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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PREFATORY EPISTLE TO THE REVIEWERS, by MARIA FALCONAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stay, gentle child of taste! Who'er thou art
Last Line: Shall shine an ode in quarto to your praise.'
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets


ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I weep for adonais -- he is dead
Last Line: Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.
Variant Title(s): Adonais
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Death; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


AGAINST WRITERS THAT CARP AT OTHER MEN'S BOOKS, by JOHN HARRINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The readers and the hearers like my books
Last Line: I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John
Variant Title(s): Of Writers That Carp ... Other Men's Books
Subject(s): Books; Critics & Criticism; Reading


ALL FOR LOVE, OR THE WORLD WELL LOST: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What flocks of critics hover here to-day
Last Line: Such rivell'd fruits as winter can afford.
Variant Title(s): Prologue And Epilogue To All For Love: Prologue To Antony And Cleopatr
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists


ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PART 2. PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They who write ill, and they who ne'r durst write
Last Line: Will prove a dowdy, with a face to fright you.
Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 5
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights ; Fancy; Dramatists


AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Last Line: Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Dillon, Wentworth. 4th Earl Of Roscommon; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536); Hope; Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Sozzini, Lelio (1525-1562); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Optimism; Soc


ANSWER TO SOME ELEGANT VERSES SENT BY A FRIEND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Candor compels me, becher! To commend
Last Line: Their sneers or censures I alike despise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


CHROMOTONES, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her voice was darker than of old
Last Line: And that was intermission.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


COMMENT ON THIS: IN THE REAL SCHEME OF THINGS, POETRY IS MARGINAL, by RICHARD JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All things - / the empty wine bottle under the bed
Last Line: "I'm nobody,"" she spoke for us all."
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


CRITIC AND POET, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No man had ever heard a nightingale
Last Line: Were it a bird, 'twould answer to my law.
Subject(s): Birds; Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets


CRITICISM, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet art hath less of instinct than of thought
Last Line: Till beams, with deathless love, the chiseled face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Critics & Criticism


CRITICS AND CONNOISSEURS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious
Last Line: Of carrying a stick?
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets


DIRGE; JOHN RUSKIN, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mourn, upward-stealing vapours, sunset-amber
Last Line: To silence and to dust.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900)


ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still must I hear? - shall hoarse fitzgerald bawl
Last Line: Yet rarely blames unjustly, now declare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Andrews, Miles Peter; Bland, Robert (1779-1825); Budgell, Eustace (1686-1737); Busby, Thomas (1755-1838); Clarke, Hewson; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Crabbe, George (1754-1832); Critics & Criticism; Fitzgerald, William Thomas (1759-1829); Giffo


EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said
Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n.
Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires
Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors


EPITAPH FOR JOSEPH BLACKETT, LATE POET AND SHOEMAKER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger! Behold, interred together
Last Line: And if he did, 't were shame to 'black-it.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


EXTRACTS FROM THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR CAYENNE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wake! For the hack can scatter into flight
Last Line: There'd be a world's best literature indeed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett
Subject(s): Books; Critics & Criticism; Love; Reading


FORM DESTRUCTIONIST?ÇÖSCULPTOR, by ROBERT MCALMON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And he turned at the corner near his boarding-house
Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Critics & Criticism


FRESCO-SONNETS TO CHRISTIAN S.: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I take no notice of the blockheads tame
Last Line: Or else for beating clothes they find it handy.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


GIVEN TO A LADY WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE A POEM, by JANET LITTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In royal anna's golden days
Last Line: My hand still trembles when I write.
Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets


HENDECASYLLABICS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O you chorus of indolent reviewers
Last Line: Maiden, not to be greeted unbenignly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Critics & Criticism; Horticulture; Poetry & Poets


HIS DEFENCE AGAINST THE IDLE CRITICK, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ryme nor marres, nor makes
Last Line: To keepe above my fate.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 6. YEUX GLAUQUES, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gladstone was still respected / when john ruskin produced
Last Line: Adulteries.
Subject(s): Buchanan, Robert William (1841-1901); Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Critics & Criticism; Dramatists; Novels & Novelists; Paintings & Painters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Dramatists


IDEA: 31. TO THE CRITIC, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks I see some crooked mimic jeer
Last Line: I scorn all earthly dung-bred scarabies.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


IN MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lime-and-mint mayonnaise and salsa verde
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Critics & Criticism; Sickness; Illness


JUDGMENT SEATS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O little flower, / o tiny golden sun
Last Line: Some judgment seat!
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Judges; Judgments; State Rights; Secession


LESSER EPISTLES: TO MY INGENIOUS AND WORTHY FRIEND W- L-, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When poets print their works, the scribbling crew
Last Line: When once they're rais'd, they're cursed hard to lay.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Lowndes, William Thomas (1798-1843); Poetry & Poets


LINES FREELY TAKEN FROM CALLIMACHUS, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some enemies of mine (and of the muse)
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


LINES TO A COMIC AUTHOR, ON AN ABUSIVE REVIEW, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What though the chilly wide-mouth'd quacking chorus
Last Line: I hate the quacking tribe, and they hate me!'
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


LINES TO A DON, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remote and ineffectual don
Last Line: That dared attack my chesterton
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Hate


LINES WRITTEN ON A PAGE OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These critics, who to faith no quarter grant
Last Line: Than christ's own servant, or that servant's master.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


MAM'SELLE PRINTEMPS, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her manager (a wise old guy
Last Line: "to me you always will be -- spring!"
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


METAMORPHOSES: 16. PROSERPINA (JOHN RUSKIN), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I growled tell them to jump off a cliff
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900)


NEVER MIND, by LYMAN A. FRITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mind your own business / and go on your way
Last Line: "if you ""do"" or you ""don't."
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


ON A REVIEW CONDEMNING THELYPHTHORA, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have read the review; it is learned and wise
Last Line: Clear, candid, and witty -- thelyphthora dies.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


ON CERTAIN CRITICS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are who bid us chant this modern age
Last Line: Are softly moulded by a filmy blue.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


ON CRITICS; IN IMITATION OF ANACREON, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let 'em censure: what care I?
Last Line: And lose the nymph, to gain the bays.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Fame; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Songs


ON THE MAGNETIC LADY, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But to advise thee, ben, in this strict age
Last Line: Cropped, branded, slit, neck-stocked; go, you are stripped.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


PICKING AND CHOOSING, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Literature is a phase of life: if
Last Line: Skin between the ears, are all we ask.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Literature


PIPLING, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the critic, pitched like the castrati
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Hate


POEM DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF AVIATION, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But that's all different now. They've got it fixed
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Critics & Criticism


POETS AND CRITICS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One hound that trops. A thousand fleas that ride
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Critics & Criticism


PROBLEMS WITH THE STORY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The story was too long
Last Line: To find you.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Story-telling


REJOINDER TO A CRITIC, by DONALD DAVIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You may be right: 'how can I dare to feel?'
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


SONNET: TO A CRITIC, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No theme for song - you say - the strength of man?
Last Line: That wrestles songless through the nights and days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


SONORA DESERT POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ones who live in the desert
Last Line: Of green incredible light
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets


STACCATO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not even birds fear me
Last Line: For removing my growths.
Subject(s): Animals; Critics & Criticism


TASTE, AN EPISTLE TO A YOUNG CRITIC, by JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Range from tower-hill all london to the fleet
Last Line: Will find this letter long enough. Adieu!
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


THE ACHARNIANS: IN PRAISE OF THE POET, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since first to exhibit his plays began
Last Line: But teachings the things that are best.
Variant Title(s): Aristophane's Defence [or, The Poet And The People]
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism


THE APOLOGY; ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride
Last Line: If reason's for me, god is for me too.
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Defamation; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771); Slander; Libel


THE CANDIDATE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Enough of actors -- let them play the player
Last Line: To grace a stuart brow, she plants on thine.
Subject(s): Cambridge University; Critics & Criticism; Elections; Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Yorke, Philip. 2d Earl Of Hardwicke; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Twitcher, Jemmy


THE CANDIDATE: TO THE AUTHORS OF THE 'MONTHLY REVIEW', by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pious pilot, whom the gods provide
Last Line: And when you lash the poet, spare the man.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Monthly Review (periodical); Poetry & Poets


THE CRITICS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon was up and I was young
Last Line: Had washed those erring lines away.
Subject(s): Animals; Critics & Criticism; Moon; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Bedtime


THE CURSE, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, confound this surly sister
Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Curses; Hate


THE DILETTANT, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The most oppressive form of cant
Last Line: To win such praises -- from a fool!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Paintings & Painters


THE FOREGOING CRITICISM, IN ENGLISH VERSE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole design of this horatian strain
Last Line: Read—fruge lares, avidasque parcas.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Horace (65-8 B.c.)


THE JUDGES, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are you that dare to judge?
Last Line: What atonement she shall pay?
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Judgments


THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True wit has seen its best days long ago
Last Line: That not one locust may be left behind!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Critics & Criticism; Plays & Playwrights ; Actresses; Dramatists


THE OWL CRITIC, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who stuffed that white owl?' no one spoke in the shop
Last Line: And the barber kept on shaving.
Subject(s): Birds; Critics & Criticism; Owls


THE POET AND THE CRITICS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If those who wield the rod forget
Last Line: There is no moral to this tale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets


THE SCOURGE OF VILLAINY: TO DETRACTION I PRESENT MY POESY, by JOHN MARSTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Foul canker of fair virtuous action
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Hate


THE SEVEN ARTS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dawn of creation that morning
Last Line: And the seven will all die a-bourneing.
Subject(s): Bourne, Randolph Silliman (1886-1918); Critics & Criticism; Seven Arts (magazine); Social Protest


THEIR FIRST PILGRIMAGE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still is north hinksey very much the same
Last Line: The toiling masses come to try their hand on thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Oxford University; Roads; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Paths; Trails


THOUGHTS AFTER RUSKIN, by ELMA MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Women reminded him of lilies and roses
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900)


THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: TO THE READER (1), by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reade one, and say, 'tis good; I beare the name
Last Line: So that I know a foole be not my iudge.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Critics & Criticism; Reading


TO --, WITH ARTHUR AND ALBINA, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! If your eye should ever these lines survey
Last Line: I feel I cannot censure bear from you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


TO A CAPTIOUS CRITIC, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear critic, who my lightness so deplores
Last Line: But, sir, I may not, till you abdicate.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


TO A CRITIC OF TENNYSON, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Affronting fool, subdue your transient light
Last Line: T is decency in dunces to go lame.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TO A GREAT EDITOR, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In every human life, however filled
Last Line: You shall remain when it has passed away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Alden, Henry Mills (1836-1919); Critics & Criticism; Editors; Praise


TO A KNOT OF UNGENEROUS CRITICS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rail on, rail on, ye heartless crew!
Last Line: Yours is the censure, mine the praise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


TO A REVIEWER WHO ADMIRED MY BOOK, by JOHN CIARDI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Few men in any age have second sight
Last Line: But never doubt your gift. You are right! You are right!
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


TO AN UNGENTLE CRITIC, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The great sun sinks behind the town
Last Line: There are old-fashioned folk still like it.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


TO CRITICKS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ile write, because ile give
Last Line: The cause, th'effect wo'd die.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


TO CRITICS, by DOROTHY DUNN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Design to captivate
Last Line: Unchanged into the pattern of my speech!
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


TO CRITICS, by WALTER LEARNED    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was seventeen I heard
Last Line: Have passed it in my sleep.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


TO ENGLISH CONNOISSEURS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You must agree that rubens was a fool
Last Line: And not a brewers servant my good sir
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Critics & Criticism; Mythology; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


TO MISS JANE AUSTEN, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Madam, I must express respectful wonder
Last Line: Our people are creations.
Subject(s): Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Critics & Criticism; Novels & Novelists; Writing & Writers


TO MR JONSON UPON THESE VERSES, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your verses were commended, as 'tis true
Last Line: Thy dirty brains, men smell thy want of worth.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


TO MR SAVAGE, SON OF THE LATE EARL RIVERS, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sink not, my friend, beneath misfortune's weight
Last Line: An able critic, but a willing friend.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Friendship


TO MR. MONTGOMERY; OCCASIONED BY ... ATTACK ON HIS POEMS, by LUCY AIKEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Droop not, sweet bard! The envious cloud
Last Line: While shrinks the sterile clay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Montgomery, James (1771-1854)


TO MY AUNTY, by JANET LITTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My ever dear an' worthy aunty
Last Line: Your sage advice in this to follow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie
Subject(s): Advice; Aunts; Critics & Criticism


TO MY MERE ENGLISH CENSURER, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee my way in epigrams seems new
Last Line: Thy faith is all the knowledge that thou hast.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


TO THE LEARNED CRITIC, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: May others fear, fly, and traduce thy name
Last Line: Shall outlive garlands, stol'n from the chaste tree.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism


TO THE MINSTREL GIRL, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Th' critic's heel is on ye, sure
Last Line: Sure, bless your heart! Ye didn't need, carolyn, my carolin'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Girls; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Wells, Carolyn (1862-1942)


TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These cruel critics put me into passion
Last Line: By suffering for the plot, without confessing.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists


UPON THE SAME (THE DETRACTER), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ask't thee oft, what poets thou hast read
Last Line: Then sure thou't like, or thou wilt envie me.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism