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| Searching... Author: hawthornden, Matches Found: 28 Drummond Of Hawthornden, William Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William 28 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 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 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? 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 Poem Text First Line: These eyes, dear lord, once brandons of desire Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology 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 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 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 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: 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. PHYLLIS Poem Text First Line: In petticoat of green Last Line: Her hand seemed milk in milk, it was so white. Subject(s): Beauty 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 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 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: 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: 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 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 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 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 |
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