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Subject: HALL, JOHN (1627-1656)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GENETHLIACON TO THE INFANT MUSE OF HIS DEAREST FRIEND, by WILLIAM HARINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dame nature, long projecting how
Last Line: Vie greenness with thy tender days.
Subject(s): Hall, John (1627-1656)


ON MR. HALL'S ESSAYS, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wits that matur'd by time have courted praise
Last Line: As many years as thou hast snatch'd from time.
Subject(s): Essays; Hall, John (1627-1656); Time


TO HIS ADMIRED FRIEND, MR. J. HALL, by EDWARD HOLLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Welcome, bright sun, into our hemisphere
Last Line: Could I, though but unseen, keep pace with thee.
Subject(s): Hall, John (1627-1656)


TO HIS FRIEND MR. J.H. UPON HIS POEMS, by WILLIAM DILLINGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: May thine own verse, the envy and the glory
Last Line: Wishing himself turn'd loose to graze in prose.
Subject(s): Hall, John (1627-1656)


TO HIS HONOURED FRIEND, MR. J.H., by T. SMITHSBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fruits that arise in haste, do soon
Last Line: Like youthful ivy clad in green.
Subject(s): Hall, John (1627-1656)


TO THE GENIUS OF MR. JOHN HALL, ON HIS EXACT TRANSLATION OF HIEROCLES, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis not from cheap thanks thinly to repay
Last Line: Thy soul is fled into hierocles.
Subject(s): Hall, John (1627-1656); Translating & Interpreting


TO THE HONOURED AUTHOR, MR. HALL, ON HIS POEMS, by JAMES WINDET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dost mean to spoil thyself? Do knotty arts
Last Line: Thy purer ease in their festivity.
Subject(s): Hall, John (1627-1656)


TO THE NO LESS KNOWING THAN INGENIOUS MR. HALL, ON HIS .. DETRACTORS, by J. PAWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou need'st no noseless monuments display
Last Line: That verse shall be 'mongst thy erratas set.
Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Hall, John (1627-1656)


TO THE YOUNG AUTHOR UPON HIS INCOMPARABLE VEIN IN SATIRE AND SONNETS, by HENRY MORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young monster! Born with teeth, that thus canst bite
Last Line: Thy paws be grown, who'll dare to touch thee then?
Subject(s): Hall, John (1627-1656)