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Subject: FLETCHER, JOHN (1579-1625)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (1), by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While born to bring the muse's happier days
Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name.
Subject(s): Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Lucan (marcus Annaeus Lucanus); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Racine, Jean (1639-1699); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); V


IN IMITATION OF A SONG IN THE PLAY OF ROLLO, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take, o take, my fears away
Last Line: Do on those frozen mountains die.
Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Love


ON THE BEST, LAST, AND ONLY REMAINING COMEDY OF MR. FLETCHER, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm un-o'erclouded too! Free from the mist!
Last Line: Shows this one carbuncle, that darkens all.
Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists


ON THE EDITION OF MR. FLETCHER'S WORKS, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fletcher (whose fame no age can ever waste)
Last Line: And plays, by intermission, longer liv'd.
Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625)


SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 4. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An hour ere sudden sunset fired the west
Last Line: Which rings and glitters down the darkling years.
Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Plays & Playwrights


THE IMPROVISATORE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are the words?
Last Line: And that is next to best!
Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists


THE TEMPEST: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As, when a tree's cut down, the secret root
Last Line: To find her woman, it must be abed.
Variant Title(s): The Tempest: Prologue, Or The Enchanted Island
Subject(s): Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists


TO FLETCHER REVIV'D, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How have I been religious? What strange good
Last Line: Yet all men henceforth be afraid to write.
Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


TO THE WORTHY AUTHOR MR JOHN FLETCHER, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wise, and many-headed bench, that sits
Last Line: Or moths shall eat, what all these fools admire.
Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625)


UPON MASTER FLETCHERS INCOMPARABLE PLAYES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo sings, his harpe resounds, give roome
Last Line: None writes lov's passion in the world, like thee.
Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625)


UPON MR. JOHN FLETCHER'S PLAYES, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fletcher, to thee, wee doe not only owe
Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Poetry And Poets


UPON THE DRAMATICK POEMS OF MR. JOHN FLETCHER, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fletcher, though some call it thy fault
Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625)


VARIATION ON BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cynthia, as to thy power and thee
Last Line: Virgin, spouses are befriended.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Plays & Playwrights


VARIATION ON BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: ASPATIA'S SONG, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay a garland on my grave
Last Line: Lightly, gentle earth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Graves; Plays & Playwrights; Tombs; Tombstones


VARIATION ON FLETCHER, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below
Last Line: These win the love they died without or burn
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625)