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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: warton, thomas Matches Found: 79 Warton The Elder, Thomas Poet's Biography 50 poems available by this author A FAREWELL TO POETRY Poem Text First Line: Arcadian scenes adieu! In cyrrha's vale Last Line: Tho' ev'ry moving trill be steep'd in tears. Subject(s): Duty; Farewell; Great Britain; Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Parting A FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE Poem Text First Line: Shall essenc'd coxcombs who from toilettes Last Line: Own the supreme omnipotence of gold. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Sin; Vanity; Virtue A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH Poem Text First Line: High on the loftiest mountain-tops, unfurl Last Line: And harp, where eccho'd once thy feastful halls. Subject(s): Advice; Bible; Desolation; God; Vengeance; War A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH ODE OF THE 3RD BOOK OF HORACE Poem Text First Line: While sol with thee, dear fountain, plays Last Line: While you reign each a naïad of the stream. Subject(s): Fountains; Nature; Praise; Water; Youth A PARAPHRASE ON THE 65TH PSALM Poem Text First Line: To thee, jehovah, grateful sion sings Last Line: And the full valleys laugh and sing and shout around. Subject(s): Bible; Earth; God; Nature; Praise; Prayer; World A PARAPHRASE ON...LEVITICUS: 11; CONTAINING REASONS OF PROHIBITIONS Poem Text First Line: Of feathred foules, that fanne the bucksom aire Last Line: Flittyng, with littel leathren sailes dispredde. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Food & Eating; Religion; Theology A RUNIC ODE Poem Text First Line: Yes - 'tis decreed my sword no more Last Line: As e'er in battle bar'd my breast. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; War; Dead, The AGAINST DRESS, TO A LADY Poem Text First Line: Why will neaera fondly deck Last Line: Untaught and artless charm the vale. Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress; Nature; Vanity AN AMERICAN LOVE-ODE; TAKEN FROM SECOND VOLUME OF MONTAGNE'S ESSAYS Poem Text First Line: Stay, stay, thou lovely, fearful snake Last Line: Stay, lovely, fearful adder stay. Subject(s): Animals; Love; Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592); Snakes; United States; Serpents; Vipers; America AN ELEGY ON AN INFANT Poem Text First Line: Come, shepherds, on this grave your flourets Last Line: In safety listens to the distant shrieks. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Innocence; Lament; Mourning; Nature; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement AN EPISTLE TO DR. GUIBBONS, A CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN Poem Text First Line: To trace all-wondrous nature's latent ways Last Line: Should be himself detain'd amidst us too. Subject(s): Death; Healing; Letters; Nature; Physicians; Praise; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors AN INVOCATION TO A WATER-NYMPH Poem Text First Line: Fair pearl crown'd nymph, whose gushing Last Line: That o'er thy cavern waves his solemn shade. Subject(s): Nature; Nymphs; Praise AN ODE WRITTEN ON A GROTTO NEAR FARNHAM IN SURRY, CALL'D LUDLOW'S CAVE Poem Text First Line: Close in this deep retreat Last Line: "change it for a darker grave." Subject(s): Death; Nature; Nymphs; Rest; Virtue; Dead, The ANOTHER RUNIC ODE Poem Text First Line: At length appears the wish'd-for night Last Line: I smile in the embrace of death! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; War; Dead, The ASTROPHIL TO HIS SON, AGED SEVEN MONTHS Poem Text First Line: O thou! With whom I fondly share Last Line: As idle—but less innocent. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Innocence; Pleasure; Infants; Childhood AVARO, A TALE Poem Text First Line: Fast by the trent (whose gods this fable tell) Last Line: So pride foretels we ne'er can need relief! Subject(s): Envy; Farm Life; Greed; Knights & Knighthood; Pride; Story-telling; Agriculture; Farmers; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect CUPID ACQUITTED, A TALE Poem Text First Line: Whenever jove renews mankind Last Line: And pray—what answer shall they make? Subject(s): Cupid; Jupiter (god); Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPISTLE TO DR. YOUNG UPON HIS POEM ON THE LAST DAY Poem Text First Line: Now let the atheist tremble, thou alone Last Line: And practise o'er the angel in the man. Subject(s): Advice; Atheism; Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1787 Poem Text First Line: The noblest bards of albion's choir Last Line: His lyre had blameless been, his tribute all sincere. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Exiles; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Muses FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1789 Poem Text First Line: As when the demon of the summer storm Last Line: Albion the garland gives on this distinguish'd day. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Health FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1790 Poem Text First Line: Within what fountain's craggy cell Last Line: And wafts their pomp of war, and spreads their thunder wide! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Health MAMMON'S PLEA: A TALE Poem Text First Line: Many seeming weak acts by contrivance are done Last Line: "may'r, aldermen, burgesses, town-clerk, and all." Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Devil; Greed; Law & Lawyers; Story-telling; Wills; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Avarice; Cupidity ODE Poem Text First Line: To tinkling brooks, to twilight shades Last Line: "virtue alone is bliss compleat." Subject(s): Nature; Pleasure; Solitude; Virtue; Loneliness ODE ON THE PASSION Poem Text First Line: In sable clad, urania come Last Line: And proud captivity an humbled captive led! Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Crucifixion; Death; Passion; Piety; Prayer; Sin; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The ODE TO SLEEP Poem Text First Line: O gentle, feather-footed sleep Last Line: Confounds pale, trembling catiline. Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Forgetfulness; Rest; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares ODE TO TASTE Poem Text First Line: Leave not britannia's isle,since pope is fled Last Line: Hurl'd wildly to the ground! Subject(s): Civilization; Great Britain; Poetry & Poets OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF PLEASURE; TO A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: All human race, from china to peru Last Line: Enjoy unlimited benevolence! Subject(s): Business; Greed; History; Mankind; Pleasure; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Avarice; Cupidity; Historians; Human Race; Journeys; Trips ON A BEAUTY WITH ILL QUALITIES Poem Text First Line: Mistaken nature here has join'd Last Line: As unsuspected, as unseen. Subject(s): Beauty; Deception; Duplicity; Deceit ON A GENTLEMAN WHOSE MISTRESS HAD AN ILL BREATH Poem Text First Line: Lovers 'tis said are blind Last Line: Nor egypt-like, adore a nauseous leek. Subject(s): Halitosis; Love; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances ON LUXURY Poem Text First Line: Why, ye profuse, has nature work'd in vain Last Line: Too deeply bosom'd in the branching wood. Subject(s): Great Britain; Nature; Pleasure; Vanity ON MAY MORNING, TO A LADY Poem Text First Line: Winter no more the weeping fields deforms Last Line: And in their bosoms feel another spring. Subject(s): Forests; May (month); Morning; Nature; Nymphs; Praise; Solitude; Spring; Woods; Loneliness ON WOMEN Poem Text First Line: Three talents to the fair belong Last Line: While thus th' inchanted rashly help it on. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Virtue; Women; Male-female Relations PHILANDER, AN IMITATION OF SPENCER: ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM LEVINZ Poem Text First Line: Give me, ye weeping nine Last Line: And you in stella see philanders yet unborn! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Piety; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Spencer, William Robert (1769-1834); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement RETIREMENT: AN ODE Poem Text First Line: On beds of daisies idly laid Last Line: Meet to adore some calf of gold. Subject(s): Greed; Happiness; Labor & Laborers; Nature; Pleasure; Retirement; Avarice; Cupidity; Joy; Delight; Work; Workers STANZAS IMITATED FROM PSALM 99 Poem Text First Line: Say, how shall thoughtless, easy-natur'd youth Last Line: Thy name to honour, and thy law to love. Subject(s): Bible; Forgiveness; God; Prayer; Sin; Clemency STANZAS ON THE PSALMS Poem Text First Line: Not the songs that nobly tell Last Line: As jove by great jehovah is excell'd. Subject(s): Bible; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE EIGHTH ODE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED Poem Text First Line: If ever justice with her iron hand Last Line: Debauch'd, like danäe, with a golden show'r? Subject(s): Deception; Great Britain; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Justice; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets; Revenge THE GLUTTON Poem Text First Line: Fat, pamper'd porus, eating for renown Last Line: No fashion's dupe, no powerful passion's slave. Subject(s): Disease; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Pleasure; Simplicity THE REGAL DREAM Poem Text First Line: Twas on the day that bosworth field was won Last Line: Eternally to mourn a matchless queen. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Grief; Mourning; Prophecy & Prophets; Story-telling; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE SECOND EPODE OF HORACE IMITATED Poem Text First Line: Happy the man who free from cares and strife Last Line: In innocence of joy and rural mirth. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunting; Nature; Praise; Quiet Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Hunters THE SONG OF JUDITH, PARAPHAS'D FROM THE APOCRYPHA Poem Text First Line: Begin the song! To god the timbrels strike Last Line: Roll'd in a deluge of sulphureous flame! Subject(s): Bible; Death; Duty; God; Grief; Israel; Judith (bible); Revenge; Seduction; War; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO A CERTAIN VOLUMINOUS SCRIBLER Poem Text First Line: Forbear the public to abuse Last Line: Dy'd of a diabetes. Subject(s): Death; Diabetes; Writing & Writers; Dead, The TO A FRIEND ON HIS MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: When peleus wedded on thessalia's plain Last Line: Grow impotent and rotten in a stew. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Pleasure; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO HER MAJESTY CAROLINE ON HER ACCESSION TO THE THRONE Poem Text First Line: An english muse shall close the solemn scene Last Line: And rocks, and clouds, and trees, in little landskips rise. Subject(s): Colonialism; Courts & Courtiers; Creative Ability; Great Britain; Love; Praise; Inspiration; Creativity TO MR. ADDISON, OCCASIONED BY RETURN FROM HANOVER WITH LORD HALIFAX Poem Text First Line: O for a muse of fire and lofty style Last Line: But language fails to give th'ideas birth. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Praise; War TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE DODINGTON, ESQ. Poem Text First Line: As late I rov'd by lodon's whispering stream Last Line: "when on that theme my young and thomson fail?'" Subject(s): Apollo; Bubb Dodington, George. Baron Melcombe; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Praise; Inspiration; Creativity VERSES LEFT ON A LADY'S TOILETTE Poem Text First Line: Why will young flavia, all-accomplisht fair Last Line: Who tire with gems and silks the dazled eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Grace; Simplicity; Vanity; Women VERSES ON HENRY THE EIGHTH'S SEIZING THE ABBEY-LANDS Poem Text First Line: There liv'd a race to good charissa dear Last Line: Forgetful of the blood that stain'd his fearful stream. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Greed; Grief; Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness VERSES WRITTEN AFTER FACING WINDSOR CASTLE Poem Text First Line: From beauteous windsor's high and story'd halls Last Line: Prefers to all his little straw-built home. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Home; Windsor Castle WRITTEN IN A LADY'S WATCH-CASE Poem Text First Line: Beauteous machine! Let love thy movements Last Line: That cupid nicks with nicer art than zuare. Subject(s): Love; Nymphs; Watches Warton The Younger, Thomas Poet's Biography 29 poems available by this author CRUSADE First Line: Bound for holy palestine Last Line: Ye barons, to the sun unfold %our cross with crimson wove and gold! Subject(s): Crusades; Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199) EURIPIDES, SELS. First Line: Music! Why thy power employ FAIRIES First Line: Little was king laurin, but from FIRST OF APRIL, SELS. First Line: Scant along the ridgy land FIRST OF APRIL, SELS. First Line: With dalliance rude young zephyr woos FIRST OF APRIL, SELS. First Line: Mindful of disaster past HAMLET, SELS. First Line: The hinds how blest, who ne'er beguiled MONODY WRITTEN NEAR STRATFORD-UPON-AVON First Line: Avon, thy rural views, thy pastures wild ODE ON HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY, JUNE 4, 1788, SELS. First Line: What native genius taught the britons bold ODE TO A FRIEND ON HIS LEAVING ... VILLAGE IN HAMPSHIRE First Line: Ah, mourn, thou loved retreat! No more Subject(s): Landscape ODE TO SLEEP First Line: On this my pensive pillow, pensive sleep! ODE: 4. SOLITUDE, AT AN INN First Line: Oft upon athe twilight plain ON BATHING First Line: When late the trees were stript by winter pale ON HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY, JUNE 4, 1787 First Line: The noblest bards of albion's choir ON KING ARTHUR'S ROUND TABLE AT WINCHESTER First Line: Where venta's norman castle still uprears Last Line: Yet spenser's page, that chants in verse sublime %those chiefs, shall live unconscious of decay Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) ON THE MARIAGE OF THE KING: OF GEORGE, AND PROPERTY Poem Text First Line: Lo! This the land, where freedom's sacred rage Last Line: And guards, while plenty gives, the golden grain. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Property; Possessions PLEASURES OF MELANCHOLY First Line: Mother of musings, contemplation sage Last Line: Of wood-hung meinai, stream of druids old, %that laved his hallowed haunt with dashing wave Subject(s): Melancholy RETIREMENT; INSCRIPTION IN A HERMITAGE Poem Text First Line: Beneath this stony roof reclined Last Line: Prefer the blameless hermitage? Subject(s): Nature SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT WINSLADE, HAMPSHIRE First Line: Winslade, thy beech-capt hills SONNET: 3: WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF DUGDALE'S MONASTICON Poem Text First Line: Deem not devoid of elegance the sage Last Line: Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. Subject(s): Books; Reading SONNET: 4: WRITTEN AT STONEHENGE First Line: Thou noblest monument of albion's isle! Last Line: Studious to trace thy wondrous origin, %we muse on many an ancient tale renowned Subject(s): Stonehenge SONNET: 5: WRITTEN AFTER SEEING COLLECTION OF PICTURES AT WILTON HOUSE Poem Text First Line: From pembroke's princely dome, where mimic art Last Line: And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall. Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Wilton House, Wiltshire, England SONNET: 7. ON SUMMER Poem Text First Line: While summer suns o'er the gay prospect play'd Last Line: I wished her green attire, and wonted bloom! Subject(s): Seasons SONNET: 9. TO THE RIVER LODON Poem Text First Line: Ah! What a weary race my feet have run Last Line: Nor with the muse's laurel unbestowed. Variant Title(s): On Revisiting The River Lodon Subject(s): Rivers THE GRAVE OF KING ARTHUR Poem Text First Line: Stately the feast, and high the cheer Last Line: The daily dirge, and rites divine. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Graves; Arthur, King; Tombs; Tombstones THE PROGRESS OF DISCONTENT Poem Text First Line: When now, mature in classic knowledge Last Line: And in pursuit alone it pleases. Subject(s): Clergy; Discontent; Life; Oxford University; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dissatisfaction TO MR. GRAY First Line: Not that her blooms are mark'd with beauty's hue Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Poetry And Poets TRIUMPH OF ISIS, SELS. VERSES ON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLD'S PAINTED WINDOW AT NEW COLLEGE Poem Text First Line: Ah, stay thy treacherous hand, forbear to trace Last Line: The willing graces to the gothic pole. |
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