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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: collins, william Matches Found: 40 Collins, William French 3 poems available by this author CONDITIONALLY Poem Text First Line: Ethel asked me for a verse Last Line: Grant the rhymester something, too! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LINCOLN STATUE First Line: A man who drew his strength from all TOWN AND COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: You'd admire my city sweetheart Last Line: All the while! Subject(s): Flirtation; Love Collins (1721-1759), William Poet's Biography 31 poems available by this author A SONG. IMITATED FROM THE MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: Lo here, beneath this hallow'd shade Last Line: And lull her with his sweetest lay. AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (1) Poem Text First Line: While born to bring the muse's happier days Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name. Subject(s): Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Lucan (marcus Annaeus Lucanus); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Racine, Jean (1639-1699); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); V AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (2) Poem Text First Line: No second growth the western isle could bear Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (2) (VARIANT TEXT) Poem Text First Line: While, own'd by you, with smiles the muse surveys Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CAPTAIN MOLLY AT MONMOUTH First Line: On the bloody field of monmouth flashed the guns of greene and wayne Variant Title(s): Molly Maguire At Monmout Subject(s): American Revolution; Maguire, Molly DIRGE FOR FIDELE Poem Text First Line: To fair fidele's grassy tomb Last Line: And mourned, till pity's self be dead. Variant Title(s): Dirge In Cymbeline;fidele ['s Dirge];a Song From Shakespeare's Cymbelyne [cymbeline] Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists LOOKOUT First Line: Low lies the land upon the sea Subject(s): Sea ODE OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF MR. THOMSON Poem Text First Line: In yonder grave a druid lies Last Line: In yonder grave your druid lies! Variant Title(s): On The Death Of Thomson;ode On The Death Of Mr. Thomason Subject(s): Thomson, James (1700-1748) ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER Poem Text First Line: As once, if not with light regard / I read aright that gifted bard Last Line: Or curtained close such scene from every future view. Subject(s): Churchyards; Poetry & Poets ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND Poem Text First Line: Home, thou return'st from thames, whose naiads long Last Line: Friend. Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Home, John (1722-1808); Poetry & Poets ODE TO EVENING Poem Text First Line: If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song Last Line: And hymn thy favorite name! Variant Title(s): To Evening;evening Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight ODE TO FEAR Poem Text First Line: Thou, to whom the world unknown / with all its shadowy shapes is shown Last Line: And I, o fear, will dwell with thee! Subject(s): Fear ODE TO LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: Who shall awake the spartan fife Last Line: Thou, lady, thou shalt rule the west! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ODE TO MERCY Poem Text First Line: O thou, who sit'st a smiling bride Last Line: Thou, thou shalt rule our queen, and share our monarch's throne! Subject(s): Mercy ODE TO PEACE Poem Text First Line: O thou, who bad'st thy turtles bear Last Line: With him for ever wed! Subject(s): Peace ODE TO PITY Poem Text First Line: O thou, the friend of man assigned Last Line: To hear a british shell! Subject(s): Pity ODE TO SIMPLICITY Poem Text First Line: O thou by nature taught Last Line: And all thy sons, o nature, learn my tale Subject(s): Simplicity ODE WRITTEN IN [THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR] 1746 Poem Text First Line: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest Last Line: To dwell a weeping hermit there! Variant Title(s): The Sleep Of The Brave;how Sleep The Brave Subject(s): England; Freedom; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; English; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day ODE, TO A LADY ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL ROSS [AT] FONTENOY Poem Text First Line: While, lost to all his former mirth Last Line: And bid her shepherds weep. Subject(s): Death; Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Dead, The ON TRUE AND FALSE TASTE IN MUSIC First Line: Discard soft nonsense in a slavish tongue PERSIAN [ORIENTAL] ECLOGUES: 1. SELIM; OR, SHEPHERD'S MORAL Poem Text First Line: Ye persian maids, attend your poet's lays Last Line: The shepherds lov'd, and selim bless'd his song. PERSIAN [ORIENTAL] ECLOGUES: 2. HASSAN; OR, THE CAMEL-DRIVER Poem Text First Line: In silent horror o'er the desert-waste Last Line: When back to schiraz' walls he bent his way. Subject(s): Iran; Persia PERSIAN [ORIENTAL] ECLOGUES: 3: ABRA; OR GEORGIAN SULTANA Poem Text First Line: In georgia's land, where tefflis' towr's are seen Last Line: And ev'ry georgian maid, like abra, lov'd! PERSIAN [ORIENTAL] ECLOGUES: 4. AGIB AND SECANDER Poem Text First Line: In fair circassia, where, to love inclin'd Last Line: Wide o'er the moon-light hills, renew'd their flight. SONG OF THE HEMPSEED First Line: Ay, scatter me well, 'tis a moist spring SONG; THE SENTIMENTS BORROWED FROM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: Young damon of the vale is dead Last Line: And o'er her lov'd-one died. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET Poem Text First Line: When phoebe form'd a wanton smile Last Line: The fabled queen of love. Subject(s): Love THE MANNERS, AN ODE Poem Text First Line: Farewell, for clearer ken design'd Last Line: To rove thy scene-full world with thee! THE PASSIONS: AN ODE FOR MUSIC Poem Text First Line: When music, heavenly maid, was young Last Line: Confirm the tales her sons relate! Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO MISS AURELIA C---R; ON HER WEEPING AT HER SISTER'S WEDDING Poem Text First Line: Cease, fair aurelia, cease to mourn Last Line: "you'll find your sister in his arms." Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives VERSES WRITTEN ON A PAPER Poem Text First Line: Ye curious hands, that hid from vulgar eyes Last Line: And grief with raven note usurp the night. Subject(s): Cakes Collins (1875-), William 1 poems available by this author MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH Poem Text First Line: On the bloody field of monmouth Last Line: Stands beside her smoking gun. Subject(s): Monmouth, Battle Of (1778); Patriotism Watterson, William Collins 5 poems available by this author EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK First Line: A bach partita builds its mansion in the air Last Line: Our notes random and serial, %predictable tough never quite to be repeated NANTUCKET FAREWELL First Line: The brown shingled house on hulbert avenue Last Line: Fool for having lost it NIGHTSCAPE WITH DOVES First Line: New snow in the clearing REX JACOBUS LUDI First Line: He enters the school room like a god Last Line: The long white finger of the sovereign points TO A YOUNG MUSEUM GUARD First Line: In blue livery unfit for a king Last Line: For a moment finds herself %like venus freezing in the foam |
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