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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: drayton, michael Matches Found: 168 Drayton, Michael Poet's Biography 168 poems available by this author A HYMNE TO HIS LADIES BIRTH-PLACE Poem Text First Line: Coventry, that do'st adorne Last Line: And strike the slave for ever dumbe. Subject(s): Coventry, England; Godiva, Lady (1140-1180) A SKELTONIAD Poem Text First Line: The muse should be sprightly Last Line: How well to live, and not how long. AGINCOURT Poem Text First Line: Fair stood the wind for france Last Line: Such a king harry? Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of Agincourt;ode To The Cambro-britons;ode: 12;to The Cambro-britons, And Their Harp;agincourt: The Battle;his Battle Of Agincourt;to The Cambro-britans, And Their Harpe, His Ballad Of Agincourt Subject(s): Agincourt, Battle Of (1415); Courage; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); War; Valor; Bravery AN AMOURET ANACREONTICK Poem Text First Line: Most good, most faire Last Line: Happie so loving. Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets AN ELEGIE UPON THE DEATH OF THE LADY PENELOPE CLIFTON Poem Text First Line: Must I needes write, who's he that can refuse Last Line: Cast up your eyes, and sigh for my applause. Subject(s): Clifton, Lady Penelope Rich (1590-1613) AN ODE WRITTEN IN THE PEAK Poem Text First Line: This while we are abroad Last Line: The muse is still in ure. Subject(s): Derbyshire, England; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BARON'S WAR, SELS. BATTE'S SONG First Line: What is the love but the desire CAERLEON-UPON-USK First Line: Then sing they how he first ordained the circled board CANZONET: TO HIS COY LOVE Poem Text First Line: I pray thee leave, love me no more Last Line: I cannot live without thee. Subject(s): Desire; Love CHARNWOOD FOREST First Line: O charnwood, be thou called the choicest of thy kind CLORIS AND MERTILLA First Line: Chaste cloris doth disclose the shames COMMENDATORY VERSE TO WILLIAM BROWNE OF TAVISTOCK Poem Text First Line: Drive forth thy flock, young pastor, to that plain Last Line: As thou young shepherd art belov'd of me! Subject(s): Browne, William (1591-1645) CONTEST First Line: A woodman, fisher, and a swain Subject(s): Country Life DAVID AND GOLIAH First Line: And now before young david could DEFINACE TO LOVE First Line: Shoot, false love! I care not DESCRIPTION OF ELIZIUM First Line: A paradise on earth is found Subject(s): Country Life DWINDLING FOREST OF ARDEN First Line: Muse, first of arden tell, whose footsteps yet are found EARLE DOUGLAS FOR THIS DAY, FR. POLYOLBION ELEGY: OF HIS LADIES NOT COMING TO LONDON Poem Text First Line: That ten-years-travel'd greek return'd from sea Last Line: So would I not have you but come away. Subject(s): Absence; London; Separation; Isolation ENDIMION AND PHOEBE, SELS. ENGLAND'S HEROICAL EPISTLES, SELS. ENGLAND'S HEROICAL EPISTLES: OWEN TUDOR TO QUEEN KATHERINE First Line: When first mine eyes beheld your princely name Last Line: I cease to write, but never cease to love ENGLAND'S HEROICAL EPISTLES: QUEEN KATHERINE TO OWEN TUDOR First Line: Judge not a princess' worth impeached hereby Last Line: And to our good success refer the rest FAME AND FORTUNE First Line: What time soft night had silently begun FEN-MEN OF LINCOLNSHIRE'S HOLLAND First Line: The toiling fisher here is tewing of his net FERRYMAN, VENUS, AND CUPID First Line: As I a fare had lately past FIRST STEPS UP PARNASSUS First Line: My dearly loved friend, how oft have we Last Line: And bound upon parnassus' bi-cleft top Variant Title(s): To My Most Dearly-loved Friend, Henry Reynold HIS DEFENCE AGAINST THE IDLE CRITICK Poem Text First Line: The ryme nor marres, nor makes Last Line: To keepe above my fate. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism IDEA'S MIRROR, SELS. IDEA'S MIRROR, SELS. First Line: The golden sun upon his fiery wheels Last Line: Whose thwarting course deprives the world of reason IDEA'S MIRROR: 1 First Line: Read here [sweet maid] the story of my woe IDEA'S MIRROR: 22 First Line: My heart, imprisoned in a hopeless isle IDEA'S MIRROR: 25 First Line: The glorious sun went blushing to his bed IDEA'S MIRROR: 34 First Line: My fair, look from those turrets of thine eyes IDEA'S MIRROR: 38 Poem Text First Line: If chaste and pure devotion of my youth Last Line: Yet, fair unkind, too good to be disgraced. IDEA'S MIRROR: 46 Poem Text First Line: Sweet secrecy, what tongue can tell thy worth Last Line: The lively image of divinity. IDEA'S MIRROR: SONNET First Line: Vouchsafe to grace these rude unpolished times IDEA, SELS. Subject(s): Love IDEA: 1 Poem Text First Line: Like an adventurous seafarer am I Last Line: My tedious travels and oft-varying fate. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IDEA: 1. LOVE'S LUNACY Poem Text First Line: Why do I speak of joy, or write of love Last Line: Now do I curse her, then again I bless her. Subject(s): Love IDEA: 10 Poem Text First Line: To nothing fitter can I thee compare Last Line: I give thee back, when all the rest is spent. IDEA: 11 Poem Text First Line: You not alone, when you are still alone Last Line: From my self you, or from your own self I. Variant Title(s): Give Me Self Subject(s): Love IDEA: 12. TO THE SOUL Poem Text First Line: That learn'd father, who so firmly proves Last Line: Which my heart, lighten'd by thy love, doth see. IDEA: 13. TO THE SHADOW Poem Text First Line: Letters and lines we see are soon defac'd Last Line: May in my shadow my love's story read. Subject(s): Love; Shadows IDEA: 14. TO TIME Poem Text First Line: If he from heaven that filched that living fire Last Line: Thus poor thieves suffer when the greater 'scape. Subject(s): Prometheus IDEA: 15. HIS REMEDY FOR LOVE Poem Text First Line: Since to obtain thee nothing will be stead Last Line: Little I'll say, but think the devil's in me. Variant Title(s): "since To Obtaine Thee Nothing Me Will Sted""; Subject(s): Love IDEA: 16. AN ALLUSION TO THE PHOENIX Poem Text First Line: Mongst all the creatures in this spacious round Last Line: So you of time shall live beyond the end. Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) IDEA: 17. TO TIME Poem Text First Line: Stay, speedy time, behold, before thou pass Last Line: That she is gone, her like again to see. Subject(s): Time IDEA: 18. TO THE CELESTIAL NUMBERS Poem Text First Line: To this our world, to learning, and to heav'n Last Line: Makes every one of these three nines a ten. Subject(s): Numbers IDEA: 19. TO HUMOUR Poem Text First Line: You cannot love, my pretty heart, and why? Last Line: You love in hate, by hate to make me love you. Subject(s): Hate; Love IDEA: 2 Poem Text First Line: My heart was slain, and none but you and I Last Line: Yet heaven will still have murther out at last. IDEA: 20 Poem Text First Line: An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still Last Line: By this good wicked spirit, sweet angel-devil. IDEA: 21 Poem Text First Line: A witless gallant, a young wench that wooed Last Line: And I lose you for all my love and pains. IDEA: 22. TO FOLLY Poem Text First Line: With fools and children, good discretion bears Last Line: Some, wise in show, more fools indeed than they. IDEA: 23 Poem Text First Line: Love banish'd heaven, on earth was held in scorn Last Line: No marvel then though charity grow cold. Variant Title(s): The Beggar;the Ghost;the Guest IDEA: 24 Poem Text First Line: I hear some say, this man is not in love Last Line: I laugh at fortune, as in jest to die. IDEA: 25 Poem Text First Line: O why should nature niggardly restrain Last Line: Let wolves and bears be charmed with my verse. IDEA: 26. TO DESPAIR Poem Text First Line: I ever love where never hope appears Last Line: Or all my hope for sorrow will be dead. Subject(s): Despair IDEA: 27 Poem Text First Line: Is not love here as 'tis in other climes Last Line: Or only you do violate her laws. IDEA: 28 Poem Text First Line: To such as say thy love I overprize Last Line: The circumstance doth make it good or ill. IDEA: 29. TO THE SENSES Poem Text First Line: When conquering love did first my heart assail Last Line: To cruel love my soul was first betray'd. Variant Title(s): Play With Proverbs IDEA: 3 Poem Text First Line: Taking my pen, with words to cast my woe Last Line: And I a bankrupt, quite undone by thee. IDEA: 30. TO THE VESTALS Poem Text First Line: Those priests which first the vestal fire begun Last Line: Thy hallow'd temple only is my heart. IDEA: 31. TO THE CRITIC Poem Text First Line: Methinks I see some crooked mimic jeer Last Line: I scorn all earthly dung-bred scarabies. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism IDEA: 32. TO THE RIVER ANKER Poem Text First Line: Our flood's-queen thames for ships and swans is crown'd Last Line: That fair idea only lives by thee. Subject(s): Rivers IDEA: 33. TO IMAGINATION Poem Text First Line: Whilst yet mine eyes do surfeit with delight Last Line: That eyes could think, or that my heart could see. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy IDEA: 34. TO ADMIRATION Poem Text First Line: Marvel not love, though I thy power admire Last Line: That this to me doth yet no wonder prove. IDEA: 35. TO MIRACLE Poem Text First Line: Some misbelieving and profane in love Last Line: Only by virtue that proceeds from thee. Subject(s): Miracles IDEA: 36. CUPID CONJURED Poem Text First Line: Thou purblind boy, since thou hast been so slack Last Line: To make her love, or, cupid, be thou damn'd. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros IDEA: 37 Poem Text First Line: Dear, why should you command me to my rest Last Line: If when night comes you bid me go away. Variant Title(s): Night And Day Subject(s): Love IDEA: 38 Poem Text First Line: Sitting alone, love bids me go and write Last Line: And love alone picks reason out of love. Variant Title(s): "sitting Alone. Love Bids Me Goe And Write""; Subject(s): Love - Nature Of IDEA: 39 Poem Text First Line: Some, when in rhyme they of their loves do tell Last Line: Only I call on my divine idea. IDEA: 4 Poem Text First Line: Bright star of beauty, on whose eye-lids sit Last Line: Be you most worthy, whilst I am most true. Variant Title(s): Ida: Sonnet To The Lady L.s. IDEA: 40 Poem Text First Line: My heart the anvil where my thoughts do beat Last Line: And turn the wheel with damned ixion. Variant Title(s): My Smithy IDEA: 42 Poem Text First Line: Some men there be, which like my method well Last Line: Writing her praise I cannot write amiss. IDEA: 43 Poem Text First Line: Why should your fair eyes with such sovreign grace Last Line: Heav'ns are not kind to them that know them most. Variant Title(s): A Remonstrance IDEA: 44 Poem Text First Line: Whilst thus my pen strives to eternize thee Last Line: My name shall mount upon eternity. IDEA: 45 Poem Text First Line: Muses, which sadly sit about my chair Last Line: Kinder than she whom I so long have lov'd. IDEA: 46 Poem Text First Line: Plain-path'd experience, th' unlearned's guide Last Line: It furthers justice, but helps not the dead. IDEA: 47 Poem Text First Line: In pride of wit, when high desire of fame Last Line: All that I seek is to eternize you. IDEA: 48 Poem Text First Line: Cupid, I hate thee, which I'd have thee know Last Line: Thou, her blind son, may'st sit by them and play. Subject(s): Love IDEA: 49 Poem Text First Line: Thou leaden brain, which censur'st what I write Last Line: Come thou, and read, admire, applaud my lines. Subject(s): Books; Reading IDEA: 5 Poem Text First Line: Nothing but no, and aye, and aye, and no? Last Line: "then answer ""no,"" and ""aye,"" and ""aye"" and ""no." Variant Title(s): "nothing But No And I, And I And No""; IDEA: 50 Poem Text First Line: As in some countries far remote from hence Last Line: Only to show her beauty's sovereign power. IDEA: 51 Poem Text First Line: Calling to mind since first my love began Last Line: Yet am I still inviolate to you. IDEA: 52 Poem Text First Line: What? Dost thou mean to cheat me of my heart? Last Line: Or, if thou hast, it is a flinty one. IDEA: 53. ANOTHER TO THE RIVER ANKER Poem Text First Line: Clear anker, on whose silver-sanded shore Last Line: And thou, sweet anker, art my helicon. Subject(s): Rivers IDEA: 54 Poem Text First Line: Yet read at last the story of my woe Last Line: By chaste desire, true love, and virtuous praise. IDEA: 55 Poem Text First Line: My fair, if thou wilt register my love Last Line: When darkness hath obscur'd each other light. IDEA: 56 Poem Text First Line: When like an eaglet I first found my love Last Line: It after thee is, like an eaglet, flown. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Love - Beginnings; Love - Nature Of IDEA: 57 Poem Text First Line: You best discern'd of my mind's inward eyes Last Line: In your perfections so much am I lost. IDEA: 58 Poem Text First Line: In former times such as had store of coin Last Line: Not to avail you, nor do the others good. IDEA: 59 Poem Text First Line: As love and I, late harbour'd in one inn Last Line: Fools as we met, so fools again we parted. IDEA: 6 Poem Text First Line: How many paltry, foolish, painted things Last Line: Still to survive in my immortal song. Variant Title(s): "idea's Mirror: 6;i Give Thee Eternity;immortality In Song;her Fame;""how Many Paltry, Foolish, Painted Things""; Subject(s): Love; Virtue IDEA: 60 Poem Text First Line: Define my weal, and tell the joys of heav'n Last Line: Can show a second to so pure a love. IDEA: 61 Poem Text First Line: Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part Last Line: From death to life thou mightst him yet recover. Variant Title(s): "valediction;love's Parting;love's Farewell;come, Let Us Kisse And Parte;farewell;the Parting;""since Ther's No Helpe, Come Let Us Kisse And Part""; Subject(s): Farewell; Goodere, Anne; Love; Parting IDEA: 62 Poem Text First Line: When first I ended, then I first began Last Line: Burn'd in a sea of ice and drown'd amidst a fire. IDEA: 63 Poem Text First Line: Truce, gentle love, a parley now I crave Last Line: Thou vanquishing, the conquest is mine own. IDEA: 7 Poem Text First Line: Love in a humour play'd the prodigal Last Line: What 'tis to keep a drunkard company. Variant Title(s): "love, In A Humor, Play'd The Prodigall""; IDEA: 8 Poem Text First Line: There's nothing grieves me, but that age should haste Last Line: Then would I make thee read but to despite thee. IDEA: 9 Poem Text First Line: As other men, so I myself, do muse Last Line: (not too far past) may to their wits be brought. IDEA: 9 First Line: Beauty sometime, in all her glory uncrowned IDEA: EIGHTH EGLOG First Line: Shepheard, why creepe we in this lowly vaine Subject(s): Country Life IDEA: TO THE READER OF THESE SONNETS, INTRODUCTION Poem Text First Line: Into these loves, who but for passion looks Last Line: That cannot long one fashion entertain. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Virtue KING HENRY TO FAIR ROSAMOND First Line: The little flow'rs dropping their honey'd KING HENRY TO ROSAMOND First Line: When first the post arrived at my tent LINCOLNSHIRE'S HOLLAND SPEAKS OF HER WATERFOWL First Line: Here in my vaster pools, as white as snow or milk LOVES CONQUEST Poem Text First Line: Wer't granted me to choose Last Line: To get out of this maze. Subject(s): Love MADRIGAL First Line: If the deep sighs of an afflicted breast MOONE-CALFE, SELS. First Line: It was not long e're he perceiv'd the skies Last Line: Those they did buy at such a costly rate, %that it was able to subvert a state MUSES' ELYSIUM, SELS. NOAH'S FLOUD, SELS. First Line: Eternall and all-working god, which wast Last Line: That living idly without taking paine %(like to the first) made every man a caine NYMPHIDIA, SELS. Subject(s): Fairies NYMPHIDIA: THE COURT OF FAIRY Poem Text First Line: Old chaucer doth of thopas [or topas] tell Last Line: And thus I left them feasting. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves NYMPHS' SONG First Line: Behold, the rosy dawn ODES. TO HIMSELFE, AND THE HARPE Poem Text First Line: And why not I, as hee Last Line: Although in skelton's ryme. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Pindar (522-440 B.c.) ODES. TO THE WORTHY KNIGHT, AND MY NOBLE FRIEND, SIR HENRY GOODERE Poem Text First Line: These lyric pieces, short, and few Last Line: Your liking can commend them. Subject(s): Goodyer, Sir Henry (1571-1627); Goodyere, Sir Henry (1571-1627) OF ALL THE BEASTS, FR. POLYOLBION OWLE, SELS. First Line: And ever bird shew'd in his proper kind Subject(s): Animals PARAPHRASE First Line: O living lord, I still will laud thy name PARAPHRASE FROM ISAIAH First Line: My soul hath longed for thee, o lord PASTORALLS, THE FOURTH EGLOGUE First Line: When first religion with a golden chayne Last Line: And from this fount did all those mischiefs flow, %whose inundation drowneth all the world Subject(s): Nature PIERS GAVESTON, SELS. Subject(s): Homosexuality POLY-OLBION, THE FIRST SONG, SELS. First Line: Of albions glorious ile the wonders whilst I write Last Line: Bound in those gloomie caves with adamantine %chaines Subject(s): Nature POLYOLBION, SELS. Subject(s): Birds PRAYER OF MARDOCHEUS First Line: O lord, my lord, that art the king of might PRAYER OF TOBIAS First Line: Bless'd be that king, which evermore QUEEN MAB'S MAIDS OF HONOR First Line: Hop and mop and drop so clear QUEEN MARGARET TO WILLIAM DE LA POOL, DUKE OF SUFFOLK First Line: What news (sweet pool) look'st thou my lines should tell Subject(s): Margaret Of Anjou. Queen Of England; Pole, William De La, Duke Of Suffolk QUEST OF CYNTHIA First Line: What time the groves were clad in SEE THAT THERE BE STORES OF LILIES Last Line: Called by shepherds of daffodils Subject(s): Daffodils SHEPHEARDS SIRENA, SELS. SHEPHERD'S GARLAND, SELS. Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds And Shepherdesses SHEPHERDS' GARLAND: THE EIGHTH ECLOGUE First Line: Good gorbo of the golden world Last Line: And thou shalt be the only welcome guest SOME ATHEIST IN LOVE First Line: Some atheist or vile infidel SONNET First Line: Many there be excelling in this kind Last Line: Nor care for criticke, nor regard the times SONNET First Line: Black pitchy night, companion of my woe Last Line: Which still torments me in day's burning fire Subject(s): Grief STONEHENGE First Line: Dull heap, that thus thy head above the rest dost rear SUMMER'S EVE First Line: Clear had the day been from the dawn Variant Title(s): A Fine Da THE CRIER Poem Text First Line: Good folk, for gold or hire Last Line: Or send it back to me. Variant Title(s): The Cryer Subject(s): Hearts THE HEART Poem Text First Line: If thus we needs must goe Last Line: For it too vile and low. Subject(s): Hearts THE SACRIFICE TO APOLLO Poem Text First Line: Priests of apollo, sacred be the roome Last Line: Sound, whilst his altars endlesse flames expire. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Sacrifices THIRD ECLOGUE, SELS. First Line: Rowland. Stay, thames, to heare my song, thou great Last Line: And albion on the appenines advance her conquering %crest TO CUPID Poem Text First Line: Maidens, why spare ye? Last Line: More good they had taught him. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros TO HENRY REYNOLDS, SELS. TO HIS RIVALL Poem Text First Line: Her lov'd I most Last Line: And helpe to beare you out, sir. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO HIS VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Muse, bid the morne awake Last Line: Else muse, awake her not. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO MASTER GEORGE SANDYS TREASURER FOR THE ENGLISH COLONY IN VIRGINIA Poem Text First Line: Friend, if you thinke my papers may supplie Last Line: So (noble sandis) for this time adue. Subject(s): News; Sandys, George (1578-1644); Virginia (state) TO MY MOST DEARELY-LOVED FRIEND HENERY REYNOLDS ESQUIRE, OF POETS Poem Text First Line: My dearely loved friend how oft have we Last Line: And so my deare friend, for this time adue. Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Beaumont, Sir John (1583-1627); Bryan, Sir Francis (d. 1550); Dramatists; Drummond, William (1585-1649); Gascoigne, George (1525-1577); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Reynolds, Henry (17th Century); Sylvester, Joshu TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MASTER WILLIAM BROWNE: OF THE EVIL TIME Poem Text First Line: Dear friend, be silent and with patience see Last Line: Hees worth lamenting, that for her doth fall. Subject(s): Browne, William (1591-1645) TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. GEORGE CHAPMAN AND ... HESIOD First Line: Chapman, we find, by thy past-prized fraught Subject(s): Chapman, George (1559-1634); Poetry And Poets TO THE HARP First Line: That instrument ne'er heard TO THE NEW YEERE Poem Text First Line: Rich statue, double-faced Last Line: The diadem that beares. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE NOBLE LADY, THE LADY I.S. OF WORLDLY CROSSES Poem Text First Line: Madame, to shew the smoothnesse of my vaine Last Line: Be ever good, that I may love you ever. TO THE READER First Line: Odes I have called these my few poems; which how happie soever Last Line: Escaped in the printing, I bid thee farewell. %m. Drayton TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE [1611] Poem Text First Line: You brave heroic [heroique] minds Last Line: To after-times thy wit. Variant Title(s): Ode: 11 Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Virginia (state); Liberty TO THOSE, THE GENTLE SOUTH, FR. POLYOLBION TO WILLIAM JEFFREYS, CHAPLAINE TO THE LORD AMBASSADOUR IN SPAINE Poem Text First Line: My noble friend, you challenge me to write Last Line: And so my jeffreyes for this time adue. Subject(s): News TRENT AGAIN First Line: What should I care at all from what my name I take UPON THE DEATH OF HIS FRIEND, SIR HENRY RAYNSFORD OF CLIFFORD Poem Text First Line: Could there be words found to expresse my lose Last Line: As I doe his, who was a thousand friends. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The UPON THE DEATH OF MISTRIS ELIANOR FALLOWFIELD Poem Text First Line: Accursed death, what neede was there at all Last Line: That many a great one hath not after death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The UPON THE DEATH OF THE LADY OLIVE STANHOPE Poem Text First Line: Canst thou depart and be forgotten so? Last Line: Of all the rest, record thee for the prime. Subject(s): Stanhope, Lady Olivia Beresford (b.1591) UPON THE NOBLE LADY ASTONS DEPARTURE FOR SPAINE Poem Text First Line: I many a time have greatly marveil'd, why Last Line: To send health to her, and her home to me. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting UPON THE THREE SONNES OF THE LORD SHEFFIELD, DROWNED IN HUMBER Poem Text First Line: Light sonnets hence, and to loose lovers flie Last Line: Their fatall losse, in their sad aniverse. Subject(s): Drowning; Sons VERSES MADE THE NIGHT BEFORE HE DIED First Line: So well I love thee, as without thee Last Line: Which put together make a glass so true %as I therein no other's face but yours can view Subject(s): Goodere, Anne; Love WHERE STOUR RECEIVES HER STRENGTH Last Line: And at new forrest's foote into the sea doe fall Subject(s): Rivers WORLD OF MIGHTY KINGS AND PRINCES, FR. POLYOLBION |
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