, SELS. First Line: Come keen iambicks with your badgers feet RUPERTISMUS Poem Text First Line: O that I could but vote myself a poet Last Line: Kimbolton's but a rumbling wheelbarrow. Subject(s): Cavaliers; Hay, Lucy. Countess Of Carlisle; Lunsford, Sir Thomas (1610-1653); Maynard, John (1602-1690); Serjeants, John Glyn (1607-166) SATIRE ON THE SCOTS First Line: A land where one may pray with cursed intent SMECTYMNUUS, OR THE CLUB-DIVERS Poem Text First Line: Smectymnuus! The goblin makes me start! Last Line: And stretch her patent to your leather ears! Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Theology SQUARE-CAP Poem Text First Line: Come hither, apollo's bouncing girl Last Line: For if ever I have a man, square-cap for me!' THE ANTIPLATONIC Poem Text First Line: For shame, thou everlasting wooer Last Line: With the nice caution of a sword between. Subject(s): Love - Erotic THE AUTHOR'S HERMAPHRODITE Poem Text First Line: Problem of sexes! Must thou likewise be Last Line: So shall it be thy son, and yet my daughter. Subject(s): Sex THE AUTHOR'S MOCK SONG TO MARK ANTONY Poem Text First Line: When as the night-raven sung pluto's matins Last Line: As this foul gypsy quean. Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark THE GENERAL ECLIPSE Poem Text First Line: Ladies that gild the glittering noon Last Line: Now e'en john lilburn take 'em for't! THE HECATOMB TO HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Be dumb, you beggars of the rhyming trade Last Line: And makes the world but her periphrasis. THE HUE AND THE CRY AFTER SIR JOHN PRESBYTER Poem Text First Line: With hair in characters and lugs in text Last Line: His finger's thicker than the prelates' loins.' Subject(s): Prester John; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict THE KING'S DISGUISE Poem Text First Line: And why a tenant to this vile disguise Last Line: A league with mouldy bread and clouted shoes! Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) THE MIXED ASSEMBLY Poem Text First Line: Flea-bitten synod, an assembly brewed Last Line: Is clergy-lay, party-per-pale compounded. Subject(s): Burges, Cornelius (1589-1665); Conventions; Kimbolton, Edward, Lord (1602-1671); Politics & Government; Religion; Twisse, William (1578-1646); Wharton, Philip, 4th Lord (1613-1696); Assemblies; Meetings; Theology THE REBEL SCOT Poem Text First Line: How, providence? And yet a scottish crew? Last Line: Drops into styx and turns a solan goose. Subject(s): Hate; Scotland - Relations With England THE SCOTS' APOSTASY Poem Text First Line: Is it come to this? What? Shall the cheeks of fame Last Line: (what's easier far) renounce his nation too. Subject(s): Campbell, John (1598-1633); Scotland - Relations With England TO JULIA TO EXPEDITE HER PROMISE Poem Text First Line: Since 'tis my doom, love's undershrieve Last Line: To cure the spital world of maladies. TO MRS. K.T (WHO ASKED HIM WHY HE WAS DUMB) Poem Text First Line: Stay, should I answer, lady, then Last Line: But means to speak the rest by signs. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity TO THE HECTORS, UPON THE UNFORTUNATE DEATH UPON THE DEATH H. COMPTON Poem Text First Line: You hectors! Tame professors of the sword Last Line: Both are repented of as soon as done. Subject(s): Compton, Henry (d. 1652); Duels TO THE MEMORY OF BEN JONSON Poem Text First Line: The muse's fairest light in no dark time Last Line: With sorrow here, with wonder on his book. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO THE STATE OF LOVE; OR THE SENSES' FESTIVAL Poem Text First Line: I saw a vision yesternight Last Line: Who would not die upon the spot? Subject(s): Love UPON A MISER THAT MADE A GREAT FEAST; THE NEXT DAY HE DIED FOR GRIEF Poem Text First Line: Nor 'scapes he so; our dinner was so good Last Line: Throughout all ovid's metamorphoses.] Subject(s): Food & Eating; Grief; Misers; Sorrow; Sadness UPON AN HERMAPHRODITE Poem Text First Line: Sir, or madam, choose you whether! Last Line: Coining thee a philip and mary. Subject(s): Sex UPON PHILLIS WALKING IN A MORNING BEFORE SUN-RISING Poem Text First Line: The sluggish morn as yet undressed Last Line: But left the sun her curate-light. UPON PRINCESS ELIZABETH, BORN THE NIGHT BEFORE NEW YEAR'S DAY Poem Text First Line: Astrologers say venus, the self-same star Last Line: With every year a new epiphany. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year UPON SIR THOMAS MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Hang out a flag and gather pence - a piece Last Line: May have a knight hanged, yet sir tom go free! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Property; Possessions UPON THE KING'S RETURN FROM SCOTLAND Poem Text First Line: Returned, I'll ne'er believe't; first prove him hence Last Line: Now he the counterpart comes south to us. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) |
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