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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: wilmot john, Matches Found: 118 Wilmot, John Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of 118 poems available by this author A DIALOGUE BETWEEN STREPHON AND DAPHNE Poem Text First Line: Prithee now, fond fool, give o'er Last Line: Making fools, than keeping lovers. Subject(s): Women A FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Tir'd with the noysom follies of the age Last Line: Unthinking c[harle]s, rul'd by unthinking thee. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A LETTER FROM ARTEMISA IN THE TOWN TO CHLOE IN THE COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Chloe, / in verse by your command I write Last Line: Farewell. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women A PASTORAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN ALEXIS AND STREPHON Poem Text First Line: There sighs not on the plain Last Line: Or at her feet despair. A RODOMONTADE ON HIS CRUEL MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Trust not that thing called woman: she is worse Last Line: The devil, and be the damning of us all. Variant Title(s): Impromptu Subject(s): Women A SATIRE [OR, SATYR] AGAINST MANKIND Poem Text First Line: Were I (who to my cost already am) Last Line: Man differs more from man, than man from beast. Variant Title(s): Homo Sapiens Subject(s): Ingelo, Nathaniel (1621-1683); Mankind; Meres, Sir Thomas (1635-1715); Patrick, Simon (1626-1707); Reason; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A SATYR Poem Text First Line: Must I with patience ever silent sit Last Line: Or who'd be safe and senseless like tom thinn? Subject(s): Gwynn, Eleanor (nell) (1650-1687); Hewitt, George. Viscount Hewytt Of Goran; How, John Grubman (1657-1722); Savage, Thomas. Earl Rivers (1628-1694); Savile, George. Marquis Of Halifax; Thynne Of Longleat, Thomas (1648-1682); Villiers, Edward (1620-1689) A SCAEN OF SIR ROBERT HOARD'S PLAY Poem Text First Line: Lead faster on why creep you thus to fight Last Line: Finis Subject(s): Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698); War A SESSION OF THE POETS Poem Text First Line: Since the sons of the muses, grew num'rous, and loud Last Line: For he had writ plays, yet ne're came in print. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Betterton, Tom (1635-1710); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets A SONG (1) Poem Text First Line: My dear mistress has a heart Last Line: Should we live one day asunder. Subject(s): Jealousy A SONG (2) Poem Text First Line: Leave this gaudy gilded stage Last Line: When neither overcomes, love's triumph greater is. Subject(s): Love A SONG OF A YOUNG LADY TO HER ANCIENT LOVER Poem Text First Line: Ancient person, for whom I Last Line: Ancient person of my heart. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences A SONG, IN IMITATION OF SIR JOHN EATON Poem Text First Line: Too late, alas! I must confess Last Line: Betray a tender story. A VERY HEROICAL EPISTLE IN ANSWER TO EPHELIA Poem Text First Line: Madam, / if you're deceived, it is not by my cheat Last Line: Disturbed by swords, like damocles his feast. Subject(s): Sheffield, John (1648-1721); Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of; Mulgrave, 3d Earl Of AGAINST CONSTANCY Poem Text First Line: Tell me no more of constancy Last Line: And fate change me to worms. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy AGAINST MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: Out of mere love and arrant devotion Last Line: But the hell-fire of marriage none can endure. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN ALLUSION TO HORACE, THE TENTH SATYR OF THE FIRST BOOK Poem Text First Line: Well, sir, 'tis granted I said dryden's rhymes Last Line: Approve my sense: I count their censure fame. Subject(s): Busby, Richard (1606-1695); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Godolphin, Sidney (1610-1643); Horace (65-8 B.c.); Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Scroope, Sir Carr (d. 1680); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724 AN EPISTOLARY ESSAY FROM M.G. TO O.B. UPON MUTUAL POEMS Poem Text First Line: Dear friend, / I hear this town does so abound Last Line: Of idle rumor, keep at home and write. Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700); Sheffield, John (1648-1721); Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of; Mulgrave, 3d Earl Of ANSWER TO A PAPER OF VERSES SENT HIM BY LADY BETTY FELTON Poem Text First Line: What strange surprise to meet such words as these Last Line: Pleased in my arms to find herself alive. AS CONCERNING MAN Poem Text First Line: To what intent or purpose was man made Last Line: Than thus to be perplex'd: god save the queen. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race CHASTE ARABIAN BIRD First Line: Tis the arabian bird alone CONSIDERATUS CONSIDERANDUS Poem Text First Line: What pleasures can the gaudy world afford? Last Line: As we on indians glass, for gems intrude. CONSTANCY Poem Text First Line: I cannot change, as others do Last Line: Can never break in vain. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy CORINNA First Line: The meanest, common slut, who long has grown DIALOGUE First Line: When to the king I bid good morrow Last Line: From mazarin, that new pretender, %and from that politique, grammont Subject(s): Grammont, Philibert, Comte De; Gwynn, Eleanor (nell) (1650-1687); Knight, Mary; Mazarin, Jules (1602-1661); Porter, George (1622-1683) DRAFT OF A DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Dearest armilla could you once but guesse Last Line: To dye your vasall then to have shame EPIGRAM ON SAMUEL PORDAGE Poem Text First Line: Poet, whoe'er thou art, god damn thee Last Line: Go hang thyself, and burn thy mariamne. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights EPIGRAM ON THOMAS OTWAY Poem Text First Line: To form a plot Last Line: Defaceth god's in every character. Subject(s): Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM WRITTEN ON THE BED-CHAMBER DOOR OF CHARLES II First Line: Here lies our mutton-loving king EPILOGUE TO 'CIRCE' Poem Text First Line: Some few, from wit, have this true maxim got Last Line: To stand or fall with beauty on his side. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics EPILOGUE TO 'LOVE IN THE DARK' AS IT WAS SPOKE BY MR. HAINES Poem Text First Line: As charms are nonsense, nonsense seems a charm Last Line: While men of wit find one another here. Subject(s): Theater & Theaters EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRE AGAINST MANKIND First Line: All this with indignation have I hurl'd Last Line: If such there are, yet grant me this at least, %man differs more from man, than man from beast Variant Title(s): Epilogue To The Satire Of Ma EPISTLE Poem Text First Line: Could I but make my wishes insolent Last Line: My rival is below your power to bless. EPITAPH ON CHARLES II Poem Text First Line: Here lies our sovereign lord the king Last Line: Nor ever did a wise one. Variant Title(s): King Charles Ii;on Charles Ii Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Epitaphs FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: What vain, unnecessary things are men! Last Line: Both are a... GRECIAN KINDNESS: A SONG Poem Text First Line: The utmost grace the greeks could shew Last Line: Lulled her asleep, and then grew drunk. Subject(s): Greece; Kindness; Greeks I PROMISED SYLVIA Poem Text First Line: I promised sylvia to be true Last Line: Away both leaf and promise flew. IMPERFECT ENJOYMENT First Line: Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms Last Line: To do the wronged corinna right for thee Subject(s): Love IMPROMPTU Poem Text First Line: By heavens! 'twas bravely done Last Line: And then to fall like phaeton. IMPROMPTU ON CHARLES II (1) Poem Text First Line: We have a pretty witty king Last Line: And never did a wise one. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) IMPROMPTU ON CHARLES II (2) Poem Text First Line: God bless our good and gracious king, / whose promise none relies on Last Line: Nor ever did a wise one. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) IMPROMPTU ON LOUIS XIV Poem Text First Line: Lorraine you stole; by fraud you got burgundy Last Line: Flanders you bought; but, gad! You'll pay for 't one day. Subject(s): Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715) IMPROMPTU ON THE ENGLISH COURT Poem Text First Line: Here's monmouth the witty Last Line: And the king for a grand politician. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers INSULTING BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Insulting beauty! You misspend Last Line: Am killed by your disdain. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LETTER FROM MISS PRICE TO LORD CHESTERFIELD Poem Text First Line: My lord, / these are the gloves that I did mention Last Line: But only for your recreation. Subject(s): Gloves; Price, Henrietta Maria; Stanhope, Philip Dormer (1694-1773); Mittens; Muffs; Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of LETTER, SELS. First Line: Love - the most generous passion of the mind Subject(s): Love LOVE AND LIFE. A SONG Poem Text First Line: All my past life is mine no more Last Line: Tis all that heaven allows. Variant Title(s): The Present Moment Subject(s): Fidelity; Time; Faithfulness; Constancy LOVELY LASS TO A FRIAR CAME MORE DULLNESS First Line: But dulness sits at helm, and in this age MY LORD ALL-PRIDE Poem Text First Line: Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells Last Line: This knight o' th' burning pestle makes us sport. Subject(s): Sheffield, John (1648-1721); Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of; Mulgrave, 3d Earl Of ODE TO NOTHING First Line: Great negative! How vainly would the wise Last Line: Flow swiftly into thee, and in thee ever end ON KING CHARLES, FOR WHICH HE WAS BANISHED THE COURT Poem Text First Line: In the isle of great britain long since famous known Last Line: E'er she can raise the member she enjoys. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) ON POET NINNY Poem Text First Line: Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring Last Line: Than what thy very friends have said before. Subject(s): Scroope, Sir Carr (d. 1680) ON ROME'S PARDONS Poem Text First Line: If rome can pardon sins, as romans hold Last Line: To gull 'em of their souls and money too. Subject(s): Roman Empire ON THE SUPPOSED AUTHOR OF A LATE POEM IN DEFENCE OF SATYR Poem Text First Line: To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain Last Line: For anything entirely but an ass. Subject(s): Scroope, Sir Carr (d. 1680) ON THE WOMEN ABOUT TOWN Poem Text First Line: Too long the wise commons have been in debate Last Line: Must be damned in the cup like unworthy receivers. Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Women PINDARICK Poem Text First Line: Let antients boast no more Last Line: Whilst her great name confronts eternity. Subject(s): Cavendish, William. 1st Duke Devonshire; Palmer, Barbara. Duchess Of Cleveland PLAIN DEALINGS DOWNFALL Poem Text First Line: Long time plain dealing in the hauty town Last Line: Whil's k PROLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Gentle reproofs have long been try'd in vain Last Line: To fright away the vermin of the age. RAMBLE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK First Line: Much wine had passed, with grave discourse Last Line: And may no woman better thrive %that dares prophane the cunt I swive! Subject(s): Aretino, Pietro (1492-1556); Obscenity; Poetry And Poets; Sanderson, Lady Bridget (1592-1682); St. James Park, London; Sutton, Sir Edward (d. 1695) RHYME TO LISBON Poem Text First Line: A health to kate! Last Line: Who made her bone his bone. Subject(s): Catherine Of Bragnza, Queen Of England; Rhyme; Toasts ROCHESTER EXTEMPORE Poem Text First Line: And after singing psalm the twelfth Last Line: "I am a rascal, that thou know'st!" Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ROCHESTER'S CONFERENCE WITH A POST BOY Poem Text First Line: Son of a whore, god damn you! Can you tell Last Line: The readiest way, my lord's by rochester. Subject(s): Accidents; Villains In Literature ROYAL ANGLER First Line: Methinks, I see our mighty monarch stand Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) SAB: LOST; DRAMATIC FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: She yields, she yields! Pale envy said amen Last Line: Artless and witless, no way meriting... Subject(s): Seduction SATIRES: 51. UPON NOTHING Poem Text First Line: Nothing! Thou elder brother even to shade Last Line: Flow swiftly into thee, and in thee ever end. Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids SATYR AGAINST MANKIND: 273 First Line: You see how far mans wisedom here extends Last Line: For all men, wou'd be cowards if they durst SECOND PROLOGUE AT COURT TO 'THE EMPRESS OF MOROCCO', BY LADY HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Wit has of late took up a trick t' appear Last Line: For love will ever make the triumph yours. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Courts & Courtiers; Howard, Lady Betty (d. 1683); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724) SIGNIOR DILDO First Line: You ladies all of merry england Last Line: And had not their weight retarded the foe, %indeed 't had gone hard with signior dildo SODOM; OR, THE QUINTESSENCE OF DEBAUCHERY, SELS. Subject(s): Sodom SONG (1) Poem Text First Line: Love a woman? You're an ass Last Line: Does the trick worth forty wenches. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Misogyny; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONG (10) Poem Text First Line: Fair chloris in a pigsty lay Last Line: She's innocent and pleased. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Erotic; Nightmares SONG (11) Poem Text First Line: Phyllis, be gentler, I advise Last Line: And never know the joy. Subject(s): Carpe Diem SONG (12) Poem Text First Line: What cruel pains corinna takes Last Line: Her vassal should undo her. SONG (13) First Line: Quoth the duchess of cleveland to counselor knight Last Line: Of a dozen of pricks for a dozen of ale Subject(s): Churchill, John. 1st Duke Of Marlborough; Jermyn, Henry. Baron Dover Of Dover; Knight, Mary; Palmer, Barbara. Duchess Of Cleveland; Prostitution SONG (14) Poem Text First Line: How happy, chloris, were they free Last Line: The lusty juice of men. Subject(s): Passion SONG (15) First Line: By all love's soft, yet mighty powers Last Line: At phyllis in foul linen Subject(s): Erotic Love SONG (16) Poem Text First Line: Phillis misfortunes that can be exprest Last Line: The utmost rigor of relentless fate SONG (17) Poem Text First Line: Your glory phillis is in being loved Last Line: While there remains one sensible or brave SONG (18) Poem Text First Line: Cloris to love without return Last Line: Which you soe hardly use SONG (19) Poem Text First Line: Corrina vainly I pretend Last Line: His fauls dominion does prove SONG (2) Poem Text First Line: Give me leave to rail at you Last Line: And makes the slave grow pleased and vain. Subject(s): Love SONG (3) First Line: Dear, from thine arms SONG (4) Poem Text First Line: While on those lovely looks I gaze Last Line: The vanquished die with pleasure. Subject(s): Desire; Love SONG (5) Poem Text First Line: At last you'll force me to confess Last Line: Betray a kinder story. SONG (6) Poem Text First Line: Absent from thee I languish still Last Line: And lose my everlasting rest. Variant Title(s): Return Subject(s): Absence; Fidelity; Separation; Isolation; Faithfulness; Constancy SONG (7) Poem Text First Line: Injurious charmer of my vanquished heart Last Line: Together both expire. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy SONG (8) Poem Text First Line: Twas a dispute 'twixt heaven and earth Last Line: Had so returned unhallowed to the skies. SONG (9) Poem Text First Line: As chloris full of harmless thought Last Line: And yielded to the swain. Subject(s): Love - Erotic SPOKEN .. TO A COUNTRY CLERK .. HAVING HEARD HIM SING PSALMS Poem Text First Line: Sternhold and hopkins had great qualms Last Line: By god! 'twould have made him mad. Subject(s): Bible; Hopkins, John (d. 1570); Sternhold, Thomas (d. 1549) THE ADVICE Poem Text First Line: All things submit themselves to your command Last Line: Forgoing sense for a fantastic name. Subject(s): Love THE ANSWER Poem Text First Line: Nothing adds to your fond fire Last Line: And kill the rebel in your arms. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE BULLY Poem Text First Line: Room, room for a blade of the town Last Line: And there's an end of bully. Subject(s): Bullies THE DISCOVERY Poem Text First Line: Celia, the faithful servant you disown Last Line: Since, dying, I must be no more your slave. Subject(s): Love THE FALL Poem Text First Line: How blest was the created state Last Line: You love me for the frailer part. Subject(s): Bible; Love; Religion; Theology THE HISTORY OF INSPIDS; A LAMPOON Poem Text First Line: Chast, pious, prudent, charles the second Last Line: Prove wretched, king'd by storks and loggs. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Great Britain - History; English History THE IMPERFECT ENJOYMENT Poem Text First Line: Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms Last Line: To do the wrong'd corinna right for thee. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Impotence THE MAIMED DEBAUCHEE Poem Text First Line: As some brave admiral, in former war Last Line: And being good for nothing else, be wise. Variant Title(s): The Disabled Debauchee Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seduction; Villains In Literature; Seamen; Sails THE MISTRESS; A SONG Poem Text First Line: An age in her embraces passed [past] Last Line: And make us blessed at last. Variant Title(s): Of His Mistress Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE PLATONIC LADY Poem Text First Line: I could love thee till I die Last Line: And we will all the pleasures prove... Subject(s): Love - Erotic THE SUBMISSION Poem Text First Line: To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms Last Line: At the thought of those joys I should meet in her arms. Subject(s): Love TIMON, A SATYR Poem Text First Line: What timon! Does old age begin t' approach Last Line: To drink bear glass, and hear the hectors roar. Subject(s): Boileau, Nicholas (1636-1711); Porter, George (1622-1683); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724); Women TO A LADY: IN A LETTER Poem Text First Line: Such perfect bliss, fair chloris, we Last Line: The juice of lusty men. Subject(s): Passion TO CHUSE A FRIEND, BUT NEVER MARRY First Line: To all young men that love to woo TO HER SACRED MAJESTY, THE QUEEN MOTHER, ON DEATH OF MARY Poem Text First Line: Respite, great queen, your just and hasty fears Last Line: And dereliction adds unto remove. Subject(s): Death - Children; Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England; Death - Babies TO HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? O, why Last Line: Stretch'd out no farther than from me to thee! Subject(s): Love; Quarles, Francis (1592-1644) TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY, ON HIS RESTORATION IN THE YEAR 1660 Poem Text First Line: Virtue's triumphant shrine! Who dost engage Last Line: By daring loyalty, your wilmot's son. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) TO MY MORE THAN MERITORIOUS WIFE Poem Text First Line: I am, by fate, slave to your will Last Line: John. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TUNBRIDGE WELLS Poem Text First Line: At five this morn, when phoebus raised his head Last Line: Did seem to me by much the wiser creature. Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Tunbridge Wells, England UNDER KING CHARLES II'S PICTURE Poem Text First Line: I, john roberts, writ this same Last Line: In honor of my master's master, king charles the second by name. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) UPON HIS LEAVING HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Tis not that I am weary grown Last Line: And be the mistress of mankind. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy VALENTINIAN; A TRAGEDY: ACT 3, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: But see my lady wakes and comes this way Last Line: No hour of joy in th' absence of my lord. VALENTINIAN; A TRAGEDY: THE SOLILOQUY OF MAXIMUS Poem Text First Line: Tis then a certain truth that I am wrong'd Last Line: Him and my shame I'le tread into one grave. WITHIN THE CANOPY OF LEAVES First Line: What dost thou fear? WOMAN First Line: Her temper so extravagant we find WOMAN'S HONOUR Poem Text First Line: Love bade me hope, and I obeyed Last Line: In women, mean distrustful shame. Subject(s): Women WRITTEN IN A LADY'S PRAYER BOOK Poem Text First Line: Fling this useless book away Last Line: Through all the joys on earth to those above. Subject(s): Books; Love; Reading WRITTEN IN LADY'S PRAYER BOOK First Line: Fling this useless book away Last Line: Through all the joys on earth to those above Subject(s): Love |
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