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| Searching... Author: randolph, thomas Matches Found: 134 Randolph, Thomas Poet's Biography 113 poems available by this author A CHARACTER Poem Text First Line: Thou cousin to great madams, and allied Last Line: Thou think'st thyself th' art all, and I think neither. A COMPLAINT AGAINST CUPID, THAT HE NEVER MADE HIM IN LOVE Poem Text First Line: How many of thy captives (love) complain Last Line: If so, be merciful, and punish me. Subject(s): Love A DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: My lalage, when I behold Last Line: And thou canst make us freeze beneath the line. Subject(s): Passion A DIALOGUE BETWIXT A NYMPH AND A SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: Why sigh you, swain? This passion is not common Last Line: And thaws the icy frost of cold desire. Subject(s): Passion A MASK FOR LYDIA Poem Text First Line: Sweet lydia, take this mask, and shroud Last Line: Still such an ethiop be. Subject(s): Masks A PARENETICON TO THE TRULY NOBLE GENTLEMAN MASTER ENDYMION PORTER Poem Text First Line: Go, bashful muse: thy message is to one Last Line: He turn'd love's wanton god, and so do you. Subject(s): Porter, Endymion (1587-1649) A PARLEY WITH HIS EMPTY PURSE Poem Text First Line: Purse, who'll not know you have a poet's been Last Line: Gape on, as they do to be paid, gape on! Subject(s): Debt; Money A PASTORAL COURTSHIP Poem Text First Line: Behold these woods, and mark, my sweet Last Line: Unless we meet again to-morrow. A PASTORAL ODE Poem Text First Line: Coy coelia, dost thou see Last Line: Lest I take heat from thee, and so revive. A PLATONIC ELEGY Poem Text First Line: Love, give me leave to serve thee, and be wise Last Line: All other love is to your sex, not you. Subject(s): Love AD AMICUM LITIGANTEM Poem Text First Line: Would you commence a poet, sir, and be Last Line: And then 'tis ta'en for granted you are mad. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AN ANSWER TO BEN JONSON'S ODE, TO PERSUADE HIM NOT TO LEAVE THE STAGE Poem Text First Line: Ben, do not leave the stage Last Line: Thou, that canst sing so high, canst reach as low. Subject(s): Brome, Richard (d. 1652); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters AN APOLOGY FOR HIS FALSE PREDICTION THAT HIS AUNT LANE ... A SON Poem Text First Line: Are then the sybils dead? What is become Last Line: I meant the right by mental reservation. Subject(s): Birth; Prophecy & Prophets; Child Birth; Midwifery AN ECLOGUE OCCASIONED BY TWO DOCTORS DISPUTING UPON PREDESTINATION Poem Text First Line: Ho! Jolly thyrsis, whither in such haste? Last Line: Pan's cornet's blown, and the great sheep-shear's kept. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny AN ECLOGUE TO MASTER JONSON Poem Text First Line: Under this beech why sitt'st thou here so sad Last Line: Hesperus leading forth his beauteous herd? Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets AN ELEGY Poem Text First Line: Heav'n knows my love to thee, fed on desires Last Line: And the sweet antidote to sin no more. AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ... SIR ROWLAND COTTON OF BELLAPORT Poem Text First Line: Rich as was cotton's worth I wish each line Last Line: T' have liv'd in anything but heaven and fame. AN EPITAPH UPON HIS HONOURED FRIEND, MASTER WARRE Poem Text First Line: Here lies the knowing head, the honest heart Last Line: Here's no distinction 'twixt the house and tomb. Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH UPON MISTRESS I.T. Poem Text First Line: Reader, if thou hast a tear Last Line: She robb'd not earth to add to heaven. Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITHALAMINUM Poem Text First Line: Muse, be a bridesmaid; dost not hear Last Line: And drowsy nurses' lullaby. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium AN EPITHALAMIUM Poem Text First Line: Bliss court thee, sweetest soul, and fall as thick Last Line: Thy praise is all thine own -- thy name. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium AN EPITHALAMIUM TO MR F. H. Poem Text First Line: Frank, when this morn (the harbinger of day Last Line: So whipp'd her doves, and smiling rid away. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium ANAGRAM. VIRTUE ALONE THY BLISS Poem Text First Line: Descent of birth is a vain good Last Line: I say, needs his expression must be weak. BLEST SPIRIT, WHEN I FIRST DID SEE COME FROM THY PALACE First Line: Come from thy palace, beauteous queen of greece Last Line: And then, amazed with grief, laugh out thine eyes DRINKING SONG Poem Text First Line: We care not for money, riches or wealth Last Line: Old sack is our money, old sack is our health. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ECLOGUE ON NOBLE ASSEMBLIES REVIVED ON COTWSOLD HILLS BY ROBERT DOVER Poem Text First Line: What clodpates, thenot, are our british swains! Last Line: To saint him in the shepherd's calendar. Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England; Country Life; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements ELEGY UPON THE LADY VENETIA DIGBY Poem Text First Line: Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee Last Line: Nature despairs, because her pattern's gone. Subject(s): Digby, Lady Venetia ENGLISHED THUS 'PARAFRASTIKWJ' Poem Text First Line: The spring was come, and all the fields grown fine Last Line: Ariadne's crown and cassiopoea's chair. EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Heavens decreed, before the world begun FAIRIES' SONG Poem Text First Line: We the fairies blithe and antic Last Line: Were it not for stealing, stealing. Variant Title(s): Stolen Fruit Subject(s): Fairies; Elves HE LIVES LONG WHO LIVES WELL First Line: Wouldst thou live long? The only means are these IN LESBIAM ET HISTROINEM Poem Text First Line: I wonder what should madam lesbia mean Last Line: He at one game keeps her, she him at all. IN NATALEM AUGUSTISSIMI PRINCIPIS CARLOLI Poem Text First Line: The first birth, mary, was unto a tomb Last Line: That canst give saints as well as kings a birth. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery IN PRAISE OF WOMEN IN GENERAL Poem Text First Line: He is a parricide to his mother's name Last Line: The fairest is the valiant amazon. Subject(s): Women LOVE AND REVERENCE Poem Text First Line: I have a mistress, for perfections rare Last Line: And come unto my courtship as my prayer. Variant Title(s): A Devout Lover;his Mistress Subject(s): Love MR RANDOLPH'S PETITION TO HIS CREDITORS Poem Text First Line: Pox take you all! From you my sorrows swell! Last Line: May they more debtors have, and all like me! Subject(s): Debt MUSIC, THOU QUEEN OF SOULS Poem Text First Line: Music, thou queen of souls, get up and string Last Line: Strike a sad note, and fix them trees again. Variant Title(s): A Song Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Trees NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 10TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: The law's the path of life; then that obey Last Line: Who keeps it not, hath wand'ring lost his way. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 11TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Thank those that do thee good, so shalt thou gain Last Line: Their second help, if thou shouldst need again. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 12TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: To doubtful matters do not headlong run Last Line: What's well left off, were better not begun. Subject(s): Haste NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 13TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Be well-advis'd, and wary counsel make Last Line: To bring thy action to a perfect end. NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 14TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents Last Line: For he that knows thy purpose, best prevents. Subject(s): Secrets NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 15TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: To tell thy miseries will no comfort breed Last Line: Thou soon shalt lose a friend, and find a foe. NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 16TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Keep thy friends' goods, for should thy wants be known Last Line: Thou canst not tell but they may be thy own. Subject(s): Borrowers And Lenders NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 17TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: To gather wealth through fraud do not presume Last Line: A little evil got will much consume. Subject(s): Honesty NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 18TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: First think; and if thy thoughts approve thy will Last Line: Then speak, and after, what thou speak'st, fulfil. NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 19TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Spare not nor spend too much; be this thy care Last Line: But he spends best that spares to spend again. Subject(s): Saving And Thrift NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 1ST PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: First worship god; he that forgets to pray Last Line: And serve him first whence all things did begin. Variant Title(s): Precepts Subject(s): Worship NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 20TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: If with a stranger thou discourse, first learn Last Line: Then do thou speak, that he may learn by thee. NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 21ST PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: If thou dispraise a man, let no man know Last Line: To make the world believe thou lov'st the man. Subject(s): Hate NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 22D PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Reprove not in their wrath incensed men Last Line: No man gives physic in the midst o' th' fit. Subject(s): Anger NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 23D PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Seem not too conscious of thy worth, nor be Last Line: Whilst they that are above thee fall below. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 24TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Desire not thy mean fortunes for to set Last Line: Like ravenous wolves; 'tis dangerous living near 'em. Subject(s): Wealth; Riches; Fortunes NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 25TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Each man three devils hath -- self-born afflictions Last Line: Gain thee the friendship both of god and man. NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 26TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: So live with man as if god's curious eye Last Line: That must alone both judge and jury be? Subject(s): Sin NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 27TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Take thou no care how to defer thy death Last Line: I say he only was, he did not live. Subject(s): Health; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 28TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Trust not a man unknown; he may deceive thee Last Line: Tis best not seem to doubt, although you do. Subject(s): Trust NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 29TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Hear much, but little speak; a wise man fears Last Line: Do let in wit; the tongue doth let out folly. Subject(s): Silence NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 2D PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Honour thy parents to prolong thine end Last Line: Shall have a child that will revenge the deed. Subject(s): Parents; Truth; Parenthood NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 30TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: To all alike be courteous, meek, and kind Last Line: To whom thy friendship shall familiar be. Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 31ST PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Judge not between two friends, but rather see Last Line: Howe'er thou judge, thou, sure, shalt lose a friend. Subject(s): Friendship NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 32D PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Thy credit wary keep, 'tis quickly gone Last Line: Being got by many actions, lost by one. NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 33D PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Unto thy brother buy not, sell, nor lend Last Line: That thou hast power, and he necessity. Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 34TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Spare in thy youth, lest age should find thee poor Last Line: As age and want, when both do meet together. Subject(s): Time NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 35TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Fly drunkenness, whose vile incontinence Last Line: I rather count a hogshead than a man. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 36TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Let not thy impotent lust so powerful be Last Line: Starves in his grave, being wretched when he's dead. Subject(s): Lust; Moderation NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 37TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: If e'er I take a wife, I will have one Last Line: Should only love, not dote on her perfection. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 3D PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Think that is just, 'tis not enough to do Last Line: Unless thy very thoughts are upright too. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 4TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Defend the truth; for that who will not die Last Line: A coward is, and gives himself the lie. Subject(s): Truth NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 5TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Honour the king, as sons their parents do Last Line: For he's thy father, and thy country's too. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 6TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: A friend is gold; if true, he'll never leave thee Last Line: Yet both without a touchstone may deceive thee. Subject(s): Friendship NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 7TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Suspicious men think others false; but he Last Line: And shun to be too credulous for thine own. NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 8TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Take well whate'er shall chance; though bad it be Last Line: Take it for good, and 'twill be so to thee. NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 9TH PRECEPT Poem Text First Line: Swear not: an oath is like a dangerous dart Last Line: Which shot, rebounds to strike the shooter's heart. Subject(s): Oaths NOW COME, MY BOON COMPANIONS ODE TO MASTER ANTHONY STAFFORD [TO HASTEN HIM INTO COUNTRY] Poem Text First Line: Come, spur away, / I have no patience for a longer stay Last Line: To civilise with graver notes our wits again. Variant Title(s): Ode On Leaving The Great Town;an Ode To Mr Anthony Stafford To Hasten Him Into The Country Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life ON A MAID, SEEN BY A SCHOLAR IN SOMERSET (HOUSE) GARDEN Poem Text First Line: As once in black I disrespected walk'd Last Line: Nor maid nor honour -- sure, no honesty. ON GRAFTING First Line: If the fresh trunk have sap enough to give Last Line: We may as well inoculate as plant ON SIR ROBERT COTTON, THE ANTIQUARY Poem Text First Line: Posterity hath many fates bemoan'd Last Line: Who ne'er had vanquish'd all things but in thee. Subject(s): Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce (1561-1631) ON SIX MAIDS BATHING THEMSELVES IN A RIVER Poem Text First Line: When bashful daylight once was gone Last Line: Whether he were a fool or no. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing ON THE DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE Poem Text First Line: Go, solitary wood, and henceforth be Last Line: Shall flock about thee, and keep time with kisses. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ON THE FALL OF THE MITRE TAVERN IN CAMBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Lament, lament, ye scholars all Last Line: But now we'll drink like doctors. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cambridge, England; Fire; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons ON THE INESTIMABLE CONTENT HE ENJOYS IN THE MUSES Poem Text First Line: Go, sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch Last Line: I might perchance get riches, and be poor. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poverty ON THE LOSS OF HIS FINGER Poem Text First Line: How much more blest are trees than men! Last Line: And we in heaven shake hands again. Subject(s): Accidents; Fingers ON THE PASSION OF CHRIST Poem Text First Line: What rends the temple's veil, where is day gone? Last Line: Nature must needs be sick, when god can die. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice PARAPHRASED Poem Text First Line: Ah, wretch! In thy corinna's love unblest! Last Line: His and her breast, or his and hers a cold. POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY First Line: The reapers that with whetted sickles stand STAPHYLA'S LULLABY First Line: Quiet sleep, or I will make Variant Title(s): A Char THE COMBAT OF THE COCKS Poem Text First Line: Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name Last Line: I yield, and give to wisbeach cock the day. Subject(s): Cock-fighting THE HIGH AND MIGHTY COMMENDATION OF THE VIRTUE OF A POT OF GOOD ALE Poem Text First Line: Not drunken nor sober (but neighbour to both Last Line: To make all this good of a pot of good ale. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Wine THE MILKMAIDS EPITHALAMIUM Poem Text First Line: Joy to the bridegroom and the bride Last Line: To get a man to pity me. Subject(s): Country Life; Wedding Song; Epithalamium THE POET Poem Text First Line: From witty men and mad Last Line: A witty man, or one that's out of's wits. THE SONG OF DISCORD Poem Text First Line: Let linus' and amphion's lute Last Line: The following trees had run away! THE SONG OF ORPHEUS Poem Text First Line: Hail, sacred deserts! Whom kind nature made Last Line: To pleasure men, rewarded with a cage. THE TOWNSMEN'S PETITION OF CAMBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Now, scholars, look unto it Last Line: And the scholars must domineer. Subject(s): Cambridge University THE WEDDING MORN Poem Text First Line: Arise, come forth, but never to return Last Line: Himself between their lips a grave to make. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A LADY ADMIRING HERSELF IN A LOOKING-GLASS Poem Text First Line: Fair lady, when you see the grace Last Line: Yours, sweet, in me, and mine in you. Variant Title(s): To One Admiring Herself In A Looking-glass Subject(s): Admiration TO A PAINTED MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: There are who know what once to-day it was Last Line: Which druggists sell to you, and you to me. Subject(s): Cosmetics TO BEN JONSON Poem Text First Line: I was not born to helicon, nor dare Last Line: Tis to pen anthems for an angel's quire. Variant Title(s): A Gratulatory To Ben Jonson For His Adopting Of Him To Be His Son Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO DR EMPIRIC Poem Text First Line: When men a dangerous disease did 'scape Last Line: From my disease's danger -- and from thee! Subject(s): Disease; Physicians; Doctors TO HIS WELL-TIMBRED MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Sweet, heard you not fame's latest breath rehearse Last Line: To work within, and wainscot her with praise. TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND F.J., ON ... THIS EXCELLENT COMEDY Poem Text First Line: To join things so divided in this age Last Line: Not lend them hose to put on head or horn! Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights TO MASTER FELTHAM, ON HIS BOOK OF RESOLVES Poem Text First Line: In this unconstant age, when all mens minds Last Line: Whereby to write, I mean to live by thine. Subject(s): Books; Felltham, Owen (1602-1668); Reading TO MASTER JAMES SHIRLEY ON HIS GRATEFUL SERVANT Poem Text First Line: I cannot fulminate or tonitruate words Last Line: A friend as grateful as his servant was. Subject(s): Shirley, James (1596-1666) TO ONE OVERHEARING HIS PRIVATE DISCOURSE Poem Text First Line: I wonder not my leda far can see Last Line: Glad he had got a tale to whisper there. TO THE VIRTUOUS AND NOBLE LADY, THE LADY COTTON Poem Text First Line: Tis not to force more tears from your sad eye Last Line: For he was but our wonder -- you were his. UPON A HERMAPHRODITE Poem Text First Line: Sir, or madam, choose you whether Last Line: Coining thee both philip and mary. Subject(s): Hermaphrodites UPON A VERY DEFORMED GENTLEWOMAN, BUT OF A VOICE INCOMPARABLY SWEET Poem Text First Line: I chanc'd sweet lesbia's voice to hear Last Line: Whilst she hath tongue, or I have eyes. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Voices; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples UPON HIS PICTURE Poem Text First Line: When age hath made me what I am not now Last Line: Whose shadow is less given to change than he. Variant Title(s): To My Picture Subject(s): Portraits; Self UPON LOVE FONDLY REFUSED FOR CONSCIENCE' SAKE Poem Text First Line: Nature, creation's law, is judg'd by sense Last Line: What youth and pleasure prompts us to. UPON THE LOSS OF HIS LITTLE FINGER Poem Text First Line: Arithmetic nine digits, and no more Last Line: How soon mischance hath made a hand of thee. Subject(s): Accidents; Fingers UPON THE REPORT OF TE KING OF SWEDEN'S DEATH Poem Text First Line: I'll not believe't; if fate should be so cross Last Line: So great a loss, will choose not to believe. Subject(s): Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King (1595-1632); Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King Of Sweden Thomas, Randolph Poet's Biography 21 poems available by this author ANNIVERSARY First Line: In early august I cannot sleep Last Line: And asks me for a song %I am old enough to sing BLESSING First Line: A woman leans out a window Last Line: He wipes his mouth without thinking COURSE OF THE TELLING First Line: I returned from the war to plant spring crops Last Line: In the stories that are no longer told FIRST DAYS First Line: With clothespins on your mouth, after removing Last Line: With your face lifts her away GULLY First Line: At first light, at reveille, the soldiers' Last Line: Fingers clawing at the ground beneath them INVENTORY First Line: The children linger by the school Last Line: On the trail home when his swim %and the afternoon were over Subject(s): Bakeries And Bakers; Children; Memory MAGISTRO RICHADO LANE Poem Text First Line: Sir, if the term be done, and you can find Last Line: I have an advocate can plead my cause. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights MY BROTHER, THE GIRL FROM WEST VIRGINIA, AND THE MAN WITH AN First Line: The phone rings at three am Last Line: For sliding shut the drawer, %the sky suddenly erased by snow ONE WAY OUT First Line: While the woman sleeps Last Line: Both of you pretend you did not see him OUR SLIDES OF VENICE First Line: Here we are the final day, tired, our eyes Last Line: Brush against the stones while we dress Subject(s): Vacation; Venice, Italy PICTURE OF NORWOOD STREET First Line: It took me weeks to do the piece I lost Last Line: Running to a steel drain while I escaped %across town as if toward freedom POLTERGEIST First Line: One night a sound in the basement Last Line: Catch you in the act %of haunting yourself REVENANT First Line: A naked woman comes out of the ocean Last Line: The wind carries her among them RIVER First Line: One day on the bank of some river Last Line: Lower branches leaning in the river %tease you to take hold,to let go SAILOR First Line: In the painting, the sailor stands Last Line: And on the distant, darkening sky SHE COMES TO BATON ROUGE First Line: She comes to you this morning as light drowned Last Line: To remind you of the dust you will become TO HIS DEAR FRIEND, THOMAS RILEY Poem Text First Line: I will not say I on our stage have seen Last Line: I write this comedy, but 'twas made by thee. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights TO HIS HONOURED FRIEND MR ANTH. STAFFORD Poem Text First Line: Sir, had my muse gain'd leisure to confer Last Line: That should have rather begg'd your rigour then. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights TO THAT COMPLETE AND NOBLE KNIGHT SIR KENELLAM DIGBY Poem Text First Line: Sir, when I look on you, methinks I see Last Line: You'll let her ivy wait upon your bays. Subject(s): Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665); Plays & Playwrights TO THE TRULY NOBLE KNIGHT SIR CHR. HATTON Poem Text First Line: To you (whose recreations, sir, might be Last Line: Twere but a lesson worthy such an ear. Subject(s): Hatton, Sir Christopher (1540-1591); Plays & Playwrights WAITING FOR THE WATER First Line: Grandma was a seer. Long before the flood Last Line: Stretched and moaned %in the rising water |
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