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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ALLEGORIES Matches Found: 113 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE SIXTH PEARLE. JUSTICE, by DIANA PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: Her justice next appears, which did support Last Line: Are the maine pillers of romes hierarchy. Subject(s): Catholics; Fables; Justice; Pearls; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Allegories A FABLE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it not enough, said the toad, Last Line: Said the moth to the toad. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Fables; Moths; Toads; Allegories A FABLE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a little boy to a honey bee Last Line: Said the honey bee to the little boy. Subject(s): Bees; Boys; Fables; Insects; Play; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs A FABLE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some cawing crows, a hooting owl Last Line: Useless and unavailing. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Soul; Allegories A FABLE FOR POETS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time there was a bard Last Line: "and none of them were very long!" Subject(s): Fables; Allegories A FABLE FROM PHAEDRUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fox an actors vizard found Last Line: Thou specious head without a brain?' Subject(s): Fables; Foxes; Allegories A FABLE, FOR HENRICUS D., ESQ., JR, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the old old times Last Line: And he'll listen, and he'll listen, and he'll sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Fables; Allegories A PASSAGE IN THE MORALE ENCOMIUM OF ERASMUS IMITATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In awful pomp, and melancholy state Last Line: Wild schemes of mirth, and plans of loose delight. Subject(s): Fables; Fear; Reason; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ALLEGORY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that pass so swiftly o'er the downs Last Line: Must in the end be borne beyond the shore. Subject(s): Clouds; Fables; Fate; Sea; Allegories; Destiny; Ocean ALLEGORY OF TWO MARKS ON A COMPASS, by FORREST GANDER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the swagged field where we bloated, unburied Subject(s): Fables; Allegories AMBITION AND CONTENT; A FABLE, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While yet the world was young and men were few Last Line: And all applaud the justice of the god. Subject(s): Ambition; Fables; Allegories ART, by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He wrote of a folk imagined Last Line: "a wonderful work of art!" Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fables; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers; Allegories AYE AND NO: A FABLE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fable all things hold discourse Last Line: And fight e'er since, for pay, like swisses. Subject(s): Fables; Allegories CEYX AND ALCYONE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These prodigies affect the pious prince Last Line: And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COUNTRY FELLOWS AND THE ASS; ABSURDITY OF ATTEMPTING TO PLEASE ALL MEN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A country fellow and his son, they tell Last Line: To think of pleasing all is but a jest. Variant Title(s): The Countrymen And The Ass Subject(s): Fables; Fathers & Sons; Men; Allegories CYMON AND IPHIGENIA, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, / the power of beauty I remember yet Last Line: And happy each at home enjoys his love. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Fables; Love; Allegories ECLOGUE: THE TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, tom, how be'st? Zoo thou'st a-got thy neame Last Line: You'll goo vor wool, an' then come hwome a-sheär'd. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Economics; Fables; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Pigs; Politics & Government; Social Protest; Wages; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Boars; Hogs; Salaries FABLE, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I led him on into the frosted wood Last Line: "I'm numb, I'm going home,"" he said." Subject(s): Fables; Unicorns; Winter; Allegories FABLE: DEATH AND THE RAKE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When pleasures court the human heart Last Line: And cleaves the hoary dotard's heart. Subject(s): Death; Fables; Dead, The; Allegories FABLE: NEPTUNE AND THE MARINERS, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When sore calamities we feel, Last Line: The gallant george in safety rides. Subject(s): Fables; Fortitude; Pain; Perseverance; Allegories; Suffering; Misery FABLE: THE BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dears, 'tis said in days of old Last Line: The wicked, wanton sparrow died. Subject(s): Bees; Fables; Insects; Sparrows; Virtue; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs FABLE: THE FARMER AND THE HORSE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a vain world, and all things show it Last Line: But take the world as he shall find it.' Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Farm Life; Horses; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers FABLE: THE LAMB AND THE PIG, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Consult the moralist, you'll find Last Line: That once a lrog, and always so. Subject(s): Deception; Fables; Lambs; Pigs; Allegories; Boars; Hogs FABLE: THE OWL, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems, an owl, in days of yore Last Line: And fills his purse, and thins the town. Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Owls; Allegories FABLE: THE SCHOLAR AND THE CAT, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labour entitles man to eat Last Line: Instruct vain supercilious man.' Subject(s): Activity; Animals; Cats; Fables; Reason; Scholarship & Scholars; Virtue; Exercise; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals FABLE: THE SNAIL AND THE GARDENER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When sons of fortune ride on high Last Line: Is suited to the bearer's back.' Subject(s): Fables; Happiness; Mankind; Allegories; Joy; Delight; Human Race FABLES FOR THE LADIES: LOVE AND VANITY, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breezy morning breath'd perfume Last Line: And centres every fond desire. Subject(s): Fables; Love; Vanity; Women; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE EAGLE AND THE ASSEMBLY OF BIRDS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moral lay to beauty due Last Line: Are startled at the passing air.' Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Fables; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE FEMALE SEDUCERS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said of widow, maid, and wife Last Line: Sister, come, and turn no more.' Subject(s): Fables; Seduction; Women; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE GOOSE AND THE SWANS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the face, however fair Last Line: You only her defects reveal. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Fables; Faces; Geese; Nature; Swans; Women; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE PANTHER, HORSE, AND OTHER BEASTS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who seeks to win the fair Last Line: Spurn'd at the crowd, and sought the plain. Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Horses; Panthers; Women; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE WOLF, THE SHEEP, AND THE LAMB, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Duty demands the parent's voice Last Line: Beneath his jaws the victim dies. Subject(s): Fables; Lambs; Marriage; Sheep; Wolves; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FALSORUM DEORUM CULTOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me my mystery, nor let me be Last Line: And the thrinakrian hides crept o'er the ground! Subject(s): Fables; Allegories GLADYS AND HER ISLAND; AN IMPERFECT TALE WITH DOUBTFUL MORAL, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy gladys! I rejoice with her Last Line: And mind your english. Subject(s): Fables; Heroism; Islands; Story-telling; Tears; Youth; Allegories; Heroes; Heroines GREEDINESS PUNISHED, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the cloister grabow, in the land of usedom Last Line: They might have been contented! Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund Subject(s): Fables; Greed; Allegories; Avarice; Cupidity HOPE AND TIME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the great city rear'd, my fancy rude Last Line: And knows not whether he is first or last. Subject(s): Fables; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Youth; Allegories; Optimism LILITH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fiercest demon-shape in hell / was lilith fell Last Line: To save a world once more! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Fables; Lilith; Eve; Allegories LOVE AND FOLLY, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Love's worshippers alone can know Last Line: "where'er the boy may choose to go." Subject(s): Fables; Love; Allegories LOVE AND FOLLY; FROM THE FABLES OF LA FONTAINE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, who now deals to human hearts Last Line: "folly shall lead him." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Fables; La Fontaine, Jean De (1621-1695); Love; Allegories LOVE, JOY, AND PLEASURE; AN ALLEGORY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The night was calm, the sky serene Last Line: On the scroll which charity gave them. Subject(s): Fables; Happiness; Love; Pleasure; Allegories; Joy; Delight METAMOPHOSES: THE FABLE OF ACIS, POLYPHEMUS, AND GALATEA, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Acis, the lovely youth, whose loss I mourn Last Line: With rapid motion, and his name retains. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Fables; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories METAMORPHOSES: THE FABLE OF IPHIS AND IANTHE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fame of this, perhaps, through crete had flown Last Line: And the warm youth enjoys the lovely maid. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Fables; Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Reputation MR. HAMMOND'S PARABLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a dreamer of the days Last Line: "he's studied out a patent churn!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fables; Farm Life; Nightmares; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers MUIOPOTMOS, OR THE FATE OF THE BUTTERFLIE, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of deadly dolorous debate Last Line: His bodie left the spectacle of care. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Butterflies; Fables; Insects; Mythology; Allegories; Bugs MY FARM: A FABLE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a green and pleasant land Last Line: Do thou the same, my wiser brother! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fables; Farm Life; Nature; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED; A FABLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not ask jean jacques rousseau Last Line: But proper time to marry. Subject(s): Fables; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Allegories PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 1, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of old there lived, of mighty fame Last Line: And theseus for his vertues held him dear. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Mythology; Theseus; War; Allegories PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 2, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While arcite lives in bliss, the story turns Last Line: The knights to combate; and their arms to sing. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Mythology; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 3, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day approached when fortune should decide Last Line: And all true lovers find the same success. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Death; Fables; Fortune; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Mythology; Dead, The; Allegories SIGISMONDA AND GUISCARDO, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While norman tancred in salerno reigned Last Line: And on their monument inscrib'd their fate. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Tyranny & Tyrants; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Allegories; Dictators SPIDER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anansi, black busybody of the folktales Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Africa; Fables; Insects; Spiders; Allegories; Bugs SUITE TO FATHERS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that night's our balance Last Line: Finding him as the bones of a fish in stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Fathers; Ghosts; Levertov, Denise (1923-1997); Love; Night; Supernatural; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories; Bedtime SUITE TO FATHERS: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cemetery the grass is pale Last Line: A speech to become meat. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fables; Dead, The; Allegories THE APE AND THE FOX, ON THE FRUITS OF GREEDINESS AND CREDULITY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old esop so famous was certainly right Last Line: That your majesty's grace did not understand trap. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Cruelty; Fables; Men; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories THE ASS CLOTHED IN THE LION'S SKIN, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Fear fled before a wily ass that clad Last Line: The only witness of their valiance. Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Duplicity; Fables; Masks; Mules; Deceit; Allegories THE BEAST, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The teak is carved, fine as mantilla lace Last Line: The cupped hands of love, to change the beast within. Subject(s): Burma; Fables; Love; Prudence; Allegories; Caution THE BLACKBIRD AND THE THRUSH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's my idee,' a blackbird said Last Line: "and a parrot said: ""so do I." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Fables; Farm Life; Parrots; Thrushes; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT, by SANA'I Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not far from ghur once stood a city tall Last Line: Nor e'en the wise such mysteries discern. Alternate Author Name(s): Hakim Abul-majd Majd?d Ibn ?dam San?'? Ghaznavi; Sanayee Subject(s): Fables; Allegories THE BLUDY SERK, by ROBERT HENRYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This hinder yeir I hard be tald Last Line: Think on the bludy serk! Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1) Subject(s): Fables; Religion; Allegories; Theology THE CAGEING OF ARES, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How big of breast our mother gaea laughed Last Line: At loftier, clearer, sweeter, by their aid. Subject(s): Fables; Mythology; War; Allegories THE CASTLE-BUILDER, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It happened on a summer's day Last Line: Cow, calf, and farm—all swam away! Subject(s): Fables; Farm Life; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers THE CENTAUR FABULOUS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zeuxis of old a female centaur drew Last Line: "they say, ""the centaur is a fable still." Subject(s): Centaurs; Fables; Allegories THE CHARACTER OF A GOOD PARSON, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A parish priest was of the pilgrim train Last Line: He needs no foil, but shines by his own proper light. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Character Of A Good Parson, Imitated Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Clergy; Fables; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Allegories THE COBBLER AND THE RICH MAN, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A cobbler sang from morn till night Last Line: "and take the money, every pound!" Variant Title(s): The Cobbler And The Financier Subject(s): Fables; Shoes; Sleep; Wealth; Allegories; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Riches; Fortunes THE COCK AND THE FOX, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a tree there mounted guard Last Line: Tis doubly sweet deceiver to deceive. Subject(s): Brothers; Fables; Quarrels; Relationships; Roosters; Half-brothers; Allegories; Arguments; Disagreements; Cocks THE COCK AND THE FOX, OR THE TALE OF THE NUN'S PRIEST, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lived, as authors tell, in days of yore Last Line: So take the corn, and leave the chaff behind. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Cock And The Fox Subject(s): Animals; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Widows & Widowers; Allegories THE COUNCIL HELD BY THE RATS (1), by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Old rodilard, a certain cat Last Line: Fell through like this precisely. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Allegories THE CROW AND THE FOX, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A crow sat perched upon an oak Last Line: Swore, but too late, he shouldn't catch him twice. Subject(s): Fables; Foxes; Allegories THE DAWNING OF THE DAY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the harp, old minstrel, you have sung of / vanished things Last Line: For ireland at the dawning of the day! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Fables; Ireland; Allegories; Irish THE DONKEY LOADED WITH RELICS, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Some relics on a donkey being tied Last Line: But only to his circumstance and station. Subject(s): Donkeys; Fables; Burros; Allegories THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin 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 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin 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 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin 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 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin 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 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin 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 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin 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 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF, OR THE LADY IN THE ARBOUR; A VISION, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now turning from the wintry signs, the sun Last Line: Thy simple style to suit thy lowly kind. Subject(s): Fables; Flowers; Nature; Vision; Women; Allegories THE FOX AND THE GRAPES, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An hungry fox with fierce attack Last Line: Who lessen what they can't come at. Subject(s): Fables; Foxes; Grapes; Allegories THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: A CONCEITED FABLE OF THE OLD COMEDIAN AESOP, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ant and a grasshopper, walking together on a Last Line: Without remedy. Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Ants; Fables; Grasshoppers; Insects; Allegories; Bugs THE HOOSIER FOLK-CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hoosier folk-child - all unsung Last Line: In beaten gold, belongs to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fables; Wisdom; Childhood; Allegories THE LADLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sceptics think, 'twas long ago Last Line: Tis all a wish, and all a ladle. Subject(s): Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; War; Youth; Allegories THE LARK'S NEST; A FABLE FROM ESOP, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust only to thyself'; the maxim's sound Last Line: Who manages affairs by deputation. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Birds' Nests; Fables; Allegories THE LAWYER AND JUSTICE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love! Thou divinest good below Last Line: Till hardwicke sooth'd her into grace. Subject(s): Fables; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Men; Women; Allegories THE LISTENERS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face of day is haggard Last Line: On the moor and the mere. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Fables; Faces; Fear; Thunder; Allegories THE MICE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion Last Line: Send a good coat, that's all; good-by, sir. Subject(s): Fables; France; Mice; Mothers; Allegories THE MILLER AND HIS ADVISERS; AN APOLOGUE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the fables quaint and old Last Line: "I'll try henceforth to please myself." Subject(s): Fables; Mills And Millers; Allegories THE MUSICAL ASS, by TOMASO DE YRIARTE Poem Text First Line: The fable which I now present Last Line: May shine for once, -- by accident. Alternate Author Name(s): Iriarte, Tomaso De; Iriarte, Tomas De Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Fables; Nature; Allegories THE OAK AND THE REED, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poet's Biography First Line: You have good cause to weep your fate' Subject(s): Fables; Allegories THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To know the mistress' humour right Last Line: An owl is scorn'd alike by both.' Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Housewives; Nightingales; Owls; Women; Allegories THE PARABLE, by ZUELLA STERLING Poem Text First Line: If thou hast money for two loaves of bread Last Line: While golden daffodils delight the soul. Subject(s): Fables; Life; Prophecy & Prophets; Soul; Allegories THE PARALLEL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prometheus, forming mr day Last Line: To prove all poetry but fable. Subject(s): Fables; God; Prometheus; Soul; Allegories THE PARROT AND THE EAGLE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A parrot to an eagle came Last Line: "to learn to be afraid." Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Fables; Flight; Parrots; Allegories; Flying THE PROUD FROG, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When poor men to expences run Last Line: She raged and puffed, and burst in two. Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Frogs; Pride; Size And Shape; Allegories; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE RAT WHO WITHDREW FROM THE WORLD, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Among levantine legends you maye find Last Line: For I take it a monk is all loving charity. Subject(s): Fables; Rats; Solitude; Allegories; Loneliness THE SPARROW AND THE DOVE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was, as learn'd traditions say Last Line: And, sighing to himself, withdrew. Subject(s): Doves; Fables; Sparrows; Women; Allegories THE SWALLOW, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gorse is yellow on the heath Last Line: By him who gives her laws. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Fables; Swallows; Allegories THE TRUANT DOVE FROM PILPAY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain stream its channel deep Last Line: "so love your wife, and know when you are well." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Fables; Pigeons; Allegories THE TURTLE AND SPARROW, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Behind an unfrequented glade Last Line: And knaves and prudes are six times married. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Fables; Grief; Sparrows; Turtles; Dead, The; Allegories; Sorrow; Sadness; Tortoises THE TWO GLASSES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There sat two glasses filled to the brim Last Line: On the rich man's table, rim to rim. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Fables; Water; Wealth; Wine; Allegories; Riches; Fortunes THE WEATHER-PROPHET; A FABLE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What can be the matter with the thermometer? Last Line: Thinks his own mood is the mind of humanity. Subject(s): Fables; Prophecy & Prophets; Weather; Allegories THE WIDOW AND HER CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A widow kept a favourite cat Last Line: Here, towzer! -- do him justice.' Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Honor; Mice; Widows & Widowers; Allegories THE WIFE OF BATH HER TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of old, when arthur filled the throne Last Line: Who will not well be govern'd by their wives. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Wife Of Bath Her Tale Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Rape; Women; Arthur, King; Allegories THE WOLF AND THE DOG, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A prowling wolf, whose shaggy skin Last Line: So ran sir wolf, and runneth yet. Subject(s): Fables; Freedom; Allegories; Liberty THE WOLF AND WOODEN BEAUTY. AN OLD FABLE NEWLY VAMPED, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time a wolf did pop Last Line: Think of the wolf and carver's shop. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Fables; Wolves; Allegories THE YOUNG LION AND THE APE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true I blame your lover's choice Last Line: And pays with interest scorn for scorn.' Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Beauty; Charm; Fables; Lions; Women; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories THEODORE AND HONORIA, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the cities in romanian lands Last Line: For one fair female, lost him half the kind. Variant Title(s): Ravenna Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Nature; Romania; Allegories; Rumania; Roumania TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY; AN ALLEGORY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the wide level of a mountain's head Last Line: And knows not whether he be first or last. Subject(s): Fables; Time; Allegories TO RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORD VISCOUNT MONT-CASSEL, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A peacock nobly born and bred Last Line: With honor live, with honor die. Subject(s): Advice; Fables; Mountcashel, Edward. Viscount (1711-36); Allegories TO THE DUCHESS OF ORMOND, WITH THE POEM 'PALAMON AND ARCITE', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, / the bard who first adorned our native tongue Last Line: And wear the garter of his mother's race. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: To Her Grace The Duchess Of Ormonde Subject(s): Beauty; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Somerset, Mary. Duchess Of Ormond; Thebes, Greece; Allegories TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, in sunshine weather Last Line: Beloved by all who truth revere. Subject(s): Fables; Nudity; Nymphs; Truth; Allegories; Nakedness VISIONS OF THE WORLDS VANITIE, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, whiles that my daylie cares did sleepe Last Line: Shall finde his state most fickle and unsure. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Fables; Allegories WHEN THE CAT IS AWAY, THE MICE MAY PLAY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady once (so stories say Last Line: Lest she again repent it. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Duplicity; Fables; Mice; Play; Deceit; Allegories |
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