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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS Matches Found: 337 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAT LADY HEARS SHAKESPEARE AT THE CLUB, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rustles in with sweep of many laces Last Line: Sighing with sentiment, she sits there, creaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Dramatists; Obesity; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) A FULL MOON IN MARCH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are we to do? What part do Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Dramatists A GRACE BEFORE SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Weary and wishful of the woods, we hear Last Line: Always thyself abideth, calm and strong! Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Destiny; Dramatists A HYMN OF HATE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the drama Last Line: It cuts in on my sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Dramatists; Hate; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets A LETTER TO SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you who live in chill degree Last Line: Has writ without a ten years warning. Subject(s): Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Letters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists A MASQUE OF THE SEASONS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer or winter or spring or fall Last Line: That's the reason I send them all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Plays & Playwrights; Seasons; Elves A MASQUE OF THE TIMES O' DAY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dawn, beloved by those that watch Last Line: These too shall pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Day; Plays & Playwrights ; Time; Dramatists A PLAGUE FOR KIT MARLOWE; IN MEMORY OF DEREK JARMAN, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't trust beauty anymore, when will I stop Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dramatists; Gays & Lesbians; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Sickness; Illness A PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gallants, a bashful poet bids me say Last Line: Tis hard, he thinks, if neither part will do. Subject(s): Muses; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists A REMEMBRANCE OF SOME ENGLISH POETS, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live spenser ever, in thy fairy queene Last Line: Well may the bodye dye, but fame dies never. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists A SESSION OF THE POETS, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the sons of the muses, grew num'rous, and loud Last Line: For he had writ plays, yet ne're came in print. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Betterton, Tom (1635-1710); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets A SHORT PLAY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing to do for the fact that wraps around her Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Relationships; Dramatists A SUPPLEMENT OF AN IMPERFECT COPY OF VERSES OF MR. WILL. SHAKESPEARE'S, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One of her hands one of her cheeks lay under Last Line: To bite the part so unkindly held them in. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AFTER READING SHAKESPERE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe fancy lightly builds with airy hands Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AFTER READING TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT (1), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yon page being closed, my shakespeare's let me Last Line: And vast curves of the gradual violin! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Tamerlane (1336-1404); Timure (1336-144); Tamberlaine (1336-144) AFTER THE PLAY, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The great gold room is heavy with the scent Last Line: Yet this day twenty thousand men have died. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Music & Musicians; New York City - Theaters; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists AFTERNOON AT A PARSONAGE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder man should fail to stay Last Line: Doth near its fellows seem to be. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Children; Dreams; Memory; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Tears; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Dramatists AGNES DE CASTRO, SELECTION, by CATHARINE TROTTER Poem Text First Line: Ah! She who told me of my husband's heart Last Line: Read from his hand, the sad, amazing truth. Subject(s): Hate; Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights ALL FOR LOVE, OR THE WORLD WELL LOST: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, like disputants, when reasons fail Last Line: Tis more than one man's work to please you all. Variant Title(s): Prologue And Epilogue To All For Love: Epilogue Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists ALL FOR LOVE, OR THE WORLD WELL LOST: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What flocks of critics hover here to-day Last Line: Such rivell'd fruits as winter can afford. Variant Title(s): Prologue And Epilogue To All For Love: Prologue To Antony And Cleopatr Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PART 2. PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They who write ill, and they who ne'r durst write Last Line: Will prove a dowdy, with a face to fright you. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 5 Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights ; Fancy; Dramatists ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This jeast was first of t' other houses making Last Line: As, in a combat, coats of mayle, and charms. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 1 Subject(s): Gwynn, Eleanor (nell) (1650-1687); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Gwyn, Eleanor (nell); Gwynne, Eleanor (nell); Dramatists AMBOYNA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet once the spartan's led to fight Last Line: Let caesar live, and carthage be subdu'd! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists AMBOYNA: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As needy gallants, in the scrivener's hands Last Line: As much improper as would honesty. Variant Title(s): Satire On The Dutch Subject(s): Cruelty; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Merchants; Plays & Playwrights ; Religion; Dramatists; Theology AMICO SUO CHARISSIMO, INGENIOSISSIMO, T. RANDOLPHO, by EDWARD HYDE Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Desert keeps close, when they that write by guess Last Line: To say, 'tis petty treason to withhold. Alternate Author Name(s): Clarendon, 1st Earl Of Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Randolph, Thomas (1605-1634); Dramatists AMPHITRYON: PASTORAL DIALOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thyrsis: fair iris and her swain Last Line: And fear not to be poor. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Kisses; Plays & Playwrights ; Dead, The; Destiny; Dramatists AMPHITYRON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The laboring bee, when his sharp sting is gone Last Line: To make fine fools of you, and all your parts. Subject(s): Bees; Fame; Insects; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Beekeeping; Reputation; Bugs; Dramatists; Stage Life AN ADDRESS TO SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal! William shakespeare, there's none can you excel Last Line: While seated around the fireside on a cold winter's night. Subject(s): Dramatists; Play; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters AN ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE (FROM ARISTOPHANES), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dear one, with tawny wings Last Line: Even the throne-room of god it shall fill! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Aristophanes (450-388 B.c.); Birds; Dramatists; Nightingales; Plays & Playwrights AN ANNOTATION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Emblem of early seeking, early finding Last Line: So tossed you to the hooves of infamy? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Dramatists; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists 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 AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (2), by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No second growth the western isle could bear Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AN EVENING'S LOVE, OR THE MOCK ASTROLOGER: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My part being small, I have had time to-day Last Line: And please you to a height, or not at all. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dramatists AN IMITATION (TO M.M.), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my sylvia, let us rove Last Line: Sporting o'er the velvet green. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dramatists; Fairies; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elves; Male-female Relations; Dramatists AN INVITATION TO PHYLLIS, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come live with me, and be my love Last Line: Then live with me, and be my love. Subject(s): Courtship; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Dramatists APPROACHING ELSINORE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow I shall be at elsinore Last Line: Hourly the play begins at elsinore. Subject(s): Dramatists; Elsinore, Denmark; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists APRIL TWENTY-THIRD, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Death sallied forth upon this fateful day Last Line: "and shakespeare bowed: ""you are don quixote still." Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Cervantes, Miguel De (1547-1616); Death; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De; Dead, The ARIEL AND CALIBAN, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So - prospero is gone - and I am free Last Line: "I dreamed and fancied. He awoke and saw!" Subject(s): Islands; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Prisons & Prisoners; Supernatural; Dramatists; Convicts ARVIRAGUS AND PHILICA, REVIVED: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With sickly actors & an old house too Last Line: You'd less good breeding or had more good nature. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare, thy legacy of peerless song Last Line: At honest daily work -- then found it fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AT THE MERMAID TAVERN (APRIL 10, 1613), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, so I said: 'twas labored 'cataline' Last Line: And then I go. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ATALANTA IN CALYDON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars Last Line: For the hands of their kingdom are strong. Subject(s): Atalanta; Fates (mythology); Mankind; Mythology; Plays & Playwrights; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Human Race; Theology AURENG-ZEBE, OR THE GREAT MOGUL: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty task! And so I told the fool Last Line: Their votes who cannot judge, than theirs who can. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists AURENG-ZEBE, OR THE GREAT MOGUL: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our author by experience finds it true Last Line: And see us play the tragedy of wit. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shame; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: FORTINBRAS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I, brave prince fortinbras, who close this tragic pother, enter to say Last Line: Pulling in the wings. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: KING CLAUDIUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Cypress, geraniums, bleak hedge of my parterre, from the chase I Last Line: Madame, you need not fear. I shall have drunk the wine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dramatists; Flowers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Travel; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips BEFORE REREADING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether his loves were many or but two Last Line: Once, forest leaves, they murmured round his soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) BEHIND THE SCENES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Behind the scenes! What secrets dwell Last Line: Behind the scenes! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters BLOOD AND SAND, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there ever was a spoiled darling Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Literature BREKEKEKEX KOAX KOAX, by ROBERT FULLER MURRAY Poem Text First Line: I love the inoffensive frog Last Line: If other inward parts exist. Subject(s): Animals; Aristophanes (450-388 B.c.); Dramatists; Frogs; Plays & Playwrights BURLESQUE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The footlights glint, the house is set Last Line: They have played plays in heaven?' Subject(s): Bands; Burlesque; Criticism & Critics; Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights; Singing & Singers; Orchestras; Striptease CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME', by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first thought was, he lied in every word Last Line: "tower came." Subject(s): Courage; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Valor; Bravery; Dramatists CIRCE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were you but half so wise as you're severe Last Line: He may grow up to write, and you to judge. Subject(s): Circe; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Women; Dramatists CIRCE: PROLOGUE (EARLIER VERSION), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were you but half so wise as you're severe Last Line: You should protect from death by vulgar hands. Subject(s): Circe; Davenant, Dr. Charles; Opera; Plays & Playwrights ; Women; Dramatists CLASSICAL PROPORTIONS OF THE HEART; FOR FONTAINE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone here knows how it ends, in the stone Last Line: With ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy COMMENDATORY VERSES TO MASSINGER'S PLAY, 'THE BONDMAN', by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The printers haste calls on; I must not driue Last Line: Of all that are call'd workes, the best are playes. Subject(s): Massinger, Philip (1583-1640); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists COMPOSITION, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep: perchance to dream ...' he turned his Last Line: And spat into the thames. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) COUPLET ON SHAKESPEAR'S MONUMENT (1), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a hundred and thirty years' nap Last Line: Enter shakespear, with a loud clap. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) COUPLET ON SHAKESPEAR'S MONUMENT (2), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus britain lov'd me; and preserv'd my fame Last Line: Clear from a barber's or a benson's name. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) CURTAIN, by J. K. H. Poem Text First Line: Lower the curtain, let the scene end Last Line: My own opinion is he'll not be back. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Actresses; Dramatists CYRANO TO HIS CHIDING FRIENDS, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Do what? / seek a potent protector, slink under a patron Last Line: Not to soar high, perhaps, but rise alone! Subject(s): Friendship; Plays & Playwrights DAFFODILS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A battered english actor, hired to act Last Line: She stands -- the poor fool is no more forlorn. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Flowers; Fools; Marigolds; Plays & Playwrights; Soul; Idiots DEATH AND THE PLAYER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the players playing on their stage Last Line: But once in many days! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Indifference; Murder; Plays & Playwrights; Dead, The DIRGE FOR FIDELE, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fair fidele's grassy tomb Last Line: And mourned, till pity's self be dead. Variant Title(s): Dirge In Cymbeline;fidele ['s Dirge];a Song From Shakespeare's Cymbelyne [cymbeline] Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists DON SEBASTIAN: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The judge removed, though he's no more my lord Last Line: And let him pay his taxes out in writing. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Religious Discrimination; British Empire; England - Empire; Dramatists; Religious Conflict DOWN-FLOWERS; TO MAURICE MAETERLINCK, by SADAKICHI HARTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weird phantoms rise in the dawn-wind's blow Last Line: To strew these dawn-flowers at their feet. Subject(s): Dawn; Dramatists; Flowers; Life; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sunrise; Dramatists ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Renowned spenser, lie a thought more nigh Last Line: Honour thereafter to be laid by thee. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists END OF THE COMEDY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Dramatists ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will try to remember. It was light Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists ENIGMA, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noblest name in allegory's page Last Line: Which gathers all their glories in its own. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) EPIGRAM ON SAMUEL PORDAGE, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet, whoe'er thou art, god damn thee Last Line: Go hang thyself, and burn thy mariamne. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights EPIGRAM: THE PLAY OF 'KING LEAR', by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here love the slain with love the slayer lies Last Line: Bubbles the wan mirth of the mirthless fool. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) EPILOGUE TO 'TAMERLANE THE GREAT', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, the beardless author of this day Last Line: And always fails you at the second heat. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists EPILOGUE TO 'THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE, OR THE EARL OF ESSEX', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We act by fits and starts, like drowning men Last Line: The satisfaction of a gentleman. Variant Title(s): Epilogue For The King's House;prologue And Epilogue To The Unhappy Favorite: Epilogue Subject(s): England; Plays & Playwrights ; Treason & Traitors; English; Dramatists EPILOGUE TO A PLAY BEFORE THE KING AND QUEEN ... AT WHITEHALL, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunger is sharp, the sated stomach dull Last Line: He should do penance, when the sin was his. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights EPILOGUE TO KING AND QUEEN, AT THE OPENING OF THEIR THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New ministers, when first they get in place Last Line: But first vote money, then redress at leasure. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Attorneys; Dramatists; Stage Life EPILOGUE TO LUCIUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The female author who recites to-day Last Line: And the gray mare will prove the better horse. Subject(s): Friendship; Greece; Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tragedy; Greeks EPILOGUE TO MITHRIDATES, KING OF PONTIUS, BY MR. N. LEE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've seen a pair of faithful lovers die Last Line: And women fight, like swizzers, for their pay. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Dramatists EPILOGUE TO ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE,' DESIGNED FOR MRS. OLDFIELD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prodigious this! The frail-one of our play Last Line: Come here in crowds, and stare the strumpet down. Subject(s): Marriage; Oldfield, Anne (1683-1730); Plays & Playwrights; Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPILOGUE TO THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA BY THE SPANIARDS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Success, which can no more than beauty last Last Line: He had pleas'd better, had he lov'd you less. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 2 Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Success; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life EPILOGUE TO THE DRAMA FOUNDED ON 'SAINT RONAN'S WELL', by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's right, friend - drive the gaitlings back Last Line: She'll tell the bailie. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No poor dutch peasant, winged with all his fear Last Line: We'll boldly back, and say their price is rais'd. Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At The Acting Of The 'silent Woman' Subject(s): England; Fear; France; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; War; English; Dramatists EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What needs my shakespeare for his honour'd bones Last Line: That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Shakespeare;on Shakespeare. 1630 Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ERECHTHEUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of life and death and all men's days Last Line: And friendship and fame of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy; Dead, The EVOLUTION (ACCORDING TO MAETERLINCK), by FRANCES REUBELT Poem Text First Line: Beneath the earth and hating sun and light Last Line: And climbs the radiant way to heaven and god. Subject(s): Dramatists; Evolution; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets EXIT HOMO, by HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The play is over, and the players gone Last Line: Faint hints the promise of another day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Sinclair Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Yale University; Dramatists FALSTAFF'S LAMENT OVER PRINCE HAL BECOME HENRY V, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One that I cherished Last Line: Here's to thee, hal! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) FIRMILIAN; A TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three hours of study - and what gain thereby? Last Line: Curtain descends. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Churches; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Magic; Plays & Playwrights ; Cathedrals; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 3. SOLDANELLA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hermit: / what wilt thou with me, maiden? Little wins Last Line: That snow environed blossom, woman's love. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Hermits; Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Spring; Dead, The; Woods; Dramatists FOR OLIVER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright summers fade, and all bright faces too Last Line: Among the deathless, whom they call the dead. Variant Title(s): At Parting Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); War; Dramatists FRYING PAN'S THEOLOGY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scene: on monaro Last Line: Tumble down snow!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Religion; Theology GUILIELMUS REX, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The folk who lived in shakespeare's day Last Line: T is he alone that lives and reigns! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists HIERARCHY OF ANGELS, by THOMAS HEYWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mellifluous shakespeare, whose enchanting quill Last Line: And he's but now jack ford that once was john. Subject(s): Dramatists; Ford, John (1586-1639); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists HOUSE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I sonnet-sing you about myself? Last Line: He! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 6. YEUX GLAUQUES, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gladstone was still respected / when john ruskin produced Last Line: Adulteries. Subject(s): Buchanan, Robert William (1841-1901); Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Critics & Criticism; Dramatists; Novels & Novelists; Paintings & Painters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Dramatists IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you, great patron of mankind! Sustain Last Line: Befringe the rails of bedlam and sohoe. Variant Title(s): To Augustus Subject(s): Dramatists; Dryden, John (1631-1700); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Immortality; Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings And Painters; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spen IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Now summer with her wanton court is gone Last Line: And murmuring brooks within their channels play. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Youth; Dramatists IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE: PROGNE'S DREAM, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Last night I dreamt Last Line: And with the struggling waked. Subject(s): Dramatists; Dreams; Mythology - Greek; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nightmares; Dramatists IN A LETTER TO C.P., ESQ., IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust me, the meed of praise, dealt thriftily Last Line: And comely guise of ornament disposed. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists IN APRIL ONCE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guido: thou are the knightliest jailer that ever stood Last Line: Voice of the madman. Son of david, have mercy on us! Subject(s): April; Churches; Florence, Italy; God; Plays & Playwrights; Popes; Prisons & Prisoners; Cathedrals; Papacy IN THE OLD FARM-HOUSE; THE GHOST, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead of night, dead of night Last Line: And falstaff in view. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) INNOGEN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal shadow, faint and ever fair Last Line: Nor what is sadder, life, nor any human woe. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Silence INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE FOUR SIDES OF A PEDESTAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marlowe, the father of the sons of song Last Line: First gave our song a sound that matched our sea. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Soul; English INSCRIPTIONS: 4, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O youths and virgins: o declining eld Last Line: "which his own genius only could acquire." Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Monuments; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists KING COPHETUA'S WOOING; A SONG DRAMA IN ONE ACT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I but keep my beggar's staff Last Line: Blue and low. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 1. THE MAGIC GLASS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twas fair and bright the first of may Last Line: When fate shall weave thy destiny. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 10. NORTHERN CHIEF, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Cold winter laid him down to rest Last Line: "I'll even say farewell to-night." Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 16. THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: It was a beauteous, heavenly night Last Line: When walter draws to win lenare. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 17. THE RESCUE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: At midnight's holy hour - a time Last Line: They thought on their unburied dead. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 18. THE NUPTIALS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twelve hours passed -- the grave had closed Last Line: But wind as one through time forever. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 2. THE PICKET, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twas night; on old potomac's shore Last Line: And then resumed his weary pace. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 3. THE BATTLE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: The cannon's roar booms on the air Last Line: But deeper still in darkness go. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 5. RECOGNITION - APPEAL, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Whiling the summer hours away Last Line: But strength is given as we need. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LIKE, I REALLY LIKE THAT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beverley said, though you could barely hear her Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Likes & Dislikes; Dramatists LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On pleasure bent, see how the pressing hordes Last Line: Lincoln alone, in an eternal scene. Subject(s): Assassination; Comedy; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Plays & Playwrights ; Presidents, United States; Tragedy; Dramatists LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What silence drear in england's oaky forest Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Galileo (1564-1642); Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Switzerland; Truth; English; Galileo Galilei; Dramatists; Self-este LORD BACON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Master of masters in the days of yore Last Line: Withdrawn to uttermost oblivion. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dramatists; Law & Lawyers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) LOST TREASURE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn day steals, pallid as a ghost Last Line: Locked in oblivion -- shakespeare lost a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists LOVE TRIUMPHANT, OR NATURE WILL PREVAIL: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, in good manners, nothing shou'd be said Last Line: But, faith, I wou'd not trust her with a mouse. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists LOVE TRIUMPHANT, OR NATURE WILL PREVAIL: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, when some treasurer lays down the stick Last Line: To each, an omen of triumphant love. Subject(s): Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists MAGISTRO RICHADO LANE, by RANDOLPH THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, if the term be done, and you can find Last Line: I have an advocate can plead my cause. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights MARIANA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With blackest moss the flower-plots Last Line: O god, that I were dead!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Desolation; Despair; Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Solitude; Dramatists; Loneliness MARLOWE, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, faustus Last Line: I heard the cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Theater & Theaters MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus have my spouse and I informed the nation Last Line: I humbly cast myself upon the city. Subject(s): Marriage; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dramatists; Stage Life MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, how reformed and quiet we are grown Last Line: T' oblige the town, the city, and the court. Subject(s): Marriage; Plays & Playwrights ; War; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dramatists MARY ARDEN, by ERIC MACKAY Poem Text First Line: O thou to whom, athwart the perished days Last Line: And call thee england's pride forevermore! Subject(s): Arden, Mary (d. 1608); Dramatists; Mothers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) MODERN PARAPHRASE OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET 29, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When times are hard and old friends fall away Last Line: To own the world or be a millionaire? Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) MR. SHERIDAN'S PROLOGUE TO GREEK PLAY PHAEDRA & HIPPOLYTUS, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the notion of a play, you see Last Line: Grant us, ye fates, to play at hide and seek. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights NON OMNIS MORIAR, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask you: has the singer sung Last Line: Death frames the singer and the song. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Ford, John (1586-1639); Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The NOT MARBLE NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS', by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The praisers of women in their proud and beautiful poems Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Dramatists ODE TO APOLLO, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In thy western halls of gold Last Line: From thee, great god of bards, receive their heavenly birth. Subject(s): Dramatists; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Iliad; Odyssey; Dramatists ODE: TO GARRICK, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no; the left - hand box in blue Last Line: Unvisited by ranby. Subject(s): Dramatists; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Marriage; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Weddings; Husbands; Wives OEDIPUS: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sophocles could undertake alone Last Line: To please you more, but burning of a pope. Subject(s): Greece; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Greeks; Dramatists OEDIPUS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When athens all the grecian state did guide Last Line: The first play bury'd since the wollen act. Subject(s): Greece; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights ; Greeks; Dramatists ON A BOY'S FIRST READING OF THE PLAY OF 'KING HENRY THE FIFTH', by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate Last Line: "with ""ho! For harry and red agincourt!" Subject(s): Boys; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - King Henry V; Dramatists ON MOORE'S LAST OPERATIC FARCE, OR FARCICAL OPERA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good plays are scarce Last Line: But now 't is moore that's little. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists ON PLAYWRIGHT (1), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Playwright, convict of public wrongs to men Last Line: Active in 's brain, and passive in his bones. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists ON PLAYWRIGHT (2), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Playwright, by chance, hearing some toys I'd writ Last Line: The liberty, that we'll enjoy tonight. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists ON SHAKESPEARE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In poetry there is but one supreme Last Line: Mighty, and beauteous, while his face is hid. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ON SHAKESPEARE AND VOLTAIRE, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clad in the wealthy robes his genius wrought Last Line: Safely the gentle shakespeare slept and smiled. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ON SIR JOHN HILL, M.D., PLAYWRIGHT, by DAVID GARRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For physic and farces his equal there scarce is Last Line: His farces are physic; his physic a farce is. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists 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 FLYLEAF OF A BOOK OF OLD PLAYS, by WALTER LEARNED Poem Text First Line: At cato's head in russell street Last Line: And watch her at her binding. Subject(s): Books; Plays & Playwrights ; Reading; Dramatists ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THOMAS HARDY'S .. 'THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL', by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago on cornish land Last Line: In song before we sleep. Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This figure, that thou here seest put Last Line: Not at his picture, but his book. Variant Title(s): To The Reader Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Droeshout, Martin; Engraving & Engravers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading; Dramatists ON THE SITE OF A MULBERRY-TREE PLANTED BY SHAKESPEARE ..., by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tree, here fall'n, no common birth or death Last Line: Some tailor's ninth allotment of a ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Dramatists; Hate; Mulberry Trees; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists PERSEPHONEIA; A FRAGMENT: PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old dull whisper of the unceasing wave Last Line: Dread, half in expectation. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Demeter; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Plays & Playwrights; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina PERSEVERANCE D'AMOUR; A LITTLE PLAY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty pass Last Line: From the window-sill. Its wings clatter in the stillness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists PETRUCHIO'S WIFE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Ay, go your ways, my lord. Look where he struts Last Line: Then is the day grown bright for katharine! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists PRIVATE THEATRICALS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quite convincing axiom Last Line: "and fain would ""ring the curtain down." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights PROLOGUE DESIGNED FOR MR. D'URFEY'S LAST PLAY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grown old in rhyme, 'twere barbarous to discard Last Line: Nor force him to be damn'd, to get his living. Subject(s): D'urfey, Thomas (1653-1723); Plays & Playwrights PROLOGUE FOR THE WOMEN, WHEN THEY ACTED AT THE OLD THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were none of you, gallants, e'er driven so hard Last Line: The gaudy house with scenes will serve for cits. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Women; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOUSE, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A plain-built house, after so long a stay Last Line: Machines and tempests will destroy the new. Subject(s): Fame; Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Theatre Royal, London; Reputation; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE TO 'THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies! (I hope there's none behind to hear) Last Line: To trump their diamonds, & they trump our hearts. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Secrets; Dramatists PROLOGUE TO A PLAY PRESENTED BEFORE THE KING AND QUEEN .. AT WHITEHALL, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you have been pleas'd this night to unbend Last Line: Painters and us, and gilds your poet's bays. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights PROLOGUE TO KING AND QUEEN, AT THE OPENING OF THEIR THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since faction ebbs, and rogues grow out of fashion Last Line: Whigg poets and whigg sheriffs may hang together. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE TO MISTAKES, OR THE FALSE REPORT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentlemen, we must beg your pardon Last Line: So much for that; -- and the devil take small beer. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wake the soul by tender strokes of art Last Line: As cato's self had not disdain'd to hear. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government PROLOGUE TO NAHUM TATE'S 'THE LOYAL GENERAL', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If yet there be a few that take delight Last Line: And act your selves the farce of your own age. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy; Dramatists PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Would my humble comrades have me say Last Line: But leave our orphan squalling at your door. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; France; Friendship; Orphans; Plays & Playwrights; Foundlings PROLOGUE TO THE PAIR-ROYAL OF COXCOMBS, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, as you say, you love variety Last Line: This, ladies, humbly begs a gentle doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Women PROLOGUE TO THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Authors are judg'd by strange capricious rules Last Line: Let him that takes it, wear it as his own. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What greece, when learning flourished, only knew Last Line: But 'tis your suffrage makes authentique wit. Subject(s): Greece; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Greeks; Dramatists PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, your subjects, have their parts assigned Last Line: As what should be beyond what is, extends. Subject(s): Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (2), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Discord and plots, which have undone our age Last Line: Oxford's a place where wit can never sterve. Subject(s): England; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; English; Dramatists PROLOGUE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. DENNIS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when that hero, who in each campaign Last Line: And be the critick's, briton's, old-man's friend. Subject(s): Dennis, John (1657-1734); Plays & Playwrights PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK AT ... THEATRE ROYALE, 1747, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes Last Line: And truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Dramatists; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theatre Royal, London; Dramatists QUEEN CATHARINE, OR THE RUINS OF LOVE: EPILOGUE, by CATHARINE TROTTER Poem Text First Line: What epilogues are made, for who can tell Last Line: Who knows but I may come to act queen kate. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy QUEEN CATHARINE: ACT 1, SCENE 1, by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: Work on my brain, help every faculty Last Line: Cruel and bold I'll wade the kindred tide. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot go to the country Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Rot; Decadence; Dramatists REHEARSAL, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman with a basket was walking Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Dramatists ROUND TABLE, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: A dull, ill-acted comedy is life! Last Line: To work and live, to trust in god and die. Subject(s): Comedy; God; Life; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy SCENE FROM A PLAY CALLED 'MATRICULATION', by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, my lad, lie the articles Last Line: Were made, not for men to believe, but to sign. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Oxford, England; Plays & Playwrights SECRET LOVE, OR THE MAIDEN QUEEN: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who writ this, not without pains and thought Last Line: Are bankrupt gamesters, for they damn on tick. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Others abide our question. Thou art free Last Line: Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by HENRY AMES BLOOD Poem Text First Line: I wish that I could have my wish tonight Last Line: By contrast with the outer storm. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Shakespeare! With all thy faults (and few have more) Last Line: His works we reverence, while we pity thine. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see all human wits Last Line: Lone as the blessed jew. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to rove o'er history's page Last Line: Each various feeling to the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, that gavest to the world so much Last Line: Nearest himself in universal power. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); World War I; English; Dramatists; First World War SHAKESPEARE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that in body and spirit shakespeare came Last Line: Teach us to write, and writing, to be men. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by EDWARD L. PONTZ Poem Text First Line: Thou livest still: some modicum of time Last Line: None but thyself thyself could valuate. Subject(s): Dramatists; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Fancy SHAKESPEARE, by COLIN RAE-BROWN Poem Text First Line: What glorious victories are here enshrined Last Line: All coming time shall fail thy like to find! Subject(s): Admiration; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How little fades from earth when sink to rest Last Line: Small tasks and strengths may be no less divine. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If many a daring spirit must discover Last Line: A circumnavigator of the soul. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O let me leave the plains behind Last Line: The long heave of the surging world. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue of england, that which myriads Last Line: Glory! Be glory! Not to me, to god. Subject(s): Dramatists; Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE IN THE THRUSH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who sings so more than passing sweet Last Line: And gods go large in warwickshire! Subject(s): Birds; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Thrushes; Warwickshire, England; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE ODE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the glorious lyre Last Line: And what her monarch lost her monarch-bard shall save. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) 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 SHAKESPEARE TO HIS MIRROR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within thy crystal depths I see Last Line: Since thou dost bear false tales of me! Subject(s): Dramatists; Mirrors; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Soul; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE'S CLIFF, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, all along the high sea-cliff Last Line: "the tempest ""rose, at his command!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Climbing; Dramatists; Nature; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Ocean SHAKESPEARE'S FLOWER GARDEN, by JANE RAWLINS SHEEAN Poem Text First Line: The flowers that grew in shakespeare's garden lift Last Line: That live within his tender magic song! Subject(s): Dramatists; Gardens & Gardening; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sonnet (as Literary Form) SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doggerel,' he thought, 'will do for churchwardens Subject(s): Consolation; Dramatists; Graves; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE'S KEY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unlocked his heart?' not he Last Line: And enter at his will. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE'S MOURNERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the grave of shakespeare in a dream Last Line: Kept vigil o'er the sacred spoils of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dramatists; Graves; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones SHAKESPEARE'S SILENCES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When juliet from her balcony Last Line: Did shakespeare tell anne hathaway? Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE'S STATUE; CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this free pantheon of the air and sun Last Line: The reverence of what he was shall call it down Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Central Park, New York City; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Statues SHAKESPEARE; TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who claims our shakespeare from that realm unknown Last Line: Our nation's second morn! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKSPERE'S WILL (SOMERSET HOUSE, LONDON), by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: I sought through shakspere's city far and wide Last Line: More precious grown than mine of golden ore. Subject(s): Dramatists; London; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKSPERE-BACON CIPHER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I doubt it not - then more, far more Last Line: A mystic cipher waits infolded. Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Dramatists; Philosophy & Philosophers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SIR MARTIN MAR-ALL, OR THE FEIGNED INNOCENCE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As country vicars, when the sermon's done Last Line: As he tells all things when the year is past. Subject(s): Fortune; Plays & Playwrights ; Sermons; Dramatists SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL, OR THE FEIGNED INNOCENCE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fools, which each man meets in his dish Last Line: None welcome those who bring their chear along. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists SOLILOQUY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a player, on the stage? Not so Last Line: May god himself approve my curtain speech! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; God; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Sleep; Actresses; Dead, The; Dramatists SONG A SCHOLAR AND HIS MISTRESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, look! I see - I see my love appear! Last Line: [they run out together hand in hand. Subject(s): Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Dramatists; Seamen; Sails SONNET (1), by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou hadst been a wife for shakespeare's self! Last Line: In martyrdom, than throned as caesar's mate. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SONNET ON SITTING DOWN TO READ KING LEAR ONCE AGAIN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O golden-tongued romance, with serene lute! Last Line: Give me new phoenix wings to fly at my desire. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SONNET: AT STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus spake his dust (so seemed it as I read Last Line: Was hovering, and fain would speak with me. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SONNET: IN THE LANES BETWEEN STRATFORD AND SHOTTERY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through dreamful meads, that still his spirit keep Last Line: And all his nature glowed with boundless life. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SONNETS IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Absence and presence, born of elder night Last Line: Some thoughts on him whose all thoughts dwelt on thee. Subject(s): Absence; Dramatists; Night; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Separation; Isolation; Bedtime SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 1. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned girdled, garbed and shod with light and fire Last Line: Not yet might'st thou be praised enough of Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 16. ANONYMOUS PLAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother whose womb brought forth our man of men Last Line: Clothed round with song forever as with fire. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Plays & Playwrights; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 17. ANONYMOUS PLAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye too, dim watchfires of some darkling hour Last Line: Between two child-faced masks of merrier days. Subject(s): Flowers; Plays & Playwrights SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 18. ANONYMOUS PLAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More yet and more, and yet we mark not all Last Line: In the pleached lanes of pleasant edmonton. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not if men's tongues and angels' all in one Last Line: All stars are angels; but the sun is god. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) 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 SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William shakespeare of an actual presence Last Line: That hamlet will kill himself first in word, then in deed. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't say why he thinks himself shakespeare at the window Last Line: Across the stage when she thought he was not coming. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life STAGE LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the game began between them for a jest Last Line: When the play was played out so for one man's pleasure. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Love; Plays & Playwrights SUPPER AT THE MILL, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, frances / well, good mother, how are you? Last Line: The supper's ready. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Food & Eating; Mills & Millers; Plays & Playwrights ; Childhood; Relatives; Dramatists THE ASSIGNATION, OR LOVE IN A NUNNERY: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some have expected, from our bills to-day Last Line: And, sure, behind our scenes you'll look for none. Subject(s): Nuns; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE AUTHOR TO HIS BOOKE, by THOMAS HEYWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a theatre, the earth a stage Last Line: He may as well deny a world to me. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE AUTHOR'S FRIEND TO THE READER, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The printer's haste calls on; I must not drive Last Line: Of all that are call'd works, the best are plays. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Massinger, Philip (1583-1640); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE BREATH OF AVON; TO THE PILGRIMS OF GREATER BRITAIN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er of woe the dark may hide in Last Line: Hold still a dream of music where they fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Dramatists; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE CLOUD, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what your thoughts are, little cloud Last Line: Celeste: the cloud! Subject(s): Clouds; France; Plays & Playwrights ; Women; Dramatists THE COURT HOUSE, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is that theater the muse loves best Last Line: What peacock playhouse will contend with you? Subject(s): Muses; Plays & Playwrights; Theater & Theaters THE DECEIVER DECIVED: PROLOGUE, by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: Deceiv'd deceiver, and imposter cheated! Last Line: There's no appeal to any court but you. Subject(s): Devil; Duplicity; Plays & Playwrights; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Deceit THE DUKE OF GUISE: EPILOGUE: 1, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much time and trouble this poor play has cost Last Line: With tory wings, but whiggish teeth and claws. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Dramatists THE DUKE OF GUISE: EPILOGUE: 2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two houses joined, two poets to a play? Last Line: But grunts, and groans, and ends at last in fumbling. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Dramatists THE DUKE OF GUISE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our play's a parallel; the holy league Last Line: Pull down the master, and set up the man. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Nations; Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists THE FACE OF THE NIGHT; A PASTORAL, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the night with her hair gemm'd with stars Last Line: It continues through the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Faces; Legends; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Bedtime; Dramatists THE FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who hath known her - like as I Last Line: Curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Night; Plays & Playwrights; Bedtime THE FOX WHO WATCHED FOR THE MIDNIGHT SUN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snowy pastures of the estate Last Line: As if the dead hare were soon to awaken. Subject(s): Animals; Dramatists; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Medicine; Plays & Playwrights ; Trapping & Trappers; Writing & Writers; Drugs, Prescription; Dramatists; Traps; Snares; Trappers THE GUARDIAN: PROLOGUE, BEFORE THE PRINCE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who says the times do learning disallow? Last Line: This comedy is acted by the heart. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE GUARDIAN: THE EPILOGUE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The play, great sir, is done; yet needs must fear Last Line: Scarce could it dye more quickly then 'twas born. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE HUSBAND HIS OWN CUCKOLD: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like some raw sophister that mounts the pulpit Last Line: One fool, for million that he left behind. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE ICONOCLAST, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years shall come and go Last Line: The soul that knows its god was dust. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Time; Tragedy; Youth; Dramatists 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 INDIAN EMPEROR: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty critics! Whom our indians here Last Line: And leave the rest upon the poet's hands. Subject(s): Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True wit has seen its best days long ago Last Line: That not one locust may be left behind! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Critics & Criticism; Plays & Playwrights ; Actresses; Dramatists THE LOST LOVER: PROLOGUE, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first adventurer for her fame I stand Last Line: And therefore she resolved to coppy you. Subject(s): Fame; Plays & Playwrights; Women; Reputation THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 45, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the noh theater Last Line: Will ever happen to me Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Contentment THE MASQUE OF QUEEN BERSABE; A MIRACLE PLAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knights mine, all that be in hall Last Line: Et tunc dicant laudamus. Variant Title(s): The Masque Of Queen Bersabe Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Knights & Knighthood; Plays & Playwrights THE MERCHANT OF VENICE; A LEGEND OF ITALY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I believe there are few Last Line: And never let one of them come down the are'! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE MOTHER; A SONG DRAMA, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's I have conquered you Last Line: Curtain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dust; Grass; Mothers; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE NAMES, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare! - to such name's sounding, what succeeds Last Line: Though dread -- this finite from that infinite. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE NEW DOLL'S HOUSE: 5. THE BEDROOMS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bedrooms shall be / gay with hints Last Line: Her bed). Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE PLAY, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: I watched you curve your arm over the back of Last Line: But when they asked me about the play, I could not remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Art & Artists; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life THE PLAY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Act first, this earth, a stage so gloom'd with woe Last Line: In some fifth act what this wild drama means. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Life; Plays & Playwrights THE PLAYER, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His wardrobe is the world, and day and night Last Line: Between the two he stands, timeless — the poet-player. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Dramatists; Play; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters THE POETRY OF SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture some isle smiling green 'mid the white-foaming ocean Last Line: Life in all shapes, aims, and fates, is there warm'd by one great human heart. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE PROGRESS OF POESY; A PINDARIC ODE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, aeolian lyre, awake Last Line: Beneath the good how far--but far above the great. Subject(s): Dramatists; Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE PROLOGUE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! How they push! The pit is crowded now Last Line: (they go forth.) Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Tragedy; Actresses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Stage Life THE RIVAL LADIES: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis much desired, you judges of the town Last Line: All that want wit, or hope to find it here. Subject(s): Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE RIVALS; OR THE SHOWMAN'S RUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Straight rent across one trousers-knee, makes his inglorious -- exit.] Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus; Comedy; Plays & Playwrights; Quarrels; Tragedy; Arguments; Disagreements THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: ACT 3, SCENE 1, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What to conceal desire, when every Last Line: Whose sight I have not courage to abide. Subject(s): Desire; Fate; Love; Passion; Plays & Playwrights; Destiny THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: ACT 5, SCENE 1, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your orders, sir, are punctually obey'd Last Line: And embraces on every fatal piece. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Plays & Playwrights; Dead, The THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: EPOLOGUE, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our poet tells me I am very pretty Last Line: May stamp our poet's work, and nature's too compleat. Subject(s): Nature; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Youth THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: PROLOGUE, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Critics, ye are grown so much unkind of late Last Line: So may you still be fair, your lovers ever true. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Fate; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Destiny THE SAVING WAY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the little girl was told that the sun someday Last Line: To invent our lives from these rich hours of woe? Subject(s): Dramatists; Girls; Jews; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Judaism; Dramatists THE SECULAR MASQUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hundred times the rowling sun Last Line: Dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriours, and lovers. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Plays & Playwrights ; War; World; Human Race; Dramatists THE SHOW MUST GO ON, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The play had been staged as long as we could remember, Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Reality; Dramatists THE SPANISH CURATE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The play is done, yet our suit never ends Last Line: And worthy love, that may destroy, but spare. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE SPANISH CURATE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To tell ye, gentlemen, we have a play Last Line: You are worthy judges, and you crown the play. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE SPANISH FRIAR, OR THE DOUBLE DISCOVERY: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, luck for us, and a kind hearty pit Last Line: By way of thanks, we'll send 'em o'er our plot. Subject(s): Catholics; Plays & Playwrights ; Sailing & Sailors; Spain; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dramatists; Seamen; Sails THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands Last Line: (exeunt.) Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy greatest knew thee, mother earth; unsoured Last Line: To fatten earth when from her soul divorced. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE: 2, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How smiles he at a generation ranked Last Line: Thunders of laughter, clearing air and heart. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE SUMMER RAIN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read Last Line: Who in a beaded coat does gaily go. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading 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 THE TRUE WIDOW: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heav'n save ye gallants, and this hopeful age Last Line: Who needs will father what the parish got. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692); Theater & Theaters; Widows & Widowers; Dramatists; Stage Life THE TWO SHAKESPEARE TERCENTARIES OF BIRTH, 1864; OF DEATH, 1916, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Longer than thine, than thine Last Line: My waste lies after thee, and lies before. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE ULTIMATE (2), by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So this is the ultimate Last Line: Towards eternity! Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Reason; Sea; Soul; Destiny; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean THE WILD GALLANT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not strange to hear a poet say Last Line: Now spare him, drown him when he comes again. Subject(s): England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; English; Dramatists THE WILD GALLANT, REVIVED: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all dramatic writing, comic wit Last Line: In hope it may their staple trade advance. Subject(s): Comedy; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dramatists THE WORLD PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The entrance-price you willy-nilly pay Last Line: Are shaken by its moods, -- mirth, anguish, mystery. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comedy; Earth; Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; World; Dramatists THE YEAR TWENTY-SIX, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis gone with its toys and its troubles Last Line: And make me -- like thee -- twenty-six. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Time THEATER IMPRESSIONS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For me a tragedy's most important act is the sixth Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights THEATRICAL IMPRESSIONS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In tragedy I find the sixth act most important Last Line: Grips me by the throat Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights TO A CLASS IN SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Gossip of swains befooled by fairy charm Last Line: Because they've walked together and with him. Subject(s): Dramatists; Happiness; Humanity; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Teaching & Teachers; Joy; Delight; Dramatists; Educators; Professors TO A MODERN POET (WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou these words thine elder brother writ Last Line: Until death healed thine elder brother's grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Dramatists; Grief; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sorrow; Sadness TO AN ARTIST, TO TAKE HEART, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride Last Line: Having endured them all Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO FRANCIS BEAUMONT, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How I do love thee, beaumont, and thy muse Last Line: For writing better, I must envy thee. Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO HENRIK IBSEN IN DRESDEN, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the bowery window-nook Last Line: Proclaim you home at last! Subject(s): Dramatists; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO HENRIK ISBSEN ON ENTERING HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red star, that on the forehead of the north Last Line: Kneel to thy red refulgence till I die. Subject(s): Dramatists; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO HIS DEAR FRIEND THOMAS RANDOLPH, ON HIS COMEDY 'THE JEALOUS LOVERS', by RICHARD BENEFIELD Poem Text First Line: Friend, I must grieve your poems injur'd be Last Line: Yet you are jealous still of your own wit. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Randolph, Thomas (1605-1634); Dramatists TO HIS DEAR FRIEND, THOMAS RILEY, by RANDOLPH THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not say I on our stage have seen Last Line: I write this comedy, but 'twas made by thee. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights TO HIS DEAREST FRIEND THE AUTHOR, AFTER HE HAD REVISED HIS COMEDY, by EDWARD. FRAUNCES Poem Text First Line: The more I this thy masterpiece peruse Last Line: Only in this thou dost thyself excel. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Randolph, Thomas (1605-1634); Dramatists TO HIS FRIENDS OF CHRIST CHURCH, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But is it true, the court mislik'd the play Last Line: All that which they want brain to comprehend. Subject(s): Holyday, Barton (17th Century); Likes & Dislikes; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO HIS HONOURED FRIEND MR ANTH. STAFFORD, by RANDOLPH THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, had my muse gain'd leisure to confer Last Line: That should have rather begg'd your rigour then. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights TO HIS INGENUOUS FRIEND, THE AUTHOR, CONCERNING HIS COMEDY, by JAMES DUPORT Poem Text First Line: The muses, tom, thy jealous lovers be Last Line: Will find sufficient welcome, credit, fame. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Randolph, Thomas (1605-1634); Dramatists TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND F.J., ON ... THIS EXCELLENT COMEDY, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To join things so divided in this age Last Line: Not lend them hose to put on head or horn! Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights TO MAETERLINCK, by JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY Poem Text First Line: Weaver of dreams like cloudy tapestries Last Line: The awful eyes of the unhurried norns. Alternate Author Name(s): Newberry, J. S. Subject(s): Dramatists; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Yale University TO MR. GRANVILLE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auspicious poet, wert thou not my friend Last Line: Thou copiest homer, and they copy thee. Variant Title(s): To Mr. Granville, Afterwards Lord Lansdowne Subject(s): Granville, George. Lord Lansdowne; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy; Youth; Dramatists TO MR. MOTTEUX, ON HIS TRAGEDY CALLED BEAUTY IN DISTRESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard, my friend,to write in such an age Last Line: So great a poet and so good a friend. Variant Title(s): To Peter Antony Motteux Subject(s): Friendship; Motteux, Peter Anthony (1660-1718); Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; Writing & Writers; Dramatists TO MR. SOUTHERN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure there's a fate in plays, and 'tis in vain Last Line: And the next age will learn to copy thine. Subject(s): Comedy; Plays & Playwrights ; Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Writing & Writers; Dramatists; Southern, Thomas TO MY DEAR FRIEND, MR. CONGREVE, ON HIS COMEDY, 'THE DOUBLE-DEALER', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Well then, the promised hour is come at last Last Line: You merit more; nor cou'd my love do less. Variant Title(s): To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve On His Comedy Called The Double-dealer Subject(s): Comedy; Congreve, William (1670-1729); Friendship; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO MY FRIEND D'AVENANT, UPON HIS EXCELLENT PLAY, 'THE JUST ITALIAN', by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll not mis-spend in praise the narrow room Last Line: Wise men, that govern fate, shall entertain. Subject(s): D'avenant, William (1606-1668); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO MY FRIEND WILL D'AVENANT, ON HIS OTHER POEMS, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast redeem'd us, will, and future times Last Line: Would ask (to praise it right) twenty of mine. Subject(s): Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668); Plays & Playwrights TO MY FRIEND WILL.DAVENANT, UPON HIS POEM OF 'MADAGASCAR', by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mighty princes poets are! Those things Last Line: In thy next voyage bring the gold too with thee. Subject(s): Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668); Plays & Playwrights TO MY HONOURED FRIEND MASTER THOMAS MAY, UPON HIS COMEDY, 'THE HEIR', by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heir' being born, was in his tender age Last Line: Nature allow'd me was not large enough Subject(s): May, Thomas (1595-1650); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO MY MOST DEARELY-LOVED FRIEND HENERY REYNOLDS ESQUIRE, OF POETS, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dearely loved friend how oft have we Last Line: And so my deare friend, for this time adue. Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Beaumont, Sir John (1583-1627); Bryan, Sir Francis (d. 1550); Dramatists; Drummond, William (1585-1649); Gascoigne, George (1525-1577); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Reynolds, Henry (17th Century); Sylvester, Joshu TO MY MUCH ESTEEMED FRIEND ON HER PLAY, FATAL-FRIENDSHIP, by SARAH PIERS Poem Text First Line: With what concern I sat and heard you play Last Line: Our mutual friendship, may ne'er fatal be. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Nature; Plays & Playwrights TO SHAKESPEARE, by DONALD BAIN Poem Text First Line: We know you knew, but know not how you knew Last Line: Transmigrant over all the lands and seas. Subject(s): Dramatists; Genius; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul of man is larger than the sky Last Line: Serene of thought, unhurt by thy own flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Variant Title(s): Shakespeare Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE, by RICHARD EDWIN DAY Poem Text First Line: Thou, who didst lay all other bosoms bare Last Line: Thou art, thyself, thy one unopened book. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE'S MOTHER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Did he, madonna, on thy bosom turning Last Line: Girlish ophelia's love, and juliet's grave. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dramatists; Legacies; Mothers & Sons; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Inspiration; Creativity; Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE; AFTER THREE HUNDRED YEARS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright baffling soul, least capturable of themes Last Line: Lodged there a radiant guest, and sped for ever thence. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO THAT COMPLETE AND NOBLE KNIGHT SIR KENELLAM DIGBY, by RANDOLPH THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, when I look on you, methinks I see Last Line: You'll let her ivy wait upon your bays. Subject(s): Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665); Plays & Playwrights TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To draw no envy, shakespeare, on thy name Last Line: And despairs day, but for thy volume's light! Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists TO THE READER OF MASTER WILLIAM D'AVENANT'S PLAY, 'THE WITS', by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It hath been said of old that plays are feasts Last Line: Take the just elevation of your wit. Subject(s): D'avenant, William (1606-1668); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO THE SWEETWILLIAM, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I search the poet's honied lines Last Line: Sweetwilliam! Subject(s): Dramatists; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO THE THEATRE, by ELIZABETH DAVIS RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: O house of life, upon whose certain stage Last Line: All mystery as does the last, dark lover. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Theater & Theaters TO THE TRULY NOBLE KNIGHT SIR CHR. HATTON, by RANDOLPH THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you (whose recreations, sir, might be Last Line: Twere but a lesson worthy such an ear. Subject(s): Hatton, Sir Christopher (1540-1591); Plays & Playwrights TOUCHSTONE ON A BUS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I rode with touchstone on a bus Last Line: He burst into this bunch of mad-cap rhymes: -- Subject(s): Buses; Plays & Playwrights TRAGICOMEDY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit a mute spectator in the pit Last Line: And shall I read its meaning as it ends? Subject(s): Comedy; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; Dramatists TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These cruel critics put me into passion Last Line: By suffering for the plot, without confessing. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists TRYST (AFTER READING FROM SHAKESPEARE), by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, thou art heavy, with no stars to chain Last Line: A dead hand lies like flame upon my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Love - Loss Of; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists TWO ARGOSIES (ANTONIO'S AND SHAKESPEARE'S), by WALLACE BRUCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ducats take! I'll sign the bond today Last Line: Her titled language crowned in high entail. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hold! Are you mad? You damned, confounded dog! Last Line: Yet dy'd a princess, acting in s.Cathar'n. Subject(s): Ghosts; Gwynn, Eleanor (nell) (1650-1687); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Gwyn, Eleanor (nell); Gwynne, Eleanor (nell); Dramatists TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Self-love, which, never rightly understood Last Line: Find but those faults, which they want wit to make. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Self-righteousness; Dramatists VALENTINIAN: EPILOGUE, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We would fain please ye, and as fain be pleased Last Line: Hold ye awhile, until a better may. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists VARIATION ON BEAUMONT, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time, at his kindest, hath wild wings to fly with Last Line: Ages and aeons of delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Time 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 VITA; AN ALLEGORICAL DRAMA, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O most mighty, most glorious Last Line: With their arms entwined.) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists VORTIGREN: EPILOGUE, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Text First Line: Ye solemn critics! Wheresoe'er you're seated Last Line: A kind protector and a gen'rous friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Dramatists; Ireland, William Henry (1777-1835); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) WASSAIL CHORUS AT THE MERMAID TAVERN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas knows a merry, merry place Last Line: Rare!' Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Christmas; Dramatists; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Heywood, Thomas (1574-1641); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Mermaid Tavern; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nativity, The WHEN I READ SHAKESPEARE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read shakespeare I am struck with wonder Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO MRS. ANNE, REGULAR SERVANT, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A moment's patience, gentle mistress anne Last Line: For glorious puddings, & immortal pies. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists WIND ON THE LYRE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was the chirp of ariel Last Line: The blood of us a lighted dew. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Singing & Singers WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the holy missal shakespeare wrote Last Line: But the same burden weighs upon my heart. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS ON LEAVING COLLEGE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one of some fat tillage dispossessed Last Line: Some part of what thy friend once felt for thee. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) WRECKS, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No temple or tomb; there is only a coffin Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Dramatists WRITTEN IN SIR SIDNEY LEE'S LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lee, who in niggard soil hast delved, to find Last Line: Glorious with casual sprinklings of the foam. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Biography; Dramatists; Lee, Sidney (1859-1926); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Biographers YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE SAY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sulky what-ifs Last Line: The norm is always incorrect. If what? Subject(s): Dramatists; Hell; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists YOUR SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I am sentenced not to talk to you Last Line: Bits of glass in the head's reticent weather. Subject(s): Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists |
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