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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FIDELITY Matches Found: 130 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PAUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They made the chamber sweet with flowers and leaves Last Line: Put on a glory, and my soul expand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fidelity; Flowers; Love; Soul; Faithfulness; Constancy A PRAYER FOR THE FUTURE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That thou wilt faithful be, and full of love and sweetness Subject(s): Prayer; Future; Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy A VALEDICTION: OF MY NAME IN THE WINDOW, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My name engraved herein Last Line: For dying men talke often so. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy ACTEA, by JAMES RENNELL RODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the last bitterness was past, she bore Last Line: Because she loved, thou art not wholly fiend. Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron Subject(s): Fidelity; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Slavery; Faithfulness; Constancy; Serfs AGAINST CONSTANCY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me no more of constancy Last Line: And fate change me to worms. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy AGAINST THEM WHO LAY UNCHASTITY TO THE SEX OF WOMAN, by WILLIAM HABINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They meet but with unwholesome springs Last Line: Tis majesty to rule alone. Subject(s): Fidelity; Lust; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy AMENDS FOR LADIES, by NATHANIEL FIELD Poem Text First Line: A wife the happiest state? Last Line: She leads feesimple towards bold. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Nat Subject(s): Fidelity; Marriage; Faithfulness; Constancy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN OLD TALE OF THREE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, bonnie darling, lift your dark eyes dreaming! Last Line: Ah, hell of my heart! Ye are dust to me—and dust with dust may woo! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fidelity; Love; Reunions; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Faithfulness; Constancy; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy ARGUING BARTUSIAK, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The idea is, the marriage still exists Subject(s): Marriage; Separation; Fidelity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Faithfulness; Constancy ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 31, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With how sad steps, o moon, thou climbst the skies Last Line: Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? Variant Title(s): "his Lady's Cruelty;to The Moon;to The Sad Moon;asking The Moon About Love;""with How Sad Steps, O Moone, Thou Climb'st The Skies""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Moon; Faithfulness; Constancy BALLAD OF CONSTANCY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My raiment is my weapons Last Line: All must be braved Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of BARBARA, by ALEXANDER SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On the sabbath day Last Line: Barbara! Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy BOOK OF ODES: 124, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The kudzu sprads till it darkens the brier Last Line: After a hundred years are over, %I'll join you in your room Subject(s): Fidelity CHANG'D, YET CONSTANT, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wrong me no more Last Line: Who pay their hearts where they are due. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy COME, LADY TO MY SONG INCLINE, by GUIRAUD LE ROUX Poem Text Last Line: And brave men still do their occasion meet Alternate Author Name(s): Le Roux, Guiraud (1110-1147) Subject(s): Fidelity CONSTANCY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A raven on a branch is sitting Last Line: With the living from the dead Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness;constancy CONSTANCY, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Place me where sol dries up the flow'ry fields Last Line: Nothing from cynthia can it e'er remove. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy CONSTANCY, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the rough blast heaves the billow Last Line: Dull, unjoyous constancy? Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy CONSTANCY, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love unreturn'd, howe'er the flame Last Line: The most wisht monument. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy CONSTANCY, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Out upon it, I have loved Last Line: A dozen in her place. Variant Title(s): The Constant Lover;a Poem With An Answer;moods;a Poem Subject(s): Admiration; Fidelity; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy CONSTANCY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot change, as others do Last Line: Can never break in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy CONSTANCY, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perdy! I said it not Last Line: Within my heart for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Canzone: 4 Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Life; Love; Pain; Faithfulness; Constancy; Suffering; Misery CONSTANCY TO AN IDEAL OBJECT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since all, that beat about in nature's range Last Line: Nor knows he makes the shadow, he pursues! Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy CONSTANT LOVER, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have continued to seek her Last Line: And seems more beautiful as time passes Subject(s): Fidelity CONSTANT PENELOPE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When greeks and trojans fell at strife Last Line: Nor used this complaint, nor have thought the day to be so long Subject(s): Fidelity; Waiting DAGGER, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you well, my steel-white dagger Last Line: Like you, my iron-hearted friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Fidelity; Friendship; Faithfulness; Constancy DEAR HEART', by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: Her paean to fidelity Last Line: She tasted blood from cuts. %she held back Subject(s): Fidelity ELEGY: 11. THE BRACELET; UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESS'S CHAIN, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that in colour it was like thy haire Last Line: Because 'tis cordiall, would twere at thy heart. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 1. The Bracelet Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 21. 'TIS CONSTANCY THAT GAINS THE PRIZE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When low'ring and when blustering winds arise Last Line: Gets ground and grows the stronger for the shock. Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy EPISTLE TO CLEMENA. OCCASIONED BY AN ARGUMENT AGAINST THE AUTHOR, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Though you my resolution still accuse / and for misanthropy condemn the muse Last Line: But harder yet an honest man to choose. Subject(s): Fidelity; Marriage; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FAIR SYLVIA, CEASE TO BLAME MY YOUTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Fidelity FAITHFUL, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, when the world Last Line: To find not nails but %breathing, miraculous roses Subject(s): Fidelity FAITHFUL BLACKBIRD, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: When the blackbird, in the new greenery, comes back Last Line: Goes crazy with love in the greenery! Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring FAITHFUL LOVERS, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Night, more night: love now a fact Last Line: Oh night, darker in our arms! Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Passion FAITHFUL SERVANT, by RICHARD RAY KIRK Poem Source First Line: I don't know where I'd get another one Subject(s): Fidelity FAITHFUL TO THE END' AMENDED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Try it on yourself Variant Title(s): Poem: 1357; Poem: 138 Subject(s): Fidelity FAITHFUL WIFE, by CHANG CHI+(2) Poem Source First Line: You know I have a husband Last Line: Why didn't I meet you %before I was married? Subject(s): Fidelity; Love FIDELIS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have taken back the promise Last Line: Faithfully, for you, till then. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy FIDELITY, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Maybe it was the temperature Last Line: Counting the ways I've slept with you, like sheep Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Fidelity; Love FIDELITY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fidelity and love are two different things Last Line: The gem of mutual peace emerging from the wild chaos of love Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Fidelity; Love FIDELITY, FR. PHILLIS, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love guards the roses of thy lips Last Line: In spite of thee, and by firm faith deserve her. Variant Title(s): Love's Wantonness;phyllis: 13;to Love Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy FOLKSONG: THE FAITHFUL WIFE, by CHANDIDAS Poem Source First Line: My love has gone away and taken all my joy Last Line: My crazy fool will come and take all that you have Subject(s): Absence; Fidelity FRIEND, BECAUSE OF YOU I'M FILLED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Friend, I'd happily believe you %if you'd be forever faithful Subject(s): Fidelity; Troubadours GERTRUDE; OR, FIDELITY TILL DEATH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her hands were clasped, her dark eyes raised Last Line: Strength to forsake it not! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Fidelity; Wart, Gertrude Von Der; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy GUEST AM I TO HAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Why avoid so narrowly %my fidelity Variant Title(s): Poem: 1661; Poem: 171 Subject(s): Fidelity GUIDE US, by MRS. T. B. EPTING Poem Text First Line: Great jehovah, king of glory Last Line: May we ever faithful be. Subject(s): Fidelity; God; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Theology HEAVEN ABOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: By heaven above Last Line: I'll stop loving you Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fidelity HEROIC LOVE, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My dear and only love, I pray Last Line: So I can love no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of Variant Title(s): An Excellent New Ballad;i'll Never Love Thee More;montrose's Love;a Proper New Ballad;montrose To His Mistress Subject(s): Courage; Fidelity; Love - Complaints; Valor; Bravery; Faithfulness; Constancy HIS SECOND WIFE SPEAKS: 2. SILENT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not speak. For ever from old days Last Line: I will be faithful, but I will not speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Fidelity; Silence; Faithfulness; Constancy I DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE IS WANDERING TONIGHT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone saw her in ectaban and another in Last Line: Lodging for her in my ever faithful heart Subject(s): Fidelity I WAS NOT FALSE TO THEE, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was not false to thee, and yet Last Line: I was not false to thee Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Fidelity I WHO ALL THE WINTER THROUGH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love; Fidelity IF ONLY THOU ART TRUE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: If only a single rose is left Last Line: If only thou art true? Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy LAD OF ATHENS, FAITHFUL BE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All the rest is perjury Variant Title(s): Poem: 1768; Poem: 160 Subject(s): Fidelity LADY, SUCH IS LOVE'S NATURE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Lady, you shall have me faithful: %henceforth I'll think exclusively of you Subject(s): Fidelity; Troubadours LOVE, by HOWARD PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: Like a rose that is blooming in beauty so Last Line: And the one who will keep it will have a great peace. Subject(s): Charm; Fidelity; Hearts; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy LOVE ABOVE BEAUTY, by HENRY REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Lovely chloris, though thine eyes Last Line: To my fidelity. Subject(s): Admiration; Fidelity; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy LOVE AND LIFE. A SONG, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my past life is mine no more Last Line: Tis all that heaven allows. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): The Present Moment Subject(s): Fidelity; Time; Faithfulness; Constancy LOVE ME LITTLE, LOVE ME LONG, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say, to me-wards your affection's strong Last Line: Grown violent, do's either die, or tire. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy LOVE'S FOOL TO HIS LADY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's fool am I. To thine imperial court Last Line: Love's fool am I. Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Faithfulness; Constancy; Dejection LOVER EXHORTETH HIS LADY TO BE CONSTANT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Not light of love, lady! Subject(s): Fidelity LUKE HAVERGAL, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the western gate, luke havergal Last Line: Luke havergal. Variant Title(s): Luke Subject(s): Death; Fidelity; Longing; Dead, The; Faithfulness; Constancy LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 36, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair, bright, golden constellation Last Line: Sick at heart and palefaced too. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy MONOGAMY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: However much man may philander Last Line: For whom he would give all the world! Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy MOODS, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn has blossomed: the sun is nigh Last Line: (if she were true - and if she were only true!) Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine Last Line: I have been faithful to thee, cynara! In my fashion. Variant Title(s): Cynara Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Unfaithfulness; Faithfulness; Constancy; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy OH COUNT, WHERE HAS GONE, by GASPARA STAMPA Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fidelity; Women's Rights ON FIDELITY, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Australian magpie-larks that couple and clasp Subject(s): Magpie-larks; Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy OPEN LETTER, PERSONAL, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friends: if thirty people gather in a room Subject(s): Letters; Friendship; Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy OUT OF GRIMM: 1. CRONE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Because mirrors are duplicitous, she breaks them Last Line: At the unveiled image of ourselves Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Marriage PALINODE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is lydia, pray, and who / is hypathia? Softly, dear Last Line: I mean you, dear, you, just you. Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy PASSING BY, by THOMAS FORD (1580-1648) Poem Text First Line: There is a lady sweet and kind Last Line: Yet will I love her till I die. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy POINT, by EVAN JONES Poem Source First Line: The point, I imagine, is Last Line: Merely final and absolute: %without it no people, no life, no art Subject(s): Fidelity; Human Rights POWER TO BE TRUE TO YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Until it showed too small Variant Title(s): Poem: 464; Poem: 69 Subject(s): Fidelity PROMISE OF A CONSTANT LOVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As laurel leaves that cease not to be green Subject(s): Fidelity RIVALS, by MARJORY SMITH Poem Text First Line: Oh, well, I know you think you love but me Last Line: But oh, my dear, if you should know the sea! Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy RURAL POESY, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O words, which fall like summer dew on me Last Line: That she be mine, as I to her am true. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy SEA-SECRETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Little one, woman-one, whither are you sailing? Last Line: Is my heart your haven, or his? Subject(s): Fidelity; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Secrets; Faithfulness; Constancy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 13, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is none, o! None but you Last Line: Or man a woman half so fair. Subject(s): Fidelity; Flattery; Love; Oaths; Faithfulness; Constancy SEE HOW THE GLOW-WORM'S LIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: See how the glow-worm's light is found Last Line: The knowledge that is in a kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fidelity; Fireflies; Faithfulness; Constancy; Glowworms SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 2. ALPHITOMANCY-DIVINATION BY BARELY IN AN.., by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: To learn if a lover is unfaithful Last Line: That blows the answer in Subject(s): Fidelity; Magic; Prophets And Prophecy; Witchcraft And Witches SONG, by CARR SCROOPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot change as others do Last Line: Can never break, can never break in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Scrope, Carr Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Chloris, when I to thee present Subject(s): Fidelity SONG (6), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absent from thee I languish still Last Line: And lose my everlasting rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): Return Subject(s): Absence; Fidelity; Separation; Isolation; Faithfulness; Constancy SONG (7), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Injurious charmer of my vanquished heart Last Line: Together both expire. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy SONG: 2, by THOMAS DUFFETT Poem Text First Line: Ah! Coelia! Adieu! Last Line: For loving but one! Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 13, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, inform thy faithful creature Last Line: Ever tortured if we're friends. Subject(s): Fidelity; Friendship; Love; Secrets; Faithfulness; Constancy SONNET: 116, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments Last Line: I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Variant Title(s): "love;love's Not Time's Fool;true Love;love Unalterable;the Marriage Of True Minds;""let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology SONNET: 30, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each man me telleth I change most my devise Last Line: But always one your own both firm and stable. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy SONNETS TO BOTHWELL: 1, by MARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O you high gods, have pity, and let me find Last Line: What's left to prove my love always the same? Alternate Author Name(s): Stuart, Mary; Mary, Queen Of Scots Variant Title(s): Unfinished Sonnet Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy SOUL AND BODY, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou for breaking faith, after these years Last Line: But all is perfect ecstasy. Subject(s): Fidelity; Temptation; Faithfulness; Constancy SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 141, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The true lover is not daunted Last Line: Backwards never casts his eyes Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love STARLIGHT, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The evening star will twinkle presently Last Line: Shall be as constant as its gentle star. Subject(s): Fidelity; Stars; Faithfulness; Constancy STEADFASTNESS; THE LOVER BESEECHETH HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Forget not yet the tried intent Last Line: Forget not this. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): A Supplication;song: 65 Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Love - Loss Of; Faithfulness; Constancy SUMMER NEAR THE RIVER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have carried my pillow to the windowsill Last Line: It seems, for a moment, the river ceases flowing. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fidelity; Love - Complaints; Women; Women's Rights; Faithfulness; Constancy; Feminism TANKA (ADDRESSED TO RETIRED EMPEROR GOTOBA), by MINAMATO NO SANETOMO Poem Source First Line: Though a time come Subject(s): Fidelity THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 5. PRELUDE. PROSPECTIVE FAITH, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They safely walk in darkest ways Last Line: Twas faithful to his future wife. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 11. PRELUDE. CONSTANCY REWARDED, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I vow'd unvarying faith, and she Last Line: Which men who change can never know. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE CONSTANCY OF A LOVER, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That selfsame tongue which first did thee entreat Last Line: And when I change, let vengeance on me fall. Variant Title(s): "that Self-same Tongue Which First Did The Entreat""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE CONSTANT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great, and wise conqueror, who where-ere Last Line: Both in extent and qualitie? Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE DEVIL, HAD HE FIDELITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Were thoroughly divine Subject(s): Devil; Fidelity THE DREAM OF SCIPIO, by PIETRO METASTASIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, mighty offspring of emilius, come Last Line: Your favoring grace—auspicious omen, hail! Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico Subject(s): Dreams; Fidelity; Fortune; Nightmares; Faithfulness; Constancy THE FAITHFUL LOVER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All beauty is but thee in echo-shapes Last Line: For each thus makes me more and more thy lover. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE FAITHFUL ONE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The bird that fills my ears with song Last Line: Remember me and come back home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Fidelity; Separation; Isolation; Faithfulness; Constancy THE FAITHLESS AND THE CONSTANT, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who at will canst fling Last Line: Never to leave me. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE HEALED HEART SHOWS ITS SHALLOW STAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than such fidelity Subject(s): Healing; Hearts; Fidelity THE INCONSTANT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never yet could see that face Last Line: Since that by every spark is set on fire. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE IRISH PEASANT TO HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through grief and through danger thy smile hath cheer'd my way Last Line: Where shineth thy spirit, there liberty shineth too! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Grief And Danger Subject(s): Fidelity; Freedom; Irish Catholic Church; Faithfulness; Constancy; Liberty THE LADY JACQUELINE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False and fickle, or fair and sweet Last Line: Said the lady jaqueline. Subject(s): Fidelity THE LADY TO HER INCONSTANT SERVANT, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on the altar of my hand Last Line: Thee too ungrateful, me too kind. Variant Title(s): In The Person Of A Lady To Her Inconstant Servant Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER WIDOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My love he built me a bonny bower Last Line: I'll chain my heart for evermair Variant Title(s): The Border Widow's Lament;the Bonnie Bower Subject(s): Fidelity;love;mourning;widows & Widowers; Faithfulness;constancy;bereavement THE LOST SEX, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What, still another woman false Last Line: One woman true, just one. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fidelity; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations THE PARTING VERSE, OR CHARGE TO SUPPOSED WIFE .. TRAVELLED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go hence, and with this parting kisse Last Line: Know vertue taught thee, not thy selfe. Subject(s): Farewell; Fidelity; Parting; Faithfulness; Constancy THE PROTESTATION, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more shall meads be decked with flowers Last Line: If ere I leave bright celia's love. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE REQUITAL, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I give you, woman dear? Last Line: He will not give you faithfulness. Subject(s): Fidelity; Love - Unrequited; Faithfulness; Constancy THE ROCKY ISLET, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perchance, far out at sea, thou may'st have found Last Line: Around whose path are flowers, strewn by her tender cares. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy THE UNQUIET GRAVE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "the wind doth blow to-day, my love" Last Line: Till god calls you away Subject(s): Fidelity;graves;love;mourning; Faithfulness;constancy;tombs;tombstones;bereavement THE VISIONARY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent is the house: all are laid asleep Last Line: Strange power! I trust thy might; trust thou my constancy. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy TO A BEAUTY, WHITE, PURE, AND CONSTANT, by IBN QUZMAN Poem Source First Line: Girl, you cut me up inside Last Line: A being constant too Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Quzman, Abu Bakr Ibn Abd Al-malik Subject(s): Fidelity TO A GENTILWOMAN, by O. R. Poem Text First Line: Some women fayne that paris was Last Line: Then men forsooth must bear the blame. Subject(s): Fidelity; Helen Of Troy; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Paris (mythology); Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations TO CYNTHIA; A SONG, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: Born with the vices of my kind, / I were inconstant too Last Line: Tis easie to be true. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy TO DELIA: 33, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass Last Line: When winter snows upon thy golden hairs. Variant Title(s): Quand Vous Serez Bien Vielle;beauty, Time And Love;delia: 33 Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy TRANSITION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: With girlish dress / and fond caress Last Line: "are the only men in the world for me." Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy UNTIL DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "make me no vows of constancy, dear friend" Last Line: "but while I live, be true" Subject(s): Fidelity;marriage; Faithfulness;constancy;weddings;husbands;wives UNTIL DEATH, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me no vows of constancy, dear friend Last Line: But while I live, be true! Subject(s): Fidelity; Human Behavior; Faithfulness; Constancy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VOWS, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, ask me not. I would not dare pretend Last Line: Faith is not faith, and love abides no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy WHEN EVER DID I, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: When ever did I break trust? When Last Line: Yet I have nothing now to do with sound Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Trust WOMAN, by EATON STANNARD BARRETT Poem Source First Line: Not she with traitorous kiss her saviour stung Subject(s): Fidelity WOMAN'S CONSTANCY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now thou hast loved me one whole day Last Line: For by tomorrow, I may think so too. Variant Title(s): He Ironizes About Woman's Constancy Subject(s): Fidelity; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy ZI-YE SONGS: 36, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am that star at the dipper's end Last Line: In the east at dawn, at dusk turning west Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fidelity |
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