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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DRYDEN, JOHN (1631-1700) Matches Found: 14 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FABLE, by JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dingy donkey, formal and unchanged Last Line: Till mr landor sent his works to press. Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700); Satire (as Poetic Genre) AN ALLUSION TO HORACE, THE TENTH SATYR OF THE FIRST BOOK, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, sir, 'tis granted I said dryden's rhymes Last Line: Approve my sense: I count their censure fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Busby, Richard (1606-1695); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Godolphin, Sidney (1610-1643); Horace (65-8 B.c.); Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Scroope, Sir Carr (d. 1680); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724 AN EPISTOLARY ESSAY FROM M.G. TO O.B. UPON MUTUAL POEMS, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, / I hear this town does so abound Last Line: Of idle rumor, keep at home and write. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700); Sheffield, John (1648-1721); Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of; Mulgrave, 3d Earl Of 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 CHARNOCK'S REMAINS, SELS., by THOMAS BRERETON Poem Source First Line: Tis resolved; for nature has decreed Last Line: To rouze our friends in thy more hellish name Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700) DRYDEN AND THACKERAY (HISTORICAL CONTRAST), by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When one whose nervous english verse Last Line: Makes the pantheon where he lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700); Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863); Westminster Abbey EPISTLE TO MR. JERVAS, WITH FRESNOY'S ART OF PAINTING, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse Last Line: Thou but preserv'st a face and I a name. Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700); Dufresnoy, Charles Alphonse (1611-1665); Granville, George. Lord Lansdowne; Paintings And Painters EPITAPH DESIGNED FOR MR. DRYDEN'S MONUMENT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This sheffield rais'd. The sacred dust below Last Line: Was dryden once: the rest who does not know? Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700) IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you, great patron of mankind! Sustain Last Line: Befringe the rails of bedlam and sohoe. Variant Title(s): To Augustus Subject(s): Dramatists; Dryden, John (1631-1700); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Immortality; Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings And Painters; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spen RETROGRESSION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our daughters flower in vernal grace Last Line: Trailing the folds of gorgeous woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Milton, John (1608-1674) THE DREAM. AN EPISTLE TO MR. DRYDEN, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: When yet a child, I read great virgil o'er Last Line: But envies those that in your presence stand. Subject(s): Dreams; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Poetry & Poets; Nightmares TO JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ.; POET LAUREATE AND HISTOGRAPHER ROYAL, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My muse, when heated with poetic flame Last Line: Each line does beauty, grace, and wit display. Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700) URANIA: THE DIVINE MUSE, ON THE DEATH OF JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ., by SARAH PIERS Poem Text First Line: When through the universe with horrour spread Last Line: Nor find that dryden's dead, while garth does live. Subject(s): Death; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Muses; Tears; Dead, The VERSES FOUND IN A SUMMER HOUSE AT HALES-OWEN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dryden's fool, 'unknowing what he sought' Last Line: The filth they leave still points out where they crawl. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700) |
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