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Subject: WILMOT, JOHN (1647-1680)
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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