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Subject: LAWES, HENRY (1596-1662)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 13. ENVOI, 1919, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, dumb-born book
Last Line: All things save beauty alone.
Subject(s): Beauty; Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Singing & Singers; Songs


SONNET: 13. TO MR. H. LAWES, ON HIS AIRS, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harry whose tuneful and well-measured song
Last Line: Met in the milder shades of purgatory.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 13;to Mr. H. Lawes, On His Airs
Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE PICTURE; SET BY MR. LAWES, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How, chloris, can I e'er believe
Last Line: My wand'ring eyes to thee at home.
Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Love


TO M. HENRY LAWES, THE EXCELLENT COMPOSER, OF HIS LYRICS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Touch but thy lire (my harrie) and I heare
Last Line: Yet their three praises, praise but one; that's lawes.
Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662)


TO MR. HENRY LAWES, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature, which is the vast creation's soul
Last Line: Be it thy care our age to new-create: %what build a world may sure repair a state
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662)


TO MR. HENRY LAWES, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Verse makes heroic virtue live
Last Line: Let words and sense be set by thee.
Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Noy, William; Singing & Singers