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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WILMOT, JOHN (1647-1680) Matches Found: 12 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BION: A PASTORAL IN IMITATION, BEWAILING DEATH OF EARL OF ROCHESTER, by MOSCHUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With thee, sweet bion, all the grace of song Last Line: And his soft lays did venus ever please Subject(s): Mourning; Wilmot, John (1647-1680) ELEGY ON THE EARL OF ROCHESTER, by ANNE WHARTON Poem Text First Line: Deep waters silent roul, so grief like mine Last Line: For to make him she exhausted all her store. Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Sorrow; Sadness; Rochester, 2nd Earl Of EPIGRAM, by CARR SCROOPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rail on, poor feeble scribbler, speak of me Last Line: Thy pen is full as harmless as thy sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Scrope, Carr Variant Title(s): The Answer Subject(s): Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of IN DEFENCE OF SATYR, by CARR SCROOPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When shakes. Johns. Fletcher, rul'd the stage Last Line: Though by a diff'rent path each goes astray. Alternate Author Name(s): Scrope, Carr Subject(s): Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 1. TO RICHARD TEMPLE, VISCOUNT COBHAM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, you despise the man to books confin'd Last Line: Oh, save my country, heav'n!' shall be your last. Variant Title(s): Of Knowledge And Character Of Men Subject(s): Brydges, James. 1st Duke Of Chandros; Lane, James. 2d Viscount Lanesborough; Temple, Richard. 1st Viscount Cobham; Wharton, Philip, Duke Of (1698-1731); Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of NON-WORLD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is too much with me daylong and Last Line: Jesse jackson and help him dis- %pose of that hollywood cowboy Subject(s): Herodotus (484-420 B.c.); Jackson, Jesse (b. 1941); Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Wilmot, John (1647-1680) ON LYING IN THE EARL OF ROCHESTER'S BED AT ATTERBURY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With no poetick ardors fir'd Last Line: When freedom is more dear than life. Subject(s): Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of ON SILENCE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence! Coeval with eternity Last Line: All rest in peace at last, and sleep eternally. Subject(s): Silence; Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of ON THE DEATH OF THE EARL OF ROCHESTER; PASTORAL, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on his death-bed gasping strephon lay Last Line: Live not like strephon, but like strephon die. Subject(s): Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of ON THE DEATH OF THE LATE EARL OF ROCHESTER, by APHRA BEHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, mourn, ye muses, all your loss deplore Last Line: Mourn, mourn, unhappy world, his loss deplore, %the great, the charming strephon is no more Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Wilmot, John (1647-1680) REFLECTION FROM ROCHESTER, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From fear to fear, successively betrayed Last Line: For hunger or for love they bite and tear Subject(s): War; Wilmot, John (1647-1680) TO MRS W. ON HER EXCELLENT VERSES WRITTEN IN A FIT OF SICKNESS, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough kind heaven! To purpose I have liv'd Last Line: With humble adoration, humble praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wharton, Anne (1659-1685); Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of |
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