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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: herbert, edward Matches Found: 109 Herbert, Edward Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord 72 poems available by this author 10/14/1644 First Line: Enraging griefs, though you most diverse be A DESCRIPTION Poem Text First Line: I sing her worth and praises high Last Line: Two alabaster pillars stand, Subject(s): Beauty A DITTY MADE BY LORENZO ALLEGRE TO ONE SLEEPING TO BE SUNG Poem Text First Line: Ah, wonder! Last Line: Admired light. A DIVINE LOVE Poem Text First Line: Why should dull art, which is wise nature's ape Last Line: But a true hell that leads to her false heaven? A MEDITATION UPON HIS WAX CANDLE BURNING OUT Poem Text First Line: While thy ambitious flame doth strive for height Last Line: Where faithful loving souls with joys are crown'd. Subject(s): Candles A MERRY RHYME SENT TO THE LADY WROTH .. BIRTH OF LORD PEMBROKE'S CHILD Poem Text First Line: Madam, though I am one of those Last Line: All I care is, if the child grows. Subject(s): Birth; Wroth, Mary Sidney (1586-1652); Child Birth; Midwifery A VISION Poem Text First Line: Within an open curled sea of gold Last Line: Unless that he my vision can unfold. Subject(s): Hair AN ODE UPON A QUESTION WHETHER LOVE SHOULD CONTINUE FOREVER Poem Text First Line: Having interr'd her infant-birth Last Line: Their ravish'd spirits did possess. Variant Title(s): Ode Upon Question Moved: Whether Love Should Continue Ever Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth ANOTHER SONNET TO BLACK IT SELF Poem Text First Line: Thou black, wherein all colours are compos'd Last Line: All revelation unto man denies. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Black It Self Subject(s): Black (color) CELINDA First Line: Walking thus towards a pleasant DITTY Poem Text First Line: Why dost thou hate return instead of love Last Line: I may triumph yet over fate and death. DITTY Poem Text First Line: If you refuse me once, and think again Last Line: And keep an everlasting spring. DITTY Poem Text First Line: Can I then live to draw that breath Last Line: Even death cannot end. DITTY Poem Text First Line: Deep sighs, records of my unpitied grief Last Line: I give you leave, break time, break heart and all. DITTY Poem Text First Line: Tears, flow no more; or if you needs must flow Last Line: To dry those tears and to blow out those fires? DITTY IN IMITATION OF THE SPANISH: ENTRE TANTO QUE L'AVRIL Poem Text First Line: Now that the april of your youth adorns Last Line: And that which is not youth's, is age's prey. Subject(s): Youth DITTY TO THE TUNE OF 'A CHE DEL QUANTO MIO' OF PESARINO Poem Text First Line: Where now shall these accents go Last Line: Echo. Live. ECHO IN A CHURCH Poem Text First Line: Where shall my troubled soul at large Last Line: Echo. I am. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ECHO TO A ROCK Poem Text First Line: Thou heaven-threat'ning rock, gentler than she! Last Line: Echo. Well. Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Stones; Granite; Rocks ELEGY FOR DOCTOR DONNE Poem Text First Line: What though the vulgar and received praise Last Line: Such vice avail more than their virtues can. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ELEGY FOR THE PRINCE Poem Text First Line: Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add Last Line: Which, being his, can therefore never die. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY OVER A TOMB Poem Text First Line: Must I then see, alas! Eternal night Last Line: Or hope relief. EPITAHPHIUM CAECILLIAE BOULSTRED Poem Text First Line: Methinks death like one laughing lies Last Line: And did not die, but left her body dead. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF Poem Text First Line: The monument which thou beholdest here Last Line: With his creator, peace, joy, truth and love. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self EPITAPH FOR SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, AT ST. PAUL'S WITHOUT A MONUMENT ... Poem Text First Line: Within this church sir philip sidney lies Last Line: Souldiers, their martyr; lovers, their saint. Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586); St. Paul's Cathedral, London EPITAPH OF A STINKING POET Poem Text First Line: Here stinks a poet, I confess Last Line: Yet wanting breath stinks so much less. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances EPITAPH OF KING JAMES Poem Text First Line: Here lies king james who did so propagate Last Line: That tears in them force thee to weep again. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON SIR EDWARD SACKVILLE'S CHILD WHO DIED IN HIS BIRTH Poem Text First Line: Reader, here lies a child that never cri'd Last Line: Nothing that ever di'd hath liv'd so long. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth EPITAPH ON SIR FRANCIS VERE Poem Text First Line: If thou appear Last Line: This world for him made paradise again. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Vere, Sir Francis (1560-1609) EPITAPHIUM GULIELMI HERBERT DE SWANSEA Poem Text First Line: Great spirit, that in new ambition Last Line: Since thou hast not begot it. I AM THE FIRST THAT EVER LOV'D IN A GLASS WINDOW, FOR INCONSTANCY Poem Text First Line: Love, of this clearest, frailest glass Last Line: Clearness for me, frailty for her. Subject(s): Mirrors; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy INCONSTANCY Poem Text First Line: Inconstancy's the greatest of sins Last Line: Like the same body in another place. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy KISSING Poem Text First Line: Come hither, womankind and all their worth Last Line: So, 'tis enough. Subject(s): Kisses; Love LA GIALLETTA GALLANTE OR THE SUN-BURN'D EXOTIC BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Child of the sun, in whom his rays appear Last Line: And by thy gold show like some copper-mine. Subject(s): Beauty; Sunbathing MADRIGAL Poem Text First Line: How should I love my best? Last Line: Believe't, I will. Subject(s): Love MADRIGAL Poem Text First Line: Dear, when I did from you remove Last Line: Heaven's lights and you to me will shine. Subject(s): Love MELANDER SUPPOS'D TO LOVE SUSAN, BUT DID LOVE ANN Poem Text First Line: Who doth presume my mistress's name to scan Last Line: Must I not however love susan? Echo. Ann. Subject(s): Love ODE: OF OUR SENSE OF SIN Poem Text First Line: Vengeance will sit above our faults, but till Last Line: Himself knows more. Subject(s): Sin PARTED SOULS Poem Text First Line: I must depart, but like to his last breath Last Line: Death unto us must be freedom and rest. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PLATONIC [OR, PLATONICK] LOVE (1) Poem Text First Line: Disconsolate and sad Last Line: My chief contentment I will entertain. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of PLATONIC [OR, PLATONICK] LOVE (2) Poem Text First Line: Madam, believe't, love is not such a toy Last Line: Have their contents they in each other find. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of PLATONIC [OR, PLATONICK] LOVE (3) Poem Text First Line: Madam, your beauty and your lovely parts Last Line: Will turn, and circle, with their rays, your face. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of RESTRAINED HOPES, THOUGH YOU DARE NOT ASPIRE SATIRES: 1. THE STATE PROGRESS OF ILL Poem Text First Line: I say, 'tis hard to write satires, though ill Last Line: Compos'd as then: few men and many beasts. Subject(s): Satire (as Poetic Genre); Sickness; Illness SATIRES: 2. OF TRAVELLERS: FROM PARIS Poem Text First Line: Ben jonson, travel is a second birth Last Line: So end this satire, and bid thee good night. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SONNET Poem Text First Line: Thus ends my love, but this doth grieve me most Last Line: It be a temple, but without a saint. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET Poem Text First Line: Lord, thus I sin, repent, and sin again Last Line: Whilst I do talk with my creator thus. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET Poem Text First Line: Innumerable beauties, thou white haire Last Line: Thou seemest, wreath'd by some immortal hand. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET MADE UPON THE GROVES NEAR MERLOU CASTLE Poem Text First Line: You well-compacted groves, whose light and shade Last Line: A self-renewing vegetable bliss? Subject(s): Landscape SONNET OF BLACK BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Black beauty, which, above that common light Last Line: Our darkness which can make us think it dark. Variant Title(s): Of Black Beauty Subject(s): Black (color) SONNET TO BLACK IT SELF First Line: Thou black, wherein all colours are compos'd Last Line: All revelation unto man denies THE BROWN BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: While the two contraries of black and white Last Line: You more than any may be dignifi'd. Subject(s): Beauty; Black (color); Brown (color); White (color) THE FIRST MEETING Poem Text First Line: As sometimes with a sable cloud Last Line: Comes from the motions of your mind Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE GREEN-SICKNESS BEAUTY (1) Poem Text First Line: Though the pale white within your cheeks compos'd Last Line: And to be gather'd rather than to fall. THE GREEN-SICKNESS BEAUTY (2) Poem Text First Line: From thy pale look while angry love doth seem Last Line: Gave but occasion to suspect it more. THE IDEA Poem Text First Line: All beauties vulgar eyes on earth do see Last Line: Much more th' idea where you first began. THE THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: If you do love as well as I Last Line: If you do love as well as I. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TO A LADY WHO DID SING EXCELLENTLY Poem Text First Line: When our rude and unfashion'd words, that long Last Line: Or only the delights which you did give? Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs TO HER BODY Poem Text First Line: Regardful presence! Whose fix'd majesty Last Line: Itself like thee would rest, like thee would move. Subject(s): Bodies TO HER EYES Poem Text First Line: Black eyes if you seem dark Last Line: Through black, cannot but be divine. Subject(s): Eyes TO HER FACE Poem Text First Line: Fatal aspect! That hast an influence Last Line: Sure adam sinn'd not in that spotless face. Subject(s): Faces TO HER HAIR Poem Text First Line: Black beamy hairs, which so seem to arise Last Line: With the sunbeams below. Subject(s): Hair TO HER MIND Poem Text First Line: Exalted mind! Whose character doth bear Last Line: Thyself to us, thou shouldst be still a wonder? Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals TO HIS FRIEND, BEN JONSON, OF HIS HORACE MADE ENGLISH Poem Text First Line: Twas not enough, ben jonson, to be thought Last Line: To be the horace of our times and his. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting TO HIS MISTRESS FOR HER TRUE PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Death, my life's mistress, and the sovereingn queen Last Line: Who from my mouth-grate and eye-window bawl. Subject(s): Beauty; Love TO HIS WATCH, WHEN HE COULD NOT SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Uncessant minutes, whilst you move you tell Last Line: You die in time, time in eternity. Subject(s): Insomnia; Watches; Sleeplessness TO MISTRESS DIANA CECIL Poem Text First Line: Diana cecil, that rare beauty thou dost show Last Line: When men might hope more than they understood. Subject(s): Beauty TO ONE BLACK AND NOT VERY HANDSOME, WHO EXPECTED COMMENDATION Poem Text First Line: What though your eyes be stars, your hair be night Last Line: Or leave thee with the praise of being chaste. TO THE AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: Thine art and subject both such worth contain Last Line: That thou art best requited in thy pain. Subject(s): Davies, John (1563-1618) TO THE COUNTESS OF DORSET Poem Text First Line: Since in your face, as in a beauteous sphere Last Line: Of love and honour equal cause impart. UPON COMBING HER HAIR Poem Text First Line: Breaking from under that thy cloudy veil Last Line: And strike out day from thy yet fairer eyes. Subject(s): Hair Mierow, Herbert Edward 1 poems available by this author PRINCETON Poem Text First Line: Changed with the passing years, yet still the same Last Line: And love of unseen things that do not die. Subject(s): Princeton, New Jersey Palmer, Herbert Edward 36 poems available by this author AUNT ZILLAH SPEAKS First Line: I never look upon the sea BROOK NOSTALGIA First Line: Oh, I would go away and fire my eyes CALL OF THE FELLS, SELS. First Line: I would that I were home again Subject(s): England CELESTIAL COUNTRY First Line: So much beauty gone into the void. Where is it? Last Line: All that bright truth unmerited to me? %and yet I saw strange light the day you died DAVID AND GOLIATH First Line: Let goliath have his say DEFEATIST SONG First Line: I'll be going away soon %to wash in a blue lagoon Last Line: Where the faithful hands are bless'd %and the cheated are at rest EASTER POEM [FOR ALL THE YEAR] First Line: Hush harlequin brain, wild brain! A tale I'd tell Subject(s): Religion HUNGER First Line: Hungry, ravenously hungry! LIVE WIND First Line: There is a way the wind has LUTE SONG OF THE LADY HELOISE First Line: Abelard, my wisdom's saint MY LADY First Line: Strike soft each fiddle, harp, and viol NATURE IN WAR-TIME First Line: If flowers could speak NEW HOPE FOR SOME First Line: When I am no more thought of ODE: SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1939 First Line: Incredible huns! Vile goths!-under god's ban PHASE First Line: What are you staring at, johnny, %and you, milida and judy?- Last Line: There'll be new bones with the old bones, %and more graves 'neath the green grasses PHIL, THE BLACK PERSIAN First Line: Philander's a king, a dandy king Subject(s): Animals; Cats PILGRIM First Line: When I am recompensed and lean secure PRAYER FOR RAIN First Line: O god, make it rain! PRAYER FOR SUNLIGHT IN EARLY SPRING First Line: Oh lord, send the sun! RE-BIRTH OF THE SOUL First Line: Now what have I to do with death? ROCK PILGRIM First Line: Let the damned ride their earwigs to hell Last Line: I will plod up to the ridge to the right, past the crimson-green holly SAINT JOAN: A MEDITATION AND A PRAYER First Line: All that is nobly beautiful or true SCOPE OF POETRY First Line: The poet must strive to please a stirring crowd Last Line: And whoso knows the tune sings not in vain SHADOWS First Line: Flickering shadows phantasies SONNET: AFTERMATH OF STORM AND WAR First Line: And over the waste of barren moorland SOUL OF MAN SPRING CHRISTMAS CAROL First Line: Jesus was born in a manger SPRING IN THE PENNINES First Line: Now the spring comes THOUGHTS ON JUSTICE AND DEGENERATE LOVE First Line: You prate of love and mildness, gentle ways THROUGH CURTAINS OF DARKNESS First Line: The voice of god came upon me through the darkness Last Line: For truth was given unto the angels; %and they are melody and fire TO SOME REVIEWERS WHO HAVE WILFULLY ABUSED CERTAIN TRUE POET First Line: Come hither, gallers of renown TROLL SONG First Line: Rend thy harp, tannhauser UNKNOWN WARRIOR SINGS AND CURSES IN THE STREET First Line: I'm a spent arrow shouldered from the sun VOICE IN THE WOOD First Line: Where art thou going WOODWORKERS' BALLAD First Line: All that is moulded of iron Subject(s): Wood WOUNDED HAWK First Line: I have with fishing-rod and line |
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