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Subject: SPENSER, EDMUND (1552-1599)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SATIRE: THE GHOST OF SPENSER SPEAKS, by JOHN OLDHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But, grant thy poetry should find success
Last Line: Be all but poet, and there's way to live.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (1), by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I saw the grave, where laura lay
Last Line: And curst th' accesse of that celestiall theife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): Of Spenser's Faery Queene;the Faerie Queen (to Spenser);of Edmund Spenser's Fairy Queen, A Vision Upon This Conceit
Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Francesco Petrarca


A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (2), by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The prayse of meaner wits this worke like profit brings
Last Line: Of all which speak our english tongue, but those of thy device
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): A Vision Upon This Conceipt Of The Faery Queene
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


AMORETTI: DEDICATION. G.W. SENIOR, TO THE AUTHOR, by GEOFFREY WHITNEY SR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darke is the day, when phoebus face is shrowed
Last Line: G.W.I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Whitney, Geffrey
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


AN IMITATION OF SPENCER, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Golden apollo, that thro' heaven wide
Last Line: Or does th' afflicted man thy heav'nly bosom move?
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


AN ODE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake faire muse, for I intend
Last Line: No king shall owne my verses for his tombe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Death; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Dead, The


CLERIHEW, by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: How vigilant was spenser %as a literary censor!
Last Line: He pointed out that there were too few es %in lyly's 'euphues'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bentley, E. C.
Subject(s): Lyly, John (1554-1606); Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


COMMENDATORY VERSE FOR THE FAERIE QUEENE, by H. B.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grave muses march in triumph with prayer
Last Line: H.B.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


COMMENDATORY VERSE FOR THE FAERIE QUEENE, by W. L. (16TH CENTURY)    Poem Text                    
First Line: When stout achilles heard of helen's rape
Last Line: W.L.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


COMMENDATORY VERSE FOR THE FAERIE QUEENE, by R. S.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fayre thamis streame, that from ludds stately towne
Last Line: R.S.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


COMMENDATORY VERSES FOR THE FAERIE QUEENE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To looke upon a work of rare devise
Last Line: Then looke you give your hoast his utmost dew
Subject(s): "poetry & Poets;spenser, Edmund (1552-1599);


IMITATION OF SPENSER, by CHRISTOPHER PITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A well-known vase of sov'reign use I sing
Last Line: Of china's fragile earth, with azure flowerets sheen.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


IMITATION OF SPENSER (1), by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now morning from her orient chamber came
Last Line: Outvieing all the buds in flora's diadem.
Variant Title(s): Morning
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


IMITATION OF SPENSER (2), by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman! When I behold thee flippant, vain
Last Line: And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture shake.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


METAMORPHOSES: 9. JUNO (EDMUND SPENSER), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No dios or subcontinent gave him asylum
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


METAMORPHOSES: 9. JUNO (EDMUND SPENSER), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No dios or subcontinent gave him asylum
Last Line: I said and fled with eunuch to buckingham palace
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


MINOR TO MAJOR (EDMUND SPENSER, 1552-1599), by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What am I doing here
Last Line: Breaks flooding through me and I say my say.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


NORTH BEACH, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! Where the castle of bold pfeiffer throws
Last Line: On her gay bonnet wears, and laugheth loud in glee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


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


ON KING ARTHUR'S ROUND TABLE AT WINCHESTER, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where venta's norman castle still uprears
Last Line: Yet spenser's page, that chants in verse sublime %those chiefs, shall live unconscious of decay
Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


SONNET TO SPENSER, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spenser! A jealous honourer of thine
Last Line: Will for thine honour and his pleasure try.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


SPECIMEN OF AN INDUCTION TO A POEM, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry
Last Line: Clear streams, smooth lakes, and overlooking towers.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


SPENSER'S IRELAND, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spenser's ireland has not altered / a place as kind as it is green
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Irish


SPENSER'S IRELAND, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spenser's ireland has not altered %a place as kind as it is green
Last Line: I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm irish
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


SPENSER'S TOWER (IRISH PROSPECTS), by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is nothing left. The monument's a ruin
Last Line: Turnings are to be seen that all is in doubt, %the way here & back again, a stair %that rises now in
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


SPENSERIAN STANZAS ON CHARLES ARMITAGE BROWN, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is to weet a melancholy carle
Last Line: Who as they walk abroad make tinkling with their feet.
Variant Title(s): A Portrait;stanzas On Charles Armitage Brown;character Of Charles Brown
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


STANZAS: IN THE MANNER OF SPENSER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So long estranged from every muse's lyre
Last Line: Or where midst rustling corn the nodding poppies bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Muses; Inspiration


THE ALLEY. AN IMITATION OF SPENSER, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In ev'ry town, where thamis rolls his tide
Last Line: Vales, spires, meandring streams, and windsor's tow'ry pride.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


THE FAIRY QUEEN SLEEPING, BY STOTHARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She lay upon a bank, the favourite haunt
Last Line: Wake, titania, wake, our queen!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834)


THE GARDEN OF ADONIS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is no fabled garden in the skies
Last Line: And praise the gods for immortality.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


THE HONOUR OF THE GARTER: PROLOGUE, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Plain is my coat, and humble is my gait
Last Line: Nor herbs nor time such remedy affords.
Subject(s): Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619); Harington, Sir John (1561-1612); Harvey, Gabriel (1545-1630); Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


THE PARISH REGISTER: 1. BAPTISMS, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The year revolves, and I again explore
Last Line: As spenser his -- but not with spenser's oar.
Subject(s): Baptism; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Christenings


THE POETRY OF SPENSER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lakes where the sunsheen is mystic with splendour and softness
Last Line: Here in our may-blood we wander, careering 'mongst ladies and knights.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


THE SCHOOLMISTRESS; IN IMITATION OF SPENSER, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah me! Full sorely is my heart forlorn
Last Line: Till reason's morn arise, and light them on their way.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Students


THE VIRTUOSO; IN IMITATION OF SPENCER'S STYLE AND STANZA, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilom by silver thame's gentle stream
Last Line: And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
Subject(s): Art Patronage; Museums; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Patrons Of The Arts; Art Gallerys


TO THE LEARNED SHEPHEARD, by GABRIEL HARVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Collyn, I see, by the new taken taske
Last Line: Hobynoll.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hobynoll
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)