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Subject: COTTON, CHARLES (1630-1687)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPITAPH ON MY DEAR COUSIN GERMAN MRS. OLIVE COTTON, by ASTON COCKAYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Passenger, stay, and notice take of her
Last Line: (to guide thy life and death) her memory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cokayne, Aston; Cokain, Aston
Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Cotton, Olive Stanhope (1612-1650)


ON THE COMMENTARIES OF MESSIRE BLAIZE DE MONLUC; TO CHARLES COTTON, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He that would aptly write of warlike men
Last Line: Obliges all the world, can be oblig'd by me.
Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Monluc, Blaise De Lasseran-massencome; Translating & Interpreting


THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Thou that swingst upon the waving ear [or, hair]
Last Line: That wants himself is poor indeed.
Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Friendship; Grasshoppers


TO HIS HONOURED AND MOST INGENIOUS FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For brave comportment, wit without offence
Last Line: Be lesse anothers laurell, then thy praise.
Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)