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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: surrey, Matches Found: 45 Howard, Henry Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of 45 poems available by this author A PRAISE OF HIS LOVE Poem Text First Line: Give place, ye lovers, here before Last Line: To match the candle with the sun. Variant Title(s): His Incomparable Lady;in His Lady's Praise Subject(s): Admiration; Love A SATIRE ON LONDON Poem Text First Line: London, hast thou accused me Last Line: Immortal praise with one accord. Subject(s): London A WOMAN'S ANSWER Poem Text First Line: Girt in my guiltless gown, as I sit here and sew Last Line: Hath me defended hitherto, and will do still I trust. ALTHOUGH I HAD A CHECK ANOTHER TRIBUTE TO WYATT Poem Text First Line: In the rude age when knowledge [or, science] was not so rife Last Line: Whose cinders yet with envy they do eat. Subject(s): Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542) AS OFT AS I BEHOLD AND SEE BONUM EST MIHI QUOD HUMILIASTI ME Poem Text First Line: The storms are past, these clouds are overblown Last Line: For britain's sake, alas, and now is dead. CERTAIN BOOKS OF VIRGIL'S AENEIS : CREUSA First Line: And now we gan draw near unto the gate Last Line: Took up my sire, and hasted to the hill CERTAIN BOOKS OF VIRGIL'S AENEIS : DIDO IN LOVE First Line: Such words enflamed the kindled mind with love Last Line: So to beguile the love cannot be told COMPLAINT OF THE ABSENCE OF HER LOVER BEING UPON THE SEA Poem Text First Line: O happy dames! That may embrace Last Line: -- now he comes! Will he come? Alas! No, no. Variant Title(s): The Seafarer Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation COMPLAINT OF THE LOVER DISDAINED Poem Text First Line: In cyprus springs, whereas dame venus dwelt Last Line: My service thus is growne into disdayne. Subject(s): Love - Complaints COMPLAINT THAT HIS LADIE AFTER SHE KNEW OF HIS LOVE KEPT... First Line: I nevr sawe my ladye laye apart Last Line: In somer, sunne: in winters breathe, a frost: %wherby the light of her faire lokes I lost DESCRIPTION AND PRAISE OF HIS LOVE GERALDINE Poem Text First Line: From tuscan came my lady's worthy race Last Line: Happy is he that can obtain her love. Subject(s): Fitzgerald, Elizabeth (b. 1528) DESCRIPTION OF SPRING Poem Text First Line: The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings Last Line: Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. Variant Title(s): "description Of Spring, Wherein Each Thing Renews Save Only The Lover;spring;summer;summer Is Come;sonnet;summer Is Gone;morte 42: Sonetto (imitated From Petrarch);spring, But;""the Soote Season, That Bud And Blome Furth Bringes""; Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness DESCRIPTION OF THE RESTLESS STATE OF A LOVER Poem Text First Line: The sun hath twice brought forth the tender green Last Line: Shall well appear and by my death be seen. EPITAPH ON THOMAS CLERE, SURREY'S FAITHFUL FRIEND AND FOLLOWER Poem Text First Line: Norfolk sprung thee, lambeth holds thee dead Last Line: Heaven had not won, nor earth so timely lost. Subject(s): Clere, Thomas (d. 1545); War HARPALUS First Line: Phylida was a fayre mayde HARPALUS' COMPLAINT OF PHILLIDA'S LOVE BESTOWED ON CORIN First Line: Phillida was a fair maid Subject(s): Country Life IF CARE DO CAUSE MEN CRY, WHY DO NOT I COMPLAIN? IF HE THAT ERST THE FORM SO LIVELY DREW IN PRAISE OF WYATT'S PSALMS Poem Text First Line: The great macedon that out of persia chased Last Line: Mought them awake out of their sinful sleep. Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542) IN WINTER'S JUST RETURN, WHEN BOREAS GAN HIS REIGN LINES TO RATCLIF [RADCLIFFE] Poem Text First Line: My ratclif [radcliffe], when thy reckless youth offends Last Line: But wyatt said true, the scar doth aye endure. Variant Title(s): Exhortacion To Learne By Others Trouble Subject(s): Radcliffe, Thomas, 3d Earl Of Sussex (1526-1583) LOVE'S REBEL Poem Text First Line: When summer took in hand the winter to assail Last Line: Strive not with love, for if ye do, it will ye thus befall. Variant Title(s): Complaint Of A Lover, That Defied Love O LOATHSOME PLACE! WHERE I OF A LADY THAT REFUSED TO DANCE WITH HIM First Line: Each beast can choose his fere according to his mind ON THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS WYATT Poem Text First Line: Wyatt resteth here that quick could never rest Last Line: The earth his bones, the heavens possess his ghost. Variant Title(s): Tribute To Wyatt;an Excellent Epitaph Of Sir Thomas Wyatt Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542) PRISONED IN WINDSOR, HE RECOUNTETH HIS PLEASURE THERE PASSED Poem Text First Line: So cruel prison how could betide, alas Last Line: To banish the less, I find my chief relief. Variant Title(s): In Windsor Castle Subject(s): Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Prisons & Prisoners; Windsor Castle; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry; Convicts SARDANAPALUS Poem Text First Line: The assyrian king - in peace, with foul desire Last Line: Murdered himself, to show some manful deed. Subject(s): Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Mythology - Classical; Sardanapalus (7th Century B.c.); Suicide SINCE FORTUNE'S WRATH ENVIETH THE WEALTH SUCH WAYWARD WAYS HATH LOVE, THAT MOST PART IN DISCORD THE CORNET Poem Text First Line: I never saw you, madam, lay apart Last Line: Of your fair eyes whereby the light is lost. Variant Title(s): "i Never Saw You, Madam, Lay Apart""; THE DEATH OF WYATT Poem Text First Line: Divers thy death do diversely bemoan Last Line: As pyramus did on thisbe's breast bewail. Subject(s): Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542) THE FRAILTY AND HURTFULNESS OF BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Brittle beauty that nature made so frail Last Line: Today ready ripe, tomorrow all too shaken. Subject(s): Love THE GOLDEN GIFT Poem Text First Line: The golden gift that nature did thee give Last Line: Who seeks alway thine honor to preserve. THE LADY AGAIN COMPLAINS Poem Text First Line: Good ladies, you that have your pleasure in exile Last Line: Do your good will to cure a wight that liveth in distress. THE LOVER COMFORTETH HIMSELF WITH THE WORTHINESS OF HIS LOVE Poem Text First Line: When raging love with extreme pain Last Line: Joyful at length may be my fare. Variant Title(s): Consolation Subject(s): Love THE RESTLESS HEART Poem Text First Line: The fancy, which that I have served long Last Line: Against my will, full pleased with my pain. THOUGH I REGARDED NOT TOO DEARLY HAD I BOUGHT MY GREEN AND YOUTHFUL YEARS UNDER HOUSE ARREST IN WINDSOR Poem Text First Line: When windsor walls sustained my wearied arm Last Line: And I half bent to throw me down withal. Subject(s): Children; Prisons & Prisoners; Windsor Castle; Childhood; Convicts WHEN RECKLESS YOUTH IN AN UNQUIET BREAST WHEN YOUTH HAD LED ME HALF THE RACE WRAPT IN MY CARELESS CLOAK, AS I WALK TO AND FRO YOUTH AND AGE Poem Text First Line: Laid in my quiet bed, in study as I were Last Line: If, to their time, they reason had, to know the truth of this.' Variant Title(s): The Age Of Children Happiest;from Boy To Man;how The Age Of Children Is The Happiest;no Age Content With His Own Estate;how No Age Is Content With His Own Estate Subject(s): Aging; Discontent; Youth; Dissatisfaction |
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