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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: LOVELACE, rICHARD Matches Found: 107 Lovelace, Richard Poet's Biography 107 poems available by this author A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (1) Poem Text First Line: Dull as I was, to think that a court fly Last Line: But the sweet little bees large monument. Subject(s): Bees; Faces; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (2) Poem Text First Line: As I beheld a winter's evening air Last Line: Only a cloud or two hangs here and there. Subject(s): Faces A DIALOGUE: LUTE AND VOICE Poem Text First Line: Sing, laura, whilst silent are the spheres Last Line: And the high heav'n to stoop to hell? A FLY ABOUT A GLASS OF BURNT CLARET Poem Text First Line: Forbear this liquid fire, fly Last Line: Thou wouldst be scorched and drowned again! Subject(s): Flies A FLY CAUGHT IN A COBWEB Poem Text First Line: Small type of great ones, that do hum Last Line: Bound with the entrails of thy foe. Subject(s): Cobwebs; Flies A FORSAKEN LADY TO HER FALSE SERVANT THAT IS DISDAINED BY NEW MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Were it that you so shun me 'cause you wish Last Line: Oh, make me choose rather to freeze than burn. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A GUILTLESS LADY IMPRISONED; AFTER, PENANCED; SONG Poem Text First Line: Hark, fair one, how whate'er here is Last Line: Are bound to thee, to bind such hands. A LA BOURBON Poem Text First Line: Divine destroyer, pity me no more Last Line: Frown death immediately. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A LADY WITH A FALCON ON HER FIST; TO THE INCOMPARABLE ANNE LOVELACEU Poem Text First Line: This queen of prey (now prey to you) Last Line: In which the nobler is the she. Subject(s): Falcons A LOOSE SARABAND (1) Poem Text First Line: Nay, prithee dear, draw nigher Last Line: Leave me but love and sherry. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Love; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse A LOOSE SARABAND (2) Poem Text First Line: Ah me! The little tyrant thief! Last Line: There proudly sits enthroned. A MOCK CHARON; DIALOGUE: CHARON, WHARTON Poem Text First Line: Charon! Thou slave! Thou fool! Thou cavalier! Last Line: And softly, softly breathe, lest you infect us too. Subject(s): Charon; Styx (river) A MOCK SONG Poem Text First Line: Now whitehall's in the grave Last Line: For our dragon hath vanquish'd the st. George. A PARADOX Poem Text First Line: Tis true the beauteous star Last Line: To love a bear or cow. A PROLOGUE TO 'THE SCHOLARS', A COMEDY PRESENTED AT THE WHITEFRIARS Poem Text First Line: A gentleman, to give us somewhat new Last Line: They reach him that themselves must envy at. ADVICE TO MY BEST BROTHER, COLONEL FRANCIS LOVELACE Poem Text First Line: Frank, wilt live handsomely? Trust not too far Last Line: A cloudy tempest, and a too fair day. Subject(s): Advice; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AGAINST THE LOVE OF GREAT ONES Poem Text First Line: Unhappy youth, betray'd by fate Last Line: The torch laughs piecemeal to consume. AMYNTOR'S GROVE, HIS CHLORIS, ARIGO, AND GRATIANA Poem Text First Line: It was amyntor's grove, that chloris Last Line: Till th' scythe is snatch'd away from time. AMYNTOR, FROM BEYOND THE SEA, TO ALEXIS; A DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Alexis! Ah alexis! Can it be Last Line: I move in mine own element. AN ANNIVERSARY [ON THE HYMNALS OF MY NOBLE KINSMAN] Poem Text First Line: The day is curled about again Last Line: Thousands of new-born loves with your chaste eyes. Subject(s): Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678) AN ELEGY: PRINCESS KATHERINE BORN, CHRISTENED, BURIED IN ONE DAY Poem Text First Line: You that can aptly mix your joys with cries Last Line: Resign our office to the hierarchy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ARAMANTHA Poem Text First Line: Up with the jolly bird of light Last Line: And separated minds can tell. BEING TREATED; TO ELLINDA Poem Text First Line: For cherries plenty, and for corans Last Line: Lovelace richard. CALLING LUCASTA FROM HER RETIREMENT Poem Text First Line: From the dire monument of thy black room Last Line: What they not feel must not be said to know. CARMINA LXXII OF CATULLUS First Line: That me alone you loved, you once did say CLITOPHON AND LEUCIPPE TRANSLATED; TO THE LADIES Poem Text First Line: Pray ladies, breathe, awhile lay by Last Line: In english meet to wait on you. COURANTE MONSIEUR Poem Text First Line: That frown, aminta, now hath drown'd Last Line: By any scorching, but a melting eye. CUPID FAR GONE Poem Text First Line: What so beyond all madness is the elf Last Line: Must leash'd t' himself with him a-hunting go. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros DIALOGUE: LUCASTA, ALEXIS Poem Text First Line: Tell me, alexis, what this parting is Last Line: But time nor fate can part us joined thus. Subject(s): Farewell; Togetherness; Parting ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF CASSANDRA COTTON, ONLY SISTER OF CHARLES COTTON Poem Text First Line: Hither with hallow'd steps as is the ground Last Line: You are more dead and buried than she. ELINDA'S GLOVE Poem Text First Line: Thou snowy farm with thy five tenements! Last Line: Are still allow'd to fiddle with the case. Variant Title(s): The Glove Subject(s): Fiddles; Gloves; Musical Instruments; Mittens; Muffs FEMALE GLORY Poem Text First Line: Mongst the world's wonders, there doth yet remain Last Line: Mistress o' th' world and me, and laura is her name. Subject(s): Women GRATIANA DANCING AND SINGING Poem Text First Line: See! With what constant motion Last Line: The graces danced, and apollo played!' Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers HER MUFF Poem Text First Line: Twas not for some calm blessing to receive Last Line: But still contemplate must the hidden muff. Subject(s): Gloves; Mittens; Muffs IN ALLUSION TO THE FRENCH SONG 'N'ETENDEZ VOUS PAS CE LANGUAGE' Poem Text First Line: How often have my tears Last Line: This language wants both tongue and voice. LA BELLA BONA ROBA Poem Text First Line: I cannot tell who loves the skeleton Last Line: Pass rascal deer, strike me the largest doe. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels LOVE CONQUERED; A SONG Poem Text First Line: The childish god of love did swear Last Line: So on his sing'd wings up he steer'd. LOVE ENTHRON'D Poem Text First Line: In troth, I do myself persuade Last Line: Her crowned self submits to her own laws. LOVE MADE IN THE FIRST AGE Poem Text First Line: In the nativity of time Last Line: Enjoying of myself I lie. Subject(s): Love LUCASTA AT THE BATH Poem Text First Line: I' th' autumn of a summer's day Last Line: Wilt unto love, thy captive, bow. LUCASTA LAUGHING Poem Text First Line: Hark how she laughs aloud Last Line: Is still the pleasant'st jest. Subject(s): Laughter LUCASTA PAYING HER OBSEQUIES TO THE CHASTE MEMORY OF BOWES BARNE Poem Text First Line: See! What an undisturbed tear Last Line: To dress my sorrow by. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LUCASTA TAKING THE WATERS AT TUNBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Ye happy floods! That now must pass Last Line: Of virtue, honour, love and bliss. Subject(s): Health Resorts; Tunbridge Wells, England; Spas LUCASTA WEEPING; SONG Poem Text First Line: Lucasta wept, and still the bright Last Line: Kindled again his fires. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LUCASTA'S FAN, WITH A LOOKING-GLASS IN IT Poem Text First Line: Estrich, thou feather'd fool and easy prey Last Line: If hence she dress herself but in his eyes. Subject(s): Vanity LUCASTA'S WORLD Poem Text First Line: Cold as the breath of winds that blow Last Line: E're since hath in her sun-shine liv'd. NIGHT; TO LUCASTA Poem Text First Line: Night! Loathed jailor of the lock'd-up sun Last Line: Now feels it all the day one rising morn. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime ODE Poem Text First Line: You are deceiv'd: I sooner may, dull fair Last Line: No poet's pencil must or can do so. ON SANNAZAR'S BEING HONOURED WITH SIX HUNDRED DUCATS BY CLARISSIMI Poem Text First Line: Twas a blithe prince exchang'd five hundred crowns Last Line: All wrath and storms do end in calms and praise. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Venice, Italy ON THE BEST, LAST, AND ONLY REMAINING COMEDY OF MR. FLETCHER Poem Text First Line: I'm un-o'erclouded too! Free from the mist! Last Line: Shows this one carbuncle, that darkens all. Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists ON THE DEATH OF MISTRESS ELIZABETH FILMER; AN ELEGIACAL EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: You that shall live awhile before Last Line: When all but very virtue's dead. Subject(s): Epitaphs ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ELIZABETH FILMER First Line: Chaste as the air whither she's fled ORPHEUS TO BEASTS; SONG Poem Text First Line: Here, here, oh here, eurydice Last Line: Than now you hear. Subject(s): Animals; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus ORPHEUS TO WOODS Poem Text First Line: Hark! O hark! You guilty trees Last Line: Aught but coffins and their tombs. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Trees PAINTURE; A PANEGYRIC TO THE BEST PICTURE OF FRIENDSHIP, PETER LELY Poem Text First Line: If pliny, lord high treasurer of all Last Line: But perish they and their effigies. Subject(s): Friendship PARIS'S SECOND JUDGMENT, UPON THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF ROBERT CAESAR Poem Text First Line: Behold! Three sister-wonders, in whom met Last Line: "what pity the whole world is but one ball!" Subject(s): Sisters PRINCESS LOUISA DRAWING Poem Text First Line: I saw a little deity Last Line: Beauties than they destroy'd before. SIR THOMAS WORTLEY'S SONNET ANSWERED: THE ANSWER Poem Text First Line: Again Last Line: Her glorious, glorious name. SONG Poem Text First Line: I did believe I was in heav'n Last Line: I burnt all o'er the letters of her name. SONG Poem Text First Line: In mine own monument I lie Last Line: I'm loth to be alive again. SONG Poem Text First Line: Strive not, vain lover, to be fine Last Line: Dotes on a gilded statue, and no more. SONNET Poem Text First Line: When I by thy fair shape did swear Last Line: Than swearing to a saint that proves untrue. Subject(s): Oaths SONNET Poem Text First Line: Depose your finger of that ring Last Line: The blackest, when y' are ne'er the worse. Subject(s): Oaths SONNET. TO GENERAL GORING, AFTER THE PACIFICATION AT BERWICK Poem Text First Line: Now the peace is made at the foe's rate Last Line: To the couple! To the couple! Th' are divine. Subject(s): Goring, George. Baron (1608-165) THE ANT Poem Text First Line: Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant Last Line: Thinking to save all, we cast all away. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE APOSTACY OF ONE AND BUT ONE LADY Poem Text First Line: That frantic error I adore Last Line: But as the devil not half so true. Subject(s): Love THE DEDICATION. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MY LADY ANNE LOVELACE Poem Text First Line: To the richest treasury Last Line: (with devotion) these toys. THE DUEL Poem Text First Line: Love, drunk the other day, knock'd at my breast Last Line: Is to laugh at the boy, and he will cry. THE EPILOGUE TO 'THE SCHOLARS' Poem Text First Line: The stubborn author of the trifle crime Last Line: He'll not look farther for a second day. THE FAIR BEGGAR Poem Text First Line: Commanding asker, if it be Last Line: I starve your body you my mind. THE FALCON Poem Text First Line: Fair princess of the spacious air Last Line: Only to sing thy elegy. Subject(s): Falcons THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON Poem Text First Line: Oh! Thou that swingst upon the waving ear [or, hair] Last Line: That wants himself is poor indeed. Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Friendship; Grasshoppers THE LADY ANNE LOVELACE, MY ASYLUM IN A GREAT EXTREMITY Poem Text First Line: With that delight the royal captive's brought Last Line: Possession of those things are none of mine. THE MERIT OF INCONSTANCY Poem Text First Line: Why dost thou say I am forsworn Last Line: Did I still doat upon that face. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Sweet, serene, sky-like flower Last Line: Because her cheeks are near. Variant Title(s): Ode To Lucasta. The Rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SCRUTINY; SONG Poem Text First Line: Why should you swear I am forsworn Last Line: Even sated with variety. Subject(s): Love THE SNAIL (1) Poem Text First Line: Wise emblem of our politic [politick] world Last Line: Upward, and rarefy the air. Variant Title(s): The Snayl Subject(s): Snails THE SNAIL (2) Poem Text First Line: The centaur, siren, I forgo Last Line: He wanders with his country, too. Subject(s): Snails THE TOAD AND SPIDER; A DUEL Poem Text First Line: Upon a day when the dog-star Last Line: Of his fair aid a monument. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Toads; Bugs THE TRIUMPHS OF PHILAMORE AND AMORET; TO CHARLES COTTON Poem Text First Line: Sir, your sad absence I complain, as earth Last Line: Who have said naught, since I could say no more. THE VINTAGE TO THE DUNGEON; A SONG Poem Text First Line: Sing out, pent souls, sing cheerfully! Last Line: And daunce to th' musick of your chaines. Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts TO A LADY THAT DESIRED ME I WOULD BEAR MY PART WITH HER IN A SONG Poem Text First Line: This is the prettiest motion Last Line: Not to be reach'd with human ears. TO A LADY WITH A CHILD, THAT ASK'D AN OLD SHIRT Poem Text First Line: And why an honour'd ragged shirt, that shows Last Line: Pardon my boldness, madam: here's the clout. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON Poem Text First Line: When love with unconfined wings Last Line: Enjoy such liberty. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Prisons & Prisoners; Liberty; Convicts TO AMARANTHA, THAT SHE WOULD DISHEVEL HER HAIR Poem Text First Line: Amarantha, sweet and fair Last Line: That joys so ripe so little keep. Variant Title(s): Her Golden Hair;song Subject(s): Hair; Love TO CHLOE, COURTING HER FOR HIS FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Chloe, behold! Again I bow Last Line: Fall to again by seeing others eat. Subject(s): Courtship TO DR. F.B. ON HIS BOOK OF CHESS Poem Text First Line: Sir, now unravell'd is the golden fleece Last Line: Bluster'd and clutter'd for, you play. Subject(s): Chess TO ELINDA, THAT LATELY I HAVE NOT WRITTEN Poem Text First Line: If in me anger, or disdain Last Line: But anch'rites pray in tears and sweat. TO ELLINDA UPON HIS LATE RECOVERY; A PARADOX Poem Text First Line: How I grieve that I am well! Last Line: And for love compell'd to wander. TO FLETCHER REVIV'D Poem Text First Line: How have I been religious? What strange good Last Line: Yet all men henceforth be afraid to write. Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO HIS DEAR BROTHER COLONEL F.L. MOURNING DEATH AT CARMARTHEN Poem Text First Line: If tears could wash the ill away Last Line: Doth starry influence dissolve. Subject(s): Brothers; Carmarthen, Wales; Mourning; Half-brothers; Bereavement TO LUCASTA (1) Poem Text First Line: Like to the sent'nel stars, I watch all night Last Line: And in each mangled part my heart you 'll see. TO LUCASTA (2) Poem Text First Line: I laugh and sing, but cannot tell Last Line: Turn all to saraband. TO LUCASTA, FROM PRISON Poem Text First Line: Long in thy shackles, liberty Last Line: How to serve you, and you trust me! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING BEYOND THE SEAS Poem Text First Line: If to be absent were to be Last Line: In heaven, -- their earthly bodies left behind. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Absence; Immortality; Love; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS Poem Text First Line: Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind Last Line: Loved I not honour more. Variant Title(s): Going To The Wars;song Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Duty; Heroism; Honor; Love; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Heroes; Heroines TO LUCASTA: HER RESERVED LOOKS Poem Text First Line: Lucasta, frown and let me die Last Line: An angel here, the devil there. Subject(s): Indifference TO LUCASTA; ODE LYRIC Poem Text First Line: Ah, lucasta, why so bright Last Line: And 'tis both her corse and tomb. TO MY DEAR FRIEND MR. ELDRED REVETT ON HIS POEMS MORAL AND DIVINE Poem Text First Line: Cleft, as the top of the inspired hill Last Line: Sick, echo o'er thy halleluiahs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO MY LADY H. Poem Text First Line: Tell me, ye subtle judges in love's treasury Last Line: Finding she could not look, she strook him dead. TO MY TRULY VALIANT, LEARNED FRIEND .. ART GLADIATORY INTO MATHEMATIC Poem Text First Line: Hark, reader! Wilt be learn'd I' th' wars? Last Line: And she writes with his sword. Subject(s): War; Writing & Writers TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. PETER LELY Poem Text First Line: See! What a clouded majesty, and eyes Last Line: None but my lely ever drew a mind. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Portraits TO THE GENIUS OF MR. JOHN HALL, ON HIS EXACT TRANSLATION OF HIEROCLES Poem Text First Line: Tis not from cheap thanks thinly to repay Last Line: Thy soul is fled into hierocles. Subject(s): Hall, John (1627-1656); Translating & Interpreting TO THOMAS STANLEY, ON HIS LYRIC POEMS, COMPOSED BY JOHN GAMBLE Poem Text First Line: What means this stately tablature Last Line: Gamble hath wisely laid of ut re mi. Subject(s): Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678) UPON THE CURTAIN OF LUCASTA'S PICTURE IT WAS THUS WROUGHT Poem Text First Line: Oh stay that covetous hand, first turn all eye Last Line: Is but its shadow, as this its;---now draw. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters VALIANT LOVE Poem Text First Line: Now fie upon that everlasting life I die! Last Line: Who to his prostrate e'er was prostrated. VOITURE; PREFIXED TO JOHN DAVIES'S TRANSLATION OF VOITURE'S LETTERS Poem Text First Line: Voiture! Whose gentle paper's so refin'd Last Line: And what you speak not tastes on't, but is it. Subject(s): Voiture, Vincent De (1598-1648) |
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