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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MUSES Matches Found: 151 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAREWEL TO LOVE, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: Well, since in spight of all that love can do Last Line: And think no more of hymen, or of love. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Muses A HYMNE TO THE MUSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! You the virgins nine! Last Line: Acknowledger of you. Subject(s): Muses A LETTER TO R. L. ESQ, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear peter, if thou canst descend Last Line: Can cure him of that fiddling phrenzy. Subject(s): Letters; Messages & Messengers; Muses; News A MOCK INVOCATION TO GENIUS, SELECTION, by WILLIAM WOTY Poem Text First Line: I now solicit not the muses nine Last Line: The thought chaotic to prefulgid form. Subject(s): Muses A MUSE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was wakened from her afternoon nap today by a fierce Last Line: I wrote the poems for her. I still do. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Discontent; Mothers & Daughters; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Dissatisfaction; Feminism A MUSE OF WATER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who must act as handmaidens Last Line: Is water deep enough to drown. Subject(s): Literary Form; Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Sea; Water; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Ocean; Feminism A NATURALIST'S GRIEVANCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Flames there are that sink and chill Last Line: Charming every rapt spectator! Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Nature; Summer A PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gallants, a bashful poet bids me say Last Line: Tis hard, he thinks, if neither part will do. Subject(s): Muses; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists A SEA-CHAPLAIN'S PETITION TO THE LIEUTENANTS IN THE WARD ROOM, by J." "T. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "you who can grant, or can refuse, the power" Last Line: "thus grant my suit, as grant unhurt you may, / your chaplain,and without your groats, shall pray!" Alternate Author Name(s): "t., J.; Subject(s): Muses;poetry & Poets;prayer;rhyme ADDRESS TO THE MUSES, SELS., by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye are the spirits who preside Last Line: And still contented will I be, %though greater inspirations never fall to me Subject(s): Muses ADVICE TO AN M.F.A., by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: Don't recess for a fast forty winks Last Line: Or your muse will turn into a sphinx Subject(s): Muses AFTER HORACE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What asks the bard? He prays for nought Last Line: Or not! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Muses ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 2, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But shall we take the muse abroad Last Line: Victorious over spite and death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Muses; Mythology; Dead, The AN APOLOGY FOR NOT INVOKING THE MUSE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erato popped in. What a talent for suspicion! Last Line: By those who haven't had your advantages Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets AN ATTEMPT AT A CITY SUNSET, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a quiet glory in the sky Last Line: That sigh upon the traffic all day long. Subject(s): Evening; Muses; Sunset; Twilight AN EVENING'S LOVE, OR THE MOCK ASTROLOGER: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first our poet set himself to write Last Line: Be kind to day, and cuckold him to morrow. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets AN HYMNE TO THE MUSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour to you who sit! Last Line: Green, to the end of dayes. Subject(s): Muses ANSWER TO AN OLD MAN'S PAEAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou greybeard gay! Whose muse Last Line: Rice-milk, and water-gruel! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Aging; Love; Muses ASPIRATION, by CHARLES EDWARD DAVIS PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Thousands upon their eager tiptoes stand Last Line: To clasp and hold it for a single hour. Subject(s): Desire; Muses AUSTERITY OF POETRY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That son of italy who tried to blow Last Line: Of thought and of austerity within. Variant Title(s): Jacopone Da Todi Subject(s): Jacopone Da Todi (1230-1306); Muses; Poetry & Poets AUTOGRAPHIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel, if aught I ought to rhyme Last Line: And ought to write -- an autograph. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autographs; Muses; Rhyme BALLADE OF THE COMIC MUSE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Hail! Mistress of the merry tongue Last Line: When we may court thee, comic muse! Subject(s): Humor; Muses BLATHERSKITE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A burden rests upon the mind Last Line: May write himself a blatherskite. Subject(s): Muses; Peace CALLIOPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Chief of the muses - great calliope! Last Line: Thus mask in modern processes immense. Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology COMRADE SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hold not in our power Last Line: In vine-clad bowers drinking! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Muses; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Wine DIGNITY OF LABOR, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Genius of toil! Our verse indite / and blaze along each line! Last Line: To feed, and warm, and cheer, and bless the world. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Life; Muses; Nature; Work; Workers DIRGE FOR A LIVING POET, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Shall the mind of bard -- historian -- sage Last Line: Restore, restore, o god! Our poet's wandering mind! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Voices; Dead, The EARLY SPRING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come ye so early Last Line: Was I with my dear! Subject(s): Life; Muses; Spring EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft has our poet wisht [wished], this happy seat Last Line: Judges so just, so knowing, and so kind. Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At Oxford By Mrs. Marshall Subject(s): Muses; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets EPISTLES BETWEEN J.S. AND ROBERT FERGUSSON: ANSWER TO J.S.'S EPISTLE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I trou, my mettl'd louden lathie Last Line: Rob. Fergusson. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Fortune; Muses; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758) EVENING: AN ELEGY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo now, sol's carman, drives his stud Last Line: I, blessed with learning, takes a pen and writes. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Apollo; Evening; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Sunset; Twilight FAREWELL TO THE MUSE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enchantress, farewell! Who so oft hast decoy'd me Last Line: Farewell, then, enchantress! I meet thee no more! Subject(s): Muses FAREWELL TO TWO MUSES, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, muse, I know you too well, your harp-song gets airy Last Line: And say if he asks who my lover is now; that I sleep alone. I have no other Subject(s): Muses FAREWELL TO TWO MUSES, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, muse, I know you too well, your harp-song gets airy Last Line: And say if he asks who my lover is now, that I sleep alone; I have no other Subject(s): Muses FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1787, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The noblest bards of albion's choir Last Line: His lyre had blameless been, his tribute all sincere. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Exiles; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Muses HELLENICS: ON THE HELLENICS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, ye wandering muses, come back home Last Line: Temper a graver with a lighter song. Variant Title(s): Proem To Hellenics Subject(s): Muses; Mythology - Classical HER ONLY PILOT THE SOFT BREEZE, THE BOAT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No fleeting spirit, but my own true love? Subject(s): Muses; Imagination; Memory; Writing & Writers HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou chronicle of crimes! I read no Last Line: As sidney in his hall of bliss may love. Subject(s): Greece; History; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Greeks; Historians HOURS OF RECREATION, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial muse! That still inspires / and fans to flame poetic fires! Last Line: And time confirms the greatness of the great. Subject(s): Life; Muses; Poetry & Poets IDYLL 10, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May love the muses evermore invite Last Line: Than which no sweeter remedy can be. Subject(s): Love; Muses IN DEAR VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My des autels, whose true Last Line: Your friend, ronsard. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Justice; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Wind; World; Paradise INVOCATION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits! Intelligences! Passions! Dreams! Last Line: Who would not give his life for such a death? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Muses; Praise; Dead, The; Nightmares INVOCATION TO THE CUCKOO, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, pursuivant and herald of the spring! Last Line: I laugh at fortune, and defy old time. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fortune; Muses; Time INVOCATION TO THE MUSE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though helicon! I seldom dream Last Line: Survive, however, george iii. Subject(s): Muses INVOCATION TO THE MUSES, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great muse, that from this hall absent for long Last Line: Weave us those garlands nothing can destroy! %come! With your radiant eyes!--with your throats of th Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Muses JUNE AT WOODRUFF, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out at woodruff place - afar Last Line: Storied realm, or woodruff place. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Muses; Nature LARABELLE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the west! That long hath silent hung Last Line: The muse may add a laurel to the brave. Subject(s): Graves; Muses; Singing & Singers; War; Tombs; Tombstones; Songs LAUREL'S WORTH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My too great love of you hath been my bale Last Line: And on their fame the fates shall have no hold. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Youth; Iliad; Odyssey LAUS ATRAMENTI, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our sires were such pedagogue blockheads of yore Last Line: Since I never shall shine by the aid of the muse. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Education; Muses; Universities & Colleges LINES; WRITTEN AFTER THE PROMISE OF A REWARD, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Whene'er the muse pleases to grace my dull page Last Line: Nor pegasus rear, till I've taken my ride. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect MAKING LOVE, I (8), by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Saint harmony my patroness Subject(s): Muses MELAMPUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With love exceeding a simple love of the Last Line: That glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck. Subject(s): Legends, Greek; Muses; Mythology; Nature MEREDITH NICHOLSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keats, and kirk white, david Last Line: Young yet in art, and his heart yet a boy's. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Muses; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers MUSE, by ANN D'AGOSTINO CLUNE Poem Source First Line: My muse is a little behind the times Last Line: But my muse is %mute Subject(s): Muses MUSE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cackling, smelling of camphor, crumbs of pink icing Last Line: My gristle-breasted, slack-jawed zealot, kiss me again Subject(s): Muses MUSE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cackling, smelling of camphor, crumbs of pink icing Last Line: My gristle-breasted, slack-jawed zealot, kiss me again Subject(s): Muses MUSE IS ALWAYS THE OTHER WOMAN, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He courts her up there on the roof Last Line: Between reason and unreason, %and makes her way alone %through his long dream Subject(s): Muses MUSE OF MIDNIGHT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the street, stars collide Last Line: Toward its target: a room in flames. Subject(s): Muses; Night; Bedtime MUSES, by ALISON TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I can almost see them. A swirl of skirt or the flash of a red Last Line: In my own throat; and the poppies, shaking, though there is no wind Subject(s): Muses MUSINGS, by EDWARD HEBENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days bygone mayhap I dream'd the laurel might be mine Last Line: I know not, nor would I aspire to higher form of bliss. Subject(s): Aging; Muses; Past MUSINGS AT TARBERT, LOCHFYNE, by WILLIAM THOMSON MCAUSLANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun shines brightly on lochfyne Last Line: Have given place to net and barge. Subject(s): Castles; Muses MUSOPHILUS, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond man, musophilus, that thus dost spend Last Line: Above the reach of lightness and contempt. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Muses; Philosophy & Philosophers; Thought; Virtue; Wisdom; Thinking MY MUSE, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I lived from day to day Last Line: I kissed him tenderly. Subject(s): Muses MY MUSE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear muse, the world will never guess Last Line: "I am thy soul." Subject(s): Hearts; Muses; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery O PRECIOUS MUSE, by DELLA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: Had I, when I was younger Last Line: A modest hour with you. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Life; Love; Muses; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity ODI PROFANUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O braid thy tresses helen-wise Last Line: Make sweet the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Hair; Muses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Sea; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus ON THE TENTH MUSE, by NATHANIEL WARD Poem Source First Line: Mercury show'd apollo, bartas book Last Line: Let men look to it, least women wear the spurrs Subject(s): Muses; Women PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: PRELUDE, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O muse that, in my days of youth Last Line: My wanderings over sea and land. Subject(s): Muses PERMANENT GLORIA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wrought my work - more durable than steel Last Line: And bind his brows with laurel ever green. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Muses; Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise PERSON'S TALE, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That the muses have no more fervent Last Line: And the proud name of porlock sullied too! Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Muses; Poetry And Poets PHILENA TO MENANDER, by SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Blest poet! Whose eolian lyre Last Line: And be the palm of genius thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Philenia Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Muses; Paine, Robert Treat (1773-1811); Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Time; Iliad; Odyssey PLAINT OF THE POET IN AN IGNORANT AGE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I had a flower-boy! Last Line: "the no-bird that sings in the no-name tree?" Subject(s): Household Employees; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism POETIC MUSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With rhythm true the heart doth beat Last Line: And words, like music, then escape. Subject(s): Language; Muses; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (1), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The famed italian muse, whose rhymes advance Last Line: Is forced to turn his satire into praise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Muses; Oxford University; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PSYCHE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The muses, maiden sisters, chose Last Line: And taught her all the mystery. Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Muses; Psyche (mythology) SACRED GROUND, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A place to mark the graces, when they come Last Line: To utter these high secrets reverently. Subject(s): Muses; Olympus (mountain), Greece SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lofty teacher had / put an end to his argument Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lofty teacher had %put an end to his argument Last Line: Maidenhead, did she commit suicide Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus SONNET TO ARISTE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be his to court the muse, whose humble breast Last Line: The warbling lute to sound the soul of love? Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul SONNET TO THE FIRE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friendly fire, thou blazest clear and bright Last Line: And o'er my ashes muse, as I will muse o'er thine. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Fire; Legacies; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 15. THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons born of many a loyal muse to ben Last Line: Inscribed, that all who praise his name should see? Subject(s): Muses SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 13, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew it well; an enemy has been near Last Line: Who came to wound me -- and worse still, to stain. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Muses SPIRIT, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: A spirit moves me as I write, Last Line: Who's the fool who needs you most? Subject(s): Creative Ability; Muses; Writer's Block; Writing And Writers STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF DECEMBER, 1793, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though now no more the musing ear Last Line: And bid the flowret bloom. Subject(s): Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Winter STANZAS: IN THE MANNER OF SPENSER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So long estranged from every muse's lyre Last Line: Or where midst rustling corn the nodding poppies bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Muses; Inspiration SWEET MUSE, DESCEND, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet muse, descend and bless the shade Last Line: To win a mortal's love Variant Title(s): Meditation In A Grov Subject(s): Muses TAKE HERE THE TENDER HARP AGAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: To wake perhaps a loftier lay Subject(s): Muses;prayer TERPSICHORE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The dancing muse! I saw her moving through Last Line: Burst forth in songs of reawakened spring. Subject(s): Muses; Nature THALIA, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Since first you crowned the rustic's vernal feast Last Line: And fortune's fiercest fling a futile boast. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology THE ADVENTUROUS MUSE, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Urania takes her morning flight Last Line: O'erspread the list'ning choir. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Muses THE APOLOGY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chide not if here you haply find Last Line: The country love, the country blush! Subject(s): Country Life; Muses; Youth THE APOLOGY; ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride Last Line: If reason's for me, god is for me too. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Defamation; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771); Slander; Libel THE ARTIST'S MORNING SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dwelling is the muses' home Last Line: From that dear marriage-bed! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Muses; Singing & Singers; Songs THE BASTARD, SELECTION, by RICHARD SAVAGE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: In gayer hours, when high my fancy ran Last Line: The raptures languish, and the numbers groan. Subject(s): Grief; Muses; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE COURT HOUSE, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is that theater the muse loves best Last Line: What peacock playhouse will contend with you? Subject(s): Muses; Plays & Playwrights; Theater & Theaters THE DEATH OF THE GODS; AN ODE WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF PINDAR, by L. KER Poem Text First Line: I made the muses sick / by a new song Last Line: Their power is gone, and my life is the token. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology THE DESCRIPTION OF COOKHAM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell (sweet cooke-ham) where I first obtain'd Last Line: Tying my heart to her by those rich chaines. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Farewell; Food & Eating; Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Parting THE GOLDEN AGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money abundant, at an easy rate! Last Line: That gold alone can make no golden age. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): England; Freedom; Materialism; Muses; Wealth; Youth; English; Liberty; Riches; Fortunes THE HAPPY LIFE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll purge, my friend, the humors that still devour Last Line: This is my kingdom -- to live contented. Subject(s): Life; Money; Muses; Soul THE ITALICS ARE RICHARD GIFFORD'S, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound Last Line: Verse sweetens toil. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets THE JOURNEY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The train puffs off, and we depart, - fay of my heart, enchanted muse Last Line: I present him, lovely muse, to thee. Subject(s): Muses; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE MOUNT OF THE MUSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After thy labour take thine ease Last Line: Not subject to corruption. Subject(s): Muses THE MUSAGETES, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often in the winter midnight Last Line: Your eyes to look on heavenly glory! Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Muses; Prayer THE MUSE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she was, for centuries, the big Last Line: The writer. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Language; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Psychoanalysis; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy THE MUSE'S WOOING, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Poet, take thy lute and kiss my mouth! Last Line: Quench my thirsty longing with thy wood! Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Muses; Poetry & Poets THE MUSES' COMFORTING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meseems I scarce could live, but for the muse Last Line: On which high minds may feed and never tire. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Grief; Muses; Sisters; Sorrow; Sadness THE OLD HOUSE, by GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN Poem Text First Line: Cold and cheerless, bare and bleak Last Line: For us and all the children. Subject(s): Children; Houses; Muses; Poverty; Childhood THE ORGY ON PARNASSUS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You phrase-tormenting fantastic chorus Last Line: And here was a bard shall outlast you all. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Muses; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Words; Vocabulary THE PARTING, by LEE WILSON DODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, we have rhymed of liberty Last Line: To labor, not to sing, in hell. Subject(s): Muses; War - Home Front THE PASTORAL, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: The flute that melts beneath his spreading fingers Last Line: My pastoral flute to your silver olympian lyre. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Flutes; Muses; Music & Musicians; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SAME SUBJECT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that your sail bent to the ocean-swell Last Line: And left us only longing and regret. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Fortune; Lips; Muses; Nature; Sailing & Sailors THE TWO MASKS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melpomene among her livid people Last Line: She bows: she waves them for the loftier lyre. Subject(s): Muses; Mythology; Tragedy THE VISIT OF THE MUSE, by ELSA BARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being, that comes to me out of the night Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets TO A FAIR MAIDEN WHO BLADE ME SHUN WINE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And must I wholly banish hence Last Line: To grace the praise of water. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Muses; World; Paradise TO A POET OF QUALITY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of thy judicious muse's sense Last Line: Thou shouldst forget his daughter's beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Poetry & Poets TO A.H., by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I just had turned the classic page Last Line: The story of thy matchless worth. Subject(s): Muses; Mythology - Classical TO AN ABSENT MUSE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh, come, fruitful spirit, long known as the muse Last Line: The mantle of poesy, and hie me to bed. Subject(s): Muses; Spiritual Healing; Faith-cure TO AN IDEALISTIC POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why, dear heart, drag in Last Line: With the over-souls and democracies. Subject(s): Lies; Life; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Soul TO CHARLES LAMB, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not thine to tread the midmost marl of hell Last Line: These were thy gift, and these outlast the skies. Subject(s): Flowers; God; Hell; Love; Mothers; Muses TO DELIA: 47, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the lute that joys or else dislikes Last Line: And blessed hand that gives so sweet a touch! Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Muses TO DR SHERLOCK, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive the muse, who, in unhallowed strains Last Line: And glad all heaven with millions thou hast saved. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Life; Muses; Youth; Dead, The; Paradise TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUTCHESS OF YORK, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you whose dignity strikes us with awe Last Line: And falls by that a truer sacrifice. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Fame; Fear; Hyde, Anne. Duchess Of York (1637-1671); Muses; Reputation TO MR IOSUAH SYLUESTER, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dare confesse; of muses, more then nine Last Line: One bartas speaks in tongues, in nations, twayn. Subject(s): Confessions; Freedom; Muses; Nations; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs TO MY MUSE (WITH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE SHADE OF COLONEL LOVELACE), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Deem me not fickle, in that I Last Line: My bread-and-butter more! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657); Muses; Survival TO THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF HUNTINGDON, by BATHSUA PELL MAKIN Poem Text First Line: Illustrious lady, where shall I begin Last Line: Speak out the rest, you cannot reach her praise. Subject(s): Muses; Praise; Women TO THE LADY CASTLEMAIN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As seamen, shipwrecked on some happy shore Last Line: New life to my condemn'd and dying muse. Variant Title(s): To The Lady Castlemain - Afterwards Duchess Of Cleveland Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Villiers, Barbara. Duchess Of Cleveland; Women; Seamen; Sails TO THE MUSE, by JEAN ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither to the hedge, and see Last Line: But have a care of whining cant. Alternate Author Name(s): Adam, Jean Subject(s): Muses TO THE MUSE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phantoms come and crowd me thick Last Line: Good muse, sweet muse, leave me never. Subject(s): Muses TO THE MUSES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether on ida's shady brow / or in the chambers of the east Last Line: The sound is forced, the notes are few! Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy TO THE MUSES, by GIOVANNI [GIOVANO] PONTANO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nymphs, who inhabit the green leaves of the woods and the waters Last Line: And crown me with laurel wreaths as I sing now in sapphic mode Alternate Author Name(s): Pontanus, Jovianus Subject(s): Muses TO THE REV. DR FRANCIS TURNER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If poets, ere they clothed their infant thought Last Line: And humbly bring the verse which you inspire. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets; Virtue TO WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN, by MARY OXLIE Poem Text First Line: I never rested on the muses bed Last Line: Mary oxlie of morpet. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxlie Of Morpet, Mary Subject(s): Drummond, William (1585-1649); Muses; Drummond Of Hawthornden, William UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 31, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing clearlier, muse, or evermore be still Last Line: One natural verse recapture -- then be still. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Muses; Singing & Singers URANIA: THE DIVINE MUSE, ON THE DEATH OF JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ., by SARAH PIERS Poem Text First Line: When through the universe with horrour spread Last Line: Nor find that dryden's dead, while garth does live. Subject(s): Death; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Muses; Tears; Dead, The VENUS'S ADVICE TO THE MUSES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus to the muses spoke the cyprian dame Last Line: But, when he finds us studying hard, he flies.' Subject(s): Muses; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Venus (goddess) VERSES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, / since anna visited the muses' seat Last Line: What margaret tudor was, is harriet harley now. Subject(s): Muses; Oxford, England; Women; Writing & Writers VERSES WRITTEN IN AN ALCOVE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the moon-beam's trembling lustre Last Line: Lissy! Meet the muse and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Muses; Moon VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: PROLOGUE, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I first aduenture, with fool-hardie might Last Line: Truth be thy speed, and truth thy patron bee. Subject(s): Muses; Truth; Virtue VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor ladies wanton loue, nor wandring knight Last Line: To tell our grant his banks are left forlore. Subject(s): Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With some pot-fury rauisht from their wit Last Line: For euery peasants brasse, on each scaffold. Subject(s): Fortune; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too popular is tragick poesie Last Line: Or let their vndeseruing temples bared bee. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another, whose more heauy hearted saint Last Line: That waiteth for the wandring ghosts retire. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Muses; Tears VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 8, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hence ye profane: mell not with holy things Last Line: Vnto the holy house of betleem. Subject(s): Love; Muses; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Prophecy & Prophets VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 9, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enuie ye muses, at your thriuing mate Last Line: Be gossips to those ribald rymes of thine. Subject(s): Cupid; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Eros VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To what ende did our lauish auncestours Last Line: Let swinish grill delight in dunghill clay. Subject(s): Muses; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: PROLOGUE, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some say my satyrs ouer-loosely flow Last Line: T'is better too be bad, then be to bold. Subject(s): Comedy; Muses VIRGIDEMIAE: HIS DEFIANCE TO ENUIE, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay: let the prouder pines of ida fear Last Line: Monstra noui monstri haec, & satyri & satyrae. Subject(s): Envy; Fear; Muses VIRGILII CARMINA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I love thee, little book! Last Line: With my virgil hand in hand! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Printing And Printers; Singing & Singers; Reading WILD HEART; FOR TRISHA, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where would I be if not for your wild heart? Last Line: How could I live? How could I make my art? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations WILLIAM MORRIS, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, eyes that beauty brightens! Last Line: In chaucer's heir. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Freedom; Life; Love; Muses; Soul; Dead, The; Liberty YOUNG MUSE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: My ears, no, more precisely, my capillaries and body are tuned Last Line: The name, a new source, which opens the doors to the houses of strangers Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Muses |
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