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| Searching... Subject: NYMPHS Matches Found: 62 A PASTORAL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Flower of the medlar Last Line: To wake our wedding-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Marriage; Nymphs; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SOUTH COAST IDYLL, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath these sun-warm'd pines among the heather Last Line: And feel the wind of tresses unbeholden. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Nature; Nymphs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: ECLOGUE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These nymphs, whom I itch to perpetuate Subject(s): Nymphs ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a myrtle shade Last Line: Asleep or waking you must ease my pain. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 3 Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Nymphs; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How unhappy a lover am I Last Line: For the souls to meet closer above. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 7 Subject(s): Death; Fate; Hope; Love - Loss Of; Nymphs; Dead, The; Destiny; Optimism AMPHITRYON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking (and it almost makes me mad) Last Line: To get young godlings; and, so, mend our breed. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nymphs; Women AN INVOCATION TO A WATER-NYMPH, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair pearl crown'd nymph, whose gushing Last Line: That o'er thy cavern waves his solemn shade. Subject(s): Nature; Nymphs; Praise AN ODE (4), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While from our looks, fair nymph, you guess Last Line: Fair prophetess, my grief would cease. Subject(s): Love; Mercy; Nymphs; Prophecy & Prophets; Secrets AN ODE WRITTEN ON A GROTTO NEAR FARNHAM IN SURRY, CALL'D LUDLOW'S CAVE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close in this deep retreat Last Line: "change it for a darker grave." Subject(s): Death; Nature; Nymphs; Rest; Virtue; Dead, The CALISTO, OR THE CHASTE NYMPH: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As jupiter I made my court in vain Last Line: To bind your friends and to disarm your foes. Variant Title(s): Spilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken By Lady Wentworth Subject(s): Beauty; Crowne, John (1640-1703); Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nations; Nymphs DAINTY, FINE, SWEET NYMPH, by THOMAS MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dainty, fine, sweet nymph delightful Last Line: Fa, la, la! Subject(s): Nymphs FINE FIGURE OF A NYMPH, THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS, by ERASMUS DARWIN Poem Text First Line: Gigantic nymph! The fair kleinhovia reigns Last Line: And bears her trembling lover in her arms. Subject(s): Giants; Hercules; Love; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs FROM THE GREEK, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great bacchus, born in thunder and in fire Last Line: The moral says; mix water with your wine. Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Wine GEBIR: 1, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the fates of gebir. He had dwelt Last Line: His brother's love, and sigh'd upon his own. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 2, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gadite men the royal charge obey Last Line: And tell the halcyons when spring first returns. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 3, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for the spirit of that matchless man Last Line: And bent toward them his bewilder'd way. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 4, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king's lone road, his visit, his return Last Line: "king of the western world, be with you peace." Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 5, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a fair city, courted then by kings Last Line: "take this,"" she cried, ""and gebir is no more." Variant Title(s): Masar Subject(s): Cities; Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Urban Life; Dead, The GEBIR: 6, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now to aurora borne by dappled steeds Last Line: Atlas and calpe close across the sea. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 7, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mortal first by adverse fate assail'd Last Line: His eyes grew stiff, he struggled, and expired. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The HER RIGHT NAME, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As nancy at her toilet sat Last Line: Your chloe, or your nut-brown maid?' Subject(s): Beauty; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Lavatories; Love; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey; Toilets HYMN TO CONTENT, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! The nymph with placid eye Last Line: Low whispering in the shade. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Nymphs; Adam & Eve; Contentment; Eve KING ARTHUR: SONG OF PAN AND NEREIDE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round they coasts, fair nymph of britain Last Line: And takes for kings the tyrian dye. Subject(s): Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Pan (mythology); Singing & Singers; Songs LINES, FR. NEPENTHE, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hurry me nymphs! O, hurry me Last Line: Alive in his uncovered grave. Subject(s): Nymphs LOVE DISARMED, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a myrtle's verdant shade Last Line: Gives grief, or pleasure; spares, or kills. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Nymphs; Eros NYMPHS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are ye now, o beautiful girls of the mountain Last Line: Vanished and flown. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Nymphs ODE TO THE SPIRIT OF EARTH IN AUTUMN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair mother earth lay on her back last night Last Line: Is welcomed by his fathers up on high. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Nymphs; Seasons; Fall ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. ODYSSEUS - NYMPH AND SHIPWRECK, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As dawn rose up from bed by her lordly mate tithonus Last Line: Blessed sleep that sealed his eyes at last Subject(s): Disasters; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Shipwrecks; Ulysses ON MAY MORNING, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter no more the weeping fields deforms Last Line: And in their bosoms feel another spring. Subject(s): Forests; May (month); Morning; Nature; Nymphs; Praise; Solitude; Spring; Woods; Loneliness OREAD, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whirl up, sea Last Line: Cover us with your pools of fir. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Nymphs OVERHEARD ON A SALTMARSH, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Nymph, nymph, what are your beads? Last Line: No. Subject(s): Beads; Fairies; Nymphs; Supernatural; Elves SIR RUPERT THE FEARLESS; A LEGEND OF GERMANY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir rupert the fearless, a gallant young knight Last Line: Beware of the rhine, and take care of the rhino! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Nymphs; Knights & Knighthood SONG OF A SPIRIT, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sightless air I dwell Last Line: To die along the gales of eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Nymphs SONGS OF MY CARES: 2, by RUAN JI Poem Source First Line: Two maidens roamed by river's shore Last Line: How can a bond strong as metal and stone %change in only a day to parting pain? Subject(s): Betrayal; Han River, China; Nymphs SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 28, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst others proclaim Last Line: And there is no living without her. Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love; Nymphs; Roses; Eros THE CYDALISES, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are our sweethearts? Last Line: Be rekindled in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Nymphs THE DESPAIRING SHEPHERD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alexis shunned his fellow swains Last Line: He bowed, obeyed, and died! Subject(s): Death; Love; Nymphs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Dead, The THE DUKE OF GUISE: SONG BETWIXT A SHEPHERD AND A SHEPHERDESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherdess: tell me thirsis, tell your anguish Last Line: Still the more 'tis melted down. Subject(s): Love; Nymphs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Songs THE ENCHANTED LAKE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dark enchanted lake Last Line: Save that she looked with laura's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Lakes; Nymphs; Pools; Ponds THE FAUN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The faun that haunts my fountain Last Line: And kiss her lips with spray. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Deer; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Pan (mythology) THE FOREST, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroic forest of legend and of dream Last Line: Of red-haired centaur and white unicorn. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Life; Love; Nymphs; Seasons; Fall; Woods THE GARLAND, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pride of every grove I chose Last Line: The justice of thy chloe's sorrow.' Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Nymphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: SONG FROM THE ITALIAN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By a dismal cypress lying Last Line: But cruel she I lov'd in vain. Subject(s): Death; Love; Nymphs; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE MEETING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The music under the linden-tree sounds Last Line: And shun now the sight of each other. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Nymphs; Youth THE NYMPH, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: The pool in the forest drinks her in, mirrors her, laughs with her Last Line: Pool. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Lakes; Nymphs; Water; Showers & Showering; Pools; Ponds THE NYMPH ASLEEP, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: I know when noon drives shadowward their feet Last Line: Her reed-encircled forehead while she dreams. Subject(s): Nymphs THE NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAUN [OR, FAWN], by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The wanton troopers, riding by Last Line: White as I can, though not as thee. Variant Title(s): The Nymph's Grief For Her Faun;death Of The White Fawn Subject(s): Deer; Nymphs THE SEA-NYMPH, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down, down a thousand fathom deep Last Line: There, in cool seas, I love to lave. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Nymphs; Sea; Ocean THE SHEPHERD OF NYMPHS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nymphs a shepherd took Last Line: The nymphs a shepherd need. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Nymphs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE WATER LADY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, the moon should ever beam Last Line: But she's divine! Subject(s): Nymphs THE WATER NYMPHS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waves were plashing against the lone strand Last Line: Continue their loving kisses. Subject(s): Kisses; Knights & Knighthood; Moon; Nymphs TO SLOW MUSIC, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like shovels white of porcelain Last Line: Of daisy naught, nor daffodilly. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Nymphs; Shells; Conchology TO THE RIVER DOVE, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Stream beloved by those Last Line: Like thought recovered from an antique dream! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Nymphs; Rivers TO THE WATER NYMPHS DRINKING AT THE FOUNTAIN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reach with your whiter hands to me Last Line: The water turn'd to wine. Subject(s): Nymphs TO THE WOODSMAN OF GASTINE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, woodsman, stay thy hand awhile, and hark Last Line: Matter abides forever, form is lost. Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nymphs; Woods TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, in sunshine weather Last Line: Beloved by all who truth revere. Subject(s): Fables; Nudity; Nymphs; Truth; Allegories; Nakedness UNDINE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Undine by the lonely shore Last Line: The dead amidst the living! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Mythology - Norse; Nymphs 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) WATER-NYMPHS, by HERMOCREON Poem Text First Line: Hail, water-nymphs, to whom hermocreon paid Last Line: A lovely dance in this your watery dwelling! Subject(s): Nymphs WOOD WITCHERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way ran under boughs of checkered green Last Line: Unaging beauty by another name. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Nature; New England; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets WRITTEN AT WAN MOUNTAIN POOL, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sat on a boulder, let my fishing line hang Last Line: Moving in moonlight, I turn back with a rowing song Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Han River, China; Nature; Nymphs WRITTEN IN A LADY'S WATCH-CASE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauteous machine! Let love thy movements Last Line: That cupid nicks with nicer art than zuare. Subject(s): Love; Nymphs; Watches |
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