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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: waller edmund, Matches Found: 48 Waller, Edmund Poet's Biography 48 poems available by this author APOLOGY FOR HAVING LOVED BEFORE First Line: They that never had the use AT PENSHURST (1) First Line: While in the park I sing, the listening deer Subject(s): Penshurst, England AT PENSHURST (2) First Line: Had sacharissa lived when mortals made Last Line: His humble love whose hopes shall ne'er rise higher %than for a pardon that he dares admire Subject(s): Penshurst, England; Sidney, Lady Dorothy (1617-1684) BATTLE OF THE SUMMER ISLANDS Poem Text First Line: Aid me bellona, while the dreadful fight Last Line: But while I do these pleasing dreams indite, %I am diverted from the promised fight Subject(s): Bermuda CHLORIS AND HYLAS (MADE TO A SARABAND) Poem Text First Line: Hylas, o hylas! Why sit we mute Last Line: The oak now resembles which lightning hath blasted. FADE, FLOWERS, FADE HIS MAJESTY'S ESCAPE AT ST. ANDREWS, SELS. First Line: While to his harp divine arion sings MY CHARMER First Line: Sweetness, truth, and every grace OF A FAIR LADY PLAYING WITH A SNAKE Poem Text First Line: Strange that such horror and such grace Last Line: A marble one so warmed would speak. Variant Title(s): To A Fair Lady Playing With A Snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers OF ENGLISH VERSE Poem Text First Line: Poets may boast [as safely vain] Last Line: But as long liv'd as present love. Variant Title(s): English Verse Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OF MY LADY ISABELLA PLAYING ON THE LUTE Poem Text First Line: Such moving sounds from such a careless touch Last Line: His flaming rome, and as it burn'd, he play'd. Subject(s): Lutes; Music & Musicians OF THE LAST VERSES IN THE BOOK Poem Text First Line: When we for age could neither read nor write Last Line: That stand upon the threshold of the new. Variant Title(s): The Self Banished (1);on The Foregoing Divine Poems;of His Divine Poems;on The Last Verses In His Book Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON A GIRDLE Poem Text First Line: That which her slender waist confined Last Line: Take all the rest the sun goes round! Subject(s): Admiration; Clothing & Dress; Girdles; Love ON A PAINTED LADY WITH ILL TEETH First Line: Were men so dull they could not see ON ST. JAMES PARK, AS LATELY IMPROVED BY HIS MAJESTY Poem Text First Line: Of the first paradice there's nothing found Subject(s): Parks ON THE FRIENDSHIP BETWIXT TWO LADIES Poem Text First Line: Tell me, lovely, loving pair! Last Line: Or with more consent do move. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians ON THE HEAD OF A STAG First Line: So we some antique hero's strength Last Line: Heaven with these engines had been scaled, %when mountains heaped on mountains failed ON THE STATUE OF KING CHARLES I AT CHARING CROSS First Line: That the first charles does here in triumph. Last Line: Loud as the trumpet of surviving fame Subject(s): Art And Artists; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Statues ON THE TWO DWARFS THAT WERE MARRIED AT COURT Poem Text First Line: Design, or chance, makes others wive Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE TWO DWARFS THAT WERE MARRIED AT COURT First Line: Design, or chance, makes others wive Last Line: As love has me for only you Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage PANEGYRICK TO MY LORD PROTECTOR Poem Text First Line: While with a strong, yet a gentle hand Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) PUBLIC GARDENS (ON ST. JAMES' PARK) First Line: Methinks I see the love that shall be made Last Line: And the loud echo which returns the notes SAY, LOVELY DREAM Subject(s): Dreams SONG Poem Text First Line: Go, lovely rose Last Line: That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Variant Title(s): The Rose Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Flowers; Love; Modesty; Roses; Transience; Impermanence SONG First Line: Chloris farewell; I must go SONG First Line: Stay, phoebus, stay! Last Line: Would fix your beams, and make it ever day, %did not the rolling earth snatch her away Subject(s): Love SOUL'S DARK COTTAGE, BATTERED AND DECAYED First Line: The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd THE BUD Poem Text First Line: Lately on yonder swelling bush Last Line: To wax more soft, her youth invades Subject(s): Carpe Diem THE SELF BANISHED (2) Poem Text First Line: It is not that I love you less Last Line: The vow I made to love you too. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE STORY OF PHOEBUS [OR APOLLO] AND DAPHNE APPLIED Poem Text First Line: Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train Last Line: He catched at love, and filled his arms with bays. Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology; Mythology - Classical TO A FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR'S, A PERSON OF HONOURS First Line: Bold is the man that dares engage Last Line: I wish the throng of great and good %made it less eas'ly understood Subject(s): Books TO A LADY IN A GARDEN First Line: Sees not my love how times resumes Last Line: Nor would I indulge my passion TO A LADY SINGING Poem Text First Line: While I listen to thy voice Last Line: Is that they sing, and that they love. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers TO AMORET First Line: Fair! That you may truly know Last Line: Then smile on me, and I will prove %winder is shorter-lived than love TO CHLORIS Poem Text First Line: Chloris, yourself you so excel Last Line: But of his voice, the boy had mourned. Variant Title(s): To A Lady In Retirement;to A Lady Singing Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs TO CHLORIS, UPON A FAVOUR RECEIVED First Line: Chloris, since first our calm of peace Last Line: With treasure from her yielding boughs TO FLAVIA First Line: Tis not your beauty can engage Last Line: Their very shadows make us yield: %dissemble well, and win the field Subject(s): Love TO MR. HENRY LAWES Poem Text First Line: Verse makes heroic virtue live Last Line: Let words and sense be set by thee. Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Noy, William; Singing & Singers TO MY YOUNG LADY LUCY SIDNEY Poem Text First Line: Why came I so untimely forth Last Line: All that was promised by the spring. Variant Title(s): To A Very Young Lady TO ONE MARRIED TO AN OLD MAN Poem Text First Line: Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms Last Line: Upon thy tender limbs! And so good night. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences TO ONE WHO WROTE AGAINST A FAIR LADY First Line: What fury has provoked thy wit to dare TO PHILLIS First Line: Phillis, why should we delay Last Line: For the joys we now may prove, %take advice of present love Variant Title(s): To Phylli Subject(s): Carpe Diem TO THE KING ON HIS NAVY UNDER A LADY'S PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Some ages hence, for it must not decay Last Line: And better fate, had perished alone. Subject(s): Love UPON MR. JOHN FLETCHER'S PLAYES First Line: Fletcher, to thee, wee doe not only owe Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Poetry And Poets UPON OUR LATE LOSS OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE First Line: The failing blossoms, which a young plant bears Last Line: As a first-fruit, heaven claim'd that lovely boy; %the next shall live, and be the nation's joy Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death - Children WAR WITH SPAIN, SELS. WRITTEN IN MY LADY SPEKE'S SINGING-BOOK First Line: Her fair eyes, if they could see Last Line: But the image of her graces %fills my heart and leaves no spaces |
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