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Subject: WALTON, IZAAK (1593-1683)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CONTENTATION; DIRECTED TO IZAAK WALTON, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heav'n what an age is this! What race
Last Line: And thinks him happy where he is.
Subject(s): Contentment; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 5. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no colors in the fairest sky
Last Line: Around meek walton's heavenly memory.
Subject(s): Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Writing & Writers


FOR A COPY OF 'THE COMPLEAT ANGLER', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I care not much how folks prefer
Last Line: And dream you -- 'study to be quiet.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)


FOR IZAAK WALTON, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What trout shall coax the rod of yore
Last Line: O hush thee, o hush thee! Heart innocent and dear.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Anglers


ISAAK WALTON IN MAIDEN LANE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In that manhattan alley long yclept
Last Line: Thine image, isaak, pored upon a bream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Maiden Lane, New York City; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)


IZAAC WALTON, COTTON, AND WILLIAM OLDWAYS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Son cotton! These light idle brooks
Last Line: Just like these idle waves, son cotton!
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Literature; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Writing & Writers; Reading


IZAAK WALTON, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That lucent, dewy, rain-sweet prose
Last Line: Garnished with moly and asphodel - %but fish!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)


IZAAK WALTON TO RIVER AND BROOK, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Which is more sweet, - the slow mysterious stream
Last Line: While rays of sun make rainbows in the spray?
Subject(s): Brooks; Rivers; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Streams; Creeks


THE RETIREMENT; TO MR. IZAAK WALTON, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell thou busy world, and may
Last Line: Contented live, and then contented die.
Variant Title(s): In The Quiet Of Nature
Subject(s): Contentment; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)


TO EDMUND GOSSE, WITH A COPY OF WALTON'S LIVES, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You write your life of donne.'twill be
Last Line: And you must answer, friend, not I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)


TO MY DEAR AND MOST WORTHY FRIEND, MR. IZAAK WALTON, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst in this cold and blust'ring clime
Last Line: You make all this a flatt'ring dream.
Variant Title(s): Invitation To Izaak Walton
Subject(s): Guests; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Visiting


TO MY OLD AND MOST WORTHY FRIEND MR. IZAAK WALTON, ON LIFE OF DONNE, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, to a nation's loss, the virtuous die
Last Line: I think an honester can not be read.
Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)


TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. ISAAC WALTON ON THE PUBLICATION OF THEALMA, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long had the bright thealma lain obscure
Last Line: And shar'd that immortality he alone could give.
Subject(s): Chalkhill, John (17th Century); Poetry & Poets; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)


WALTON, by EDWARD MOXON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Walton! When, weary of the world, I turn
Last Line: Enchanted listen to thy sweet discourse.
Subject(s): Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)