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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: davies, john Matches Found: 203 Davies (1565-1618), John Alternate Author Name(s): Welsh Poet; Davies Of Hereford, John 9 poems available by this author ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT ALL THE GOOD WE LOVE Poem Text First Line: Although we do not all the good we love, Last Line: Is love that burns, but burns like painted fire. BUTTERED PIPPIN-PIES Poem Text First Line: If there were, oh! An hellespont of cream Last Line: Which having found, if they tobacco kept, %the smoke should dry me well before I slept Variant Title(s): The Author Loving These Homely Meats Specially, Viz.: Cream, Pancakes Subject(s): Food And Eating GULLING SONNETS: AS WHEN THE BRIGHT CERULIAN FIRMAMENT Last Line: One scurvy thought infecteth all the rest ORCHESTRA OR A POEM OF DANCING (EXCERPT) First Line: Where lives the man that never yet did hear Last Line: Your better parts must dance with them forever REMEMBRANCE OF MY FRIEND MR. THOMAS MORLEY First Line: Death hath deprived me of my dearest friend Last Line: That nature wrought must unto dust be brought SOME BLAZE THE PRECIOUS BEAUTIES OF THEIR LOVES Poem Text First Line: Some blaze the precious beauties of their loves Last Line: So say, she is, and wond'ring owe the rest. TO MY BROWNE, YET BRIGHTEST SWAIN / THAT WOONS, OR ... PLAIN Poem Text First Line: Pipe on, sweet swain, till joy, in bliss, sleep waking Last Line: Dum carmen gratulatorium. Subject(s): Browne, William (1591-1645) TO OUR ENGLISH TERENCE, MR. WILL. SHAKESPEARE First Line: Some say, good will, (which I in sport sing) Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) WIT'S PILGRIMAGE, SELS. Davies (1569-1626), John 133 poems available by this author ALLUSION TO THESEUS VOYAGE TO CRETE Poem Text First Line: My love is sail'd against dislike to fight CANZONET First Line: Praise, pleasure, profite, is that threefold band CHARLES HIS WAINE First Line: Brittaine doth under those bright starres remaine CONTENTION BETWEEN FOUR MAIDS CONCERNING ... ADDED MOST PERFECTION Poem Text First Line: Our fairest garland, made of beauty's flowers Last Line: If not, she 's rich because she is content. Subject(s): Perfection; Virtue; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes CONTENTION BETWIXT A WIFE, A WIDOW, AND A MAID First Line: Widow, well met; whither go you today Subject(s): Marriage; Widows And Widowers DANCE OF LOVE First Line: This is true love, by that true cupid got DANCING First Line: Of all their ways I love meander's path Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers DANCING OF THE AIR First Line: For that brave sun the father of the day Variant Title(s): Antinous Praises Dancing Before Queen Penelop Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers DRESSING CUPID First Line: The sacred muse that firste made love devine Last Line: And socks of sullennes excedinge sweete Variant Title(s): Gulling Sonne ELEGIE CALL EPISTLE ON SIR JOHN DAVIS DEATH First Line: Morgan! To call thee sadd and discontente ELEGY IN PRAISE OF MARRIAGE, SELS. First Line: When the first man from paradise was driven ENTERTAINMENT OF Q. ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD First Line: Why, how now, joane! Are you heere? EPIGRAM First Line: He that doth ask st. James they say, shall speed EPIGRAM: AD MUSAM First Line: Fly, merry muse unto that merry towne EPIGRAM: AS MUSAM First Line: Peace, idle muse, have done! For it is time EPIGRAM: HEALTH First Line: Health is a jewel true, which when we buy EPIGRAM: IN AFRAM First Line: The smell-feast afer, trauailes to the burse EPIGRAM: IN AMOROSUM First Line: A wife you wisht me (sir) rich, fair and young EPIGRAM: IN BRUNUM First Line: Brunus, which deems himselfe a faire sweet youth EPIGRAM: IN CASTOREM First Line: Of speaking well why doe we learne the skill EPIGRAM: IN CINEAM (1) First Line: Thou dogged cineas, hated like a dogge EPIGRAM: IN CINEAM (2) First Line: When cineas comes amoungst his friends in morning EPIGRAM: IN CIPRUM First Line: The fine young ciprius is more tierse and neate EPIGRAM: IN COSMUM First Line: Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head EPIGRAM: IN CRASSUM First Line: Crassus his lyes are not pernicious lyes EPIGRAM: IN DACUM First Line: Dacus with some good colour and pretence EPIGRAM: IN DACUM First Line: Amongst the poets dacus numbred is EPIGRAM: IN DECIUM First Line: Audacious painters have nine worthies made EPIGRAM: IN FASTUM First Line: That youth,' saith faustus, 'hath a lyon seene' EPIGRAM: IN FAUSTUM First Line: Faustus, nor lord, nor knight, nor wise, nor old EPIGRAM: IN FLACCUM First Line: The false knave flaccus one a bribe I gave EPIGRAM: IN FRANCUM First Line: When francus comes to solace with his whore Last Line: I envy him not, but wish I had the power %to make myself his wench but one half hour Variant Title(s): Francu Subject(s): Erotic Love EPIGRAM: IN FUSCUM First Line: Fuscus is free, and hath the world at will EPIGRAM: IN GALLUM First Line: Gallas hath beene this summer-time in friesland EPIGRAM: IN GELLAM First Line: If gella's beauty be examined EPIGRAM: IN GELLAM First Line: Gella, if thou dost love thy selfe, take heed EPIGRAM: IN GERONTEM First Line: Geron's mouldy memory corrects EPIGRAM: IN HAYWODUM First Line: Haywood, that did in epigrams excell EPIGRAM: IN KATUM First Line: Kate being pleased wisht that her pleasure could EPIGRAM: IN LEUCAM First Line: Leuca, in presense, once, a fart did let EPIGRAM: IN LIBRUM First Line: Liber doth vaunt how chastly he hath liv'd EPIGRAM: IN LICUM First Line: Lycus, which lately is to venice gone EPIGRAM: IN MACRUM First Line: Thou canst not speake yet, macer, for to speake EPIGRAM: IN MARCUM First Line: Why dost thou, marcus, in thy misery EPIGRAM: IN MARCUM First Line: When marcus comes from minnes, hee still doth sweare EPIGRAM: IN MEDONTEM First Line: Great captaine maedon weares a chaine of gold EPIGRAM: IN PAULUM First Line: By lawful mart, and by unlawful stealth EPIGRAM: IN PHILONEM First Line: Philo the lawyer and the fortune-teller EPIGRAM: IN PLURIMOS First Line: Faustinus, sextus, cinnae, ponticus EPIGRAM: IN PRISCUMJ First Line: When priscus, rais'd from low to high estate EPIGRAM: IN PUBLIUM First Line: Publius student at the common-law EPIGRAM: IN QUINTUM First Line: Quintus his wit infused into his brain EPIGRAM: IN QUINTUM First Line: Quintus the dancer useth evermore EPIGRAM: IN RUFFUM First Line: Rufus the courtier at the theatre EPIGRAM: IN SEPTIMIUM First Line: Septimus lives, and is like garlick seene EPIGRAM: IN SEVERUM First Line: The puritan severus oft doth read EPIGRAM: IN SILLAM (1) First Line: Who dares affirme that silla dare not fight? EPIGRAM: IN SILLAM (2) First Line: When I this proposition had defended EPIGRAM: IN SUPERBIAM First Line: I tooke the wall, one thrust me rudely by EPIGRAM: IN SYLLAM First Line: Sylla is often challenged to the field EPIGRAM: IN TITAM First Line: Titas, the brave and valorous young gallant EPIGRAM: MEDITATIONS OF A GULL First Line: See, yonder melancholy gentleman EPIGRAM: OF A GULL First Line: Oft in my laughing rimes, I name a gull EPIGRAM: OF TOBACCO First Line: Homer, of moly and nepenthe sings EPIGRAM: SNOW, 9, CROW First Line: I think that the winter's daughter am EPIGRAM: WESTMINSTER First Line: Westminster is a mill that grinds all causes EPIGRAMS; PHILO THE GENTLEMAN, THE FORTUNE TELLER Last Line: And philo to such patients giveth physic EPIGRAMS; TITUS THE BRAVE AND VALOROUS GALLANT Last Line: He hath been in the counter all this while GULLING SONNETS: WHAT EAGLE CAN BEHOLD HER SUNBRIGHT EYE Last Line: That honour you, and never were his foes GULLING SONNETS: 1 First Line: The lover under burden of his mistress' live Last Line: By their decree he soon transformed was %into a patient burden-bearing ass GULLING SONNETS: 2 First Line: As when ye brighte cerulian firmament GULLING SONNETS: 3 First Line: What eagle can behould her funbrighte eye GULLING SONNETS: 4 First Line: The hardness of her heart and truth of mine Last Line: And to put out with snuffers of her pride %the lamp of love which else had never died GULLING SONNETS: 5 First Line: Mine eye, mine ear, my will, my wit, my heart Last Line: So that my heart, my wit, will, ear, and eye %doth grieve, lament, sorrow, despair and die GULLING SONNETS: 6 First Line: The sacred muse that first made love divine GULLING SONNETS: 7 First Line: Into the midle temple of my harte GULLING SONNETS: 8 First Line: My case is this, I love zepheria bright Last Line: Then which the law affords I only crave %her heart for mine in withernam to have GULLING SONNETS: 9 First Line: To love my lord I doe knightes feruice owe GULLING [GULLINGE] SONNETS, SELS. HYMN 21. OF THE INNUMERABLE VIRTUES OF HER MINDE First Line: Ere thou proceed in this sweet paines HYMNES TO ASTRAEA, SELS. Variant Title(s): Hymnes Of Astraea, In Acrosticke Vers KINGES WELCOME First Line: O now or never, gentle muse, be gaye LOVE ELEGIE, SELS. First Line: But those impressions by this forme are staynde LOVE-FLIGHT First Line: Black mayel, complayne not yet I flye LOVE-LINES First Line: Stay lovely boy! Why flyest thou mee LUCINDA VIS OCULOS TENERI PERSTRINXIT AMANTIS MARINER'S SONG First Line: Cynthia, queen of seas and lands Variant Title(s): The Lotter MINE EYE, MYNE EARE, MY WILL, MY WITT, MY HARTE First Line: Mine eye, myne eare, my will, my witt, my harte, Last Line: Doth greive, lament, sorrowe, dispaire and dye. MIRA LOQUOR SOL OCCUBUIT NOX NULLA SECUTA EST First Line: By that eclipse which darkned our appollo MUSE REVIVING First Line: Like as the divers-fretchled butterfly Variant Title(s): Elegies Of Lov NOSCE TEIPSUM, SELS. NOSCE TEIPSUM: AFFLICTION Poem Text First Line: If aught can teach us aught, affliction's looks Last Line: Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing. Subject(s): Affliction NOSCE TEIPSUM: DEDICATION 1. TO QUEEN ELIZABETH First Line: To that clear majesty which in the north Variant Title(s): To My Most Gracious Dread Soveraign Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 NOSCE TEIPSUM: DEDICATION 2. TO PRINCE HENRY First Line: The strongest and the noblest argument NOSCE TEIPSUM: IN WHAT MANNER THE SOULE IS UNITED TO THE BODY First Line: But how shall we this union well express? Last Line: So from th' eternall light the soule doth spring, %though in the body she her powers doe show Variant Title(s): The Soul And The Bod NOSCE TEIPSUM: OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE First Line: Why did my parents send me to the schools Last Line: Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing Variant Title(s): The Folly Of Knowledge; Man (1 Subject(s): Knowledge NOSCE TEIPSUM: WHICH IS A PROUD, AND YET A WRETCHED THING Poem Text First Line: I know my body's of so frail a kind Last Line: Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing. Variant Title(s): A Proud And Yet A Wretched Thing Subject(s): Bodies; Self OF FAITH THE FIRST THEOLOGICALL VERTUE First Line: Faith is a sunbeame of th' aeternall light OF HIS MISTRESSE SICKNESS AND RECOVERY,FR.SONETS TO PHILOMEL First Line: Pale death himselfe did love my philomell OF THE NAME OF CHAROLUS, BEING THE DIMINATIVE OF CHARUS First Line: The name of charles, darlinge signifies OF THE SOUL OF MAN AND THE IMMORTALITY THEREOF First Line: The lights of heav'n (which are the world's fair eies) ON A PAIR OF GARTERS First Line: Go, lovely wood-bine, clip with lovely grace Subject(s): Garters ON THE DEATH OF LORD CHANCELLOR ELLESMERE'S SECOND WIFE First Line: You, in that judgement passion never show ORCHESTRA; A POEM OF DANCING: DEDICATION 1. TO RICHARD MARTIN First Line: To whom shall I this dancing poem send ORCHESTRA; A POEM OF DANCING: DEDICATION 2. TO THE PRINCE First Line: Sir, whatsoever you are pleas'd to do ORCHESTRA; A POEM OF DANCING: STANZA 1 First Line: Where lives the man that never yet did heare Last Line: And ten yeere in the midland-sea did stray ORCHESTRA; A POEM OF DANCING: STANZA 2 First Line: Homer, to whom the muses did carouse Last Line: Became the welspring of all poetry ORCHESTRA; A POEM OF DANCING: STANZA 3 First Line: Homer doth tell in his aboundant verse Last Line: That neptune monsters had his carcasse torne ORCHESTRA; A POEM OF DANCING: STANZA 4 First Line: All this he tells, but one thing he forgot Last Line: A sweeter burden for his muses wings ORCHESTRA; A POEM OF DANCING: STANZA 5 First Line: The courtly love antinous did make Last Line: Homer forgot as if it had not beene ORCHESTRA; A POEM OF DANCING: STANZA 6 First Line: Sing then his terpsichore, my light muse sing Last Line: To my rude eare doth yield the sweetest sound REASON'S MOANE First Line: When I peruse heaven's auncient written storie SONNETS TO PHILOMEL, SELS. SONNETS TO PHILOMEL: 1 First Line: Oft did I hear our eyes the passage were SONNETS TO PHILOMEL: 2 First Line: Sickness, intending my love to betray SONNETS TO PHILOMEL: 3 First Line: Once did my philomel reflect on me Variant Title(s): Upon Her Looking Secretl SONNETS TO PHILOMEL: 4 First Line: If you would know the love which I you bear Last Line: And yet increaseth in the purifying. Variant Title(s): If You Would Know The Love Which I You Bea SOUL First Line: Again, low can she but immortal be SOUL COMPARED TO A VIRGIN WOOED IN MARRIAGE First Line: As a king's daughter, being in person sought THE DANCING OF THE AIR Poem Text First Line: And now behold your tender nurse, the air Last Line: As two at once encumber not the place. Subject(s): Air; Nature TITYRUS TO HIS FAIRE PHILLIS First Line: The silly swaine whose love breedes discontent TO FAIRE LADYES First Line: Ladyes of founthill, I am come to seeke TO GEORGE CHAPMAN ON HIS OVID First Line: Onely that eye which for true love doth weepe Subject(s): Chapman, George (1559-1634); Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.) TO HIS GOOD FRIEND SIR ANTH. COOKE First Line: Here my camelion muse her selfe doth chaunge TO HIS LADY First Line: In this sweet book, the treasury of wit TO THE KINGE First Line: O now or never, gentle muse, be gaye TO THE QUEEN First Line: What musicke shall we make to you? TO THE QUEEN AT THE SAME TIME First Line: If wee in peace had not received the king UPON A COFFIN BY S.J.D First Line: There was a man bespake a thing VERSES SENT TO THE KING WITH FIGGES First Line: To add unto the first man's happiness VISITORS First Line: Whiles in my soul I feel the soft warm hand WHAT IS THIS KNOWLEDGE? FR. NOSCE TEIPSUM Subject(s): Knowledge YET OTHER TWELVE WONDERS OF THE WORLD First Line: Long have I liv'd in court, yet learn'd not all this while Davies, John+(3) 58 poems available by this author AT CARVER'S PLACE First Line: Mouth open Last Line: You chose right, guessed wrong BEACH First Line: My son: eight years old so he ran BIKERS First Line: At the village with no car park Last Line: Fill roaring with yourself BIOGRAPHY First Line: Larkin was here Last Line: Sang him has let him be %song only BLUEGRASS First Line: A foggy mountain breakthrough, sun's all-change Last Line: Sky-blueness and grassgreen BORROWING THE MAUSER First Line: Let's shoot, he says Last Line: The sun to small bright pieces BRAVEHEART First Line: Stranded in middle age Last Line: I'd find a bullfighter's cape CASTING First Line: Past the weir where steelwater Last Line: Netted, bulging with this hour CAVE First Line: It seems, with pools broken open silver Last Line: The one cave world and you are in its mouth CHARLES TUNNICLIFFE First Line: The last white of day is brushed through dark Last Line: Up to the point where art leaves information behind CLIMBING WITH THE WRONG PERSON First Line: Greenscapes terminally beautiful wince Last Line: Miles, the burial mound at tomen-y-mur COTTONWOOD WALTZ First Line: They held dances at the schoolhouse Last Line: Someone would know who DISAPPEARED First Line: Montgomery place commands Last Line: Verbs, the made-to-disappear DRIVING THE PROVO RIVER First Line: Leaving the car, horn bellowing Last Line: Now the lights come on like lights Subject(s): Mormons EMPTYING THE LAKE First Line: You row the lake again Last Line: It turns mainland overnight FARMLAND First Line: Inland from the english-speaking sea Last Line: And gulls guarding clutches of pebbles %turned into people briefly then flew off FLIGHT PATTERNS First Line: Off route 101 near spanaway your father's duck farm FOOTPRINTS First Line: O.S. Maps are fine except in forestry Last Line: And times takes a lot of ignorance FOR THE WELSH MORMONS First Line: Roads under snapped peaks have eased us Last Line: Changing and not changing to stay intact Subject(s): Mormons GOLD First Line: Whatever the place is called Last Line: Dirt roads assay their worth IN PORT TALBOT First Line: By now it's like returning to a foreign town, especially Last Line: Then old south wales will have to start a new. Meanwhile %reverberations still, slow leavings, long JOB First Line: Floundering at low tide Last Line: Then left it wide open LEANING TREE First Line: It's the annual welsh play and our daughter has a line LIFT THAT First Line: Tonight I thought of the old man, seventy Last Line: Him. It was him. Then I replaced it LORD PENSLATE'S CASTLE First Line: From a mile off, his quarries emptied Last Line: That will not settle MISSIONARIES First Line: Past drifts of shoppers Last Line: Keen in the unblinking dark MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS First Line: These whirled nights, slate Last Line: Climate everyone's the weather MR. ROBERTS First Line: A city rigged with mountains Last Line: House, his tunnel with one chair MY BROTHER KEEPS MOVING First Line: And sometimes I catch up Last Line: Hovering, he raised his rod %took aim NEWS FROM TOKYO First Line: I stayed with my brother in new york Last Line: If we remembered what they were POET ON TOUR First Line: As if in some cupboard he's found Last Line: Always, the slow death of his poems PORTMEIRION First Line: Cloud has new domes to deliver Last Line: Brought in for once, not shipped out QUARRY First Line: Out on the ridge Last Line: Someone had scrawled 'wrong' R. S. THOMAS First Line: Some comfortable harbour, say Last Line: Is new land opened RAY'S BIRDS First Line: Lunchtime, the way he tells it Last Line: Don't tell him I told you this READING THE COUNTRY, SELS. REGROUPING First Line: As a boy joe washington had cigarettes Last Line: As though inside might be someone or %something I'd half-known and lost RIDERS, WALKERS First Line: Damp, cold, dust? They were for the pack Last Line: Of art, shown to an antechamber, in an unfree state SEA, HEADLAND, CLOUDS First Line: I stayed with my aunt Last Line: Flags semaphoring green SHERIFF First Line: When silver was found, a few of the boys Last Line: By the moment's shine that lit you also SHORT HISTORY OF THE NORTH WALES COAST First Line: All right, agreed, just a low shelf Last Line: Has started up the porrot school SILTING First Line: Is going on, you can tell Last Line: Wrong angle, south from middle age SOURCES First Line: Sometime I'd like to go to crisfield, maryland Last Line: Sometime I'd like to see lake edward STARTING PLACE First Line: Where you started from didn't stop because you left SUNDAY FISHING First Line: Dunes strumming high thin rhythms TALACRE'S BIG SLEEP First Line: It's january Last Line: What can you say %'arrest the rain'? UNDERGROUND STORE First Line: Near the swansea mine, in foothills Last Line: Still from the underground store VIEWS FROM THE WORKSHED: 1 First Line: Quick. A squirrel Last Line: Before it is a skylark VIEWS FROM THE WORKSHED: 2 First Line: Beyond trees: rooftopple Last Line: Then it's start again VIEWS FROM THE WORKSHED: 3 First Line: And another Last Line: And won't sink lower VIEWS FROM THE WORKSHED: 4 First Line: I think of wendell gilley Last Line: His barn owl, you were looking up VIEWS FROM THE WORKSHED: 5 First Line: The wasatch whittlers' annual bash was packed Last Line: And persp- anyway, it never added up VIEWS FROM THE WORKSHED: 6 First Line: The sky is blank paper Last Line: By my screwed-down branch %might do VIEWS FROM THE WORKSHED: 7 First Line: Lots of ways, yes Last Line: Overall %carving's easier VISITOR'S BOOK, SELS. WALKING THE LINE First Line: From one tie to another Last Line: Fresh, and working WHAT DOESN'T END WHEN THE YEAR BEGINS First Line: It's over, the goodwill season, and even Last Line: Been crushed into one small part of the country %white and only once this once Subject(s): Mormons WHERE YOU ARE First Line: What to do with slate or life but shape it Last Line: Is dark. I wish you multitudes of green Davies, John+(4) 3 poems available by this author SAY HELLO TO PHOENIX: 1 First Line: Our lights beat their white wings Last Line: Now the moon is newcomer too, hello %moon I am from ho chi minh city SAY HELLO TO PHOENIX: 2 First Line: My niece is a bird, get up Last Line: Red like the car. %I said no and walked away SAY HELLO TO PHOENIX: 3 First Line: I think going measures what returning Last Line: But hummingbirds spin and I praise this other %life that flies through to outlast us |
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