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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: parnell, thomas Matches Found: 20 Parnell, Thomas Poet's Biography 20 poems available by this author A HYMN TO CONTENTMENT Poem Text First Line: Lovely, lasting peace of mind! Last Line: Or own the next begun in this. Subject(s): Contentment A NIGHT-PIECE ON DEATH Poem Text First Line: By the blue taper's trembling light, / no more I waste the wakeful night Last Line: "and mingle with the blaze of day." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ALLEGORY ON MAN First Line: A thoughtful being, long and spare AN ELEGY: TO AN OLD BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: In vain, poor nymph, to please our youthful sight Last Line: He wrapped in wisdom, and they whirled by whim. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty ANACREONTIC (1) First Line: When spring came on with fresh delight ANACREONTIC (2) First Line: Gay bacchus liking estcourt's wine ANGEL OR WOMAN Poem Text First Line: When thy beauty appears Last Line: But still be a woman to you! Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Beauty; Innocence; Love BOOKWORM Poem Text First Line: Come hither, boy, we'll hunt today Last Line: Ye critics! Born to vex the muse, %go mourn the grand ally you lose Subject(s): Books FAIRY TALE IN THE ANCIENT ENGLISH STYLE First Line: In britain's isle and arthur's days FLIES: AN ECLOGUE First Line: When in the river cows for coolness stand HEALTH: AN ECLOGUE First Line: Now early shepherds o'er the meadow pass HESIOD; OR, THE RISE OF WOMAN First Line: What ancient times, those times we fancy wise IMITATION OF SOME FRENCH VERSES First Line: Relentless time! Destroying power ON A LADY WITH FOUL BREATH First Line: Art thou alive? It cannot be Last Line: As doves, pursued by birds of prey, %venture with milder man to stay Subject(s): Halitosis SMALL SILVER-COLOURED BOOKWORM First Line: Insatiate brute, whose teeth abuse SONG Poem Text First Line: My days have been so wondrous free Last Line: I cannot wish it less. SONG First Line: Thyrsis, a young and amorous swain THE HERMIT Poem Text First Line: Far in a wild, unknown to public view Last Line: And pass'd a life of piety and peace. Subject(s): Hermits TO MR. POPE First Line: To praise, yet still with due respect to praise Subject(s): Poetry And Poets VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF GRACE LADY GETHIN First Line: After a painful life in study spent Last Line: And all we ought or can, in this dark state, %is what we have admir'd to imitate Subject(s): Books |
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