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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: rowe, elizabeth Matches Found: 21 Rowe, Elizabeth Singer Poet's Biography 21 poems available by this author A HYMN Poem Text First Line: In vain the dusky night retires Last Line: A near approach to thee? A LAPLANDER'S SONG TO HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Shine out, resplendent god of day Last Line: To seize my orramoor. Subject(s): Lapland; Love BRIGHT OFFERINGS FROM SHEPHERDS First Line: A snowy lamb I've bred, so full of play DESPAIR Poem Text First Line: Oh! Lead me to some solitary gloom Last Line: And to the grave's dark solitude retire. EXPOSTULATION Poem Text First Line: How long, great god, a wretched captive here Last Line: Unthinking sots: kind heaven let me be gone, %I'm tired, I'm sick of this dull farce's repetition HYMN Poem Text First Line: The glorious armies of the sky Last Line: Than cease from praising thee! HYMN OF THE THREE EASTERN MAGI, ADORING OUR SAVIOUR First Line: From those blessed regions where the sun displays Subject(s): Magi PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES, SELS. First Line: What charming voice is that salutes my ear? Last Line: Come forth, my dove, my charming innocence; %how canst thou fear, while I am thy defence? PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: BLUSHING First Line: At thy approach, my cheek with blushes grow Last Line: And thorns to them I sooner would compare %than other beauties to my darling fair PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM First Line: What thy beloved is, we first would know Last Line: What charms unequalled in him dost thou see, %impatient fair! To raise these storms in thee? PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: FRUITFUL TREE First Line: And I as soon would rank a fruitful tree Last Line: And now I charge you, virgins, not to make %the least disturbance, till my love awake PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: SPITEFUL FOXES First Line: Do thou the spiteful foxes then destroy Last Line: Turn my beloved, turn again; and thy %dear sight shall make the lazy moments fly PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: SPOUSA First Line: Commencing all perfection, he is such Last Line: He's altogether-lovely, this is he, %now, virgins! Pity, though you envy me PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: THE BRIDEGROOM First Line: Though all the lower world should ransacked be Last Line: I'll on the hills of frankincense reside, %and pass the time with thee my charming bride SERAPHS IN HEAVEN First Line: To those blest shades, and amaratine bow'rs TO A VERY YOUNG GENTLEMAN AT A DANCING-SCHOOL First Line: So when the queen of love rose from the seas TO CELINDA First Line: I can't, celinda, say, I love Last Line: The treacherous and deluding arts, %of those base things called men TO MADAM S---AT THE COURT Poem Text First Line: Come, prethee, leave the courts Last Line: Can here procure for thee. Subject(s): Country Life TO ONE THAT PERSUADES ME TO LEAVE THE MUSES, SELS. TO ORESETES First Line: To vex the soul with these unjust alarms Last Line: With downcast eyes as languishing an air, %the emblem of lovbe, and of despair UPON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: In what soft language shall my thoughts get free Last Line: My spotless faith shall be for ever thine. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives |
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