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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: donne, john Matches Found: 269 Donne, John Poet's Biography 269 poems available by this author A FEVER Poem Text First Line: Oh do not die, for I shall hate / all women so, when thou art gone Last Line: Of thee one hour, than all else ever. Variant Title(s): A Feaver Subject(s): Death; Love; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness A HYMN TO CHRIST, AT THE AUTHOR'S LAST GOING INTO GERMANY Poem Text First Line: In what torn ship soever I embark Last Line: An everlasting night. Subject(s): Sea Voyages A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun Last Line: I fear no more. Variant Title(s): For Forgiveness;to Christ Subject(s): Forgiveness; Prayer; Religion; Remorse; Repentance; Clemency; Theology; Penitence A JET RING SENT Poem Text First Line: Thou art not so black, as my heart Last Line: She that, oh, broke her faith, would soon breake thee. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces A LECTURE UPON THE SHADOW Poem Text First Line: Stand still, and I will read to thee Last Line: And his first minute, after noone, is night. Subject(s): Shadows; Sun A LETTER TO THE LADY CAREY, AND MRS. ESSEX RICHE, FROM AMYENS Poem Text First Line: Madame, / here which by all all saints invoked are Last Line: He that beleeves himselfe, doth never lie. A NOCTURNAL UPON ST. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY Poem Text First Line: Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's Last Line: Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is. Variant Title(s): A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, Being The Shortest Day Subject(s): December; Holidays; Light; Mourning; New Year; Winter; Bereavement A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING Poem Text First Line: As virtuous men pass mildly away Last Line: And makes me end, where I begun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mourning; Death - Babies; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A VALEDICTION: OF MY NAME IN THE WINDOW Poem Text First Line: My name engraved herein Last Line: For dying men talke often so. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy A VALEDICTION: OF THE BOOKE Poem Text First Line: I'll tell thee now (deare love) what thou shalt do Last Line: But to marke when, and where the darke eclipses bee? Subject(s): Books; Reading A VALEDICTION: OF WEEPING Poem Text First Line: Let me pour forth / my tears before thy face, whilst I stay here Last Line: Whoe'er sighs most, is cruellest, and hastes the other's death. Subject(s): Tears ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: Absence, hear thou my protestation Last Line: And so enjoy her and none miss her. Variant Title(s): That Time And Absence Proves Rather Helps Than Hurts To Love Subject(s): Absence; Love; Time; Separation; Isolation AIR [AIRE] AND ANGELS Poem Text First Line: Twice or thrice had I loved thee Last Line: Twixt womens love, and means will ever bee. Variant Title(s): The Idea Realised AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: When that rich soule which to her heaven is gone Last Line: The grave keepes bodies, verse the fame enroules. Variant Title(s): To The Praise Of The Dead Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth; Earth; Science; World; Scientists AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY. A FUNERALL ELEGIE Poem Text First Line: Tis lost, to trust a tombe with such a guest Last Line: To see how well the good play her, on earth. Variant Title(s): A Funeral Elegy Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth; Funerals; Burials AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: Nothing could make me sooner to confesse Last Line: The trumpet, at whose voyce the people came. Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth; Earth; World AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF THE LADY MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: Man is the world, and death the ocean Last Line: Of such a prey, and to his tryumph adde. Variant Title(s): Elegy On The Lady Markham AN EPITHALAMION, OR MARRIAGE SONG .. LADY ELIZABETH AND COUNT PALATINE Poem Text First Line: Haile bishop valentine, whose day this is Last Line: Till which houre, wee thy day enlarge, o valentine. Variant Title(s): An Epithalamion, Or Marriage Song On Lady Elizabeth Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium AN HYMN TO THE SAINTS, AND TO MARQUESSE HAMYLTON Poem Text First Line: Whether that soule which now comes up to you Last Line: Wish him a david, her a magdalen. BREAK OF DAY Poem Text First Line: Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? Last Line: Such wrong, as when a maryed man doth wooe. Subject(s): Day; Love COMMUNITY Poem Text First Line: Good we must love, and must hate ill Last Line: Who doth not fling away the shell? CONFINED LOVE Poem Text First Line: Some man unworthy to be possessor / of old or new love Last Line: But doth wast with greedinesse. ECLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Unseasonable man, statue of ice Last Line: I did unto that day some sacrifice. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium ELEGIE Poem Text First Line: Death be not proud, thy hand gave not this blow Last Line: The grave no conquest gets, death hath no sting. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The ELEGIE ON MISTRESS BOULSTRED Poem Text First Line: Death I recant, and say, unsaid by me Last Line: Because the chain is broke, though no link lost. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGIE ON THE L.C Poem Text First Line: Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way Last Line: He, and about him, his, are turn'd to stone. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 8. On Sir Thomas Egerton ELEGIE UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF INCOMPARABLE PRINCE HENRY Poem Text First Line: Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, god Last Line: I were an angell, singing what you were. ELEGIE: DEATH Poem Text First Line: Language thou art too narrow, and too weake Last Line: Of griefe, for all would waste a stoicks heart. Variant Title(s): An Elegy Upon The Death Of Mistress Bulstrode ELEGY ON DEATH, SELS. First Line: The ravenous earth that now wooes her to be Subject(s): Winter ELEGY ON MISS ELIZABETH DRURY First Line: She of whose soul, if we may say Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth ELEGY: 1. JEALOUSY Poem Text First Line: Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die Last Line: Do londons major; or germans, the popes pride. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 3. Jealousy Subject(s): Jealousy ELEGY: 10. THE DREAME Poem Text First Line: Image of her whom I love, more than she Last Line: Mad with much heart, then ideott with none. Variant Title(s): The Dream (image Of Her) Subject(s): Sleep ELEGY: 11. THE BRACELET; UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESS'S CHAIN Poem Text First Line: Not that in colour it was like thy haire Last Line: Because 'tis cordiall, would twere at thy heart. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 1. The Bracelet Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy ELEGY: 12. HIS PARTING FROM HER Poem Text First Line: Since she must go, and I must mourn, come night Last Line: As I will never look for less in you. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ELEGY: 13. JULIA Poem Text First Line: Harke newes, o envy, thou shalt heare descry'd Last Line: No poyson's halfe so bad as julia. ELEGY: 14. A TALE OF A CITIZEN AND HIS WIFE Poem Text First Line: I sing no harme good sooth to any wight Last Line: But his kinde wife gave me the very signe. ELEGY: 15. THE EXPOSTULATION Poem Text First Line: To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true Last Line: For though 'tis got by chance, 'tis kept by art. ELEGY: 16. ON HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: By our first strange and fatal interview Last Line: Thinke it enough for me to'have had thy love. Variant Title(s): Elegy On His Mistress;elegie: On His Mistris;love Elegies: Elegy 11. On His Mistress;to His Mistress Desiring To Travel With Him As His Page Subject(s): Love ELEGY: 17. VARIETY Poem Text First Line: The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Last Line: Wee'l love her ever, and love her alone. ELEGY: 18. LOVES PROGRESS Poem Text First Line: Who ever loves, if he do not propose Last Line: As who by clyster gave the stomack meat. Variant Title(s): Love's Elegies: Elegy 13, Love's Progress Subject(s): Sex ELEGY: 19. TO HIS MISTRESS GOING TO BED Poem Text First Line: Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy Last Line: What needst thou have more covering then a man. Variant Title(s): Going To Bed;love Elegies: Elegy 2. To His Mistress Going To Bed;elegy: 19. Going To Bed Subject(s): Love - Erotic ELEGY: 2. THE ANAGRAM Poem Text First Line: Marry, and love thy flavia, for, shee Last Line: For, things in fashion every man will weare. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 4. The Anagram ELEGY: 20. LOVES WARR Poem Text First Line: Till I have peace with thee, war other men Last Line: More glorious service, staying to make men? Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 10. Love's War ELEGY: 3. CHANGE Poem Text First Line: Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too Last Line: Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 5. Change Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy ELEGY: 4. THE PERFUME Poem Text First Line: Once, and but once found in thy company Last Line: To'embalme thy fathers corse; what? Will hee die? Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 6. The Perfume ELEGY: 5. HIS PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Here take my picture; though I bid farewell Last Line: To feed on that, which to disused tasts seemes tough. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 7. His Picture ELEGY: 6 Poem Text First Line: Oh, let me not serve so, as those men serve Last Line: What hurts it mee to be'excommunicate? Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 9 ELEGY: 7 Poem Text First Line: Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love Last Line: And leave him then, being made a ready horse? ELEGY: 8. THE COMPARISON Poem Text First Line: As the sweet sweat of roses in a still Last Line: She, and comparisons are odious. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 14. The Comparison ELEGY: 9. THE AUTUMNAL [BEAUTY] Poem Text First Line: No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace Last Line: I shall ebbe out with them, who home-ward goe. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 15. The Autumnal Subject(s): Love EPIGRAM: A BURNT SHIP Poem Text First Line: Out of a fired ship, which, by no way Last Line: They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd. Subject(s): War EPIGRAM: A LAME BEGGAR Poem Text First Line: I am unable, yonder begger cries Last Line: To stand, or move; if he say true, hee lies. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars EPIGRAM: A LICENTIOUS PERSON Poem Text First Line: Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call Last Line: For, as thy sinnes increase, thy haires doe fall. EPIGRAM: A SELFE ACCUSER Poem Text First Line: Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you Last Line: Tis strange that she should thus confesse it, though'it be true. EPIGRAM: AN OBSCURE WRITER Poem Text First Line: Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd Last Line: To be understood; when will hee be beleev'd? EPIGRAM: ANTIQUARY Poem Text First Line: If in his studie he hath so much care Last Line: To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware. Subject(s): Antiques EPIGRAM: CALES AND GUYANA Poem Text First Line: If you from spoyle of th' old worlds farthest end Last Line: That one things end doth still beginne a new. EPIGRAM: DISINHERITED Poem Text First Line: Thy father all from thee, by his last will Last Line: Gave to the poore; thou hast good title still. EPIGRAM: FALL OF A WALL Poem Text First Line: Under an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall Last Line: That had a towne for tombe, his bones to hide. EPIGRAM: HERO AND LEANDER Poem Text First Line: Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground Last Line: Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drownd. Variant Title(s): Epigrams: Hero And Leander Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander EPIGRAM: KLOCKIUS Poem Text First Line: Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come Last Line: In bawdie house, that hee dares not goe home. EPIGRAM: MERCURIUS GALLO-BELGICUS Poem Text First Line: Like aesop's fellow-slaves, o mercury Last Line: Mercury in stealing, but lyest like a greeke. EPIGRAM: NIOBE Poem Text First Line: By childrens births, and death, I am become Last Line: So dry, that I am now mine owne sad tombe. Subject(s): Niobe EPIGRAM: PHYRNE Poem Text First Line: Thy flattering picture, phryne, is like thee Last Line: Onely in this, that you both painted be. EPIGRAM: PYRAMUS AND THISBE Poem Text First Line: Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare Last Line: Slaine, cruell friends, by parting have joyn'd here. EPIGRAM: RADERUS Poem Text First Line: Why this man gelded martiall I muse Last Line: As katherine, for the courts sake, put downe stewes. EPIGRAM: RALPHIUS Poem Text First Line: Compassion in the world againe is bred Last Line: Ralphius is sick, the broker keeps his bed. Subject(s): Compassion EPIGRAM: SIR JOHN WINGEFIELD Poem Text First Line: Beyond th' old pillers many have travelled Last Line: Farther then wingefield no man dares to goe. EPIGRAM: THE JUGGLER First Line: Thou call'st me effeminate, for I love women's joys Last Line: I call not thee manly, though thou follow boys EPIGRAM: THE LIER Poem Text First Line: Thou in the fields walk'st out thy supping hours Last Line: A sallet worse then spanish dieting. EPISTLE First Line: Others at the porches and entries of EPITAPH ON HIMSELF: TO THE COUNTESS OF BEDFORD Poem Text First Line: Madam, that I might make your cabinet my tomb Last Line: A last-sick hour to syllables allow. EPITAPH TO THE PORTRAIT OF DONNE IN HIS SHROUD First Line: Corporis haec animae sit syndon, syndon jesu EPITHALAMION MADE AT LINCOLNES INNE Poem Text First Line: The sun-beames in the east are spread Last Line: To night puts on perfection, and a womans name. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love EPITHALAMION: 1. THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: Thou art repriv'd old yeare, thou shalt not die Last Line: The fire of these inflaming eyes, or of this loving heart. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION: 10. THE BRIDEGROOMES COMMING Poem Text First Line: As he that sees a starre fall, runs apace Last Line: As freely, as each to each before, gave either eye or heart. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION: 11. THE GOOD NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Now, as in tullias tombe, one lampe burnt cleare Last Line: Such altars, as prize your devotion. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION: 2. EQUALITY OF PERSONS Poem Text First Line: But undiscerning muse, which heart, which eyes Last Line: Since both have both th'enflaming eyes, and both the loving heart. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION: 3. RAYSING OF THE BRIDEGROOM Poem Text First Line: Though it be some divorce to thinke of you Last Line: The fire of thy inflaming eyes, and of thy loving heart. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION: 4. RAYSING OF THE BRIDE Poem Text First Line: But now, to thee, faire bride, it is some wrong Last Line: To us that come, thy inflaming eyes, to him, thy loving heart. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION: 5. HER APPARRELLING Poem Text First Line: Thus thou descend'st to our infirmitie Last Line: Which thy inflaming eyes have made within his loving heart. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION: 6. GOING TO THE CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Now from your easts you issue forth, and wee Last Line: All blessings, which are seene, or thought, by angels eye or heart. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION: 7. THE BENEDICITON Poem Text First Line: Blest payre of swans, oh may you interbring Last Line: With any west, these radiant eyes, with any north, this heart. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION: 8. FEASTS AND REVELLS Poem Text First Line: But you are over-blest. Plenty this day Last Line: A sunset to these weary eyes, a center to this heart. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EPITHALAMION: 9. THE BRIDES GOING TO BED Poem Text First Line: What mean'st thou bride, this companie to keep Last Line: Thou leav'st in him thy watchfull eyes, in him thy loving heart. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium FAREWELL TO LOVE Poem Text First Line: Whilst yet to prove Last Line: And his first minute, after noone, is night. Subject(s): Love FAREWELL, YE GUILDED FOLLIES FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Poem Text First Line: Any man's death diminishes me Last Line: It tolls for thee. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race FORGET GOOD FRIDAY, 1613. RIDING WESTWARD Poem Text First Line: Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this Last Line: That thou mayest know me, and I'll turn my face. Subject(s): Bible; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Religion; Theology HENRICO WOTTONI IN HIBERNIA BELLIGERANTI Poem Text First Line: Went you to conquer? And have so much lost Last Line: Nor such as from the brayne come, but the hart. Subject(s): Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639) HEROICALL EPISTLE: SAPHO TO PHILAENIS Poem Text First Line: Where is that holy fire, which verse is said Last Line: As thou by comming neere, keep'st them from me. Variant Title(s): Sappho To Philaenis HOLY SONNET: 1 Poem Text First Line: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay? Last Line: And thou like adamant draw mine iron heart. Variant Title(s): "god;holy Sonnet: 174;holy Sonnets: 13;from Divine Meditations: Sonnet I;""thou Hast Made Me, And Shall Thy Work Decay?""; Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Dead, The HOLY SONNET: 10 Poem Text First Line: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Last Line: And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. Variant Title(s): "sonnet On Death;elegie;death Rebuked;""death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee""; Subject(s): Catholics; Death; Freedom; Immortality; Religion; Social Protest; Victory; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Liberty; Theology HOLY SONNET: 11 Poem Text First Line: Spit in my face you jews, and pierce my side Last Line: Hee might be weake enough to suffer woe. Variant Title(s): To E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 7 Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jews; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Judaism HOLY SONNET: 12 Poem Text First Line: Why are we by all creatures waited on? Last Line: For us, his creatures, and his foes, hath dyed. Variant Title(s): To E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 8 HOLY SONNET: 13 Poem Text First Line: What if this present were the world's last night? Last Line: This beauteous form assures a piteous mind. Variant Title(s): "to E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 9;""what If This Present Were The World's Last Night?; HOLY SONNET: 14 Poem Text First Line: Batter my heart, three-personed god; for, you Last Line: Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. Variant Title(s): "holy Sonnet: 171;to E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 10;the Soul To Her Rescuer;""batter My Heart, Three-personed God; For, You""; Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Freedom; Salvation; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Liberty HOLY SONNET: 15 Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou love god, as he thee! Then digest Last Line: But, that god should be made like man, much more. Variant Title(s): Holy Sonnets: 11 Subject(s): Christianity HOLY SONNET: 16 Poem Text First Line: Father, part of his double interest Last Line: Is all but love; oh let this last will stand! Variant Title(s): Holy Sonnets: 12 HOLY SONNET: 17 Poem Text First Line: Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt Last Line: Lest the world, flesh, yea devil put thee out. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HOLY SONNET: 18 Poem Text First Line: Show me dear christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear Last Line: When she is embraced and open to most men. Variant Title(s): "show Me Clear Christ, Thy Spouse, So Bright And Clear""; Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Protestantism; Roman Catholics; Catholicism HOLY SONNET: 19 Poem Text First Line: Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one! Last Line: Those are my best days, when I shake with fear. Subject(s): Christianity HOLY SONNET: 2 Poem Text First Line: As due by many titles I resign Last Line: And satan hates mee, yet is loth to lose mee. Variant Title(s): Resignation And Despair;resignation To God;holy Sonnets: 1 HOLY SONNET: 3 Poem Text First Line: O might those sighes and tears return again Last Line: Th'effect and cause, the punishment and sinne. Variant Title(s): Holy Sonnets: 14 HOLY SONNET: 4 Poem Text First Line: O my black soul! Now thou art summoned Last Line: That being red, it dyes red soules to white. Variant Title(s): Holy Sonnets: 2 HOLY SONNET: 5 Poem Text First Line: I am a little world made cunningly Last Line: Of thee and thy house, which doth in eating heal. Variant Title(s): "holy Sonnets: 15;microcosm;""i Am A Little World Made Cunningly""; Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Sin; Theology HOLY SONNET: 6 Poem Text First Line: This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint Last Line: For thus I leave the world, the flesh, and devil. Variant Title(s): "holy Sonnets: 3;""this Is My Play's Last Scene, Here Heavens Appoint""; Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HOLY SONNET: 7 Poem Text Recitation First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood. Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow""; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence HOLY SONNET: 7 First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon with thy blood HOLY SONNET: 8 Poem Text First Line: If faithfull soules be alike glorifi'd Last Line: Thy true griefe, for he put it in my breast. Variant Title(s): Holy Sonnets: 16 HOLY SONNET: 9 Poem Text First Line: If poisonous [or poysonous] minerals, and if that tree Last Line: I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget. Variant Title(s): Holy Sonnet: 5 Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mercy; Clemency HOLY SONNET: ANNUNCIATION Poem Text First Line: Salvation to all that will is nigh Last Line: Immensity cloysterd in thy deare wombe. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 2. Annunciation Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology HOLY SONNET: ASCENTION Poem Text First Line: Salute the last and everlasting day Last Line: Deigne at my hands this crowne of prayer and praise. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 7. Ascension;ascension Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: CRUCIFYING Poem Text First Line: By miracles exceeding power of man Last Line: Moyst, with one drop of thy blood, my dry soule. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 5. Crucifying;crucifying Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: LA CORONA Poem Text First Line: Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise Last Line: Salvation to all that will is nigh. Variant Title(s): "la Corona: 1;the Crown;""deign At My Hands This Crown Of Prayer And Praise""; Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: NATIVITIE Poem Text First Line: Immensitie cloysterd in thy deare wombe Last Line: With his kinde mother, who partakes thy woe. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 3. Nativity;sonnet On The Nativity;nativity Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology HOLY SONNET: RESURRECTION Poem Text First Line: Moist with one drop of thy blood, my dry soul Last Line: Salute the last, and everlasting day. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 6. Resurrection Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HOLY SONNET: SATIRE 1 Poem Text First Line: Away thou fondling motley humorist Last Line: And constantly a while must keepe his bed. Variant Title(s): Satire 1. A London Street HOLY SONNET: SATIRE 2 Poem Text First Line: Sir; though (I thank god for it) I do hate Last Line: Within the vast reach of th'huge statute lawes. HOLY SONNET: SATIRE 3. ON RELIGION Poem Text First Line: Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids Last Line: Power from god claym'd, then god himselfe to trust. Variant Title(s): Satire 3. The Search For True Religion Subject(s): Christianity HOLY SONNET: SATIRE 4 Poem Text First Line: Well; I may now receive, and die. My sin Last Line: I hope, esteeme my writs canonicall. Variant Title(s): The Character Of The Bore HOLY SONNET: SATIRE 5 Poem Text First Line: Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, muse, nor they Last Line: And div'st, neare drowning, for what's vanished. HOLY SONNET: TEMPLE Poem Text First Line: With his kind mother who partakes thy woe Last Line: By miracles exceeding power of man. Variant Title(s): Jesus In The Temple;la Corona: 4. Temple;temple Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology HYMN TO GOD MY GOD, IN MY SICKNESS Poem Text First Line: Since I am coming to that holy room Last Line: Therefore that he may raise the lord throws down. Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Death; Geography; God; Sickness; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Illness IF MEN BE WORLDS, THERE IS IN EVERY IF, AS I HAVE, YOU ALSO DO IN EUNDEM MACARONICON First Line: Quot, dos haec, linguists perfetti, disticha fairfont LETTER WRITTEN BY SIR H.G. First Line: Sice [or, since] ev'ry tree beginns to blossomme now LIE STILL, MY DEAR Poem Text Last Line: And perish in their infancy. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting LOVE First Line: Thou are not gone, being gone LOVE'S ALCHEMY Poem Text Recitation First Line: Some that have deeper digg'd loves myne then I Last Line: Sweetness and wit, they're but mummy, possessed. Subject(s): Love LOVE'S DEITY Poem Text First Line: I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Last Line: If she whom I love, should love me. Subject(s): Love LOVE'S DIET Poem Text First Line: To what a combersome unwieldinesse Last Line: And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talke, and sleepe. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S EXCHANGE Poem Text First Line: Love, any devil else but you Last Line: Rack't carcasses make ill anatomies. LOVE'S GROWTH Poem Text First Line: I scarce believe my love to be so pure Last Line: No winter shall abate the spring's increase. Subject(s): Love LOVE'S USURY Poem Text First Line: For every hour that thou wilt spare me now Last Line: One that loves mee. Subject(s): Love LOVERS' INFINITENESS Poem Text First Line: If yet I have not all thy love Last Line: Be one, and one anothers all. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation NEGATIVE LOVE Poem Text First Line: I never stoop'd so low, as they Last Line: Though I speed not, I cannot misse. NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, ENTIRE OF ITSELF Last Line: And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee Subject(s): Life Change Events O FRUTEFULL GARDEN, AND YET NEVER TILDE OBSEQUIES TO THE LORD HARRINGTON, BROTHER TO LADY LUCY Poem Text First Line: Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee Last Line: Behind hand, yet hath spoke, and spoke her last. OF A LADY IN THE BLACK MASQUE First Line: Why chose shee black; was it that in whiteness OF THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL, SELS. Subject(s): Death OH, HOW FEEBLE IS MAN'S POWER OH, TO VEX ME, CONTRARIES MEET IN ONE First Line: Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: Last Line: Those are my best days, when I shake with fear. ON THE SACRAMENT Poem Text First Line: He was the word that spake it Last Line: I do believe and take it. Variant Title(s): The Sacrament;this Is My Body Subject(s): Jesus Christ RECLUSE HERMIT OFTTIMES MORE RESURRECTION, IMPERFECT Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep old sun, thou canst not have repast Last Line: Desunt coetera. Variant Title(s): Resurrection Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology SAPPHO TO PHILAENIS, SELS. First Line: Thy body is a natural paradise Last Line: And so be change, and sickness, far from thee, %as thou by coming near, keep'st them from me SATIRE ON RELIGION: 3, SELS. First Line: But unmoved thou %of force must one, and forced but one allow SATIRE: UPON MR. THOMAS CORYATS CRUDITIES Poem Text First Line: Oh to what height will love of greatness drive Last Line: And rather then read all, I would reade none. Variant Title(s): Commendatory Verses Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat's Crudities SELFE LOVE Poem Text First Line: He that cannot chuse but love Last Line: In mine owne selfe love. SONG Poem Text Recitation First Line: Sweetest love, I do not go Last Line: Alive, ne'er parted be. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG Poem Text Recitation First Line: Go and catch a falling star Last Line: False, ere I come, to two, or three. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG Poem Text First Line: Go and catch a falling star Last Line: False, ere I come, to two, or three. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET: THE TOKEN Poem Text First Line: Send me some token, that my hope may live Last Line: But swear thou thinkst I love thee, and no more. Variant Title(s): Sonnet, The Token Subject(s): Desire; Love STORM First Line: England, to whom we owe what we be and have Subject(s): Sea STORM; TO MR. CHRISTOPHER BROOKE First Line: Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be so) Last Line: So violent, yet long these furies be, %that though thine absence starve me, I wish not thee Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: The Storm. To Mr Christopher Brook Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628); Sea THE ANNIVERSARY [ANNIVERSARIE] Poem Text First Line: All kings, and all their favourites Last Line: To write threescore, this is the second of our reign. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ANNUNCIATION AND PASSION Poem Text First Line: Tamely frail body, abstain today; today Last Line: And in my life retaile it every day. Variant Title(s): Upon The Annunciation And Passion Falling One Day;annunciation THE APPARITION Poem Text First Line: When by thy scorn, o murderess I am dead Last Line: Then by my threatnings rest still innocent. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Revenge; Supernatural THE BAIT Poem Text First Line: Come live with me, and be my love Last Line: Alas! Is wiser far than I. Variant Title(s): The Baite Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Rivers; Anglers THE BLOSSOM Poem Text Recitation First Line: Little think'st thou, poor flower Last Line: As glad to have my body as my mind. Variant Title(s): Foreknowledge Subject(s): Love THE BROKEN HEART Poem Text First Line: He is stark mad, who ever says / that he hath been in love an hour Last Line: But after one such love, can love no more. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE CALM [CALME] Poem Text First Line: Our storm is past, and that storm's tyrannous rage Last Line: I should not then thus feele this miserie. Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: The Calm Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean THE CANONIZATION Poem Text First Line: For god's sake hold your tongue, and let me love Last Line: A pattern of your love! Subject(s): Love THE COMPUTATION Poem Text First Line: For the first twenty years, since yesterday Last Line: Am, by being dead, immortal. Can ghosts die? Subject(s): Immortality; Time THE CROSS Poem Text First Line: Since christ embraced the cross itself, dare I Last Line: That crosses children, which our crosses are. Subject(s): Christianity; Crosses THE CURSE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Whoever guesses, thinks, or dreams he knows Last Line: Nature before hand hath out-cursed me. Subject(s): Hate THE DAMPE Poem Text First Line: When I am dead, and doctors know not why Last Line: In that you'have odds enough of any man. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE DISSOLUTION Poem Text First Line: She is dead; and all which die Last Line: A latter bullet may o'rtake, the pouder being more. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE DREAM Poem Text First Line: Dear love, for nothing less than thee Last Line: Will dream that hope again, but else would die. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares THE ECSTASY [EXTASIE] Poem Text First Line: Where, like a pillow on a bed Last Line: Small change, when we're to bodies gone. Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Soul THE EXPIRATION Poem Text First Line: So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss Last Line: Being double dead: going, and bidding go. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FLEA Poem Text Recitation First Line: Marke but this flea, and marke in this Last Line: Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Fleas; Love THE FUNERAL Poem Text Recitation First Line: Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Last Line: That since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. Variant Title(s): The Funerall Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Burials THE GOOD-MORROW Poem Text Recitation First Line: I wonder by my troth, what thou and I Last Line: Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; New Year; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE INDIFFERENT Poem Text First Line: I can love both fair and brown Last Line: "you shall be true to them, who are false to you.' " Subject(s): Love THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMY, FOR MOST PART ACCORDING TO TREMELIUS: 1 Poem Text First Line: How sits this citie, late most populous Last Line: Are very many, and my heart is sad. THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMY, FOR MOST PART ACCORDING TO TREMELIUS: 2 Poem Text First Line: How over sions daughter hath god hung Last Line: Brought up, did perish by mine enemie. THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMY, FOR MOST PART ACCORDING TO TREMELIUS: 3 Poem Text First Line: I am the man which have affliction seene Last Line: Follow, and from under heaven destroy them quite. THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMY, FOR MOST PART ACCORDING TO TREMELIUS: 4 Poem Text First Line: How is the gold become so dimme? How is Last Line: And for them, pay thee with captivitie. THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMY, FOR MOST PART ACCORDING TO TREMELIUS: 5 Poem Text First Line: Remember, o lord, what is fallen on us Last Line: And to be utterly enrag'd at us? THE LEGACY Poem Text First Line: When I died last, and dear, I die Last Line: But oh, no man could hold it, for twas thine. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LITANY: 1. THE FATHER Poem Text First Line: Father of heaven, and him, by whom Last Line: I may rise up from death, before I'am dead. THE LITANY: 10. THE MARTYRS Poem Text First Line: And since thou so desirously Last Line: Not to be martyrs, is a martyrdome. Subject(s): Martyrs THE LITANY: 11. THE CONFESSORS Poem Text First Line: Therefore with thee triumpheth there Last Line: Is to himselfe a dioclesian. THE LITANY: 12. THE VIRGINS Poem Text First Line: The cold white snowy nunnery Last Line: And call chast widowhead virginitie. THE LITANY: 13. THE DOCTORS Poem Text First Line: Thy sacred academie above Last Line: Meane waies, and call them stars, but not the sunne. THE LITANY: 14 Poem Text First Line: And whilst this universal choir Last Line: From trusting in those prayers, though powr'd out thus. THE LITANY: 15 Poem Text First Line: From being anxious, or secure Last Line: With all their might, good lord deliver us. THE LITANY: 16 Poem Text First Line: From needing danger, to be good Last Line: Our mutuall duties, lord deliver us. THE LITANY: 17 Poem Text First Line: From tempting satan to tempt us Last Line: From thirst, or scorne of fame, deliver us. THE LITANY: 18 Poem Text First Line: Deliver us for thy descent Last Line: Deliver, and make us, to both waies free. THE LITANY: 19 Poem Text First Line: And through that bitter agony Last Line: Wee may not, and we may blinde unjust men. THE LITANY: 2. THE SON Poem Text First Line: O son of god, who seeing two things Last Line: Drown'd in thy blood, and in thy passion slaine. THE LITANY: 20 Poem Text First Line: Through thy submitting all, to blows Last Line: To this world, ere this world doe bid us goe. THE LITANY: 21 Poem Text First Line: When senses, which thy soldiers are Last Line: Only to vent wit, lord deliver us. THE LITANY: 22 Poem Text First Line: In churches, when the infirmity Last Line: Deliver us from the sinister way. THE LITANY: 23 Poem Text First Line: Hear us, o hear us lord; to thee Last Line: Heare thy selfe now, for thou in us dost pray. THE LITANY: 24 Poem Text First Line: That we may change to evenness Last Line: That we may heare, lord heare us, when wee pray. THE LITANY: 25 Poem Text First Line: That our ears' sickness we may cure Last Line: That we may locke our eares, lord open thine. THE LITANY: 26 Poem Text First Line: That living law, the magistrate Last Line: That we may open our eares, lord lock thine. THE LITANY: 27 Poem Text First Line: That learning, thine ambassador Last Line: Heare us, weake ecchoes, o thou eare, and cry. THE LITANY: 28 Poem Text First Line: Son of god hear us, and since thou Last Line: As sinne is nothing, let it no where be. THE LITANY: 3. THE HOLY GHOST Poem Text First Line: O holy ghost, whose temple I Last Line: Fire, sacrifice, priest, altar be the same. THE LITANY: 4. THE TRINITY Poem Text First Line: O blessed glorious trinity Last Line: Of power, to love, to know, you unnumbered three. THE LITANY: 5. THE VIRGIN MARY Poem Text First Line: For that fair blessed mother-maid Last Line: In vaine, who hath such titles unto you. THE LITANY: 6. THE ANGELS Poem Text First Line: And since this life our nonage is Last Line: Worthy their sight, though blinde in how they see. THE LITANY: 7. THE PATRIARCHS Poem Text First Line: And let thy patriarchs' desire Last Line: Nor faith, by reason added, lose her sight. THE LITANY: 8. THE PROPHETS Poem Text First Line: Thy eagle-sighted prophets too Last Line: In seeking secrets, or poetiquenesse. THE LITANY: 9. THE APOSTLES Poem Text First Line: And thy illustrious zodiac Last Line: Mee, when my comment would make thy word mine. THE MESSAGE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Send home my [long] strayed eyes to me Last Line: Or prove as false as thou art now. Subject(s): Deception; Eyes; Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE PARADOX Poem Text Recitation First Line: No lover saith, I love, nor any other Last Line: Love-slaine, loe, here I lye. Subject(s): Love THE PRIMROSE, BEING AT MOUNTGOMERY CASTLE, UPON THE HILL ... Poem Text First Line: Upon this primrose hill Last Line: First into this, five, women may take us all. THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL [METEMPSYCHOSIS] Poem Text First Line: I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule Last Line: The onely measure is, and judge, opinion. THE PROHIBITION Poem Text First Line: Take heed of loving me Last Line: To let mee live, o love and hate mee too. THE RELIC Poem Text Recitation First Line: When my grave is broke up again Last Line: Should I tell what a miracle she was. Variant Title(s): The Relique Subject(s): Graves; Love; Saints; Tombs; Tombstones THE STORM; TO MR. CHRISTOPHER BROOKE Poem Text First Line: Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be so) Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: The Storm. To Mr Christopher Brooke Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628); Sea; Ocean THE SUN RISING Poem Text First Line: Busy old fool, unruly sun Last Line: This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere. Subject(s): Dawn; Love - Erotic; Freedom; Love; Sun; Sunrise; Liberty THE TRIPLE FOOL Poem Text First Line: I am two fools, I know Last Line: Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee. Subject(s): Fools; Idiots THE UNDERTAKING Poem Text First Line: I have done one braver thing Last Line: Which is, to keep that hid. THE WILL Poem Text First Line: Before I sigh my last gasp, let me breathe Last Line: To invent and practise this one way to annihilate all three. Variant Title(s): He Pretends A Series Of Bequests Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The THOUGHTS ON DEATH First Line: Think then, my soul, that death is but a TO E. OF D. WITH SIX HOLY SONNETS Poem Text First Line: See sir, how as the suns hot masculine flame Last Line: Wit, whose one spark could make good things of bad. TO HIS MISTRESS First Line: Thou sent'st to me a heart was crowned Subject(s): Diamonds TO MR GEORGE HERBERT, WITH ONE OF MY SEALS, OF THE ANCHOR AND CHRIST Poem Text First Line: A sheafe of snakes used heretofore to be Last Line: To you, who bear his name, great bounties deal. Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633) TO MR. B.B Poem Text First Line: Is not thy sacred hunger of science Last Line: Except confirm'd and bishoped by thee. TO MR. C.B [CHRISTOPHER BROOKE] Poem Text First Line: Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine Last Line: To melt all ice, but that which walls her heart. TO MR. E.G. [EDWARD GUILPIN] Poem Text First Line: Even as lame things thirst their perfection, so Last Line: Thy garden, make thy hive and warehouse this. Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: To Mr E.g. TO MR. GEORGE HERBERT, WITH MY SEAL First Line: A sheafe of snakes used hertofore to be TO MR. I.L. (1) Poem Text First Line: Blest are your north parts, for all this long time Last Line: As thou telst her, and none but her, my paine. TO MR. I.L. (2) Poem Text First Line: Of that short roll of friends writ in my heart Last Line: I that my love, she that her guifts on you are spent. TO MR. R.W. [ROWLAND WOODWARD] (1) Poem Text First Line: If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be Last Line: Vertue, our formes forme and our soules soule, is. TO MR. R.W. [ROWLAND WOODWARD] (2) Poem Text First Line: Muse not that by thy mind thy body is led Last Line: Cur'd by thy charming soveraigne melodee. TO MR. R.W. [ROWLAND WOODWARD] (3) Poem Text First Line: Zealously my muse doth salute all thee Last Line: For myne is barren thus devorc'd from thyne. TO MR. R.W. [ROWLAND WOODWARD] (4) Poem Text First Line: Kindly I envy thy songs perfection Last Line: I recreated, even by thy creature, live. TO MR. ROWLAND WOODWARD Poem Text First Line: Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe Last Line: But to know, that I love thee'and would be lov'd. Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: To Mr Rowland Woodward TO MR. S.B Poem Text First Line: O thou which to search out the secret parts Last Line: With these articulate blasts to blow the fire. Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: To Mr S.b. TO MR. T.W. [THOMAS WOODWARD] (1) Poem Text First Line: All haile sweet poet, more full of more strong fire Last Line: All the worlds lyon, though I be thy ape. TO MR. T.W. [THOMAS WOODWARD] (2) Poem Text First Line: At once, from hence, my lines and I depart Last Line: Merit of love, bestow that love on mee. Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: To Mr T.w. TO MR. T.W. [THOMAS WOODWARD] (3) Poem Text First Line: Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure Last Line: And you'are my pawnes, or else my testament. TO MR. T.W. [THOMAS WOODWARD] (4) Poem Text First Line: Pregnant again with th' old twins hope, and feare Last Line: They love that best of which they most do eat. Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: To Mr T.w. TO MR. TILMAN AFTER HE HAD TAKEN ORDERS Poem Text First Line: Thou, whose diviner soule hath caus'd thee now Last Line: And make thee now a blest hermaphrodite. TO MRS. M.H Poem Text First Line: Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne Last Line: Would faine love him that shall be lov'd of her. TO MY LORD OF PEMBROKE First Line: Fye, fye, you sonnes of pallas what madd rage TO SIR EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text First Line: Man is a lump, where all beasts kneaded be Last Line: Your friends finde every day a mart of new. Variant Title(s): To Sir Edward Herbert, At Juliers Subject(s): Herbert, Edward (1583-1648); Herbert Of Cherbury, 1st Baron TO SIR H. WOTTON AT HIS GOING AMBASSADOR TO VENICE Poem Text First Line: After those reverend papers, whose soule is Last Line: In length and ease are alike every where. Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: To Sir Henry Wotton/ambassador/venice Subject(s): Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639) TO SIR HENRY GOODYERE Poem Text First Line: Who makes the past a pattern for next year Last Line: You came with mee to micham, and are here. Variant Title(s): Soothsay TO SIR HENRY WOTTON (1) Poem Text First Line: Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle soules Last Line: To know my rules, I have, and you have Subject(s): Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639) TO SIR HENRY WOTTON (2) Poem Text First Line: Here's no more newes, then vertue, I may as well Last Line: At court; though from court, were the better stile. Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: To Sir Henry Wotten Subject(s): Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639) TO THE COUNTESS OF BEDFORD (1) First Line: I have learn'd by those lawes wherein I am a little Last Line: And as testimony how intirely your familie posseth TO THE COUNTESS OF BEDFORD (2) Poem Text First Line: Madam, reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right Last Line: For all the good which you can do me here. TO THE COUNTESS OF BEDFORD (3) Poem Text First Line: This twilight of two yeares, not past nor next Last Line: This private ghospell, then'tis our new yeare. TO THE COUNTESS OF BEDFORD (4) Poem Text First Line: Madam, you have refined me, and to worthiest things Last Line: In paradise, would seeke the cherubin. TO THE COUNTESS OF BEDFORD (POEMS ABOUT DEATHS) Poem Text First Line: To have written then, when you writ, seemed to me Last Line: With cordiall vertue, your knowne nourishment. TO THE COUNTESS OF BEDFORD [ON NEW YEARES DAY] Poem Text First Line: Honour is so sublime perfection Last Line: Neither can reach you, great and innocent. Variant Title(s): To The Countess Of Bedford TO THE COUNTESS OF BEDFORD; BEGUN IN FRANCE BUT NEVER PERFECTED Poem Text First Line: Though I be dead, and buried, yet I have Last Line: Desunt coetera. TO THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON Poem Text First Line: Madam, man to god's image, eve, to man's was made Last Line: And now your chaplaine, god in you to praise. TO THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGTON Poem Text First Line: That unripe side of earth, that heavy clime Last Line: Is, that love is them all contract in one. TO THE COUNTESS OF SALISBURY Poem Text First Line: Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see Last Line: And though I burne my librarie, be learn'd. TO THE LADY BEDFORD Poem Text First Line: You that are she and you, that's double shee Last Line: Yet but of judith no such booke as shee. TO THE LADY MAGDALEN HERBERT: OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN Poem Text First Line: Her of your name, whose fair inheritance Last Line: Harbour these hymns, to his dear name addrest. Variant Title(s): To Mrs. Magdalen Herbert;to Mrs Magdalen Herbert Of St Mary Magdalene TWICKNAM GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with tears Last Line: Who's therefore true, because her truth kills me. Variant Title(s): Twickenham Garden Subject(s): Love; Tears; Twickenham, England UPON THE TRANSLATION OF THE PSALMS BY SIR PHILIP SYDNEY & HIS SISTER Poem Text First Line: Eternall god, (for whom who ever dare) Last Line: We may fall in with them, and sing our part. Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586); Translating & Interpreting VERSES TO SIR HENRY WOOTTON, SELS. First Line: Be then thine own home, and in thyself dwell WITCHCRAFT BY A PICTURE Poem Text First Line: I fixe mine eye on thine, and there Last Line: Being in thine owne heart, from all malice free. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters WOMAN'S CONSTANCY Poem Text First Line: Now thou hast loved me one whole day Last Line: For by tomorrow, I may think so too. Variant Title(s): He Ironizes About Woman's Constancy Subject(s): Fidelity; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy |
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