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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: hawthornden, Matches Found: 77 Drummond Of Hawthornden, William Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William 77 poems available by this author A NYMPH'S SONG; OF THE TRUE HAPPINESS Poem Text First Line: Amidst the azure clear Last Line: "and echoes rang, ""this was true happiness." Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight ASCENSION OF CHRIST First Line: Bright portals of the sky Last Line: From top of olivet such notes did rise, %when man's redeemer did transcend the skies Variant Title(s): An Hymn Of The Ascension; Song Of The Ascensio Subject(s): Ascension Day BEAUTY FADES First Line: Trust not, sweet soul, those curled waves of gold Last Line: Shall once, ay me! Not spare that spring of yours Variant Title(s): Trust Not, Sweet Sou CHANGE SHOULD BREED CHANGE Poem Text First Line: New doth the sun appear Last Line: Deck thee with flowers which fear not rage of days! Subject(s): Change CONTENT AND RESOLUTE First Line: As when it happeneth that some lovely town Last Line: That I, all else defaced, not envy kings DAMON'S LAMENT First Line: This world is made a hell Subject(s): Country Life DESPITE ALL Poem Text First Line: I know that all beneath the moon decays Last Line: But that, oh me, I both must write and love! Variant Title(s): "sonnet;""i Know That All Beneath The Moon Decays""; DOTH THEN THE WORLD GO THUS, DOTH ALL THUS MOVE? DREAM OF IMMORTALITY First Line: I lay a sdead, but scarce chained were my FLOWERS IN ZION, SELS. FOR THE BAPTIST Poem Text First Line: The last and greatest herald of heaven's king Last Line: Repent!' Variant Title(s): Saint John Baptist;sonnet: Repent, Repent!;the Baptist's Sonnet Subject(s): Bible; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology FOR THE MAGDALENE First Line: These eyes, dear lord, once brandons of desire Last Line: Thus sighed to jesus the bethanian fair, %his tear-wet feet still drying with her hair Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women - Bible IF CROST WITH ALL MISHAPS ILLUSIONS Poem Text First Line: A good that never satisfies the mind Last Line: Till wisest death make us our errors know. Variant Title(s): The End Of Life;human Frailty Subject(s): Death; Hallucinations & Illusions; Dead, The IN MY FIRST YEARS INVOCATION [TO LOVE] Poem Text First Line: Phoebus, arise! / and paint the sable skies Last Line: And everything, save her, who all should grace. Variant Title(s): Summons To Love;song Subject(s): Apollo; Dawn; Mythology - Classical; Sunrise IOLAS' EPITAPH First Line: Here deare iolas lies Last Line: A purple flowre see of this marble borne Subject(s): Consolation KISS First Line: Hark, happy lovers, hark! KISSES DESIRED Poem Text First Line: Though I with strange desire Last Line: After one kiss, but still one kiss, my dear. Subject(s): Kisses; Love LAMENT First Line: Chaste maids which haunt fair aganippe's well LOOK HOW THE FLOWERS LOVE First Line: Love which is here a care Last Line: A pleasure void of grief, a constant rest, %eternal joy which nothing can molest Subject(s): Love MADRIGAL Poem Text First Line: The beauty and the life Last Line: Cried, ah! And can death enter paradise? Subject(s): Sleep MADRIGAL Poem Text First Line: This world a hunting is Subject(s): Sleep MADRIGAL Poem Text First Line: My thoughts hold mortal strife Last Line: Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come. Subject(s): Sleep MADRIGAL Poem Text First Line: The beauty and the life Last Line: Cried, ah! And can death enter paradise? Subject(s): Sleep MADRIGAL First Line: I fear not henceforth death Last Line: Or if that aught can cause my fatal lot, %it will be when I hear I am forgot Subject(s): Love MADRIGAL First Line: Sweet rose, whence is this hue Last Line: No, none of those, but cause more high you blissed: %my lady's breast you bore, her lips you kissed Subject(s): Flowers; Roses MADRIGAL First Line: This world a hunting is Last Line: Old age with stealing pace %casts on his nets, and there we panting die Variant Title(s): The World A Gam Subject(s): Aging; Death MADRIGAL: 1 Poem Text First Line: This life, which seems so fair Last Line: Because it erst was nought, it turns to nought. Variant Title(s): The Bubble;life A Bubble;this Life Subject(s): Life MADRIGAL: 3 Poem Text First Line: Like the idalian queen Last Line: A hyacinth I wished me in her hand. MADRIGAL: 7 First Line: Unhappy light, %do not approach to bring the woeful day Last Line: Prolong, alas, prolong my short delight, %and if ye can, make an eternal light MADRIGAL: LOVE VAGABONDING First Line: Sweet nymphs, if, as ye stray Last Line: Tell her he nightly lodgeth in my heart NATIVITIE First Line: Runne (shepheards) run where bethleme NOW WHILE THE NIGHT HER SABLE VEIL HATH SPREAD ON HIS ROYAL PATRON First Line: Of jet, or porphyry, or that white stone PHYLLIS Poem Text First Line: In petticoat of green Last Line: Her hand seemed milk in milk, it was so white. Subject(s): Beauty POLEMO-MIDDINIA, SELS. First Line: Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta fifaea Last Line: Nout-headdum vocavit, et illium forcit ad arma REGRAT First Line: In this worlds raging sea Last Line: And doth againe in seas his burthen throw SEXTAIN First Line: The heaven doth not contain so many stars Variant Title(s): Sestin SHEPHERDS [OR, THE SHEPHERD'S SONG] First Line: O than the fairest day, thrice fairer night! Last Line: Befoe the babe the shepherds bow'd their knees, %and springs ran nectar, honey dropped from the tree Variant Title(s): For The Nativity Of Our Lor Subject(s): Christmas SONG Poem Text First Line: That zephyr every year Last Line: But we, once dead, no more do see the sun. Variant Title(s): Spring Bereaved: 1 Subject(s): Spring SONG: 2 First Line: It autumne was, and on our hemisphere SONNET Poem Text First Line: A passing glance, a lightning 'long the skies Last Line: In whom, save death, naught mortal was at all. SONNET First Line: Thou window, once which served for a sphere SONNET First Line: In my first year, and prime yet not at height SONNET First Line: Then is she gone? O fool and coward I! SONNET First Line: Sweet soul, which in april of thy years SONNET First Line: Are these the flow'ry banks SONNET First Line: Mine eyes, dissolve your globes SONNET First Line: How many times night's silent queen Last Line: Ere I see her whose absence makes mee die SONNET First Line: I fear to me such fortune be assign'd SONNET First Line: Of mortal glory, o soon darkened ray! Variant Title(s): What We Toil Fo SONNET First Line: If crossed with all mishaps be my poor life SONNET First Line: What doth it serve to see the sun's burning face Last Line: Sith she for whom those once to me were dear, %can have no part of them now with me here? SONNET First Line: How that vast heaven intitled first is rolled SONNET TO SIR W. ALEXANDER First Line: The love alexis did to damon bear Subject(s): Alexander, Sir William (1567-1640); Friendship; Poetry And Poets SONNET TO SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER; WITH THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Though I have twice been at the doors of death Last Line: The murmuring esk: -- may roses shade the place. Variant Title(s): From A Cypress Grove Subject(s): Alexander, Sir William (1567-1640); Poetry & Poets; Sickness; Illness SONNET: 12 Poem Text First Line: As in a duskie and tempestuous night Last Line: With his pale trophees death hath hung his armes. SONNET: 24 First Line: In minds pure glasse when I my selfe behold SONNET: 46 Poem Text First Line: Alexis, here she stayed; among these pines Last Line: Sith passed pleasures double but new woe? Variant Title(s): Primitiae;spring Bereaved Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNET: 7 First Line: That learned grecian who did so excel Last Line: No wonder now I feel so fair a flame, %sith I loved ere on this earth she came Subject(s): Plato (428-348 B.c.) SONNET: 9 First Line: Sleep [sleepe], silence' child, sweet father of soft rest Last Line: Come as thou wilt, and what thou wilt bequeath, %I long to kiss the image of my death Variant Title(s): On [or, To] Sleep; Sonet To Sleepe; "sleep, Silence' Child, Sweet Father Of Soft Rest SONNET: TO HIS LUTE Poem Text First Line: My lute, be as thou wast when thou didst grow Last Line: Like widow'd turtle still her loss complain. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 8 Subject(s): Lutes SONNETS First Line: Triumphing chariots, statues, crowns of bays SPRING, WANTING HER Poem Text First Line: Sweet spring, thou turn'st with all thy goodly train Last Line: While thine forgot lie closed in a tomb. Variant Title(s): Spring Bereaved: 2 Subject(s): Spring STATUE OF MEDUSA First Line: Of that medusa strange Last Line: Life did her leave, and thus transform'd she was Subject(s): Art And Artists; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture And Sculptors STOLEN PLEASURE Poem Text First Line: My sweet did sweetly sleep Last Line: Prov'd here on earth the joys of paradise. Subject(s): Love THE ANGELS Poem Text First Line: Run, shepherds, run where bethlehem blest appears Last Line: And cope of stars reëchoéd the same. Variant Title(s): For The Nativity Of Our Lord Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Nativity, The THE BOOK [OF THE WORLD] Poem Text First Line: Of this fair volume which we world do name Last Line: It is some picture on the margin wrought. Variant Title(s): The Book Of Nature;the Lessons Of Nature;the World Subject(s): Bible; Books; Earth; Religion; Reading; World; Theology THE GREATEST WONDER Poem Text First Line: To spread the azure canopy of heaven Last Line: That angels stand amazed to think on it. Subject(s): Christmas; Earth; Heaven; Nativity, The; World; Paradise THEN IS SHE GONE Subject(s): Solitude TO A NIGHTINGALE First Line: Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours Last Line: To ayres of spheres, yea, and to angels' layes Variant Title(s): Sonnet: Sweet Bird; To The Nightingale (1); The Thrus Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes TO CHLORIS First Line: See, chloris, how the clouds Last Line: If not for love, yet to shun greater harms TO THE NIGHTINGALE (2) Poem Text First Line: Dear quirister [chorister], who from those shadows sends Last Line: With trembling wings sobbed forth, I love, I love. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Nightingale;sonnet Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TROJAN HORSE First Line: A horse I am, whom bit Last Line: Could not do free, I captive raz'd a town Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors; Trojan War URANIA, SELS. Subject(s): Solitude |
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