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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: spenser, edmund Matches Found: 221 Spenser, Edmund Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin 221 poems available by this author AMORETTI (COMPLETE) Poem Text Subject(s): Courtship; Love AMORETTI (COMPLETE) Subject(s): Courtship; Love AMORETTI: 1 Poem Text First Line: Happy ye leaves! When as those lily hands Last Line: Whom if ye please, I care for other none. Variant Title(s): "to His Book;""happy Ye Leaves When As Those Lilly Hands,""; Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reading AMORETTI: 10 Poem Text First Line: Unrighteous lord of love, what law is this Last Line: As she doth laugh at me, and makes my pain her sport. Subject(s): Prayer; Love – Complaints AMORETTI: 11 Poem Text First Line: Daily when I do seek and sue for peace Last Line: But mine no price nor prayer may surcease. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited AMORETTI: 12 Poem Text First Line: One day I sought with her heart-thrilling eyes Last Line: Against your eies that justice I may gaine. Subject(s): Justice AMORETTI: 13 Poem Text First Line: In that proud port which her so goodly graceth Last Line: Such lowlinesse shall make you lofty be. Subject(s): Pride AMORETTI: 14 Poem Text First Line: Return again, my forces late dismayed Last Line: So dying live, and living do adore her. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited AMORETTI: 15 Poem Text First Line: Ye trade-full merchants that with weary toil Last Line: Her mind, adornd with vertues manifold. Subject(s): Love AMORETTI: 16 Poem Text First Line: One day as I unwarily did gaze Last Line: Yet as it was, I hardly scap't with paine. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Pain AMORETTI: 17 Poem Text First Line: The glorious portrait of that angel's face Last Line: That can expresse the life of things indeed. Variant Title(s): Her Portrait Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue AMORETTI: 18 Poem Text First Line: The rolling wheel that runneth often round Last Line: Whiles she as steele and flint doth still remayne. Variant Title(s): "the Rolling Wheele That Runneth Often Round,""; Subject(s): Love – Complaints AMORETTI: 19 Poem Text First Line: The merry cuckoo, messenger of spring Last Line: Ere cuckow end, let her a rebell be. Variant Title(s): The Merry Cuckoo Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos AMORETTI: 2 Poem Text First Line: Unquiet thought! Whom at the first I bred Last Line: If not, die soone, and I with thee will perish. Subject(s): Courtsdhip; Poetry & Poets AMORETTI: 20 Poem Text First Line: In vain I seek and sue to her for grace Last Line: That ye were blooded in a yeelded pray. Subject(s): Cruelty AMORETTI: 21 Poem Text First Line: Was it the work of nature or of art Last Line: Such art of eyes I never read in bookes. Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 22 Poem Text First Line: This holy season, fit to fast and pray Last Line: Amongst thy deerest relicks to be kept. Variant Title(s): "this Holy Season Fit To Fast And Pray,""; Subject(s): Love – Nature Of AMORETTI: 23 Poem Text First Line: Penelope, for her ulysses' [ulisses] sake Last Line: Whose fruitlesse worke is broken with least wynd. Variant Title(s): "doing And Undoing;""penelope For Her Ulisses' Sake,""; Subject(s): Penelope (mythology); Melancholy AMORETTI: 24 Poem Text First Line: When I behold that beauty's wonderment Last Line: That for my faults ye will me gently beat. Subject(s): Pandora (mythology) AMORETTI: 25 Poem Text First Line: How long shall this like-dying life endure Last Line: That greater meede at last may turne to mee. Subject(s): Cruelty AMORETTI: 26 Poem Text First Line: Sweet is the rose but grows upon a brere Last Line: That endlesse pleasure shall unto me gaine? Variant Title(s): Sweet And Sour Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Plpeasure AMORETTI: 27 Poem Text First Line: Fair proud! Now tell me, why should fair be proud Last Line: But that which shall you make immortall cherish. Subject(s): Pride AMORETTI: 28 Poem Text First Line: The laurel-leaf which you this day do wear Last Line: But in your brest his leafe and love embrace. Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology) AMORETTI: 29 Poem Text First Line: See! How the stubborn damsel doth deprave Last Line: And fill the world with her victorious prayse. Subject(s): Love AMORETTI: 3 Poem Text First Line: The sovereign beauty which I do admire Last Line: The wonder that my wit cannot endite. Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 30 Poem Text Recitation First Line: My love is like to ice, and I to fire Last Line: That it can alter all the course of kynd. Variant Title(s): "my Love Is Lyke To Yse, And I To Fyre:""; Subject(s): Love AMORETTI: 31 Poem Text First Line: Ah! Why hath nature to so hard a heart Last Line: Such cruelty she would have soone abhord. Subject(s): Beauty; Cruelty AMORETTI: 32 Poem Text First Line: The painful smith with force of fervent heat Last Line: And she to stones at length all frosen turne? Subject(s): Heat; Cold; Despair AMORETTI: 33 Poem Text First Line: Great wrong I do, I can it not deny Last Line: Or lend you me another living brest. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AMORETTI: 34 Poem Text First Line: Lyke as a ship, that through the ocean wyde Last Line: In secret sorrow and sad pensivenesse. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AMORETTI: 35 Poem Text First Line: My hungry eyes, through greedy covetise Last Line: And all their showes but shadowes, saving she. Subject(s): Eyes AMORETTI: 36 Poem Text First Line: Tell me, when shall these wearie woes have end? Last Line: Ye shall condemned be of many a one. Subject(s): Pain AMORETTI: 37 Poem Text First Line: What guile is this, that those her golden tresses Last Line: To covet fetters, though they golden bee. Variant Title(s): "what Guyle Is This, That Those Her Golden Tresses,""; Subject(s): Hair; Innocence; Love AMORETTI: 38 Poem Text First Line: Arion, when through tempest's cruel wrack Last Line: Then to be blam'd for spilling guiltlesse blood. Subject(s): Arion (7th Century B.c.) AMORETTI: 39 Poem Text First Line: Sweet smile! The daughter of the queen of love Last Line: Seem'd every bit which thenceforth I did eat. Subject(s): Virtue AMORETTI: 4 Poem Text First Line: New year, forth looking out of janus' gate Last Line: Prepare your selfe new love to entertaine. Subject(s): Winter; Spring; Youth; Old Age; Life; Death AMORETTI: 40 Poem Text First Line: Mark when she smiles with amiable cheer Last Line: With that sunshine, when cloudy looks are cleared. Subject(s): Smiles AMORETTI: 41 Poem Text First Line: Is it her nature, or is it her will Last Line: That so fayre beauty was so fowly shamed. Subject(s): Love – Complaints AMORETTI: 42 Poem Text First Line: The love which me so cruelly tormenteth Last Line: And doe me not before my time to dy. Subject(s): Pain; Grief AMORETTI: 43 Poem Text First Line: Shall I then silent be, or shall I speak? Last Line: Wil soone conceive, and learne to construe well. Subject(s): Silence AMORETTI: 44 Poem Text First Line: When those reknonwed noble peers of greece Last Line: The more I fynd their malice to increace. Subject(s): Orpheus AMORETTI: 45 Poem Text First Line: Leave, lady! In your glass of crystal clean Last Line: Remove the cause by which your fayre beames darkned be. Variant Title(s): "leave, Lady, In Your Glasse Of Christall Clene""; Subject(s): Mirrors AMORETTI: 46 Poem Text First Line: When my abode's prefixed time is spent Last Line: The stormes which she alone on me doth raine. Subject(s): Heaven AMORETTI: 47 Poem Text First Line: Trust not the treason of those smiling looks Last Line: And thinck they dy with pleasure, live with payne. Subject(s): Cruelty AMORETTI: 48 Poem Text First Line: Innocent paper! Whom too cruel hand Last Line: And speake her good, though she requite it ill. Subject(s): Innocence; Writing & Writers AMORETTI: 49 Poem Text First Line: Fair cruel! Why are ye so fierce and cruel? Last Line: So shall you live by giving life to me. Subject(s): Mercy AMORETTI: 5 Poem Text First Line: Rudely thou wrongest my dear heart's desire Last Line: Without some spark of such self-pleasing pride. Subject(s): Pride AMORETTI: 50 Poem Text First Line: Long languishing in double malady Last Line: And with one salve both hart and body heale. Subject(s): Sickness AMORETTI: 51 Poem Text First Line: Do I not see that fairest images Last Line: But having her, my joy wil be the greater. Subject(s): Beauty; Persistence AMORETTI: 52 Poem Text First Line: So oft as homeward I from her depart Last Line: That of her presens I my meed may take. Subject(s): Grief; Reconciliation AMORETTI: 53 Poem Text First Line: The panther, knowing that his spotted hide Last Line: As in theyr maker ye them best may see. Subject(s): Panthers AMORETTI: 54 Poem Text First Line: Of this world's theatre in which we stay Last Line: She is no woman, but a sencelesse stone. Variant Title(s): A Hard Audience Subject(s): Conceit AMORETTI: 55 Poem Text First Line: So oft as I her beauty do behold Last Line: Be lyke in mercy as in all the rest. Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 56 Poem Text First Line: Fair ye be sure, but cruel and unkind Last Line: Whom ye doe wreck, doe ruine, and destroy. Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 57 Poem Text First Line: Sweet warrior! When shall I have peace with you? Last Line: That al my wounds wil heale in little space. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Reconciliation AMORETTI: 58. BY HER THAT IS MOST ASSURED TO HERSELF Poem Text First Line: Weak is the assurance that weak flesh respondeth Last Line: That to your selfe ye most assured arre? Subject(s): Pride AMORETTI: 59 Poem Text First Line: Thrice happy she that is so well assured Last Line: But he most happy who such one loves best. Variant Title(s): The True Woman Subject(s): Self-assurance AMORETTI: 6 Poem Text First Line: Be nought dismayed that her unmoved mind Last Line: To knit the knot that ever shall remaine. Subject(s): Patience; Oak Trees AMORETTI: 60 Poem Text First Line: They that in course of heavenly spheres are skilled Last Line: This yeare ensuing, or else short my dayes. Subject(s): Impatience AMORETTI: 61 Poem Text First Line: The glorious image of the maker's beauty Last Line: Then dare be lov'd by men of meane degree. Subject(s): Pride AMORETTI: 62 Poem Text First Line: The weary year his race now having run Last Line: And chaunge old yeares annoy to new delight. Subject(s): New Year AMORETTI: 63 Poem Text First Line: After long storms' and tempests' sad assay Last Line: All sorrowes short that gaine eternall blisse Subject(s): Marriage AMORETTI: 64 Poem Text First Line: Coming to kiss her lips (such grace I found) Last Line: But her sweet odour did them all excell. Variant Title(s): The Garden Of Beauty Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances AMORETTI: 65 Poem Text First Line: The doubt which ye misdeem, fair love, is vain Last Line: And spotlesse pleasure builds her sacred bowre. Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AMORETTI: 66 Poem Text First Line: To all those happy blessings which ye have Last Line: With my reflex yours shall encreased be. Subject(s): Love AMORETTI: 67 Poem Text First Line: Like as a huntsman after weary chase Last Line: So goodly wonne, with her owne will beguyld. Variant Title(s): "lyke As A Huntsman After Weary Chace,""; Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism AMORETTI: 68 Poem Text First Line: Most glorious lord of life, that on this day Last Line: Love is the lesson which the lord us taught. Variant Title(s): "easter Day;christ's True Love's Example;easter Morning;sonnet On Easter;easter;""most Glorious Lord Of Lyfe That On This Day""; Subject(s): Bible; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Theology AMORETTI: 69 Poem Text First Line: The famous warriors of the antique world Last Line: Gotten at last with labour and long toyle. Subject(s): War; Immortality AMORETTI: 7 Poem Text First Line: Fair eyes! The mirror of my mazed heart Last Line: Such death the sad ensample of your might. Subject(s): Eyes AMORETTI: 70 Poem Text First Line: Fresh spring, the herald of love's mighty king Last Line: For none can call againe the passed time. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Love AMORETTI: 71 Poem Text First Line: I joy to see how in your drawen work Last Line: Betweene the spyder and the gentle bee. Variant Title(s): "i Joy To See How In Your Drawen Work,""; Subject(s): Drawing AMORETTI: 72 Poem Text First Line: Oft when my spirit doth spread her bolder wings Last Line: But here on earth to have such hevens blisse. Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 73 Poem Text First Line: Being myself captivated here in care Last Line: Him lodging in your bosome to have lent. Subject(s): Passion AMORETTI: 74 Poem Text First Line: Most happy letters! Framed by skillful trade Last Line: That three such graces did unto me give. Subject(s): Women AMORETTI: 75 Poem Text Recitation First Line: One day I wrote her name upon the strand Last Line: Our love shall live, and later life renew. Variant Title(s): "her Name;our Love Shall Live;to Immortalise His Love;one Day I Wrote Her Name;eternizing Her;""one Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand,""; Subject(s): Art & Artists; Immortality; Love; Names; Seashore; Thought; Beach; Coast; Shore; Thinking AMORETTI: 76 Poem Text First Line: Fair bosom! Fraught with virtues' richest treasure Last Line: Which oft I wisht, yet never was so blest. Subject(s): Breasts AMORETTI: 77 Poem Text First Line: Was it a dream, or did I see it plain? Last Line: My thoughts the guests, which would thereon have fedd. Subject(s): Food & Eating AMORETTI: 78 Poem Text First Line: Lacking my love, I go from place to place Last Line: And let my thoughts behold her selfe in mee. Variant Title(s): "lacking My Love I Go From Place To Place,""; Subject(s): Absence AMORETTI: 79 Poem Text First Line: Men call you fair, and you do credit it Last Line: All other fayre, lyke flowres, untymely fade. Variant Title(s): "the True Fair;""man Call You Fayre, And You Doe Credit It,""; Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 8 Poem Text First Line: More than most fair, full of the living fire Last Line: Well is he borne that may behold you ever. Variant Title(s): "love In Absence;""more Then Most Faire, Full Of The Living Fire,""; Subject(s): Beauty; Inspiration AMORETTI: 80 Poem Text First Line: After so long a race as I have run Last Line: Fit for the handmayd of the faery queene. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AMORETTI: 81 Poem Text First Line: Fair is my love when her fair golden hairs Last Line: But this the worke of harts astonishment. Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 82 Poem Text First Line: Joy of my life! Full oft for loving you Last Line: Shall lift you up unto an high degree. Subject(s): Love – Marital AMORETTI: 83 Poem Text First Line: Let not one spark of filthy lustful fire Last Line: And blesse your fortunes fayre election. Subject(s): Eyes AMORETTI: 84 Poem Text First Line: The world, that cannot deem of worthy things Last Line: Let the world chose to envy or to wonder. Subject(s): Prayer AMORETTI: 85 Poem Text First Line: Venomous tongue, tipped with vile adder's sting Last Line: Due to thy selfe, that it for me prepard. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics AMORETTI: 86 Poem Text First Line: Since I did leave the presence of my love Last Line: But joyous houres doo fly away too fast. Subject(s): Time AMORETTI: 87 Poem Text First Line: Since I have lacked the comfort of that light Last Line: I starve my body, and mine eyes doe blynd. Subject(s): Absence AMORETTI: 88 Poem Text First Line: Like as the culver on the bared bough Last Line: And dead my life that wants such lively blis. Variant Title(s): Amoretti: 89 Subject(s): Absence AMORETTI: 9 Poem Text First Line: Long-while I sought to what I might compare Last Line: Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. Subject(s): Eyes AN HYMN IN HONOUR OF BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Ah! Whither, love, wilt thou now carrie me? Last Line: That can restore a damned wight from death. Subject(s): Beauty AN HYMN IN HONOUR OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: Love, that long since hast to thy mighty powre Last Line: This simple song, thus fram'd in praise of thee. AN HYMN OF HEAVENLY BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Rapt with the rage of mine own ravisht thought Last Line: Thy straying thoughts henceforth for ever rest. Subject(s): Beauty AN HYMN OF HEAVENLY LOVE Poem Text First Line: Love, lift me up upon thy golden wings Last Line: Kindled through sight of those faire things above. Subject(s): Beauty; Jesus Christ ANGELS First Line: Beside his head there sat a fair young man ARACHINE First Line: Amongst these leaves she made a butterfly ARIADNE'S CROWN First Line: Look how the crown which ariadne wore ARION First Line: Then was there heard a most celestial sound Variant Title(s): The Rivers Come To The Hall Of Proteus For The Marriag ASTRAEA First Line: Now when the world with sin 'gan to abound ASTROPHEL Poem Text First Line: Shepherds that wont on pipes of oaten reed Last Line: As fittest flowres to deck his mournfull hearse. Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) BRING WITH YOU ALL THE NYMPHS THAT YOU CAN HEARE BUTTERFLY First Line: He the gay garden round about doth fly CESTUS OF VENUS First Line: That girdle gave the virtue of chaste love COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAIN Poem Text First Line: The shepheards boy (best knowen by that name) Last Line: Warnd them to draw their bleating flocks to rest. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Homecoming; London; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CYNTHIA First Line: Thence to the circle of the moon she clamb DAPHNAIDA Poem Text First Line: What ever man he be, whose heavie mynd Last Line: But what of him became I cannot weene. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DISTICH Poem Text First Line: Let no daye passe, passe no part of the day Last Line: Lest thou doe passe, as dayes doe passe away. EPIGRAM: 1 Poem Text First Line: In youth, before I waxed old Last Line: He tooke his wings and away did fly. EPIGRAM: 2 Poem Text First Line: As diane hunted on a day Last Line: But diane beasts with cupids dart. EPIGRAM: 3 Poem Text First Line: I saw, in secret to my dame Last Line: For many have err'd in this beauty.' EPIGRAM: 4 Poem Text First Line: Upon a day, as love lay sweetly slumbring Last Line: My pining anguish to appease. Variant Title(s): Cupid And The Bee EPIGRAM: 7 First Line: My song thus now in thy conclusions Last Line: Ere it be long within the earth to rest EPITHALAMION Poem Text First Line: Ye learned sisters which have oftentimes Last Line: And for short time an endlesse moniment. Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium FAERIE QUEENE (COMPLETE) First Line: Lo I the man, whose muse whilome did maske Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabbaoths sight! Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights And Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Virtue FAERIE QUEENE, SELS. Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Religion FAERIE QUEENE. GLOSSARY FOR EASY THINGS THAT MAY BE GOT AT WILL HYLAS First Line: Hylas, thae daintie boy, that was so dear I WAS PROMISED ON A TIME Poem Text Last Line: I received nor rhyme nor reason Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IAMBICUM TRIMETRUM, FR. LETTER TO HARVEY Poem Text First Line: Unhappie verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state Last Line: "and I dye, who will saye"" this was, immerito?" Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary LETTER TO HARVEY, APRIL 10, 1580, SELS. LOVE'S HARMONY First Line: For love is a celestial harmony Subject(s): Love LOVE'S NOBLENESS First Line: For love is lord of truth and loyalty Subject(s): Love MERRY LARK HIS MATINS SINGS ALOFT Subject(s): Birds MODEST PIPER First Line: Of muses, hobbinoll, I conne so skill Subject(s): Labor And Laborers MOURNING MUSE OF THESTYLIS First Line: Come forth ye nymphs come forth, forsake your watry bowres MUIOPOTMOS, OR THE FATE OF THE BUTTERFLIE Poem Text First Line: I sing of deadly dolorous debate Last Line: His bodie left the spectacle of care. Subject(s): Butterflies; Fables; Insects; Mythology; Allegories; Bugs MY LOVE IS NOW AWAKE OUT OF HER DREAMS NEPTUNE First Line: The sea-born neptune there was pictured NEW YEARS GIFT TO MY OLD FRIEND MAISTER BILCHAVNER PACTOLUS First Line: And round about the same her yellow hair POSCRIPTE First Line: I but once loved before, and shee forsooth was a susanne PROSOPOPOIA, OR MOTHER HUBBERDS TALE Poem Text First Line: It was the month, in which the righteous maide Last Line: And bad her tongue, that it so bluntly tolde. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROTHALAMION Poem Text First Line: Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Last Line: Sweete themmes, runne softly, till I end my song. Subject(s): Birds; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RING YE BELS, YE YONG MEN OF THE TOWNE RIVERS OF IRELAND Poem Text First Line: Ne thence the irishe rivers absent were Last Line: To doe their dueful service, as to them befell. Subject(s): Ireland; Rivers; Irish SONNET PREFIXED TO 'NENNIO, OR A TREATISE OF NOBILITY' Poem Text First Line: Who so wil seeke by right deserts t'attaine Last Line: And next to jones, that truely it translated. Subject(s): Nenna Of Bari, Sir John Baptista; Translating & Interpreting SONNET PREFIXED TO 'THE COMMONWEALTH & GOVERNMENT OF VENICE' Poem Text First Line: The antique babel, empress of the east Last Line: Edm. Spencer. Subject(s): Venice, Italy SONNET TO MASTER GABRIELL HARVEY, DOCTOR OF LAWES Poem Text First Line: Harvey, the happy above happiest men Last Line: Your devoted friend, during life, Subject(s): Harvey, Gabriel (1545-1630) SONNET UPON HISTORIE OF GEORGE CASTRIOT, ALIAS SCANDERBERG Poem Text First Line: Wherefore doth vaine antiquities so vaunt Last Line: Thy acts, o scanderbeg, this volume tels. Subject(s): Kastrioti, George (1405-1468); Castrioti, George; Castriot, George; Skanderbeg; Scanderbeg SONNET: 1 First Line: It was the time when rest the gift of gods Last Line: In god alone do stay my confidence SONNET: 10 First Line: I saw a fresh spring rise out of a rocke Last Line: Threw down the seats, and droue the nimphs to flight SONNET: 11 First Line: At length, euen at the time when morpheus Last Line: With so great noyse I start in sodaine wonder SONNET: 12 First Line: I saw an ugly beast come from the sea Last Line: The beast, in setting of her image up Subject(s): Bible; Religion SONNET: 13 Poem Text First Line: I saw a woman sitting on a beast Last Line: Now for a truth great babylon is fallen. Subject(s): Babylon; Bible; Prostitution; Religion; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Theology SONNET: 14 Poem Text First Line: Then might I see upon a white horse set Last Line: Is pitiless thrown down in pit of fire. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SONNET: 15 Poem Text First Line: I saw new earth, new heaven, said saint john Last Line: There grows life's fruit unto the churches good. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SONNET: 2 First Line: On hill, a frame an hundred cubites hie Last Line: Threwe downe this building to the lowest stone SONNET: 3 First Line: Then did appeare to me a sharped spire Last Line: With flushe stroke downe this noble monument SONNET: 4 First Line: I saw raisde vp on pillers of iuorie Last Line: With sodaine falling broken all to dust SONNET: 5 First Line: Then I behelde the faire dodonian tree Last Line: Sende forth againe a twinne of forked trees SONNET: 6 First Line: I saw the birde that dares beholde the sunne Last Line: Out of hir ashes as a worme arise SONNET: 7 First Line: Then all astonned with this nightly ghost Last Line: And faire greene laurel witherd vp and dide SONNET: 8 First Line: Hard by a riuers side, a wailing nimphe Last Line: Must still bring forth to rule this croked shore SONNET: 9 First Line: Vpon a hill I saw a kindled flame Last Line: Of sulphure now did breathe corrupted smel SWAN, A CONSTELLATION First Line: Upon that famous river's farther shore THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3 Poem Text First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 10-12 Poem Text First Line: Her faithfull knight faire una brings Last Line: Well may she speede, and fairely finish her intent. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 4-6 Poem Text First Line: To sinfull hous of pryde duessa Last Line: And eke this battels end, will need another place. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 7-9 Poem Text First Line: The redcrosse knight is captive made Last Line: Till he should die his last, that is, eternally. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3 Poem Text First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 10-12 Poem Text First Line: A chronicle of briton kings Last Line: But let us hence depart, whilest wether serves and winde.' THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 4-6 Poem Text First Line: Guyon does furor bind in chaines Last Line: And him restor'd to helth, that would have algates dyde. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 7-9 Poem Text First Line: Guyon finds mamon in a delve Last Line: To read those bookes; who gladly graunted their desire. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3 Poem Text First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 10-12 Poem Text First Line: Paridell rapeth hellenore Last Line: Where let them wend at will, whilest here I doe respire. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 4-6 Poem Text First Line: Bold marinell of britomart Last Line: And from prince arthure fled with wings of idle feare. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 7-9 Poem Text First Line: The witches sonne loves florimell Last Line: Them go to rest. So all unto their bowres were brought. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3 Poem Text First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 10-12 Poem Text First Line: Scudamour doth his conquest tell Last Line: Which to another place I leave to be perfected. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 4-6 Poem Text First Line: Satyrane makes a turneyment Last Line: Untill another tyde, that I it finish may. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 7-9 Poem Text First Line: Amoret rapt by greedie lust Last Line: Comprised be, I will them in another tell. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3 Poem Text First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 10-12 Poem Text First Line: Prince arthur takes the enterprize Last Line: To faery court, where what him fell shall else be told. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 4-6 Poem Text First Line: Artegall dealeth right betwixt Last Line: And to their sire their carcasses left to bestow. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 7-9 Poem Text First Line: Britomart comes to isis church Last Line: Would have the passion hid, and up arose withall. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3 Poem Text First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 10-12 Poem Text First Line: Calidore sees the graces daunce Last Line: And seeke to please, that now is counted wisemens threasure. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 4-6 Poem Text First Line: Calepine by a salvage man Last Line: And passed forth, to follow his first enterprize. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 7-9 Poem Text First Line: Turpine is baffuld; his two knights Last Line: Shall more conveniently in other place be ended. THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY Poem Text First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET .. EARLE NORTHUMBERLAND Poem Text First Line: The sacred muses have made alwaies clame Last Line: This present of my paines, it to defend. Subject(s): Percy, Henry. 9th Earl Of Northumberland THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. EARLE OF ORMOND Poem Text First Line: Receive, most noble lord, a simple taste Last Line: Receive, dear lord, in worth, the fruit of barren field. Subject(s): Butler, Thomas. 10th Earl Of Ormonde THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. EARLE OF OXENFORD Poem Text First Line: Receive, most noble lord, in gentle gree Last Line: That loves and honours thee, as doth behove. THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. LADIES IN COURT Poem Text First Line: The chian peincter, when he was requirde Last Line: Forgive it me, faire dames, sith lesse ye have not lefte. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. LORD BURLEIGH Poem Text First Line: To you, right noble lord, whose carefull brest Last Line: And wipe their faults out of your censure grave. Subject(s): Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burleigh THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. LORD OF BUCKHURST Poem Text First Line: In vain I thinke, right honourable lord Last Line: Against vile zoilus backbitings vaine. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl Of Dorset; Zoilus (4th Century B.c.); Buckhurst, Baron THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. SIR FR. WALSINGHAM Poem Text First Line: That mantuane poetes incompared spirit Last Line: In bigger tunes to sound your living prayse. Subject(s): Walsingham, Sir Francis (1532-1590) THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. SIR JOHN NORRIS Poem Text First Line: Who ever gave more honourable prize Last Line: Love him that hath eternized your name. Subject(s): Norris, Sir John (1547-1597) THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. SIR WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text First Line: To thee that art the sommers nightingale Last Line: Let thy faire cinthias praises bee thus rudely showne. Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. THE EARLE OF ESSEX Poem Text First Line: Magnificke lord, whose vertues excellent Last Line: To these first labours needed furtheraunce. Subject(s): Devereux, Robert. 2d Earl Of Essex THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. THE LADY CAREW Poem Text First Line: Ne may I, without blot of endlesse blame Last Line: In ampler wise it selfe will forth display. THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET.. COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKE Poem Text First Line: Remembraunce of that most heroicke spirit Last Line: Vouchsafe from him this token in good worth to take. Subject(s): Herbert, Mary Sidney (1561-1621); Pembroke, Countess Of; Sidney, Mary (1561-1621); Dudley, Mary THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET.. EARLE OF CUMBERLAND Poem Text First Line: Redoubted lord, in whose corageous mind Last Line: For honor of your name and high descent. Subject(s): Clifford, George De (1558-1605); Cumberland, 3rd Earl Of THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET.. THE LORD OF HUNSDON Poem Text First Line: Renowmed lord, that for your worthinesse Last Line: That all posteritie thy honor may reherse. Subject(s): Carey, Henry, 1st Baron Hunsdon THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET.. TO LORD CH. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: And ye, brave lord, whose goodly personage Last Line: That it may live to all posterity. Subject(s): Howard, Charles. 1st Earl Of Nottingham; Howard Of Effingham, Charles, 2d Baron THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET..SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON Poem Text First Line: Those prudent heads, that with their counsels wise Last Line: Which for their titles sake may find more grace. Subject(s): Hatton, Sir Christopher (1540-1591) THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNETS TO.. THE LORD GREY Poem Text First Line: Most noble lord, the pillor of my life Last Line: The which vouchsafe, dear lord, your favorable doome. Subject(s): Grey, Charles, 2d Earl (1764-1845) THE RIVER MULLA Poem Text First Line: Old father mole, (mole hight that mountain gray Last Line: Did lose his name: so deare his love he bought. Subject(s): Mulla [awbeg] (river), Ireland THE RUINES OF TIME Poem Text First Line: It chaunced me on day beside the shore Last Line: And loath this drosse of sinfull worlds desire. Subject(s): Sleep THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: APRIL Poem Text First Line: Tell me, good hobbinoll, what garres thee Last Line: And twincling starres the daylight hence chase. Subject(s): April; Country Life; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: AUGUST Poem Text First Line: Tell me, perigot, what shalbe the game Last Line: The night nigheth fast, yts time to be gone. Subject(s): August THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: CONCLUSION Poem Text First Line: Loe! I have made a calender for every yeare Last Line: Merce non mercede. Subject(s): Seasons THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DECEMBER Poem Text First Line: The gentle shepheard satte beside a springe Last Line: Tell rosalind her colin bids her adieu.' Subject(s): Aging; December; Seasons; Winter THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DEDICATORY SONNET Poem Text First Line: Goe, little booke: thy self presente Last Line: Immerito. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: FEBRUARY Poem Text First Line: Ah for pittie! Wil rancke winters rage Last Line: Hye thee home, shepheard, the day is nigh wasted. Subject(s): February; Old Age THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: JANUARY Poem Text First Line: A shepheards boye (no better doe him call) Last Line: Whose hanging heads did seeme his carefull case to weepe. Subject(s): January; Love - Complaints; Winter THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: JULY Poem Text First Line: Is not thilke same a goteheard prowde Last Line: Thou hast such doubt to climbe. Subject(s): September; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: JUNE Poem Text First Line: Lo, collin, here the place whose pleasaunt syte Last Line: And wett your tender lambes that by you trace. Subject(s): June; Love - Complaints THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: MARCH Poem Text First Line: Thomalin, why sytten we soe Last Line: Yts time to hast us homeward. Subject(s): Love; March (month); Spring THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: MAY Poem Text First Line: Is not thilke the mery moneth of may Last Line: I hold it best for us home to hye. Variant Title(s): The Old Shepherd's May Song Subject(s): Country Life; May (month); Religion; Theology THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: Colin, my deare, when shall it please thee sing Last Line: Now gynnes to mizzle, hye we homeward fast. Subject(s): Mourning; November; Bereavement THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: OCTOBER Poem Text First Line: Cuddie, for shame! Hold up thy heavye head Last Line: Cuddie shall have a kidde to store his farme. Subject(s): October THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: SEPTEMBER Poem Text First Line: Diggon davie, I bidde her god day Last Line: Diggon on fewe such freendes did ever lite. THE TEARES OF THE MUSES Poem Text First Line: Rehearse to me ye sacred sisters nine Last Line: The rest untold no living tongue can speake. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO MY GOOD MISTRESSE ANNE: THE VERY LYFE OF MY LYFE First Line: Gentle mistresa anne, I am plaine by nature VERSES UPON THE SAID EARLES LUTE Poem Text First Line: Whilst vitall sapp did make me spring Last Line: The muses nine this voice did send. Subject(s): Boyle, Richard, Earl Of Cork,(1566-1643); Lutes VIRGILS GNAT Poem Text First Line: We now have playde (augustus) wantonly Last Line: The shepheard hath thy deaths record engraved. Subject(s): Gnats; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil VIRGILS GNAT: DEDICATORY SONNET Poem Text First Line: Wrong'd, yet not daring to expresse my paine Last Line: May by this gnatts complaint be easily knowen. Subject(s): Dudley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Leicester; Gnats VISIONS OF THE WORLDS VANITIE Poem Text First Line: One day, whiles that my daylie cares did sleepe Last Line: Shall finde his state most fickle and unsure. Subject(s): Fables; Allegories WINTER OF LOVE First Line: Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath |
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