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Subject: HAYLEY, WILLIAM (1745-1820)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ELEGIAC SONNET: 19. TO MR. HAYLEY, ... ELEGANT LINES, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For me the muse a simple band design'd
Last Line: Whose fair, eternal verdure -- shall not fade!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Hayley, William (1745-1820)


EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of h's birth this was the happy lot
Last Line: His mother on his father him begot
Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology


EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The errors of a wise man make your rule
Last Line: Rather than the perfections of a fool
Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology


ON H---- THE PICK THANK, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I write the rascal thanks till he & I
Last Line: With thanks & compliments are quite drawn dry
Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology


ON H----YS FRIENDSHIP, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When h----y finds out what you cannot do
Last Line: Hired a villain to bereave my life
Subject(s): Bible; Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology


ON HAYLEY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To forgive enemies h-- does pretend
Last Line: Do be my enemy -- for friendship's sake
Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Hypocrisy; Mythology; Villains In Literature


ON HIS APPROACHING VISIT TO HAYLEY, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through floods and flames to your retreat
Last Line: Will echo your huzza.
Subject(s): Hayley, William (1745-1820)


ON RECEIVING HAYLEY'S PICTURE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In language warm as could be breathed or penned
Last Line: That friend of all a partial friend to me.
Subject(s): Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820)


TO H----, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ake
Last Line: Do be my enemy for friendships sake
Subject(s): Bible; Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology


TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hayley, thy tenderness fraternal shown
Last Line: Not more to admire the bard than love the man.
Subject(s): Hayley, William (1745-1820)


TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ. IN REPLY TO HIS SOLICITATION, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear architect of fine chateaux in air
Last Line: Which they who need them use, and then despise.
Subject(s): Hayley, William (1745-1820)