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Subject: JAMES I, KING OF ENGLAND (1566-1625)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PANEGYRE, ON HAPPY ENTRANCE OF JAMES, OUR SOVEREIGN TO PARLIAMENT, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven now not strives, alone, our breasts to fill
Last Line: Still to have such a king, and this king long.'
Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625)


A SATIRE WRITTEN TO KING JAMES I, SELECTION, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did I not know a great man's power and might
Last Line: Into the mouth of ruin without hope.
Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625)


AN NEW YEARES GUIFT TO THE KINGS MAJESTIE, by ARTHUR GORGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When time our styled yeare did end
Last Line: Till tyme noe more shalbee.
Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625)


BEN JONSON'S GRACE BEFORE KING JAMES, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our royal king and queen, god bless
Last Line: And god bless me, and god bless rafe.
Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625)


EPIGRAM: TO KNG JAMES, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who would not be thy subject, james, to obey
Last Line: And since, the whole land was preserved for thee.
Variant Title(s): To King James
Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625)


MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: TO JAMES KING OF BRITAIN, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The disunited scythians when they sought
Last Line: If he that marries kingdoms, marries men?
Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625)


SHAKESPEARE READS THE KING JAMES VERSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, by our lady, here is master speech!
Last Line: "and pluck a heedless world anew from hell!"
Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dramatists; God; James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists


THE CONCLUSION TO THE KINGS MAJESTIE, by ARTHUR GORGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of manie now that sound with hopes consort
Last Line: For constant faith draws favour from the skyes.
Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625)


TO KING JAMES, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How, best of kings, dost thou a sceptre bear!
Last Line: Of kings for grace; of poets for my test?
Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625)


TO KING JAMES; UPON THE HAPPY FALSE RUMOUR OF HIS DEATH, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That we the loss might know, and thou our love
Last Line: Look not upon thy dangers, but our fears.
Variant Title(s): To King James
Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625)


TO THE MOST SCARED KING JAMES, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O grief, how divers are thy shapes wherein men languish
Last Line: When we were least aware.
Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Mourning; Bereavement