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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: sidney, philip Matches Found: 178 Sidney, Philip Poet's Biography 178 poems available by this author A COUNTRY SONG; CANZONE Poem Text First Line: The lad philisides Last Line: More envied phoebus for his western flying. Subject(s): Flowers; Admiration A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO SHEPHERDS, UTTERED IN A PASTORAL SHOW Poem Text First Line: Dick, since we cannot dance, come, let a cheerful voice Last Line: But hence, even hence, I needs must go, such is my dogged fate. ARCADIA, SELS. Variant Title(s): The Countess Of Pembroke's Arcadia, Sels Subject(s): Country Life ARCADIA: CORRELATIVE VERSE Poem Text First Line: Virtue, beauty, and speech did strike, wound, charm Last Line: Mine own, embraced, sought, knot, fire, disease. ARCADIA: PEACE Poem Text First Line: Fair rocks, goodly rivers, sweet woods, when shall I see peace? Last Line: Devils? If in hell such devils do abide, to the hells I do go. Go. Variant Title(s): Echo Subject(s): Peace ARCADIA: POEM Poem Text First Line: Sweet glove, the witness of my secret bliss Last Line: You have my thanks, let me your comfort have. ARCADIA: SAPPHICS Poem Text First Line: If mine eyes can speak to do hearty errand Last Line: Hope, we do live yet. ARCADIA: SESTINA Poem Text First Line: Farewell, o sun, arcadia's clearest light Last Line: Farewell direction, farewell all affection. Variant Title(s): Strephon And Klaius Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses ARCADIA: SOLITARINESS Poem Text First Line: O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness Last Line: For such company decks such solitariness. Variant Title(s): Dorus' Song ARCADIA: THE BARGAIN Poem Text Recitation First Line: My true love hath my heart and I have his Last Line: My true love hath my heart, and I have his. Variant Title(s): "song;phlox - Agreement;heart Exchange;ditty;friendship;arcadian Dialogue;sonnet;true Love;""my True Love Hath My Hart, And I Have His""; Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Life Change Events; Love ASTROPHEL AND STELLA. COMPLETE SONNETS, 1-108 ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 1 Poem Text First Line: Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show Last Line: "fool,"" said my muse to me, ""look in thy heart, and write." Variant Title(s): "loving In Truth;""loving In Truth, And Faine In Verse My Love To Show,""; Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 10 Poem Text First Line: Reason, in faith thou art well served that still Last Line: By reason good, good reason her to love. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 100 Poem Text First Line: O tears! No tears, but rain from beauty's skies Last Line: All mirth farewell, let me in sorrow live. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 101 Poem Text First Line: Stella is sick, and in that sick-bed lies Last Line: Of such heaven stuff, to clothe so heavenly mind. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 102 Poem Text First Line: Where be those roses gone which sweetened so our eyes? Last Line: While beauty's reddest ink venus for him doth stir. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 103 Poem Text First Line: O happy thames that didst my stella bear Last Line: Let honour's self to thee grant highest place.' Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 104 Poem Text First Line: Envious wits, what hath been mine offence Last Line: Do stella love. Fools, who doth it deny? Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 105 Poem Text First Line: Unhappy sight, and hath she vanished by Last Line: With no worse curse than absence makes me taste. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 106 Poem Text First Line: O absent presence! Stella is not here Last Line: Merry with him, and not think of his woe. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 107 Poem Text First Line: Stella, since thou so right a princess art Last Line: And scorning say, 'see, what it is to love!' Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 108 Poem Text First Line: When sorrow, using mine own fire's might Last Line: And in my joys for thee my only annoy. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 109 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Thou blind man's mark, thou fool's self-chosen snare Last Line: Desiring naught but how to kill desire. Variant Title(s): Desire Subject(s): Desire ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 11 Poem Text First Line: In truth, o love, with what a boyish kind Last Line: But, fool, seek'st not to get into her heart. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 110 Poem Text First Line: Leave me, o love, which reachest but to dust Last Line: Eternal love, maintain thy life in me. Variant Title(s): "farewell World;eternal Love;a Farewell;leave Me, O Love;splendidis Longum Valedico Nugis;""leave Me, O Love, Which Reachest But To Dust""; Subject(s): Love ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 12 Poem Text First Line: Cupid, because thou shin'st in stella's eyes Last Line: That to win it, is all the skill and pain. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 13 Poem Text First Line: Phoebus was judge between jove, mars, and love Last Line: The first, thus matched, were scarcely gentlemen. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 14 Poem Text First Line: Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend Last Line: Then love is sin, and let me sinful be. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sin; Suffering; Misery ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 15 Poem Text First Line: You that do search for every purling spring Last Line: Stella behold, and then begin to endite. Variant Title(s): Poetry's Source Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 16 Poem Text First Line: In nature apt to like, when I did see Last Line: As who by being poisoned doth poison know. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 17 Poem Text First Line: His mother dear, cupid offended late Last Line: Falls to shrewd turns; and I was in his way. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 18 Poem Text First Line: With what sharp checks I in myself am shent Last Line: Than that I lose no more for stella's sake. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 19 Poem Text First Line: On cupid's bow how are my heart-strings bent Last Line: Scholar,' saith love, 'bend hitherward your wit.' Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 2 Poem Text First Line: Not at [the] first sight, nor with a dribbed shot Last Line: While with a feeling skill I paint my hell. Variant Title(s): Hit By Love Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 20 Poem Text First Line: Fly, fly, my friends! I have my death wound - fly! Last Line: But ere I could fly thence, it pierced my heart. Subject(s): Love ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 21 Poem Text First Line: Your words, my friend (right healthful caustics), blame Last Line: Hath this world aught so fair as stella is? Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 22 Poem Text First Line: In highest way of heaven the sun did ride Last Line: The sun, which others burned, did her but kiss. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 23 Poem Text First Line: The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness Last Line: But only stella's eyes and stella's heart. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 24 Poem Text First Line: Rich fools there be, whose base and filthy heart Last Line: He knows not, grow in only folly rich. Subject(s): Rich, Robert, 1st Earl Of Warwick ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 25 Poem Text First Line: The wisest scholar of the wight most wise Last Line: And find th' effect, for I do burn in love. Subject(s): Love ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 26 Poem Text First Line: Though dusty wits dare scorn astrology Last Line: By only those two eyes in stella's face. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 27 Poem Text First Line: Because I oft in dark abstracted guise Last Line: Bends all his powers, even unto stella's grace. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 28 Poem Text First Line: You that with allegory's curious frame Last Line: Love only reading unto me this art. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 29 Poem Text First Line: Like some weak lords, neighboured by mighty kings Last Line: Upon that coast, am giv'n up for a slave. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 3 Poem Text First Line: Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine Last Line: But copying is, what in her nature writes. Variant Title(s): "let Daintie Wits Crie On The Sisters Nine""; Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 30 Poem Text First Line: Whether the turkish new moon minded be Last Line: But know not how, for still I think of you. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 31 Poem Text First Line: With how sad steps, o moon, thou climbst the skies Last Line: Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? Variant Title(s): "his Lady's Cruelty;to The Moon;to The Sad Moon;asking The Moon About Love;""with How Sad Steps, O Moone, Thou Climb'st The Skies""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Moon; Faithfulness; Constancy ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 32 Poem Text First Line: Morpheus, the lively son of deadly sleep Last Line: Sweet stella's image I do steal to me.' Subject(s): Sleep ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 33 Poem Text First Line: I might, unhappy word, oh me, I might Last Line: That I had been more foolish, or more wise! Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 34 Poem Text First Line: Come, let me write, and to what end? To ease Last Line: Stella's great powers, that so confuse my mind. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 35 Poem Text First Line: What may words say, or what may words not say Last Line: It is a praise to praise, when thou art praised. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 36 Poem Text First Line: Stella, whence doth this new assault arise Last Line: By sense's privilege, can 'scape from thee. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 37 Poem Text First Line: My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell Last Line: Hath no misfortune, but that rich she is. Variant Title(s): "my Mouth Doth Water, And My Breast Doth Swell""; Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 38 Poem Text First Line: This night, while sleep begins with heavy wings Last Line: But him, her host, that unkind guest had slain. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 39 Poem Text First Line: Come sleep! O sleep, the certain knot of peace Last Line: Livelier than elsewhere stella's image see. Variant Title(s): "song;sleep;to Sleep;""come Sleepe, O Sleepe, The Certaine Knot Of Peace""; Subject(s): Love; Sleep ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 4 Poem Text First Line: Virtue, alas, now let me take some rest Last Line: That, virtue, thou thy self shalt be in love. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 40 Poem Text First Line: As good to write, as for to lie and groan! Last Line: O, do not let thy temple be destroyed. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 41 Poem Text First Line: Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance Last Line: Sent forth the beams, which made so fair my race. Variant Title(s): "having This Day My Horse, My Hand, My Launce""; Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 42 Poem Text First Line: O eyes which do the spheres of beauty move Last Line: Wracks triumphs be, which love (high set) doth breed. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 43 Poem Text First Line: Fair eyes, sweet lips, dear heart, that foolish Last Line: Where well he knows, no man to him can come. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 44 Poem Text First Line: My words I know do well set forth my mind Last Line: Are metamorphosed straight to tunes of joys. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 45 Poem Text First Line: Stella oft sees the very face of woe Last Line: I am not I, pity the tale of me. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 46 Poem Text First Line: I cursed thee oft, I pity now thy case Last Line: Till without fuel you can make hot fire. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 47 Poem Text First Line: What, have I thus betrayed my liberty? Last Line: Doth make my heart give to my tongue the lie! Variant Title(s): "what, Have I Thus Betrayed My Libertie?""; Subject(s): Desire; Freedom; Liberty ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 48 Poem Text First Line: Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me Last Line: A kind of grace is to slay with speed. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 49 Poem Text First Line: I on my horse, and love on me, doth try Last Line: That in the manage myself takes delight. Variant Title(s): "i On My Horse, And Love On Me Doth Trie""; Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Love ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 5 Poem Text First Line: It is most true that eyes are formed to serve Last Line: True; and yet true, that I must stella love. Variant Title(s): "it Is Most True That Eyes Form's To Serve""; Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 50 Poem Text First Line: Stella, the fullness of my thoughts of thee Last Line: Because their forefront bare sweet stella's name. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 51 Poem Text First Line: Pardon mine ears, both I and they do pray Last Line: By such unsuited speech should hindered be. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 52 Poem Text First Line: A strife is grown between virtue and love Last Line: That virtue but that body grant to us. Subject(s): Love; Virtue ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 53 Poem Text First Line: In martial sports I had my cunning tried Last Line: Till that her blush taught me my shame to see. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 54 Poem Text First Line: Because I breathe not love to every one Last Line: They love indeed who quake to say they love. Variant Title(s): "love's Silence;""because I Breathe Not Love To Everie One""; Subject(s): Love ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 55 Poem Text First Line: Muses, I oft invoked your holy aid Last Line: That I well find no eloquence like it. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 56 Poem Text First Line: Fie, school of patience, fie! Your lesson is Last Line: And then with patience bid me bear my fire. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 57 Poem Text First Line: Woe, having made with many fights his own Last Line: So sweets my pains, that my pains me rejoice. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 58 Poem Text First Line: Doubt there hath been, when with his golden chain Last Line: Even those sad words even in sad me did breed. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 59 Poem Text First Line: Dear, why make you more of a dog than me? Last Line: Becomes a clog) will soon ease me of it. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 6 Poem Text First Line: Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain Last Line: When trembling voice brings forth, that I do stella love. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 60 Poem Text First Line: When my good angel guides me to the place Last Line: Blessed in my curse, and cursed in my bliss. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 61 Poem Text First Line: Oft with true sighs, oft with uncalled tears Last Line: That I love not, without I leave to love. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 62 Poem Text First Line: Late tired with woe, even ready for to pine Last Line: Dear, love me not, that you may love me more. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 63 Poem Text First Line: O grammar rules, o now your virtues show Last Line: That in one speech two negatives affirm! Variant Title(s): "grammar-rules;""o Grammer Rules, O Now Your Vertues Show;""; Subject(s): Grammar; Mnemonics ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 64 Poem Text First Line: No more, my dear, no more these counsels try Last Line: Thou art my wit, and thou my virtue art. Variant Title(s): Love Is Enough Subject(s): Love ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 65 Poem Text First Line: Love, by sure proof I may call thee unkind Last Line: Thou bear'st the arrow, I the arrow head. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 66 Poem Text First Line: And do I see some cause a hope to feed Last Line: They fled with blush, which guilty seemed of love. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 67 Poem Text First Line: Hope, art thou true, or dost thou flatter me? Last Line: Rather than by more truth to get more pain. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 68 Poem Text First Line: Stella, the only planet of my light Last Line: It is, so fair a virtue to enjoy. Subject(s): Love ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 69 Poem Text First Line: O joy too high for my low style to show! Last Line: No kings be crowned, but they some covenents make. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 7 Poem Text First Line: When nature made her chief work, stella's eyes Last Line: To honour all their deaths, who for her bleed. Subject(s): Black (color); Eyes ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 70 Poem Text First Line: My muse may well grudge at my heavenly joy Last Line: Wise silence is best music unto bliss. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 71 Poem Text First Line: Who will in fairest book of nature know Last Line: "but ah,"" desire still cries, ""give me some food." Variant Title(s): "yes, But;""who Will In Fairest Booke Of Nature Know""; Subject(s): Desire; Virtue ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 72 Poem Text First Line: Desire, though thou my old companion art Last Line: Now banished art -- but yet, alas, how shall? Subject(s): Love - Erotic ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 73 Poem Text First Line: Love still a boy and oft a wanton is Last Line: That anger's self I needs must kiss again. Variant Title(s): "love Still A Boy, And Oft A Wanton Is""; Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 74 Poem Text First Line: I never drank of aganippe's well Last Line: My lips are sweet, inspired with stella's kiss. Subject(s): Love ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 75 Poem Text First Line: Of all the kings that ever here did reign Last Line: To lose his crown, rather than fail his love. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 76 Poem Text First Line: She comes, and straight therewith her shining twins do move Last Line: Pray that my sun go down with meeker beams to bed. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 77 Poem Text First Line: Those looks, whose beams be joy, whose motion is delight Last Line: Yet ah, my maiden muse doth blush to tell the rest. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 78 Poem Text First Line: O how the pleasant airs of true love be Last Line: Is it not ill that such a devil wants horns? Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 79 Poem Text First Line: Sweet kiss, thy sweets I fain would sweetly indite Last Line: Cease we to praise, now pray we for a kiss. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 8 Poem Text First Line: Love, born in greece, of late fled from his native place Last Line: He burnt unwares his wings, and cannot fly away. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 80 Poem Text First Line: Sweet-swelling lip, well mayest thou swell in pride Last Line: Sweet lip, you teach my mouth with one sweet kiss. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 81 Poem Text First Line: O kiss, which dost those ruddy gems impart Last Line: Stop you my mouth with still still kissing me. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 82 Poem Text First Line: Nymph of the garden where all beauties be Last Line: I will but kiss, I never more will bite. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 83 Poem Text First Line: Good brother philip, I have borne you long Last Line: Leave that, sir phip, lest off your neck be wrung. Subject(s): Sparrows ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 84 Poem Text First Line: Highway, since you my chief parnassus be Last Line: Hundreds of years you stella's feet may kiss. Variant Title(s): The Highway;via Amoris Subject(s): Love; Roads; Paths; Trails ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 85 Poem Text First Line: I see the house. My heart thyself contain! Last Line: Thou but of all the kingly tribute take. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 86 Poem Text First Line: Alas, whence came this change of looks? If I Last Line: No doom should make one's heaven become his hell. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 87 Poem Text First Line: When I was forced from stella ever dear Last Line: I had been vexed, if vexed I had not been. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 88 Poem Text First Line: Out, traitor absence, darest thou counsel me Last Line: United powers make each the stronger be. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 89 Poem Text First Line: Now that of absence the most irksome night Last Line: I feel the flames of hottest summer day. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 9 Poem Text First Line: Queen virtue's court, which some call stella's face Last Line: Of touch they are, and poor I am their straw. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 90 Poem Text First Line: Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame Last Line: And love doth hold my hand, and makes me write. Variant Title(s): "stella, Thinke Not That I By Verse Seeke Fame""; Subject(s): Fame; Reputation ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 91 Poem Text First Line: Stella, while now by honour's cruel might Last Line: Not them, o no, but you in them I love. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 92 Poem Text First Line: Be your words made, good sir, of indian weave Last Line: Say all, and all well said, still say the same. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 93 Poem Text First Line: O fate, o fault, o curse, child of my bliss Last Line: I cry thy sighs; my dear, thy tears I bleed. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 94 Poem Text First Line: Grief, find the words, for thou hast made my brain Last Line: By being placed in such a wretch as I. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 95 Poem Text First Line: Yet sighs, dear sighs, indeed true friends you are Last Line: Thank-worthiest yet, when you shall break my heart. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 96 Poem Text First Line: Thought, with good cause thou likest so well the night Last Line: Thou, though still tired, yet still dost it detest. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 97 Poem Text First Line: Dian, that fain would cheer her friend the night Last Line: While I despair my sun's sight to enjoy. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 98 Poem Text First Line: Ah, bed! The field where joy's peace some do see Last Line: That worms should have their sun, and I want mine. Subject(s): Love ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 99 Poem Text First Line: When far-spent night persuades each mortal eye Last Line: Such light in sense, with such a darkened mind. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: EIGHTH SONG Poem Text First Line: In a grove most rich of shade Last Line: That therewith my song is broken. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: ELEVENTH SONG (LOVER'S DIALOGUE) Poem Text First Line: Who is it that this dark night Last Line: And from louts to run away. Variant Title(s): The Serenade;voices At The Window Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: FIFTH SONG Poem Text First Line: While favour fed my hope, delight with hope was brought Last Line: That all these cruel words your praises shall be proved. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: FIRST SONG (TO STELLA) Poem Text First Line: Doubt you to whom my muse these songs intendeth Last Line: Only in you my song begins and endeth. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: FOURTH SONG Poem Text First Line: Only joy, now here you are Last Line: No, no, no, no, my dear, let be.' Subject(s): Devereux, Penelope (1562-1607); Love ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: NINTH SONG Poem Text First Line: Go, my flock, go get you hence Last Line: Her poor slave's unjust decaying. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: SECOND SONG (STELLA SLEEPING) Poem Text First Line: Have I caught my heavenly jewel Last Line: Fool, more fool, for no more taking. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: SEVENTH SONG (STELLA SINGING) Poem Text First Line: Whose senses in so ill consort their stepdame nature lays Last Line: The very essence of their tunes, when angels do rejoice. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: SIXTH SONG Poem Text First Line: O you that hear this voice Last Line: With limitless renown. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: TENTH SONG Poem Text First Line: O dear life, when shall it be Last Line: At her lips my nectar drinking. Subject(s): Love; Stars ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: THIRD SONG Poem Text First Line: If orpheus' voice had force to breathe such music's love Last Line: O eyes, o ears of men, how are you charmed! Subject(s): Love; Stars EPITAPH ON ARGALUS AND PARTHENIA First Line: His being was in her alone ESPILUS AND THERION First Line: Tune up my voyce, a higher note I yeeld Subject(s): Country Life FORTUNE, NATURE, LOVE Poem Text First Line: Fortune, nature, love, long have contended about me Last Line: But most wretched I am, now love awakes my desire. GET HENCE FOULE GRIEF , FR. ARCADIA Last Line: In stede of thought, true pleasure be begunne, %and never ended HEART AND SOUL Poem Text First Line: O fair! O sweet! When I do look on thee Last Line: Heart and soul do sing in me. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Tune Of A Spanish Song;sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HYMN TO APOLLO First Line: Apollo great, whose beams the greater world do Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical KYNGE DAVID, HYS LAMENTE OVER THE BODYES OF KYNGE SAUL OF ISRAEL Poem Text First Line: Now lette us shede the brinie teare Last Line: How still the weapons of the war. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; War; Judaism LADY OF MAY First Line: To one whose state is raised over all Last Line: Thus woeful I in woe this salve do find, %my foul mishap came yet from fairest mind LAMON'S TALE Poem Text First Line: A shepherd's tale no height of style desires Last Line: Which thus breathed out with earthquake of his heart: LIKE THOSE SICK FOLKS First Line: Like those sick folks in whom strange humours flow Last Line: Sick to the death, still loving my disease NICO AND DORUS First Line: And are you there, old pas! In troth, I ever thought Subject(s): Country Life PASTORAL: DISPRAISE OF A COURTLY LIFE Poem Text First Line: Walking in bright phoebus' blaze Last Line: Void of wishing and repenting. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dyer, Sir Edward (1540-1607); Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke PASTORAL: UPON HIS MEETING WITH TWO WORTHY FRIENDS ... DYER & GREVILLE Poem Text First Line: Join mates in mirth to me Last Line: As one forever joined be. Subject(s): Dyer, Sir Edward (1540-1607); Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke; Poetry & Poets RURAL POESY Poem Text First Line: O words, which fall like summer dew on me Last Line: That she be mine, as I to her am true. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy SHEPHERDS' BRAWL ONE HALF ANSWERING THE OTHER First Line: We love, and have our love rewarded SONNET: 1 Poem Text First Line: Since shunning pain, I ease can never find Last Line: Thou art my lord, and I thy vowed slave. SONNET: 10. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 3 Poem Text First Line: Thou pain, the only guest of loathed constraint Last Line: So stay her tongue that she no more say 'no'. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 11. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 4 Poem Text First Line: And have I heard her say, 'o cruel pain?' Last Line: Where her, who should rule pain, false pain abuseth. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 14 Poem Text First Line: Fair, seek not to be feared, most lovely beloved Last Line: For true it is, that they fear many whom many fear. SONNET: 15. UPON THE DEVICE OF A SEELED DOVE Poem Text First Line: Like as the dove, which seeled up doth fly Last Line: More happy I, might I in bondage bide. Subject(s): Doves SONNET: 16. IN ANSWER TO SIR EDWARD DYER Poem Text First Line: A satyr once did run away for dread Last Line: Who burnt his lips to kiss fair shining fire. Subject(s): Dyer, Sir Edward (1540-1607) SONNET: 17 Poem Text First Line: My mistress lours [lowers], and saith I do not love Last Line: Choler adust is joyed in womankind. SONNET: 18 Poem Text First Line: In wonted walks, since wonted fancies change Last Line: Infected minds infect each thing they see. Subject(s): Love SONNET: 19 Poem Text First Line: If I could think how these my thoughts to leave Last Line: Thought, reason, sense, time, you and I maintain. SONNET: 2 Poem Text First Line: When love, puffed up with rage of high disdain Last Line: To starving minds such is god cupid's dish. SONNET: 20. A FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Oft have I mused, but now at length I find Last Line: From joy I part, still living in annoy. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 21. ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: Finding those beams, which I must ever love Last Line: A blinded mole, or else a burned fly. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 23. TO THE TUNE OF WILHELMUS VAN NASSOUWE Poem Text First Line: Who hath his fancy pleased Last Line: On nature's sweetest light. Variant Title(s): Immortality;song Subject(s): Immortality SONNET: 24. TO THE TUNE OF THE SMOKES OF MELANCHOLY Poem Text First Line: Who hath ever felt the change of love Last Line: Yet shall I die in phoenix' fire. SONNET: 25 Poem Text First Line: When to my deadly pleasure Last Line: All what I am, it is you. Subject(s): Love SONNET: 26. TO THE TUNE OF A NEAPOLITAN SONG Poem Text First Line: No, no, no, no, I cannot hate my foe Last Line: Though in pain, cannot complain: no, no, no, no. Variant Title(s): Song SONNET: 27. TO THE TUNE OF A NEAPOLITAN VILLANELLA Poem Text First Line: All my sense thy sweetness gained Last Line: The less I love, I live the less. SONNET: 3 Poem Text First Line: The fire to see my wrongs for anger burneth Last Line: Though I be hers, she makes of me no treasure. Variant Title(s): The Wronged Lover SONNET: 30 Poem Text First Line: Ring out your bells, let mourning shows be spread Last Line: Good lord, deliver us. Variant Title(s): A Dirge SONNET: 5 Poem Text First Line: O my thoughts' sweet food, my only owner Last Line: Lady my treasure. SONNET: 6 Poem Text First Line: Sleep, baby mine, desire, nurse beauty singeth Last Line: "the babe cries ""nay, for that abide I waking." Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Tune Of Basciami Vita Mia;child-song SONNET: 8. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 1 Poem Text First Line: The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace Last Line: More loving eyes she draws, more hate thou hast. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 9. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 2 Poem Text First Line: Woe, woe to me, on me return the smart Last Line: And swear she is not worthy thee to have. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery STONEHENGE Poem Text First Line: Near wilton sweet huge heaps of stone are found Last Line: She is the cause that all the rest I am. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 22. The Seven Wonders Of England Subject(s): England; Stonehenge; English SUGARED KISS First Line: My star, because a sugared kiss THE NIGHTINGALE Poem Text First Line: The nightingale, as soon as april bringeth Last Line: Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth. Variant Title(s): Philomela;sonnet: 4 Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales TWO SONGS FOR AN ACCESSION DAY TILE: 1 Poem Text First Line: Philisides, the shepherd good and true Last Line: That who runs best is fortuned once to miss. TWO SONGS FOR AN ACCESSION DAY TILE: 2 Poem Text First Line: Sing, neighbours, sing; hear you not say Last Line: Good lord, deliver us. WHAT LENGTH OF VERSE First Line: What length of verse can serve brave mopsa's good to show Last Line: Happy be they which will believe, and never seek the rest WOOING STUFF Poem Text First Line: Faint amorist! What, dost thou think Last Line: The dainties of his chaste desire. WORD AGAINST WIVES First Line: Shrewdnes so stirres, pride so puffes up their hart Last Line: Wherein the birde doth never sing but cry Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage |
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