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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WALLER, EDMUND (1606-1687) Matches Found: 13 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ATTEMPT AT THE MANNER OF WALLER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did not thy reason and thy sense Last Line: Then scorn our freedom, and by choice obey. Subject(s): Obedience; Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Last Line: Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Dillon, Wentworth. 4th Earl Of Roscommon; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536); Hope; Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Sozzini, Lelio (1525-1562); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Optimism; Soc ELEGIAC SONNET: 46. WRITTEN AT PENSHURST, IN AUTUMN 1788, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye towers sublime! Deserted now and drear! Last Line: Saved by the historic page -- the poet's tender lay! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Sidney, Algernon (1622-1682); Sidney, Lady Dorothy (1617-1684); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 1. OF A LADY SINGING TO HER LUTE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair charmer, cease, nor make your voice's prize Last Line: This vocal wood had drawn the poet too. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 2. OF THE LADY WOULD NOT SLEEP ..., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As gods sometimes descend from heav'n and deign Last Line: But serenissa must becalm the breast. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 3. OF HER PICTURE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph her graces here express'd may find Last Line: Not for his own, but hers, the youth had dy'd. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 4. OF HER SICKNESS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah serenissa, from our arms Last Line: You are not now invincible. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 5. OF HER WALKING IN A GARDEN ..., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how the sun in dusky skies Last Line: But if she disappears, I dye. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 6. OF HER SIGHING, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love would strike th' offending fair Last Line: Th' arabian coast, and waft us on our way. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) ON THE DEATH OF WALLER, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How to thy sacred memory shall I bring Last Line: That taught them how to love, and how to write. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) THE SECOND ADVICE TO A PAINTER FOR DRAWING HISTORY .. NAVAL BUSYNESSE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay painter, if thou dar'st design that fight Last Line: Kings are in war but cards: they're gods in peace. Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Paintings And Painters; Sea Battles; Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Naval Warfare TO POET E. W.; OCCAISONED FOR HIS WRITING ... ON OLIVER CROMWELL, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From whence, vile poet, did'st thou glean the wit Last Line: A living poem to upbraid thee dead. Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) WALLER. OF A FAN OF THE AUTHOR'S DESIGN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gentle air! Th' aeolian shepherd said Last Line: And pities procris, while her lover dies. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) |
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