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Author: elizabeth, I
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Barnes, Elizabeth I.   
1 poems available by this author


PEACE PICTURES    Poem Text    
First Line: In a dear old - fashioned parlor
Last Line: Then -- how beautiful is peace.
Subject(s): Peace



Elizabeth I    Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth
11 poems available by this author


AN ANSWER    Poem Text    
First Line: Ah silly pugg, wert thou so sore afraid?
Subject(s): Fortune; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


ANSWER       
First Line: Ah silly pugg, wert thou so sore afraid?
Last Line: The less afraid the better shalt thou spead
Subject(s): Fortune; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


LIMERICK       
First Line: The daughter of debate %whose discord aye doth sow


ON MONSIEUR'S DEPARTURE    Poem Text    
First Line: I grieve, and dare not show my discontent
Last Line: Or die and so forget what love ere meant.
Variant Title(s): Self And The Otherself
Subject(s): Discontent; Farewell; Love; Dissatisfaction; Parting


ON THE NOTORIOUS SPENDTHRIFT SIR ANDREW NOEL, OF BROOKE       
First Line: The word of denial and letter of fifty
Last Line: Is that gentleman's name that will never be thrifty
Subject(s): Saving And Thrift


ON THE SACRAMENT       
First Line: He was the word that spake it


SONNETT: 1       
First Line: Fortune hath taken thee away, my love
Last Line: No fortune base shall ever alter me


THE DAUGHTER OF DEBATE    Poem Text    
First Line: The doubt of future foes / exiles my present joy
Last Line: Such change, and gape for joy.
Variant Title(s): The Doubt;the Doubt Of Future Foes
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


WRITTEN IN HER FRENCH PSALTER    Poem Text    
First Line: No crooked leg, no bleared eye
Last Line: As in the inward suspicious mind.
Subject(s): Self-doubt


WRITTEN ON A WALL AT WOODSTOCK    Poem Text    
First Line: Oh fortune, thy wrestling wavering state
Last Line: So god send to my foes all they have thought.
Variant Title(s): Verses Written On A Shutter ...
Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


YOUTH AND CUPID    Poem Text    
First Line: When I was fair and young, and favour graced me
Last Line: "importune me no more!"
Variant Title(s): Importune Me No More
Subject(s): Carpe Diem