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Subject: HOURGLASSES
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First Line: Man is a glas: life is / a water that's weakly
Last Line: The water out / finis
Subject(s): Death;hourglasses; "dead, The;


DIVINE POEMS: ON AN HOUR-GLASS, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My life is measur'd by this glass, this glass
Last Line: How art thou nothing, when th' art most of all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John
Subject(s): Hourglasses; Love; Religion; Time; Theology


EPIGRAM ON AN HOUR-GLASS, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The truest hour-glass lies; for, you'll confess
Last Line: All holes grow bigger, and the sand grows less.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Hourglasses


HOUR-GLASS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O think, fair maid! These sands that pass
Subject(s): Hourglasses


TESTAMENT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So often it has been displayed to us, the hourglass
Last Line: On the mountain of my love below.
Subject(s): Hourglasses; Legacies; Love; Time


THE HOUR-GLASS, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do but consider this small dust, here running in the glass
Last Line: Even ashes of lovers find no rest.
Variant Title(s): On A Lover's Dust, Made Sand For An Hour-glass
Subject(s): Hourglasses; Love; Time


THE HOURE-GLASSE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That houre-glasse, which there ye see
Last Line: Do restless run when they are dead.
Subject(s): Hourglasses


THE HOURS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those hours are best when suddenly
Last Line: To the lucidity of song.
Subject(s): Hourglasses; Time


THE WIDOW TO HER HOUR-GLASS, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, friend, I'll turn thee up again
Last Line: "I'll turn thee up again."
Subject(s): Hourglasses; Widows & Widowers


TO AN HOUR-GLASS, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old-fashioned uncouth measurer of the day
Last Line: As every drained glass leaves me nearer home.
Subject(s): Hourglasses