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Subject: GREAT FIRE OF 1666 Matches Found: 32 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BETHLEHEMS BEAUTY, LONDONS CHARITY, AND THE CITIES GLORY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Story no more shall antient fabricks boast Last Line: "free citizens o' th' new jerusalem, / to raign with him was born in bethlehem" Subject(s): Charity;hospitals;london Fire (1666); Philanthropy;great Fire Of 1666 "TROIA REDEVIVIA, OR THE GLORIES OF LONDON", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When my parnassus vanisht quite away Last Line: And may your happy days with good presage / equal in length the grecian nester's age Subject(s): London;london Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 A POEM ON THE BURNING OF LONDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We owne no muses now; what now inspires Last Line: "then shall it's harmony our thebes advance, / and make rude stones into a city dance" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 A POEM, BEING AN ESSAY ON THE RUINS IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713) Poem Text First Line: Was it a vain curiosity or no? Last Line: A beauty grow out of deformity? Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 A QUADRUPLE ACROSTICK ON LONDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: L-o! What a chaos this unhappy fall Last Line: "n-othing but clouds appear, the sun is go" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 A SHORT AND SERIOUS NARRATIVE OF LONDONS FATAL FIRE, by SAMUEL WISEMAN Poem Text First Line: When the black chamberlain of gloomy night Last Line: In humble manner now their scornful feet. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 ECCLESIA RESTAURTA; .. REBUILDING OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713) Poem Text First Line: What beauteous tumor's this, with royal grace Last Line: And beauty, equals their magnificence. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 ENGLAND'S PASSING BELL, by THOMAS GILBERT (1613-1694) Poem Text First Line: I am no prophet, no, nor prophet's son Last Line: And let her ruins be under thine hand. Subject(s): Bells; Death; London Fire (1666); Dead, The; Great Fire Of 1666 GREAT BRITAINS GLORY, by THEOPHILUS" "PHILALETHES [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "my muse advance, flye to parnassus hill" Last Line: Who was the founder of / great brittain's glory Alternate Author Name(s): "philalethes, Theophilus; Subject(s): "london Fire (1666);royal Exchange, London;" Great Fire Of 1666 GREAT BRITTAINS BEAUTY; OR, LONDON'S DELIGHT, by GEORGE ELIOTT Poem Text First Line: Go view earth's globe, take eagles wings and fly Last Line: Thoul't be the worlds chief metropolitan. Subject(s): London; London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON SECOND TEARS, by JOHN CROUCH Poem Text First Line: Thou queen of cities, whose unbounded fame Last Line: Shall rise a fairer phoenix after death. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON SURVEYED AND ILLUSTRATED, by JOHANNEM ADAMUS Poem Text First Line: What dire calamities have enforced me Last Line: Of londons trophies and our time and tense. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON UNDONE; OR A REFLECTION UPON THE LASTE DISTEROUS FIRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: No more historians your surmise recant Last Line: "then you'll conclude with me, the flames were kind, / she was not so much ruin'd, as refin'd" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON'S FATAL-FALL; BEING AN ACROSTICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: L o! Now confused heaps only stand Last Line: Y ield us more blessings unto those before Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON'S INDEX; OR SOME REFLECTIONS ON NEW BUILT MONUMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What strange idea can present Last Line: "london, built so nigh heaven, is chamber to the king" Subject(s): "fire Monument, London;london Fire (1666);" Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON; ANAGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "though now I am unwilling, woes attend" Last Line: Unto 'em such other in the end Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS NONSUCH; OR, THE GLORY OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE, by HENRY DUKE Poem Text First Line: Well done deare, honest, ehver kynd Last Line: For he is ehver kynd. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Merchants; Royal Exchange, London; Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS REMAINS, by SIMON FORD Poem Text First Line: All you whose cheeks my londons obsequies Last Line: More glorious by your overthrow. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS RESURRECTION, by SIMON FORD Poem Text First Line: My salamander-muse, which newly sprung Last Line: Ev'n so to die, that so she might arise. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS STATELY NEW BUILDINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O thrice illustrious famous city london Last Line: "rich london cryes, vail bonnet unto me" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 ON BOW-CHURCH AND STEEPLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Look how the country-hobbs with wonder flock Last Line: "to you who steeple upon steeple set, / cut my cocks-comb, if e're to heaven you get" Subject(s): London;london Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 ON THE REBUILDING OF LONDON, by JEREMIAH WELLS Poem Text First Line: What a devouring fire but t'other day Last Line: And heavens obliged while he is implor'd. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 SEASONABLE THOUGHTS IN SAD TIMES, by JOHN TABOR Poem Text First Line: The war still slaughters, & the plague destroys Last Line: The cause, the cure we shall the better know. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 THE CHOIRE, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713) Poem Text First Line: Th' almighty architect forms in mankind Last Line: Twas fiction then, but now we see it, here. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 THE CITZEN'S JOY FOR THE REBUILDING OF LONDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "london lies grovelling on the earth, yet beggs" Last Line: "no discontent, but all replete with joy; / london's rebuilding now, vive le roy" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE CONFLAGRATION OF LONDON, POETICAL DELINEATED, by SIMON FORD Poem Text First Line: What ayls the poet? What unwonted fire? Last Line: That's such an one, and let him stand for me. Subject(s): Langham, Sir John (1584-1671); London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE DREADFUL BURNING OF LONDON, by JOSEPH GUILLIM Poem Text First Line: While urgent sleep our heavy eyes did close Last Line: Another, vvhose high tovvers may urge the skies. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE LONDONERS LAMENTATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let water flow from every eye Last Line: "if we still hate each other thus, / god never will be friends with us" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE MISFORTUNES OF ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Could we consult th' eternal mighty fates Last Line: "till then, we'll not disgrace the name of paul; / but thee misfortunes hieroglyphic call" Subject(s): "london Fire (1666);st. Paul's Cathedral, London;" Great Fire Of 1666 UPON REBUILDING THE CITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "nor could prometheus, when he would have stole" Last Line: "if not, I'le say no more, but this will swear, / bedlam and bishopsgate neer neighbours are" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 UPON THE LATE LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT OF FIRE ..., by JOHN ALLISON (1645-1683) Poem Text First Line: Awake proud man, and take a view Last Line: It begun strangely, and it ended so. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 VOX CIVITATIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what news, my neighbours of the riming trade?" Last Line: "I in my glorious sons, you in your mother. / licenced. R.L.E'strange" Subject(s): London Fire (1666);old Age;women; Great Fire Of 1666 |
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