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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616) Matches Found: 197 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE BATCHELOR'S SOLILOQUY, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to wed, or not wed -- that is the question" Last Line: Of matrimony join Subject(s): "dramatists;poetry & Poets;shakespeare - Hamlet;shakespeare, William (1564-1616); 129F. A RESPONSE TO SHAXPER'S SONNET 129, by DOROTHY HICKSON Poem Source First Line: Th' expense of spirit as a def'nite act Last Line: That rapture (all too often faked) be felt Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights A DEDICATION WRITTEN ONCE FOR THESE SONNETS BUT NEVER SENT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When shakespeare sent his sonnets to his friend Last Line: Remembering you shall say, he loved me well. Subject(s): Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) A FAT LADY HEARS SHAKESPEARE AT THE CLUB, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rustles in with sweep of many laces Last Line: Sighing with sentiment, she sits there, creaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Dramatists; Obesity; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) A GRACE BEFORE SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Weary and wishful of the woods, we hear Last Line: Always thyself abideth, calm and strong! Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Destiny; Dramatists A REMEMBRANCE OF SOME ENGLISH POETS, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live spenser ever, in thy fairy queene Last Line: Well may the bodye dye, but fame dies never. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists A SUPPLEMENT OF AN IMPERFECT COPY OF VERSES OF MR. WILL. SHAKESPEARE'S, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One of her hands one of her cheeks lay under Last Line: To bite the part so unkindly held them in. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AFTER READING SHAKESPERE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe fancy lightly builds with airy hands Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AFTER READING SHAKESPERE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe fancy lightly builds with airy hands Last Line: Outward he wanders in the unknown night, %and we are shadows moving in a dream Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) AN ADDRESS TO SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal! William shakespeare, there's none can you excel Last Line: While seated around the fireside on a cold winter's night. Subject(s): Dramatists; Play; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters AN ANNOTATION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Emblem of early seeking, early finding Last Line: So tossed you to the hooves of infamy? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Dramatists; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (1), by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While born to bring the muse's happier days Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name. Subject(s): Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Lucan (marcus Annaeus Lucanus); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Racine, Jean (1639-1699); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); V AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (2), by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No second growth the western isle could bear Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AN IMITATION (TO M.M.), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my sylvia, let us rove Last Line: Sporting o'er the velvet green. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dramatists; Fairies; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elves; Male-female Relations; Dramatists APPROACHING ELSINORE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow I shall be at elsinore Last Line: Hourly the play begins at elsinore. Subject(s): Dramatists; Elsinore, Denmark; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists APRIL TWENTY-THIRD, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Death sallied forth upon this fateful day Last Line: "and shakespeare bowed: ""you are don quixote still." Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Cervantes, Miguel De (1547-1616); Death; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De; Dead, The AT SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE, by IRVING BROWNE Poem Text First Line: Dismiss your apprehension, pseudo bard Last Line: Have quite reduced your dust to baconpowder. Subject(s): Graves; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare, thy legacy of peerless song Last Line: At honest daily work -- then found it fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AT THE MERMAID TAVERN (APRIL 10, 1613), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, so I said: 'twas labored 'cataline' Last Line: And then I go. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists AT THE THEATER, by VICTOR HOWES Poem Source First Line: Sorry sir, this row is taken Last Line: Sorry sir, this row is taken Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) BALLADE OF THE SECOND-BEST BED, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the name of the almighty god, amen Variant Title(s): The Second-best Bed Subject(s): Wills; Beds; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: FORTINBRAS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I, brave prince fortinbras, who close this tragic pother, enter to say Last Line: Pulling in the wings. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: KING CLAUDIUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Cypress, geraniums, bleak hedge of my parterre, from the chase I Last Line: Madame, you need not fear. I shall have drunk the wine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dramatists; Flowers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Travel; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips BEFORE REREADING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether his loves were many or but two Last Line: Once, forest leaves, they murmured round his soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) BEHIND THE SCENES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Behind the scenes! What secrets dwell Last Line: Behind the scenes! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters BEN JONSON ENTERTAINS A MAN FROM STRATFORD, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are a friend then, as I make it out, Last Line: Perhaps he does.... O lord, that house in stratford! Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) BY DEPUTY, by ARTHUR ST. JOHN ADCOCK Poem Source First Line: As shakespeare couldn't write his plays Subject(s): Dramatists; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) CHARMS OF NATURE, by JOSEPH WARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich in her weeping country's spoils versailles Last Line: When first they hail th' approach of laughing may Variant Title(s): The Wil Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME', by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first thought was, he lied in every word Last Line: "tower came." Subject(s): Courage; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Valor; Bravery; Dramatists CHURCHYARD IN STRATFORD WITH KATE, by KIRK NESSET Poem Source First Line: Pale pre-raphaelite she, wispy, and he a blue-jeaned Last Line: He in writing his spritely self-epitaph Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Relationships; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) COMPOSITION, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep: perchance to dream ...' he turned his Last Line: And spat into the thames. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) COUPLET ON SHAKESPEAR'S MONUMENT (1), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a hundred and thirty years' nap Last Line: Enter shakespear, with a loud clap. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) COUPLET ON SHAKESPEAR'S MONUMENT (2), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus britain lov'd me; and preserv'd my fame Last Line: Clear from a barber's or a benson's name. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) CYNICUS TO W. SHAKESPEARE, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You wrote a line too much, my sage Last Line: And only all the women players. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) DARK LADY LEARNS THAT EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Full many an amorous sonnet hast thou penned Last Line: Or fact or false, all sonnets leave me cold Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights DARWIN IN 1881, by GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleepless as prospero back in his bedroom Last Line: He lies down in his boots and overcoat, %and shuts his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Schnackenberg, Gertrude Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) DAWN CHORUS, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Text First Line: Hark, hark, the bark as fido springs Last Line: And bang the pan that fries. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) DIRGE FOR FIDELE, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fair fidele's grassy tomb Last Line: And mourned, till pity's self be dead. Variant Title(s): Dirge In Cymbeline;fidele ['s Dirge];a Song From Shakespeare's Cymbelyne [cymbeline] Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists DOGS ARE SHAKESPEAREAN, CHILDREN ARE STRANGERS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We are shakespearean, we are strangers Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Dramatists; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Renowned spenser, lie a thought more nigh Last Line: Honour thereafter to be laid by thee. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will try to remember. It was light Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists ENIGMA, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noblest name in allegory's page Last Line: Which gathers all their glories in its own. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) EPIGRAM: THE PLAY OF 'KING LEAR', by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here love the slain with love the slayer lies Last Line: Bubbles the wan mirth of the mirthless fool. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What needs my shakespeare for his honour'd bones Last Line: That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Shakespeare;on Shakespeare. 1630 Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists EXPENSE OF SPIRIT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The credits and debits of cold sex Last Line: See: that's the dearest, cheapest prayer Subject(s): Dramatists; Lust; Poetry And Poets; Sex; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) EXPENSE OF SPIRIT, by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: Lust %is %just Subject(s): Dramatists; Lust; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) EXPENSE OF SPIRITS IS A CRYING SHAME, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who'll come across on half a pint of beer Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Dramatists; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) FALSTAFF'S LAMENT OVER PRINCE HAL BECOME HENRY V, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One that I cherished Last Line: Here's to thee, hal! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) FOR OLIVER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright summers fade, and all bright faces too Last Line: Among the deathless, whom they call the dead. Variant Title(s): At Parting Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); War; Dramatists GERTRUDE TO HAMLET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Inside, the turned liver Last Line: You wander my throne like measles Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights GUILIELMUS REX, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The folk who lived in shakespeare's day Last Line: T is he alone that lives and reigns! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists HIERARCHY OF ANGELS, by THOMAS HEYWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mellifluous shakespeare, whose enchanting quill Last Line: And he's but now jack ford that once was john. Subject(s): Dramatists; Ford, John (1586-1639); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists HOUSE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I sonnet-sing you about myself? Last Line: He! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you, great patron of mankind! Sustain Last Line: Befringe the rails of bedlam and sohoe. Variant Title(s): To Augustus Subject(s): Dramatists; Dryden, John (1631-1700); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Immortality; Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings And Painters; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spen IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Now summer with her wanton court is gone Last Line: And murmuring brooks within their channels play. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Youth; Dramatists IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE: PROGNE'S DREAM, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Last night I dreamt Last Line: And with the struggling waked. Subject(s): Dramatists; Dreams; Mythology - Greek; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nightmares; Dramatists IN A LETTER TO C.P., ESQ., IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust me, the meed of praise, dealt thriftily Last Line: And comely guise of ornament disposed. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists IN THE OLD FARM-HOUSE; THE GHOST, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead of night, dead of night Last Line: And falstaff in view. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) IN THE VISITORS' BOOK, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, 1810, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stranger to whom this monument is shewn %invoke the poet's curse upon malone Last Line: Whose meddling zeal his barbarous taste betrays %and smears his timbstone as he marr'd his plays Subject(s): Dramatists; Malone, Edmond (1741-1812); Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Sculpture And Sculptors; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) INDELICACY EXPOSED, by MORDECAI MARCUS Poem Source First Line: Professor marcus finds more sex in shakespeare Subject(s): Dramatists; Learning; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) INNOGEN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal shadow, faint and ever fair Last Line: Nor what is sadder, life, nor any human woe. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Silence INSCRIPTIONS: 4, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O youths and virgins: o declining eld Last Line: "which his own genius only could acquire." Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Monuments; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists INTO CONCRETE MIXER THROW, by BARBARA ROE Poem Source Last Line: This charm, once set and left to stand, %will cast a blight on any land Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) LADY MACBETH ON THE PSYCH WARD, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor, I'm lost in these mazy halls that lead nowhere Last Line: And I am lost in it. Doctor, I breathe blood, not air Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights LIFE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: To be, or not to be,' is not the question' Last Line: Is swallowed up in immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Dramatists; Life; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) LINES PRINTED ON A TOAST LIST FOR SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, HULL, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each change of many-coloured life he drew Last Line: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, %and panting time toiled after him in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What silence drear in england's oaky forest Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Galileo (1564-1642); Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Switzerland; Truth; English; Galileo Galilei; Dramatists; Self-este LORD BACON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Master of masters in the days of yore Last Line: Withdrawn to uttermost oblivion. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dramatists; Law & Lawyers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) LOST TREASURE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn day steals, pallid as a ghost Last Line: Locked in oblivion -- shakespeare lost a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists MACBETH IN VENICE: PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM LOGAN Poem Source First Line: A spiral sun %crossed the spiral stairs Last Line: Beneath a winter shower %in assassin street Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Guilt; Murder; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Unfaithfulness MARIANA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With blackest moss the flower-plots Last Line: O god, that I were dead!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Desolation; Despair; Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Solitude; Dramatists; Loneliness MARY ARDEN, by ERIC MACKAY Poem Text First Line: O thou to whom, athwart the perished days Last Line: And call thee england's pride forevermore! Subject(s): Arden, Mary (d. 1608); Dramatists; Mothers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) MARY SHAKESPEARE, by ADA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: It may be that the sun was bright Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) MODERN PARAPHRASE OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET 29, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When times are hard and old friends fall away Last Line: To own the world or be a millionaire? Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING IN THE CITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sigh no more, dealers, sigh no more" Last Line: "converting all your notes of woe / into hey money, money" Subject(s): "dramatists;poetry & Poets;shakespeare, William (1564-1616); NIGHT WITH HAMLET, SELS., by VLADIMIR HOLAN Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) NOT MARBLE NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS', by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The praisers of women in their proud and beautiful poems Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Dramatists NOT MARBLE NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS', by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The praisers of women in their proud and beautiful poems Last Line: Look! It is there! Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women NOT ONLY MARBLE, BUT THE PLASTIC TOYS, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: My love is true, but all my verse is rotten Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) ODE IN REMEMBRANCE OF MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SELS., by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) ODE TO APOLLO, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In thy western halls of gold Last Line: From thee, great god of bards, receive their heavenly birth. Subject(s): Dramatists; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Iliad; Odyssey; Dramatists ODE: TO GARRICK, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no; the left - hand box in blue Last Line: Unvisited by ranby. Subject(s): Dramatists; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Marriage; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Weddings; Husbands; Wives ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 1, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, yet regardful of your native land Last Line: And made it fame and virtue to oppose. Subject(s): Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) OLD SONG ENDED, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should I your true love know' Subject(s): Dramatists; Love; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) ON A CHELSEA FIGURE OF SHAKESPEARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The cloud cap't towers and generous palaces Last Line: And like the baseless fabric of a vision, %leave not a wreck behind Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) ON MEETING SHAKESPEARE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw shakespeare Last Line: But his chief wish was to be earning more money. Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) ON SHAKESPEARE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In poetry there is but one supreme Last Line: Mighty, and beauteous, while his face is hid. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ON SHAKESPEARE AND VOLTAIRE, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clad in the wealthy robes his genius wrought Last Line: Safely the gentle shakespeare slept and smiled. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This figure, that thou here seest put Last Line: Not at his picture, but his book. Variant Title(s): To The Reader Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Droeshout, Martin; Engraving & Engravers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading; Dramatists ON THE SITE OF A MULBERRY-TREE PLANTED BY SHAKESPEARE ..., by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tree, here fall'n, no common birth or death Last Line: Some tailor's ninth allotment of a ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Dramatists; Hate; Mulberry Trees; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ON W.S., by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Shakespeare the boy with fairies in his head! Last Line: And most himself beneath the stratford thatch. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); English ONLY HERE FOR THE BIER, SELS., by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women PERFORMANCE OF HENRY V AT STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Nature teaches us our tongue again Last Line: Out in this place but can renew our tongue, %flesh out our feeling, make us apt for life Subject(s): Dramatists; Language; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) PETRUCHIO'S WIFE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Ay, go your ways, my lord. Look where he struts Last Line: Then is the day grown bright for katharine! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists PROLOGUE TO 'MISTAKES, OR THE FALSE REPORT', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Save ye, sirs, save ye! I am in a hopeful way Last Line: Peace and the butt is all our business here; %so much for that - and the devil take small beer Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) PROLOGUE TO “THE MERCHANT OF VENICE”, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Full Text First Line: What shall I say? 'tis night three hundred years Subject(s): Shakespeare, William (1564-1616 PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK AT ... THEATRE ROYALE, 1747, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes Last Line: And truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Dramatists; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theatre Royal, London; Dramatists REJECTED ADDRESSES: MACBETH, BY MOMUS MEDLAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, boy, and thy good mistress tell Last Line: Ri fol de rol, &c. Subject(s): Dramatists; Life; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SAVONAROLA BROWN, SELECTION, by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM Poem Text First Line: When pears hang green on the garden wall Last Line: With a yea [etc.] Alternate Author Name(s): Beerbohm, Max Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SCHOOLROOM: 158, by JAMES EDWARD WARREN JR. Poem Source First Line: Why do you lean beside the window, will? Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by ERIC ACHORN Poem Text First Line: Sometimes, when in disgust at petty men Last Line: No more than he their strength to spread his wings. Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Others abide our question. Thou art free Last Line: Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by HENRY AMES BLOOD Poem Text First Line: I wish that I could have my wish tonight Last Line: By contrast with the outer storm. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I get up from the couch and move outside Last Line: Above a line of luminous clouds Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Shakespeare! With all thy faults (and few have more) Last Line: His works we reverence, while we pity thine. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see all human wits Last Line: Lone as the blessed jew. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to rove o'er history's page Last Line: Each various feeling to the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, that gavest to the world so much Last Line: Nearest himself in universal power. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); World War I; English; Dramatists; First World War SHAKESPEARE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that in body and spirit shakespeare came Last Line: Teach us to write, and writing, to be men. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE, by EDWARD L. PONTZ Poem Text First Line: Thou livest still: some modicum of time Last Line: None but thyself thyself could valuate. Subject(s): Dramatists; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Fancy SHAKESPEARE, by COLIN RAE-BROWN Poem Text First Line: What glorious victories are here enshrined Last Line: All coming time shall fail thy like to find! Subject(s): Admiration; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How little fades from earth when sink to rest Last Line: Small tasks and strengths may be no less divine. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If many a daring spirit must discover Last Line: A circumnavigator of the soul. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O let me leave the plains behind Last Line: The long heave of the surging world. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE (WRITTEN ON HEARING OF THE TERCENTENARY MOVEMENT, 1864), by ELIZA COOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If man can be immortal here Last Line: Our poet-priest with changeless love Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue of england, that which myriads Last Line: Glory! Be glory! Not to me, to god. Subject(s): Dramatists; Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEARE HIMSELF, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The body is no prison where we lie Last Line: The fellow heart and know thee for a man Subject(s): Dramatists; Partridge, William Ordway (1861-1930); Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Sculpture And Sculptors; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE IN THE THRUSH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who sings so more than passing sweet Last Line: And gods go large in warwickshire! Subject(s): Birds; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Thrushes; Warwickshire, England; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE ODE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the glorious lyre Last Line: And what her monarch lost her monarch-bard shall save. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE READS THE KING JAMES VERSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by our lady, here is master speech! Last Line: "and pluck a heedless world anew from hell!" Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dramatists; God; James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE TO HIS MIRROR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within thy crystal depths I see Last Line: Since thou dost bear false tales of me! Subject(s): Dramatists; Mirrors; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Soul; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE'S CLIFF, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, all along the high sea-cliff Last Line: "the tempest ""rose, at his command!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Climbing; Dramatists; Nature; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Ocean SHAKESPEARE'S FLOWER GARDEN, by JANE RAWLINS SHEEAN Poem Text First Line: The flowers that grew in shakespeare's garden lift Last Line: That live within his tender magic song! Subject(s): Dramatists; Gardens & Gardening; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sonnet (as Literary Form) SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doggerel,' he thought, 'will do for churchwardens Subject(s): Consolation; Dramatists; Graves; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doggerel,' he thought, 'will do for churchwardens Last Line: Will hardly leach,' he thought, 'this dust of that fire' Subject(s): Consolation; Dramatists; Graves; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE'S KEY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unlocked his heart?' not he Last Line: And enter at his will. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE'S MOURNERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the grave of shakespeare in a dream Last Line: Kept vigil o'er the sacred spoils of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dramatists; Graves; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones SHAKESPEARE'S SILENCES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When juliet from her balcony Last Line: Did shakespeare tell anne hathaway? Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHAKESPEARE'S STATUE; CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this free pantheon of the air and sun Last Line: The reverence of what he was shall call it down Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Central Park, New York City; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Statues SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What word to him hadst thou to tell Last Line: O stolen novice of saint clare? Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SHAKESPEARE; TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who claims our shakespeare from that realm unknown Last Line: Our nation's second morn! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKESPEREAN BEAR, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When, on our casual way Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Winter SHAKSPERE'S WILL (SOMERSET HOUSE, LONDON), by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: I sought through shakspere's city far and wide Last Line: More precious grown than mine of golden ore. Subject(s): Dramatists; London; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SHAKSPERE-BACON CIPHER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I doubt it not - then more, far more Last Line: A mystic cipher waits infolded. Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Dramatists; Philosophy & Philosophers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHE LOVED / SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS, by ZOE AKINS Poem Source Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 1. SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a hey! And a hi! And a hey-ho rhyme! Last Line: With a hey! And a hi! And a ho! %the grasses curdle where the daisies blow! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SONG; IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE'S 'BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND', by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blow, blow, thou vernal gale! Last Line: Nor mitigate her pride. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Wind SONNET (1), by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou hadst been a wife for shakespeare's self! Last Line: In martyrdom, than throned as caesar's mate. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SONNET ON SITTING DOWN TO READ KING LEAR ONCE AGAIN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O golden-tongued romance, with serene lute! Last Line: Give me new phoenix wings to fly at my desire. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SONNET: AT STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus spake his dust (so seemed it as I read Last Line: Was hovering, and fain would speak with me. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SONNET: IN THE LANES BETWEEN STRATFORD AND SHOTTERY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through dreamful meads, that still his spirit keep Last Line: And all his nature glowed with boundless life. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SONNETS IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Absence and presence, born of elder night Last Line: Some thoughts on him whose all thoughts dwelt on thee. Subject(s): Absence; Dramatists; Night; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Separation; Isolation; Bedtime SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not if men's tongues and angels' all in one Last Line: All stars are angels; but the sun is god. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William shakespeare of an actual presence Last Line: That hamlet will kill himself first in word, then in deed. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't say why he thinks himself shakespeare at the window Last Line: Across the stage when she thought he was not coming. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life THE BREATH OF AVON; TO THE PILGRIMS OF GREATER BRITAIN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er of woe the dark may hide in Last Line: Hold still a dream of music where they fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Dramatists; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The credits and debits of cold sex Last Line: See: that's the dearest, cheapest prayer Subject(s): Dramatists; Lust; Poetry & Poets; Sex; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE HEARTS, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The legendary muscle that wants and grieves, Subject(s): Hearts; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Muic & Musicians; Religion; Love - Unrequited; Theology THE MERCHANT OF VENICE; A LEGEND OF ITALY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I believe there are few Last Line: And never let one of them come down the are'! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE NAMES, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare! - to such name's sounding, what succeeds Last Line: Though dread -- this finite from that infinite. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE NEW DOLL'S HOUSE: 5. THE BEDROOMS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bedrooms shall be / gay with hints Last Line: Her bed). Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE PATRIOT'S PROGRESS, by HORACE TWISS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St. Stephen's is a stage Last Line: With cash, with coronet — with all but conscience. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE PLAYER, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His wardrobe is the world, and day and night Last Line: Between the two he stands, timeless — the poet-player. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Dramatists; Play; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters THE PLUTE'S LIBRARY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, stately books, in handsome cases, all Last Line: Come and read them. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading THE POETRY OF SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture some isle smiling green 'mid the white-foaming ocean Last Line: Life in all shapes, aims, and fates, is there warm'd by one great human heart. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE PROGRESS OF POESY; A PINDARIC ODE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, aeolian lyre, awake Last Line: Beneath the good how far--but far above the great. Subject(s): Dramatists; Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE SAVING WAY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the little girl was told that the sun someday Last Line: To invent our lives from these rich hours of woe? Subject(s): Dramatists; Girls; Jews; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Judaism; Dramatists THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy greatest knew thee, mother earth; unsoured Last Line: To fatten earth when from her soul divorced. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE: 2, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How smiles he at a generation ranked Last Line: Thunders of laughter, clearing air and heart. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE SUMMER RAIN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read Last Line: Who in a beaded coat does gaily go. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading THE TEMPEST: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, when a tree's cut down, the secret root Last Line: To find her woman, it must be abed. Variant Title(s): The Tempest: Prologue, Or The Enchanted Island Subject(s): Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE TWO SHAKESPEARE TERCENTARIES OF BIRTH, 1864; OF DEATH, 1916, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Longer than thine, than thine Last Line: My waste lies after thee, and lies before. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THIS RAILWAY STATION, by ALLAN M. LAING Poem Text First Line: This squalid dome of soot-obscured glass Last Line: This builder's blot, this curse, this railway station. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Railroads; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Railways; Trains TO A CLASS IN SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Gossip of swains befooled by fairy charm Last Line: Because they've walked together and with him. Subject(s): Dramatists; Happiness; Humanity; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Teaching & Teachers; Joy; Delight; Dramatists; Educators; Professors TO A MODERN POET (WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou these words thine elder brother writ Last Line: Until death healed thine elder brother's grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Dramatists; Grief; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sorrow; Sadness TO A POET GOING TO ROME: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you shall meet them, as you doubtless may Last Line: De la mare, abercrombie, most renowned.' Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) TO AN ARTIST, TO TAKE HEART, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride Last Line: Having endured them all Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO AN ARTIST, TO TAKE HEART, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride Last Line: Upon his bed, however, shakespeare died, %having endured them all Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) TO OUR ENGLISH TERENCE, MR. WILL. SHAKESPEARE, by JOHN DAVIES (1565-1618) Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Some say, good will, (which I in sport sing) Alternate Author Name(s): Welsh Poet; Davies Of Hereford, John Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) TO SHAKESPEARE, by DONALD BAIN Poem Text First Line: We know you knew, but know not how you knew Last Line: Transmigrant over all the lands and seas. Subject(s): Dramatists; Genius; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul of man is larger than the sky Last Line: Serene of thought, unhurt by thy own flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Variant Title(s): Shakespeare Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through torrid entrances, past icy poles Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) TO SHAKESPEARE, by RICHARD EDWIN DAY Poem Text First Line: Thou, who didst lay all other bosoms bare Last Line: Thou art, thyself, thy one unopened book. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft, when my lips I open to rehearse Last Line: Thy worthiest works to utter worthily Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) TO SHAKESPEARE'S MOTHER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Did he, madonna, on thy bosom turning Last Line: Girlish ophelia's love, and juliet's grave. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dramatists; Legacies; Mothers & Sons; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Inspiration; Creativity; Dramatists TO SHAKESPEARE; AFTER THREE HUNDRED YEARS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright baffling soul, least capturable of themes Last Line: Lodged there a radiant guest, and sped for ever thence. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO THE GENTILE POET, by MANI LEIB BRAHINSKY Poem Source First Line: Heir of shakespeare, shepherds and cavaliers Last Line: Of desert wanderers under alien stars Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To draw no envy, shakespeare, on thy name Last Line: And despairs day, but for thy volume's light! Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists TO THE SWEETWILLIAM, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I search the poet's honied lines Last Line: Sweetwilliam! Subject(s): Dramatists; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TOOTHACHE, by W. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: To have it out or not? That is the question Last Line: "with this regard his footsteps turns away, / scared at the name of dentist" Alternate Author Name(s): W. Subject(s): "dramatists;poetry & Poets;shakespeare, William (1564-1616);teeth;" Toothaches TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, my beloved britons, see your shakespeare Last Line: Your great forefathers shall their fame regain, %and homer's angry ghost repine in vain Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) TRYST (AFTER READING FROM SHAKESPEARE), by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, thou art heavy, with no stars to chain Last Line: A dead hand lies like flame upon my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Love - Loss Of; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists TULLAMORE POETRY RECITAL, by PAUL DURCAN Poem Source First Line: It was a one-man show in tullamore Last Line: One was alone in the pit of oneself, knitting needles Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) TWO ARGOSIES (ANTONIO'S AND SHAKESPEARE'S), by WALLACE BRUCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ducats take! I'll sign the bond today Last Line: Her titled language crowned in high entail. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists VARIATIONS ON A THEME: 8, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote these lines ten years ago Last Line: A shrinking or exploding sphere, %will art's last values disappear Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) VORTIGREN: EPILOGUE, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Text First Line: Ye solemn critics! Wheresoe'er you're seated Last Line: A kind protector and a gen'rous friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Dramatists; Ireland, William Henry (1777-1835); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) WASSAIL CHORUS AT THE MERMAID TAVERN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas knows a merry, merry place Last Line: Rare!' Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Christmas; Dramatists; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Heywood, Thomas (1574-1641); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Mermaid Tavern; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nativity, The WHEN I READ SHAKESPEARE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read shakespeare I am struck with wonder Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists WHEN I READ SHAKESPEARE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read shakespeare I am struck with wonder Last Line: Yet the language so lovely! Like the dyes from gas-tar Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) WHERE'S THE PROOF?, by JUDY DIGREGORIO Poem Source First Line: There once was a writer named %shakespeare Last Line: For sure if he really did it Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing And Writers WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO MRS. ANNE, REGULAR SERVANT, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A moment's patience, gentle mistress anne Last Line: For glorious puddings, & immortal pies. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists WIND ON THE LYRE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was the chirp of ariel Last Line: The blood of us a lighted dew. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Singing & Singers WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the holy missal shakespeare wrote Last Line: But the same burden weighs upon my heart. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS ON LEAVING COLLEGE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one of some fat tillage dispossessed Last Line: Some part of what thy friend once felt for thee. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) WRITTEN IN SIR SIDNEY LEE'S LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lee, who in niggard soil hast delved, to find Last Line: Glorious with casual sprinklings of the foam. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Biography; Dramatists; Lee, Sidney (1859-1926); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Biographers YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE SAY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sulky what-ifs Last Line: The norm is always incorrect. If what? Subject(s): Dramatists; Hell; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists YOUR SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I am sentenced not to talk to you Last Line: Bits of glass in the head's reticent weather. Subject(s): Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists |
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