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Subject: DAVENANT, SIR WILLIAM (1606-1668)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` TO MR. DAVENANT FOR ABSENCE, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonder not, if I stay not here
Last Line: Drinks wine I' th' very height o' th' fever.
Subject(s): Absence; Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668); Separation; Isolation


TO MY FRIEND WILL D'AVENANT, ON HIS OTHER POEMS, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast redeem'd us, will, and future times
Last Line: Would ask (to praise it right) twenty of mine.
Subject(s): Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668); Plays & Playwrights


TO MY FRIEND WILL.DAVENANT, UPON HIS POEM OF 'MADAGASCAR', by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What mighty princes poets are! Those things
Last Line: In thy next voyage bring the gold too with thee.
Subject(s): Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668); Plays & Playwrights


TO SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh happy fire! Whose heat can thus control
Last Line: Than all the rubbish of decaying art.
Subject(s): Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668)


TO SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT UPON .. FIRST TWO BOOKS OF GONDIBERT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks heroick poesie till now
Last Line: If thou canst plant but there with like success.
Subject(s): Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668)


TO WILL D'AVENANT, MY FRIEND, UPON HIS POEM, 'MADAGASCAR', by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I behold, by warrant from thy pen
Last Line: Than the dull issue of the lawful sheets.
Subject(s): Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668)