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Subject: DRAYTON, MICHAEL (1563-1631)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ODE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake faire muse, for I intend
Last Line: No king shall owne my verses for his tombe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Death; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Dead, The


FUNERAL ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF HIS VERY GOOD FRIEND MR. MICHAEL DRAYTON, by ASTON COCKAYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Phoebus, art thou a god, and canst not give
Last Line: That live, would leave our lives to die like thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cokayne, Aston; Cokain, Aston
Subject(s): Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)


LIMITED, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since there's no help, come, let them kiss and part
Last Line: Wheels from the last week's newspaper to the broom
Subject(s): Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)


SONNENIZIO ON A LINE FROM DRAYTON, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
Last Line: It's hopeless, come, we'll kiss and part forever
Subject(s): Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)


THE LIMITED, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since there's no help, come, let them kiss and part
Last Line: Wheels from last week's newspaper to the broom
Subject(s): Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)


TO MY HONOURED FRIEND MR. DRAYTON; AFFIXED TO 'POLYOLBION', by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England's brave genius, raise thy head, and see
Last Line: Sung of his loves, his country, and the men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)


VISION OF BEN JONSON, ON MUSES OF HIS FRIEND M. DRAYTON, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It hath been questioned, michael, if I be
Last Line: If I can be a friend, and friend to thee.
Subject(s): Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)


WASSAIL CHORUS AT THE MERMAID TAVERN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas knows a merry, merry place
Last Line: Rare!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore
Subject(s): Christmas; Dramatists; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Heywood, Thomas (1574-1641); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Mermaid Tavern; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nativity, The