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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: wither, george Matches Found: 84 Wither, George Poet's Biography poems available by this author A CHRISTMAS CAROL Poem Text First Line: So now is come our joyfulst feast Last Line: Bear witness we are merry! Variant Title(s): An Christmas Carroll;old Christmas;our Joyful Feast;christmas Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Home A LOVE SONNET Poem Text First Line: I loved a lass, a fair one Last Line: Falero, lero, loo. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A MADRIGAL Poem Text First Line: Amaryllis I did woo / and I courted phillis too Last Line: Barred the hope of all the rest. A NYMPH'S SONG; IN PRAISE OF THE LOVER OF VIRTUE Poem Text First Line: Gentle swain, good speed befall thee Last Line: Shall by some be thought restored. Subject(s): Virtue A ROCKING HYMN Poem Text First Line: Sweet baby, sleep! What ails my dear? Last Line: Be still, my babe, sweet baby, sleep. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The A SATIRE WRITTEN TO KING JAMES I, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Did I not know a great man's power and might Last Line: Into the mouth of ruin without hope. Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) A STOLEN KISS Poem Text First Line: Now gentle sleep hath closed up those eyes Last Line: And twenty hundred thousand more for loan. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings ABUSES STRIPT AND WHIPT, SELS. ADMIRE NOT, SHEPHERD'S BOY Subject(s): Country Life AH ME! AM I THE SWAINE AN EPITAPH UPON A WOMAN, AND HER CHILD, BURIED TOGETHER Poem Text First Line: Beneath this marble stone doth lye Last Line: For, tree, and fruit, shall spring againe. Subject(s): Children; Graves; Mothers; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones ASPIRATION Subject(s): Religion AT A SHEEP-SHEARING First Line: Give me those flowers there, dorcas CHRISTMAS DAY Poem Text First Line: As on the night before this happy morn Last Line: And showeth favour unto men. Subject(s): Christmas Carols CONQUERED KING, SELS. First Line: Kinhs who without control the sceptre sway'd Last Line: Will soon grow dangerous unless you heed them Subject(s): Freedom CONSOLATIONS OF POETRY First Line: She doth for my comfort stay DAVID'S THANKSGIVING First Line: Oh, lord, our everlasting god! ECLOGUE First Line: Yea; but no man is still Subject(s): Country Life EPITHALAMION Poem Text First Line: Bright northern star, and great minerva's peer Last Line: I'le find a meanes to make it knowne for ever. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EVENING HYMN First Line: Behold the sun, that seem'd but now FAIR VIRTUE: A POET'S HOME Poem Text First Line: Two pretty rills do meet, and meeting make Last Line: A sweeter plot of earth than this had been. Subject(s): Home FAIR VIRTUE: HER BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Her true beauty leaves behind Last Line: In a worthy woman's face. Subject(s): Beauty FAIR VIRTUE: RHOMBOIDAL DIRGE Poem Text First Line: Ah me! Last Line: I die! FAIR VIRTUE: SONNET: 2 First Line: Hence away, you sirens, leave me Last Line: Will sit and smile %to see you spend your time in vain Variant Title(s): Fair Virtue: A Steadfast Shepher Subject(s): Shepherds And Shepherdesses FAIR VIRTUE: SONNET: 5 First Line: I wandered out a while agone Last Line: Love angry grew and did depart, %and now I care for neither FAIR VIRTUE: SWEET GRACES First Line: Think not, thought, my muse now sings FIDELIA: 4. THE AUTHOR'S RESOLUTION IN A SONNET Poem Text First Line: Shall I, wasting in despair Last Line: What care I, for whom she be? Variant Title(s): The Lover's Resolution;shepherd's Resolution;the Resolution;the Manly Heart Subject(s): Love - Complaints FIRST SONG OF ESAI First Line: A song of him whom I love best FOR A POET First Line: By art a poet is not made Last Line: My soul in peace departs away Subject(s): Bible; Religion FOR A SERVANT First Line: Discourage not thyself, my soul FOR A WIDOWER OR WIDOW Poem Text First Line: How near me came the hand of death Last Line: The being of a faithful friend. Variant Title(s): A Widow's Hymn;hymn For A Widower Or A Widow Deprived Of A Loving .. Fellow Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR ONE THAT HEARS HIMSELF MUCH PRAISED First Line: My sins and follies, lord! By thee FOR SUMMER TIME Poem Text First Line: Now the glories of the year Last Line: Everything which I enjoy. Subject(s): Love GLORIA IN EXCELSIS First Line: The angels sung, and thus sing we Subject(s): Christmas HALLELUJA, SELS. HER DIVINE SKILL TAUGHT ME THIS Last Line: Than all nature's beauties can %in some wise man Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers HEZEKIAH'S THANKSGIVING First Line: When I suppos'd my time was at an end HYMN FOR ANNIVERSARY MARRIAGE DAYS First Line: Lord, living, here are we IN A CLEAR STARRY NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Lord, when those glorious lights I see Last Line: We may be raised from below. Variant Title(s): Hymn And Prayer For The Use Of Believers Subject(s): God; Prayer LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH First Line: How sad and solitary now (alas!) LEMUEL'S SONG First Line: Who finds a woman good and wise Variant Title(s): The Song Of King Lemue LILIES WITHOUT, LILIES WITHIN LONDON DURING PLAGUE First Line: So long the solitary nights did last Subject(s): Sleep MISTRESS OF PHILARETE, SELS. MORNING HYMN First Line: Since thou hast added now, o god! MUSE First Line: She doth tell me where to borrow Variant Title(s): Companionship Of The Mus ON THE MUSE OF POETRY First Line: In my former days of bliss POVERY, SELS. First Line: The works my calling doth propose PRAYER OF DANIEL First Line: Lord god almighty! Great, and full of fear PRAYER OF HABAKKUK First Line: Lord, thy answer I did hear PRAYER OF HEZEKIAH First Line: O lord of hosts, and god of israel! PRAYER OF JONAH First Line: In my distress to thee I cried, oh lord! PRAYER OF NEHEMIAH First Line: Lord god of heav'n! Who only art PROTECTOR, SELS. First Line: This glorious title hath in it exprest Last Line: Loud-sounding titles which our fathers chose Subject(s): Freedom SECOND SONG OF ESAI First Line: Lord, I will sing to thee SECOND SONG OF MOSES First Line: To what I speak, an ear, ye heavens SHEPHERD'S SWAIN First Line: You, that at a blush can tell Subject(s): Country Life SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP SOLDIER First Line: Now in myself I notice take Subject(s): Courage SONG Poem Text First Line: Lordly gallants! Tell me this Last Line: I as brave shall be as you. SONG OF DEBORAH AND BARAK First Line: Sing praises, israel, to the lord SONG OF HANNAH First Line: Now in the lord my heart doth pleasure take SONNET: ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY Poem Text First Line: Methought his royal person did foretell Last Line: Of her o'er-daring and insulting pride. Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612) SWEET BABY, SLEEP TEN COMMANDMENTS First Line: The great almighty spake, and thus said he Subject(s): Ten Commandments THE CHOICE Poem Text First Line: Me so oft my fancy drew Last Line: Will not make a fairer creature. THE FIRST SONG OF MOSES Poem Text First Line: Now shall the praises of the lord be sung Last Line: The seed of israel safe and dry-shod came. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Judaism THE LAMENTATION OF DAVID OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN HIS SON Poem Text First Line: Thy beauty, israel, is gone Last Line: How warlike instruments decay! Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Jonathan (bible); Judaism THE MARIGOLD Poem Text First Line: When with a serious musing I behold Last Line: Which merit not the service we bestow.... Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Poetry & Poets THE PRAYER OF OLD AGE Poem Text First Line: As this my carnal robe grows old Last Line: Which will abide for evermore. THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING: PRELUDE Poem Text First Line: Seest thou not, in clearest days Last Line: What makes knaves and fools of them. THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING: THE FIFTH EGLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Philaret alexis moves Last Line: Never was any that more sweetly sung. Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628); Browne, William (1591-1645); Ferrar, William (17th Century); Prisons & Prisoners THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING: THE FIRST EGLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Willy leaves his flock a while Last Line: Prethee, willy, do. Subject(s): Browne, William (1591-1645); Prisons & Prisoners THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING: THE FOURTH EGLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Philaret on willy calls Last Line: If thou come next holy-day. Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628); Browne, William (1591-1645); Country Life; Ferrar, William (17th Century); Prisons & Prisoners THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING: THE SECOND EGLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Cuddy here relates, how all Last Line: Let us depart and keepe the pointed houre. Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628); Browne, William (1591-1645); Prisons & Prisoners THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING: THE THIRD EGLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Philarete with his three friends Last Line: While those that wish thee ill, fret, pine, and perish. Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628); Browne, William (1591-1645); Ferrar, William (17th Century); Prisons & Prisoners THIRD SONG OF ESAI First Line: A city now we have obtain'd TO THE AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: Tis known I scorn to flatter, or commend Last Line: Tis prais'd by wiser and more learn'd than he. Subject(s): Browne, William (1591-1645) TOBACCO First Line: The indian weed, withered quite Subject(s): Smoking TOBACCO'S BUT AN INDIAN WEED Poem Text Last Line: Think of this when you smoke some tobacco. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TWELFTH DAY, OR THE EPIPHANY First Line: That so thy blessed birth, o christ VOICE WHICH I DID MORE ESTEEM WHEN WE ARE UPON THE SEAS Poem Text First Line: On those great waters now I am Last Line: Due thanks and praise to thee. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean WHIL'ST I, THE SUNNE'S BRIGHT FACE MAY VIEW |
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