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Keyword: alexander montgomerie
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ADIEU TO HIS MISTRESS, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu, o daisy of delight
Last Line: Sic blissing in kissing %I quit till we twa meet
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)
Variant Title(s): A Farewell; He Bids Adieu To His Mistres


ADMONITION TO YOUNG LASSES, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bonnie 'no' with smiling looks again
Last Line: Flee whilom love, and it will follow thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


AWAY VANE WORLD, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away vane world, bewitcher of my hairt!
Last Line: Chryst is my love alone - I feir not
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


BANKIS OF HELICON, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Declare, ye bankis of helicon
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


BIRD COMMITTEE, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cushat crouds, the corbie cries
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)
Variant Title(s): The Cusha
Subject(s): Birds


DESCRIPTION OF TYME, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tak tyme in tym, or tym will not be tane
Last Line: Tak tyme in tyme, or tyme will not be tane
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


EVIN DEAD BEHOLD I BREATHE., by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For I am bound to byd
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)
Subject(s): Love


MAY-MORN AND CUPID, FR. THE CHERRY AND THE SLAE, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About ane bank, where birdis on bewis
Last Line: At fountain helicon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


NEW YEAR CAROL, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we bring new water
Last Line: And the bugles they do shine
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


SONNET TO HIS MISTRESS, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright amorous e'e where love in ambush lies
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


SWEETHEART, REJOICE IN MIND, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My awn true love she is, %that loves her paramours
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


THE NIGHT [NICHT] IS NEAR [NIGH] GONE, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey! Now the day dawis
Last Line: The nicht is neir gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)
Variant Title(s): Aubade
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


THE ROYAL PALACE OF THE HIGHEST HEAVEN, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


THE SOLSEQUIUM, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like [lak] as the dumb solsequium, with care
Last Line: Fareweill, with patience perforce till day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Mythology - Classical; Sun


THIS IS THE KEY, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the key of the kingdom
Last Line: Of the kingdom this is the key
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


TO HENRY CONSTABLE AND HENRY KEIR, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adew, my king, court, cuntrey, and my kin
Last Line: I must poerforce ga seik my fathers sword
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


TO HIS MAISTRES, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So swete a kis yistrene fra thee I reft
Last Line: Even in thyn armes, thair doutles had I deit
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)
Subject(s): Love


TO R. HUDSON, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My best belovit brother of the band
Last Line: Let christian lyndsay wryt our epitaphis
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)


TO THEE FOR ME, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet nightingale! In holene green that haunt
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)