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Author: corbet richard,
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Corbet, Richard    Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, Richard
10 poems available by this author


A PROPER NEW BALLAD [ENTITLED THE FAIRIES' FAREWELL]    Poem Text    
First Line: Farewell, rewards and fairies
Last Line: Such justices as you!
Variant Title(s): Farewell To The Fairies;the Fairies' Farewell
Subject(s): Fairies; Farewell; Elves; Parting


COUNTRY DREAMS       
First Line: The damask meadows and the crawling streams
Variant Title(s): Dream


DISTRACTED PURITAN    Poem Text    
First Line: Am I mad, o noble festus
Last Line: Come hear me pray nine times a daqy, %and fill your heads with crotchets
Subject(s): Puritans


GREAT TOM       
First Line: Be dumb ye infant chimes, thump not the metal


HUNDREDTH PSALM (PSALM 100)       
First Line: All people that on earth do dwell


LIKE TO THE THUNDERING TONE OF UNSPOKE SPEECHES       


ON DOCTOR DONNE    Poem Text    
First Line: Hee that would write an epitaph for thee
Last Line: He must be dead first, let'it alone for mee.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets


ON MR. FRANCIS BEAUMONT (THEN NEWLY DEAD)    Poem Text    
First Line: He that hath such acuteness, and such wit
Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Death; Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights


TO HIS SON, VINCENT CORBET, ON HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY    Poem Text    
First Line: What I shall leave thee none can tell
Last Line: As innocent as now thou art.
Variant Title(s): A Father's Blessing
Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood


UPON FAIRFORD WINDOWS       
First Line: Tell me, you anti-saints, why glass
Last Line: The inside, dross, the outside, saint
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Art And Artists; Churches; Windows