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Subject: MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564-1593)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PLAGUE FOR KIT MARLOWE; IN MEMORY OF DEREK JARMAN, by REGINALD SHEPHERD            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't trust beauty anymore, when will I stop
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dramatists; Gays & Lesbians; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Sickness; Illness


AFTER READING TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT (1), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon page being closed, my shakespeare's let me
Last Line: And vast curves of the gradual violin!
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Tamerlane (1336-1404); Timure (1336-144); Tamberlaine (1336-144)


AFTER READING TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT (2), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your marlowe's page I close, my shakespeare's ope
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays And Playwrights; Tamerlane (1336-1404)


AN INVITATION TO PHYLLIS, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come live with me, and be my love
Last Line: Then live with me, and be my love.
Subject(s): Courtship; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Dramatists


INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE FOUR SIDES OF A PEDESTAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marlowe, the father of the sons of song
Last Line: First gave our song a sound that matched our sea.
Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Soul; English


LOVE UNDER THE REPUBLICANS (OR DEMOCRACTS) (1), by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come live with me and be my love
Last Line: And one of these days not too remote %you'll probably up and cut my throat
Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Politics


LOVE UNDER THE REPUBLICANS (OR DEMOCRATS) (2), by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come live with me and be my love
Last Line: I'll probably up and cut your throat
Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Politics


MARLOWE, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, faustus
Last Line: I heard the cry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Theater & Theaters


NON OMNIS MORIAR, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ask you: has the singer sung
Last Line: Death frames the singer and the song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Ford, John (1586-1639); Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


PASSIONATE BUSINESSMAN TO HIS LOVE, by BRUCE BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come live with me and be my love
Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)


PASSIONATE PROFITEER TO HIS LOVE, by OLGA KATZIN KATZIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come feed with me and be my love
Last Line: If in these pastures thou wouldst rove %then feed with me and dbe my love
Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)


PLAGUE FOR KIT MARLOWE; IN MEMORY OF DEREK JARMAN, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't trust beauty anymore, when will I stop
Last Line: I'd call a song. This happens every time I try to say good-bye
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dramatists; Homosexuality; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays And Playwrights; Sickness


RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot go to the country
Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Rot; Decadence; Dramatists


RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot go to the country
Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace
Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays And Playwrights; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 1. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crowned girdled, garbed and shod with light and fire
Last Line: Not yet might'st thou be praised enough of
Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights


TWO SONGS: 2, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, live with me and be my love
Last Line: Then live with me and be my love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Poverty