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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: king henry Matches Found: 121 6TH TO 8TH, by WILLIAM ROSSA COLE Poem Source First Line: King henry said, I've been thoroughly wived Last Line: Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived A CONTEMPLATION UPON FLOWERS, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave flowers, that I could gallant it like you Last Line: Like yours may sweeten and perfume my death. Subject(s): Flowers A LETTER, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ne'er was dress'd in forms; nor can I bend Last Line: Which will in death seal the bold counterpart. A PENTITENTIAL HYMN, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hearken, o god, unto a wretch's cries Last Line: Before I fall into the silent grave. A RENUNCIATION, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We, that did nothing study but the way / to love each other Last Line: As the divorced soul from her body parts. A SALUTATION OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE SOVEREIGN, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Move on, thou floating trophy built to fame Last Line: With thine own triumphs be crown'd sovereign. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping A SECOND ELEGY ON THE COUNTESS OF LEISTER, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, precious ashes, in thy sacred urn Last Line: Whose chiefest joys were in his dearest wife. Subject(s): Stanhope, Katharine. Countess Leinster AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My best of friends! What needs a chain to tie Last Line: Will period, though never crown, my hope. AN ELEGY OCCASIONED BY SICKNESS, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well did the prophet ask, lord, what is man? Last Line: Shall death's black night to endless lustre turn. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness AN ELEGY ON SIR CHARLES LUCAS AND SIR GEORGE LISLE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In measures solemn as the groans that fall Last Line: The monuments of their base cruelty. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Great Britain - Civil War; Injustice; Lisle, Sir George (d. 1648); Lucas, Sir Charles; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English Civil War AN ELEGY UPON MRS. KIRK, UNFORTUNATELY DROWNED IN THAMES, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all the shipwracks, and the liquid graves Last Line: Return'd a venus back to thee again. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks AN ELEGY UPON MY BEST FRIEND, L. K. C., by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should we our sorrows in this method range Last Line: The legacy of your lamented death. Subject(s): Stanhope, Katharine. Countess Leinster AN ELEGY UPON PRINCE HENRY'S DEATH (DIED NOV. 6, 1612), by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep station, nature, and rest, heaven sure Last Line: And glory of our day set in his night. AN ELEGY UPON S. W. R., by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not weep, for 'twere as great a sin Last Line: The world must still admire, scarce imitate. Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF MR. EDWARD HOLT, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether thy father's, or disease's rage Last Line: With marks of valour and of loyalty. Subject(s): Holt, Edward (d. 1643) AN ELEGY UPON THE IMMATURE LOSS OF THE MOST VERTUOUS LADY ANNE RICH, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I envy not thy mortal triumphs, death Last Line: Thus strive to canonize thy memory. Subject(s): Cavendish, Anne. Lady Rich (d. 1638) AN ELEGY UPON THE L. BISHOP OF LONDON, JOHN KING, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad relic of a blessed soul! Whose trust Last Line: The resurrection for his epitaph. Subject(s): King, John. Bishop Of London (d. 1621) AN ELEGY UPON THE MOST INCOMPARABLE KING CHARLES THE FIRST, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call for amazed thoughts, a wounded sense Last Line: If zimri dies in peace that slew his lord. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War AN ELEGY UPON THE MOST VICTORIOUS KING OF SWEDEN, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a cold fatal sweat which ushers death Last Line: Whose influence may crown thy glorious war. Subject(s): Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King (1595-1632); Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King Of Sweden AN ELEGY, OCCASIONED BY LOSS OF THE MOST INCOMPARABLE LADY STANHOPE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light'ned by that dim torch our sorrows bear Last Line: This mournful homage at thy grave to pay. Subject(s): Percy, Anne. Lady Stanhope (d. 1654) AN EPITAPH ON HIS MOST HONORED FRIEND, RICHARD, EARL OF DORSET, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let no profane ignoble foot tread neer Last Line: And want a mourner at his funeral. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sackville, Richard. 3rd Earl Of Dorset AN EPITAPH ON NIOBE TURNED TO STONE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This pile thou seest built out of flesh, not stone Last Line: Is neither tomb nor body, and yet both. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Niobe AN ESSAY ON DEATH AND A PRISON, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A prison is in all things like a grave Last Line: Two prisons quits, the body and the jail. Subject(s): Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Convicts BALLADE OF MYSELF AND MONSIEUR RABELAIS, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King henry hath his amber wine Last Line: Myself and monsieur rabelais. Subject(s): Rabelais, Francois (1483-1553); Yale University BEING WAKED OF MY SLEEP BY A SNUFF OF CANDLE WHICH OFFENDED ME, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps 'twas but conceit. Erroneous sense! Last Line: And kindle them to an eternal flame. Subject(s): Candles BERNARDINE DU BORN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King henry sat upon his throne Last Line: "go forth -- unscathed and free." Subject(s): Bertran De Born (1202-1215); Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Revolutions BY OCCASION OF THE YOUNG PRINCE HIS HAPPY BIRTH, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this glad triumph, when most poets use Last Line: Heir to himself, through all posterity. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) DEATH IS THE FRAME OF LOVE, by ARTHUR HENRY KING Poem Source Last Line: But bone framed joy from love's mere flesh and air Subject(s): Mormons ELEGY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus kiss I your fair hands Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) ENGLANDS REFORMATION FROM THE TIME OF KING HENRY VIII, SELS., by THOMAS WARD Poem Source EPIGRAM, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not in my love too soon prevail Last Line: An easy conquest makes the purchase stale. Subject(s): Courtship EPIGRAM, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fate of books is diverse as man's sense Last Line: Two critics ne'er shar'd one intelligence. Subject(s): Courtship EPIGRAM, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He whose advent'rous keel ploughs the rough seas Last Line: That value wit and arts below their crimes. Subject(s): Courtship EPIGRAM, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When arria to her paetus had bequeath'd Last Line: Tis thine (my paetus) grieves and kills my heart. Subject(s): Courtship EPIGRAM, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To what serve laws, where only money reogns? Last Line: And the court sits, but to allow the price. Subject(s): Courtship GEORGE MEREDITH TO MISS DIXON (JUNE 9, 1892), by HENRY W. KING Poem Text First Line: From box hill, dorking, so the heading reads Last Line: Wrought by the glowing letters of his name. Subject(s): Meredith, George (1828-1909); New York City; Novels & Novelists; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GROOM OF THE CHAMBER'S RELIGION IN KING HENRY THE EIGHTH'S TIME, by JOHN HARRINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of king henry's favourites began Last Line: Conform himself in less than ten days' warning Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John HEBREWS 11: STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS, by ARTHUR HENRY KING Poem Source First Line: Had we a home elsewhere and chose one here? Last Line: One home, all crystal, radiates thy name Subject(s): Mormons HISTORY, by CHRISTOPHER HOWELL Poem Source First Line: At agincourt king henry said, first Last Line: Of the next six hundred years HUNTING SONG (MADE FOR KING HENRY VIII), by UNKNOWN Poem Source I WILL MAKE THEE A TERROR TO THYSELF (JER. XX:4), by ARTHUR HENRY KING Poem Source First Line: I have made endeavour to serve thee, lord Last Line: And, yes, matching %thy love Subject(s): Mormons KING HENRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Lat never a man a wooing wend Last Line: That ga' me a' my will KING HENRY FIFTH'S CONQUEST OF FRANCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As our king lay musing on his bed Last Line: To the rose of england I will give free Subject(s): "henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); KING HENRY IV, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Courage KING HENRY THE SECOND CROWNING HIS SONNE KING OF ENGLAND, by THOMAS DELONEY Poem Source First Line: You parents whose affection found KING HENRY TO FAIR ROSAMOND, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little flow'rs dropping their honey'd KING HENRY TO ROSAMOND, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first the post arrived at my tent KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp Last Line: Upon his dying day. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness KING HENRY V, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Agincourt, Battle Of (1415); Courage; Harfleur, France, Battle Of; History; War KING HENRY VI, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Courage; Faith; History; Religion KING HENRY VII AND THE SHIPWRIGHTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harry, our king in england, from london town is gone Last Line: That they may keep measure with harry our king and peace in engeland! Subject(s): Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Navy - Great Britain; Shipbuilding; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry; English Navy KING HENRY VIII, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LATTER DAYS, by ARTHUR HENRY KING Poem Source First Line: The trees are still in mist this august morning Last Line: Trees will be lost to site one august morning Subject(s): Mormons LOVE'S HARVEST, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond lunatic forbear, why dost thou sue Last Line: Do in effect but cuckold their own bed. Subject(s): Premarital Sex MADAM GABRINA OR THE ILL FAVOR'D CHOICE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have oft wond'red why thou didst elect Last Line: Can mend that night-piece, that is, make her worse. MOUNRFULL DITTIE, ON THE DEATH OF ROSAMOND, KING HENRY, by THOMAS DELONEY Poem Source First Line: Whenas king henry rul'd this land MY MIDNIGHT MEDITATION, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ill-busied man! Why shouldst thou take such care Last Line: There is but one, and that one ever. Subject(s): King, John. Bishop Of London (d. 1621); Mortality ON A BOY'S FIRST READING OF THE PLAY OF 'KING HENRY THE FIFTH', by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate Last Line: "with ""ho! For harry and red agincourt!" Subject(s): Boys; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - King Henry V; Dramatists ON HIS SHADOW, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my shadow, constant, true Last Line: Unless I fall upon her. Subject(s): Shadows ON THE EARL OF ESSEX, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Essex, twice made unhappy by a wife Last Line: Contracted be into a span of dust. Subject(s): Divorce; Essex, Robert Devereaux, 3d Earl Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PARADOX: THAT FRUITION DESTROYS LOVE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is our reason's paradox, which still Last Line: As warm our hands by putting out the fire. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Pygmalion; Troy PARADOX: THAT IT IS BEST FOR A YOUNG MAID TO MARRY AN OLD MAN, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair one, why cannot you an old man love Last Line: Your elevation is for fifty-two. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PROCLAMATION OF KING HENRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At the feet of don henrique now king pedro dead is lying Last Line: Not one remains to cry to god, 'our lord lies murdered here!' Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Love - Loss Of; Murder; Tyranny And Tyrants RECOLLECTION OF THE PORTRAIT OF KING HENRY VIII, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The imperial stature, the colossal stride Last Line: Which neither force shall check nor time abate! Subject(s): Cambridge University; Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547) ROSAMOND: KING HENRY'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish Last Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; King, Henry (1592-1669); Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs ROSAMUND DE CLIFFORD TO KING HENRY III, AFTER SHE HAD TAKEN THE VEIL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry, 'its past! Each painful effort o'er Last Line: That even death was weak to end our love. Subject(s): Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Farewell; Henry Iii, King Of England (1207-1272); Love; Nuns; Redemption; Regret; Salvation; Parting SIC VITA, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the falling of a star Last Line: The flight is past, -- and man forgot! Variant Title(s): Life;of Human Life;such Is Life Subject(s): Death; Life; Mankind; Mortality; Transience; Dead, The; Human Race; Impermanence SILENCE. A SONNET, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, my heart's blab, be ever dumb Last Line: Which carries it, shall prove its tomb. Subject(s): Silence SONNET, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I entreat, either thou wilt not hear Last Line: Wilt be too soon with age or sorrow nighted. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence SONNET, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I prithee turn that face away Last Line: Wish thee less fair, or else more kind. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence SONNET, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, you stars that our affections move Last Line: Bind up all love within my frozen veins. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence SONNET, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were thy heart soft as thou art fair Last Line: Tomb'd in a living cruelty. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence SONNET, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me no more how fair she is Last Line: In that it falls her sacrifice. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence SONNET, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, thou that vainly dost mine eyes invite Last Line: When fierce winds rock them on the foaming wave. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence SONNET. AGAINST WEEPING, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dry those fair, those crystal eyes Last Line: In love with sorrow for thy sake. Subject(s): Discontent; Dissatisfaction SONNET. THE DOUBLE ROCK, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since thou hast view'd some gorgon, and art grown Last Line: To make two rocks each others monument. Subject(s): Winter SONNET. TO PATIENCE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down, stormy passions, down; no more Last Line: Which cures a tempest by a calm. Subject(s): Patience ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that each feather'd chorister doth sing Last Line: Nor search the grave for my lost valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Valentine's Day TELL MEE NO MORE HOW FAIRE SHEE IS, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In that it falles hir sacrifice THE ACQUITTANCE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not knowing who should my acquittance take Last Line: I may to this revealed goddess bow. THE ANNIVERSE: AN ELEGY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So soon grown old! Hast thou been six years dead? Last Line: (like me) with no arithmetic but tears. Subject(s): Anniversaries THE BOY'S ANSWER TO THE BLACKMOOR, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black maid, complain not that I fly Last Line: And then I will bequeath myself to thee. Subject(s): Blacks; Courtship; Love - Cultural Differences THE CHANGE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lov'd as friends now twenty years and more Last Line: When friends are frail and dropping to the grave. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE COMPLAINT, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond, hapless man, lost in thy vain desire Last Line: If it but lodge, will quench, my flame. THE DEFENCE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why slightest thou what I approve? Last Line: To love by judgement, not by sense. Subject(s): Love; Virtue THE DEPARTURE; AN ELEGY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were I to leave no more than a good friend Last Line: Who seals his farewell with a bleeding heart. THE DIRGE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the existence of man's life Last Line: And leaves no epilogue but death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE EXEQUY [ON HIS WIFE], by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accept, thou shrine of my dead saint Last Line: Till we shall meet and never part. Variant Title(s): An Exequy To His Matchless, Never-to-be-forgotten Friend;an Exequy, To His Matchless Never To Be Forgotten Friend Subject(s): Love THE FAREWELL, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, fond love, under whose childinsh whip Last Line: The hollow echo will reply, 'twas I. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE FOFEITURE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dearest, to let you or the world know Last Line: And take myself, as forfeited to you. THE FORLORN HOPE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, vain hope, dost thou my joys suspend? Last Line: By scorning hope, ne'er to rely on thee. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE LABYRINTH, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a crooked labyrinth, and we Last Line: Those never clouded, nor that overcast. Subject(s): Life THE LEGACY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dearest love! When thou and I must part Last Line: Am both testator thus and legacy. Subject(s): Love THE LIBERTY MOTOR, by HENRY W. KING Poem Text First Line: Silent, she rests before the sweeping wing Last Line: He knows she was half born of women's tears. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE RETREAT, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pursue no more (my thoughts!) that false unkind Last Line: As 'tis my firm resolve and last farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE SHORT WOOING, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an oblation set before a shrine Last Line: To stick the coffin of rejected love. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE SURRENDER, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My once dear love! Hapless that I no more Last Line: As the divorced soul from her body parts. Subject(s): Love THE VOW-BREAKER, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first the magic of thine eye Last Line: Will blow out day, and waken death. Subject(s): Betrayal THE WOES OF EAY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous Last Line: Than dark'ned skies above, and hell below. TIMPANOGOS, by ARTHUR HENRY KING Poem Source First Line: Across the silver %network of birch and poplar Last Line: A shiver of gold Subject(s): Mormons TO A FRIEND UPON OVERBURY'S WIFE GIVEN TO HER, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know no fitter subject for your view Last Line: Prove good to you, and perfect as this wife. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A FRIEND UPON OVERBURY'S WIFE GIVEN TO HER (2), by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, who understands you well would swear Last Line: That you the life, and this your copy were. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A LADY WHO SENT ME A COPY OF VERSES AT MY GOING TO BED, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, your art or wit could ne'er devise Last Line: I, as the night invites me, fall asleep. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep TO A. R. UPON OVERBURY'S WIFE GIVEN TO HER, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that I would instruct or tutor you Last Line: What yourself are, what other wives should be. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO HIS FRIENDS OF CHRIST CHURCH, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But is it true, the court mislik'd the play Last Line: All that which they want brain to comprehend. Subject(s): Holyday, Barton (17th Century); Likes & Dislikes; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO HIS UNCONSTANT FRIEND, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But say, thou very woman, why to me Last Line: I shall find ten as fair, and yet more true. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy TO MY DEAR FRIEND BEN JONSON (DIED AUGUST 6, 1637), by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see that wreath, which doth the wearer arm Last Line: A relic fam'd by all posterity. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO MY HONOURED FRIEND MR. GEORGE SANDYS, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is, sir, a confess'd intrusion here Last Line: Who firm'd his name on such a pyramid. Subject(s): Sandys, George (1578-1644) TO MY NOBLE AND JUDICIOUS FRIEND SIR HENRY BLOUNT UPON HIS VOYAGE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I must ever own myself to be Last Line: Whether more your admirer or your friend. Subject(s): Blount, Sir Henry (1602-1682); Sea Voyages TO MY SISTER ANNE KING, WHP CHID ME IN VERSE FOR BEING ANGRY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear nan, I would not have thy counsel lost Last Line: Thou'lt rhyme me back again into my wits. Subject(s): Anger; Sisters TO ONE DEMANDING WHY WINE SPARKLES, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So diamonds sparkle, and thy mistress' eyes Last Line: Then if he took some chilling opiate. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine TO THE QUEEN AT OXFORD, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great lady! That thus, quite against our use Last Line: Whose softest accents will out-tongue my verse. Subject(s): Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England TO THE SAME LADY UPON MR. BURTON'S MELANCHOLY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If in this glass of humours you do find Last Line: By others' melancholy, not your own. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection TWO CHILDREN, DYING OF ONE DISEASE, AND BURIED IN ONE GRAVE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought forth, in sorrow, and bred up in care Last Line: By taking this inheritance of dust. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones UPON A BRAID OF HAIR IN A HEART, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this small character is sent Last Line: Bequeath'd it as my legacy. Subject(s): Hair; Love UPON A TABLE-BOOK PRESENTED TO A LADY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your fair hand receives this little book Last Line: Here, both the scribe and author to become. Subject(s): Books; Reading UPON THE DEATH OF MY EVER CONSTANT FRIEND DOCTOR DONNE, DEAN OF PAUL'S, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To have lived eminent, in a degree Last Line: To forme the diamond, but the diamonds dust. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets UPON THE KING'S HAPPY RETURN FROM SCOTLAND, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So breaks the day, when the returning sun Last Line: In thankful sacrifice for your return. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Homecoming; Scotland - Relations With England UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF J.K., FIRST BORN OF H.K., by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed spirit, thy infant breath Last Line: Since what is thy fate now, must once be mine. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies VETERANS, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a young soldier in king henry's army Last Line: The veteran who shot the killing arrows Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George WISHES TO MY SON, JOHN; FOR THIS NEW, AND ALL SUCCEEDING YEARS, 1630, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If wishes may enrich my boy Last Line: My wishes crowned, in crowning thee. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Sons |
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