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Subject: SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP (1554-1586)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PASTORAL ECLOGUE UPON THE DEATH OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY KNIGHT, by LODOWICK BRYSKETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Colin, well fits thy sad cheer this sad stound
Last Line: L. B.
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


AN ELEGIE, OR FRIENDS PASSION, FOR HIS ASTROPHILL, by MATTHEW ROYDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: As then, no winde at all there blew
Last Line: My teares discollors so mine inke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roydon, Matthew
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


AN EPITAPH UPON THE DEATH OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, by RICHARD BARNFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That england lost, that learning lov'd, that every mouth commended
Last Line: O graunt (o god) that wee of her, may never be deprived.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


AN EPITAPH UPON THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR PHILLIP SIDNEY, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To praise thy life or wail thy worthy death
Last Line: Let angels speake, and heaven thy praises tell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Sir Philip Sidney
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


ANOTHER OF THE SAME. EXCELLENTLY WRITTEN, by EDWARD DYER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


ASTROPHEL, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shepherds that wont on pipes of oaten reed
Last Line: As fittest flowres to deck his mournfull hearse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


EPITAPH FOR SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, AT ST. PAUL'S WITHOUT A MONUMENT ..., by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within this church sir philip sidney lies
Last Line: Souldiers, their martyr; lovers, their saint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586); St. Paul's Cathedral, London


EPITAPH ON SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, by FULKE GREVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage
Last Line: Salute the stones that keep the lims that held so good a minde.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord
Variant Title(s): Epitaph Of Sir Philip Sidney;an Epitaph Upon The Right Honorable Sir Philip Sidney;an Elegy On Sir Philip Sidney
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


EPITAPH ON THE COUNTESS [DOWAGER] OF PEMBROKE, by BEN JONSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Underneath this sable [or marble] hearse
Last Line: Learn'd, and fair, and good as she, %time shall throw a dart at thee
Subject(s): Herbert, Mary Sidney (1561-1621); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


IMITATION OF SIDNEY: TO STELLA (MISS B?), by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unnumbered thoughts my brain a captive holds
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


IMITATION OF SIDNEY: TO STELLA (MISS B?), by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unnumbered thoughts my brain a captive holds
Last Line: Yet these do all take flight at thought of thee
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


LAMENT OVER SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "come to me grief, for ever"
Last Line: "sidney, the spirit heroic, / sidney is dead. O dead, dead"
Subject(s): "courage;sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586);" Valor;bravery


MEMORY'S EPITAPH TO SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, by GEORGE BENEDICTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stand here, traveller, and hear willingly and in sorrow what the shades
Last Line: Consider yourself to be wretched
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, by JOHN BEAUMONT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He left two children, who for virtue, wit
Last Line: And many poems like itself bring forth.
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


OF SYR PHYLLYPP SYDNEY, by ARTHUR GORGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summe for thy sake rych monuments doo frame
Last Line: Wheare lastinge tyme thy glorye should indyte.
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Underneath this sable [or, marble] hearse
Last Line: Both her mourner and her tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Variant Title(s): On The Countess Dowager Of Pembroke;subject Of All Verse;elegy;on The Death Of Marie, Countess Of Pembroke
Subject(s): Death; Herbert, Mary Sidney (1561-1621); Herbert, William, 3d Earl Of Pembroke; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586); Dead, The; Pembroke, Countess Of; Sidney, Mary (1561-1621); Dudley, Mary


SIDNEY, by EDWARD MOXON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sidney, thou star of beaming chivalry
Last Line: The shade made sacred to the muses' friend.
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


SONNET, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell
Last Line: But death intenser--death is life's high meed.
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


SONNET, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I have fears that I may cease to be
Last Line: Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


SONNET, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To one who has been long in city pent
Last Line: That falls through the clear ether silently.
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


SONNET, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many bards gild the lapses of time
Last Line: Make pleasing music, and not wild uproar.
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


SONNET, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
Last Line: He'll let me sleep, seeing I fast and pray.
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


SONNET, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell
Last Line: But death intenser--death is life's high meed.
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


SONNET, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I have fears that I may cease to be
Last Line: Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


STRUGNELL'S BARGAIN, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My true love hath my heart and I have hers
Last Line: Therefore do I revoke my opening line: %my love can keep her heart and I'll have mine
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Poetry And Poets; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


THE MOURNING MUSE OF THESTYLIS, by LODOWICK BRYSKETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come forth, ye nymphes, come forth, forsake your watry bowres
Last Line: Extend, that envies rage, nor time, might end the same.
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF RUTLAND, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That poets are far rarer births than kings
Last Line: As he would burn or better far his book.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sidney, Elizabeth. Countess Of Rutland; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


TO MISTRESS PHILIP SIDNEY, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must believe some miracles still be
Last Line: But, in your love, made all his servants wise.
Subject(s): Blindness; Sidney, Mistress Philip (1594-1620); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586); Visually Handicapped


TO PENSHURST, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art not, penshurst, built to envious show
Last Line: May say their lords have built, but thy lord dwells.
Subject(s): Animals; Buildings & Builders; Houses; Penshurst, England; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


TO SIR PHILIP SIDNEY'S SOUL, by HENRY CONSTABLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Give pardon, blessed soul, to my bold cries
Last Line: And now begin to weep when they have done.
Variant Title(s): On Sir Philip Sidney;on The Death Of Sir Philip Sidney
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


TO THE ANGEL SPIRIT OF THE MOST EXCELLENT SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee pure sprite, to thee alone's address'd
Last Line: Oh happie chaunge! Could I so take my leave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, Countess Of
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


TROUBLE WITH CONSONANTS, by JEAN NORDHAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know a computer technician
Last Line: The night sky, lit %from behind, a dark screen %studded with asterisks
Subject(s): Herbert, Mary Sidney (1561-1621); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


UPON THE TRANSLATION OF THE PSALMS BY SIR PHILIP SYDNEY & HIS SISTER, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eternall god, (for whom who ever dare)
Last Line: We may fall in with them, and sing our part.
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586); Translating & Interpreting