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Last Line: "then be the fool of virtue, not of vice"
Subject(s): Fools;virtue; Idiots


A CHARACTER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be this philander's praise -- a well-tuned mind
Last Line: Taste of the sacred spring from which they flow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Virtue; Purity


A FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall essenc'd coxcombs who from toilettes
Last Line: Own the supreme omnipotence of gold.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Sin; Vanity; Virtue


A HINT FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD SATIRE OF JUVENAL, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A neighbor, now, shall aged sibyl have
Last Line: Virtue lie buried in oblivion?
Subject(s): Virtue


A NYMPH'S SONG; IN PRAISE OF THE LOVER OF VIRTUE, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentle swain, good speed befall thee
Last Line: Shall by some be thought restored.
Subject(s): Virtue


A SONG, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, prithee now, what does it signify
Last Line: To be cheerful and thankful for all.
Subject(s): Praise; Virtue; Wisdom


A THANKSGIVING FOR F.D. MAURICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The veil hath lifted and hath fallen; and him
Last Line: His spirit send thou back in thine again.
Subject(s): Friendship; God; Humility; Maurice, Frederick Denison (1805-1872); Piety; Praise; Virtue


A TRUST I KEEP, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A trust I keep, which time may not efface
Last Line: With thankful heart that he may strive at all!
Subject(s): Trust; Truth; Virtue


ALCIDA: VERSES WRITTEN ON TWO TABLES AT A TOMB, ON THE FIRST TABLE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The graces in their glory never gave
Last Line: Than virtue's glory which in her remains.
Subject(s): Virtue; Women


AMORETTI: 17, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glorious portrait of that angel's face
Last Line: That can expresse the life of things indeed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Variant Title(s): Her Portrait
Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue


AMORETTI: 39, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet smile! The daughter of the queen of love
Last Line: Seem'd every bit which thenceforth I did eat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Virtue


AN ELEGY (1), by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though beauty be the mark of praise
Last Line: What I in her am grieved to want!
Subject(s): Virtue


AN ELEGY ON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF THOMAS AYLEWORTH, SLAIN AT CROYDON, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is goodness shortest liv'd? Doth nature bring
Last Line: Thou canst not lie without a monument.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Ayleworth, Thomas (d. 1615); Murder; Virtue


AN EPISTLE TO HER GRACE, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Excuse me, madam, if amidst your tears
Last Line: A great mind suffers. Virtue virtue loves.
Subject(s): Churchill, John. 1st Duke Of Marlborough; Virtue


AN EPISTLE TO WILLIAM HOGARTH, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Amongst the sons of men how few are known
Last Line: Reynolds, in time, may be like hogarth now.
Subject(s): Envy; Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Paintings & Painters; Vanity; Virtue


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


ARCADY TOMBEAU, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter chain / a loop an
Subject(s): Virtue


ARCADY TOMBEAU, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter chain %a loop an
Last Line: What do you say %to virtue %pal
Subject(s): Virtue


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 52, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A strife is grown between virtue and love
Last Line: That virtue but that body grant to us.
Subject(s): Love; Virtue


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 71, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who will in fairest book of nature know
Last Line: "but ah,"" desire still cries, ""give me some food."
Variant Title(s): "yes, But;""who Will In Fairest Booke Of Nature Know"";
Subject(s): Desire; Virtue


BEAUTY, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Much bunk is sprung concerning beauty
Last Line: "warts."
Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Virtue; Women


BRAVE ANGUS CAMERON; THE WINNER OF THE QUEEN'S PRIZE, WIMBLEDON, 1866, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brave cameron, it needs not the lore of the seer
Last Line: Thy laurels in age be as green as in youth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Victory; Virtue; Youth


CAELIA: SONNETS: 2, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why might I not for once be of that sect
Last Line: Since to my former flame it adds so much.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Virtue


CHANT ROYAL OF HIGH VIRTUE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who lives in suit of armour pent
Last Line: Virtue is that becrowns a man!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Virtue


CHARM AGAINST THE VIRTUOUS, by CAROL-ANN LUMLEY RUMENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a phoney cow you think's your friend, but her milk will give
Last Line: And take no shit from that holy cow, but show her the old barn-door
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Virtue


CHEAP AND DEAR, by JOHN OWEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though vice be common, we pay dear for vice
Last Line: While virtue, rare, is yet of little price.
Subject(s): Evil; Virtue


COMMON SENSE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strive not for what beyond thine utmost striving lies
Last Line: His changeless friend—its name is common sense.
Subject(s): Virtue


CONTENTION BETWEEN FOUR MAIDS CONCERNING ... ADDED MOST PERFECTION, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Our fairest garland, made of beauty's flowers
Last Line: If not, she 's rich because she is content.
Subject(s): Perfection; Virtue; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


COUNSEL FOR KINGS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be, like a noble prince, in love with fame!
Last Line: God's justice, higher than thou, should punish thee. . . .
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fame; Love; Punishment; Virtue; Reputation


CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON HER RESEMBLANCE, by FRANCIS KYNASTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive me cynthia, if (as poets use
Last Line: In it, as thy fair cheeks do in the rose.
Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Virtue


EASY, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1981 I was on a train in milan
Last Line: If it was true, if american girls were easy
Subject(s): Rape; Virtue


EPISTLE TO LORD BYRON: VIRTUE PROTESTS, by JOSEPH COTTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From thy compeers in genius wisely learn
Last Line: To know that I shall ever reach the height!
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Genius; Poetry & Poets; Virtue; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


EPISTLE TO THE LADY LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though virtue be the same when low she stands
Last Line: By which, when all consumes, your fame shall live.
Subject(s): Bedford, Lucy, Countess Of (1581-1627); Fame; Nature; Virtue; Women; Russell, Lucy, Countess Of Bedford; Reputation


EPITAPH FOR MRS. PAKINGTON, D. 1667; CHADDESLEY CORBETT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas providence preserved this marble here
Last Line: Yet (maugre death) her fame continewes bright. %vertue's a glow-worm, and will shine by night
Subject(s): Virtue


EPODE, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not to know vice at all, and keep true state
Last Line: Man may securely sinne, but safely never.
Variant Title(s): The Forrest: 11. Epode
Subject(s): Desire; Virtue


FABLE: THE BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My dears, 'tis said in days of old
Last Line: The wicked, wanton sparrow died.
Subject(s): Bees; Fables; Insects; Sparrows; Virtue; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs


FABLE: THE SCHOLAR AND THE CAT, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Labour entitles man to eat
Last Line: Instruct vain supercilious man.'
Subject(s): Activity; Animals; Cats; Fables; Reason; Scholarship & Scholars; Virtue; Exercise; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


FAERIE QUEENE (COMPLETE), by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo I the man, whose muse whilome did maske
Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabbaoths sight!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights And Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Virtue


HAPPINESS, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One morning in the month of may
Last Line: "if virtue guides thee here!"
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Happiness; Love; Nature; Virtue; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


IDEA: 6, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many paltry, foolish, painted things
Last Line: Still to survive in my immortal song.
Variant Title(s): "idea's Mirror: 6;i Give Thee Eternity;immortality In Song;her Fame;""how Many Paltry, Foolish, Painted Things"";
Subject(s): Love; Virtue


IDEA: TO THE READER OF THESE SONNETS, INTRODUCTION, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into these loves, who but for passion looks
Last Line: That cannot long one fashion entertain.
Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Virtue


IPHIGENIA IN TAURUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath your leafy gloom, ye waving boughs
Last Line: So now, from living here, a second death.
Subject(s): Truth; Virtue


JINNY THE JUST, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Released from the noise of the butcher and baker
Last Line: And make thy concern by reflection his own.
Subject(s): Death; Virtue; Dead, The


JUBILATE AGNO: GARDNER'S TALENT, by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardeners talent
Last Line: For the poor man's nosegay is an introduction to a prince.
Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Virtue; Theology


LIFE'S MIRROR, by MARY AINGE DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave
Last Line: And the best will come back to you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Virtue; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


LORD, MAKE ME PURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Lord, keep me so
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Prayer; Virtue


LOSS AND GAIN, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Virtue runs before the muse
Last Line: And better his desire.
Subject(s): Virtue


MEN ARE HEAVEN'S PIERS; THEY EVERMORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How far a little virtue goes
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Male-female Relationships; Virtue


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


MUSOPHILUS: DEDICATION TO MASTER FULKE GREVILLE (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I have erred or run a course unfit
Last Line: Who herein holds an int'rest in my fame.
Subject(s): Errors; Fortune; Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke; Praise; Virtue; Mistakes; Fallacies


MY GOOD FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pierone's inc. / riverside and post - spokane, washington 99201
Last Line: Carolyn
Subject(s): Biography; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Virtue; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 7. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (2), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heav'n gives the needful, but neglected, call
Last Line: Let the grave listen; -- and be graver still.
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Immortality; Life; Night; Reason; Soul; Virtue; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 19. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE SECOND EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If fancy cannot err which virtue guides
Last Line: In thee, laura, then fancy cannot err.
Subject(s): Virtue


OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 29, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just beguiler
Last Line: Jet not still secure.
Subject(s): Virtue; Love


ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To tinkling brooks, to twilight shades
Last Line: "virtue alone is bliss compleat."
Subject(s): Nature; Pleasure; Solitude; Virtue; Loneliness


ODE II, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear youth, to hoarded wealth a foe
Last Line: And spurn that wealth which misers prize.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Greed; Virtue; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes


ODE: THE DISCOVERY, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take wing, my muse! From shore to shore
Last Line: Yet doubt of light and heat.
Subject(s): Virtue


ODES III, 3, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The just man's single-purposed mind
Last Line: That may but mar a mighty theme.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Virtue


ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now six and thirty rapid years are fled
Last Line: "but the fair guerdon is immortal fame."
Subject(s): Birthdays; Fame; Happiness; Reason; Virtue; Reputation; Joy; Delight; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


ON WOMEN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three talents to the fair belong
Last Line: While thus th' inchanted rashly help it on.
Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Virtue; Women; Male-female Relations


PARABLE, by RALPH WARD DOUBERLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flowers are such tender things
Last Line: And shoulders down the crowded street.
Subject(s): Evil; Virtue


PETER'S DENIAL OF HIS MASTER, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tho' all forsake thee, master, yet not I
Last Line: And of its height humility the base.
Subject(s): Humility; Virtue


PHASES OF GIRLHOOD, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With fondest love and sweetest pleasure
Last Line: He still preserves my virtuous girl.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Girls; Growth; Mothers & Daughters; Virtue; Infants


PIETY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh liquid moon that silvers the rims
Last Line: I come! I come!
Subject(s): Charm; Flowers; Graves; Love; Moon; Piety; Roses; Virtue; Tombs; Tombstones


R.S.S., by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All-worshipped gold! Thou mighty mystery!
Last Line: Nor delia can avail to make me blessed.
Subject(s): Love; Virtue; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


ROADSIDE POEMS: BETTER THINGS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Better to smell the violet
Last Line: Than the king of all the earth.
Subject(s): God; Happiness; Virtue; Joy; Delight


RUSSELL GURNEY, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that high country
Last Line: As, whence thou cam'st, it knew the lofty place.
Subject(s): Friendship; Praise; Scotland; Virtue


SAINT MACARIUS OF THE DESERT, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good saint macarius, full of grace
Last Line: New in the kingdom of the lord.
Subject(s): Virtue; Heaven; Saints


SATIRE: 10, SELS., by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What then should man pray for? What is't that he
Last Line: Vertue alone can make a happy life
Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal
Subject(s): Virtue


SATIRE: 2.2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Learn, o my friends, the quality of virtue
Last Line: Happy and confront adversity %with an undaunted soul
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Virtue


SATIRE: 6, by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Has winter caus'd thee, friend, to change thy seat
Last Line: Thy heap, where I shall put an end to mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Persius
Subject(s): Virtue; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


SCUFFLED DUST, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lean white birches of the moon
Last Line: What came after I do not know.
Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Apples; Fruit; Insects; Spiders; Virtue; Bugs


SELF CONTROL, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A worthy triumph; one that shines afar
Last Line: Its rule assert, sublime in self-control.
Subject(s): Life; Self-control; Virtue


SHADOWS OF CRIME, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His early youth was formed in virtue's way
Last Line: The mantle of the tomb is on him cast.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Evil; Temptation; Virtue; Youth


SONG: 25, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Live thou gladly if so thou may
Last Line: Vain is all trust of man's refuge.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Despair; Virtue


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 8, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, dorinda, I adore
Last Line: I divorce myself for ever.
Subject(s): Duplicity; Fear; Hope; Love; Virtue; Deceit; Optimism


SONNET, by MARY LOCKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis dead of night; storms rend the troubled air
Alternate Author Name(s): Mister, Mrs. William
Subject(s): Night; Virtue; Bedtime


SONNET, by MARY LOCKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hate the spring in parti-coloured vest
Last Line: All nature mourn, and share my misery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mister, Mrs. William
Subject(s): Night; Virtue; Bedtime


SONNET: 46, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I survey the harvest of the year
Last Line: How beauty can be true and virtue fair.
Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue


SONNET: OF VIRTUE, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flower of virtue is the heart's content
Last Line: (d. G. Rossetti)
Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo
Subject(s): Virtue


THE AUTHOR, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Accursed the man, whom fate ordains, in spite
Last Line: And will, though poor without, have peace within.
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Christianity; Education; Hypocrisy; Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771); Virtue


THE CHANT OF ARDAN THE PICT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O colum and monks of christ
Last Line: Birth, sorrow, pain, weariness, death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Monks; Peace; Virtue


THE CLIMB TO VIRTUE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Virtue dwells, so runs the tale
Last Line: On to the height in manliness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Virtue


THE COMPARISON, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest, thy tresses are not threads of gold
Last Line: So be within as fair, as good, as true.
Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue


THE CONFERENCE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree
Last Line: Who lives to reason, and who dies a man.
Subject(s): Conscience; England; Justice; Politics & Government; Reason; Virtue; English; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE DEATH OF THE VIRTUOUS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet is the scene when virtue dies
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Virtue; Death; Dead, The


THE DEFENCE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why slightest thou what I approve?
Last Line: To love by judgement, not by sense.
Subject(s): Love; Virtue


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske
Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine
Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity
Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight
Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So oft as I with state of present time
Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde
Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele
Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 85. VAIN VIRTUES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the sorriest thing that enters hell?
Last Line: The sin still blithe on earth that sent them there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Melancholy; Virtue; Dejection


THE MEASURE OF A MAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not - 'how did he die?' but - 'how did he live?'
Last Line: "but -- ""how many were sorry when he passed away?"
Subject(s): Human Behavior;truth;virtue; Conduct Of Life;human Nature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 103, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No need to attack the faults of others
Last Line: Children must see for themselves
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Virtue


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 121, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Building sky-high pavilions is useless
Last Line: At least don't be crooked as a hook
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Vanity; Virtue


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 152, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If others are worthy accept them
Last Line: And ignore pu-shang's advice
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Virtue


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 187, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the saddest thing in the world
Last Line: With moonlight and wind for his home
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Sin; Virtue; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 189, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Live without making visits
Last Line: They whittle it into splinters
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Virtue


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 190, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One bottle is cast in gold
Last Line: Cultivation begins today
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Virtue; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 2, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All you who read my poems
Last Line: Do it as fast as an order
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Virtue; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 216, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A child who doesn't have a teacher
Last Line: Don't become a laughingstock
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Education; Teaching & Teachers; Virtue; Educators; Professors


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 244, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All my life too lazy to work
Last Line: Wherever you are it's alert
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Virtue; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 76, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They don't walk the noble path
Last Line: How will they deal with disaster
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Punishment; Virtue


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 16, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My poems are poems alright
Last Line: They'll make it much more fun
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Virtue


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 25, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keeping your mind wide-open
Last Line: They expect wealth and fame
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Generosity; Kindness; Virtue


THE POWER OF SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Columns uplifted high
Last Line: Throughout the earth.
Subject(s): Earth; Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Virtue; World; Reputation


THE PURE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a man called pure
Last Line: "and understand and enjoy them."
Subject(s): Virtue


THE PURIFICATION OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Purity born of a maid
Last Line: Her god and redeemer and child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Virtue; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary


THE REAL YOU, by EVA LOUISE ZOLLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I told you that I loved you
Last Line: Will the you that's left be you?
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Virtue


THE TRANSLATED WAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art like unto a flower
Last Line: So fine and clean and pure.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Flowers; Translating & Interpreting; Virtue


THE TWINS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good and bad are in my heart
Last Line: That the other was the best.
Subject(s): Evil; Identity; Men; Twins; Virtue


THE UNSPOTTED ONES, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think you, demoiselle demure
Last Line: Ah, but not half so pure as fire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Passion; Virtue


THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you should search all scotland round
Last Line: May just help you to begin it.
Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Epiphany; Ignorance; Lakes; Scotland; Shipwrecks; Soul; Virtue; Twelfth Night; Dullness; Stupdity; Pools; Ponds


THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON OF KEW, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which destroyed that young person of kew
Subject(s): Virtue; Youth


THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whiteness most white
Last Line: Whiteness most white.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Virtue; White (color)


THOSE DOUBTFUL DON'T, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My parents told me not to smoke; / I don't
Last Line: You wouldn't think I have much fun; / I don't
Subject(s): Boredom;virtue; Ennui


THOUGH ALL GREAT DEEDS, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though all great deeds were proved but fables fine
Last Line: Would this remain, -- to live, as though they were.
Subject(s): God; Soul; Virtue


TO ALL VERTUOUS LADIES IN GENERALL, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each blessed lady that in virtue spends
Last Line: But chiefly those as thou hast graced so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia
Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue; Women


TO AURELIO SAFFI, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To god and man be simply true
Last Line: Prospering onward without end.
Subject(s): Friendship; God; Love; Praise; Truth; Virtue


TO MRS. AIKIN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You whose clear life, one fair, well-ordered day
Last Line: Receive the only screen you e'er can need!
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Virtue


TO THE LADIE ANNE, COUNTESSE OF DORCET, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To you I dedicate this worke of grace
Last Line: Whose worth is more than can be shew'd by art.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia
Subject(s): Clifford, Anne. Countess Of Pembroke; Virtue


TO THE LADIE LUCIE, COUNTESSE OF BEDFORD, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Me thinkes I see faire virtue readie stand
Last Line: May be with his eternall glory crownd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia
Subject(s): Lucy, Countess Of Bedford (d. 1627); Virtue


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 VIRTUE, by ARISTOTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Virtue, so hardly pursued by men
Last Line: Stayed firm to the end.
Subject(s): Virtue


TWELVE SONNETS: 10. THY WHITENESS, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is thy whiteness, love, which whiteneth me
Last Line: And white as thine own love my urgent song.
Subject(s): Virtue


USELESS VIRTUES, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At midnight in the backyard hot tub
Last Line: The body is pierced with cankers, and, on every horizon, %snow masses its chronic obedience
Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R.
Subject(s): Virtue


VERSES TO MISS GRAHAM OF FINTRY, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where the scottish muse immortal lives
Last Line: And heaven-born piety her sanction seals.
Subject(s): Virtue


VERSES WRITTEN IN A GARDEN, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See how that pair of billing doves
Last Line: The pedant priest, and giddy rake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Government; Nature; Pleasure; Religion; Virtue; Theology


VERTUE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each must, in vertue, strive for to excell
Last Line: That man lives twice, that lives the first life well.
Subject(s): Virtue


VERTUE BEST UNITED, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By so much, vertue is the lesse
Last Line: By how much, neere to singlenesse.
Subject(s): Virtue


VERTUE IS SENSIBLE OF SUFFERING, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though a wise man all pressures can sustaine
Last Line: He feeles when packs do pinch him; and the where.
Subject(s): Virtue


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


VIRTUE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "poor virtue, she's but words - a vain romance"
Last Line: I took for truth; a slave of circumstance
Subject(s): Virtue


VIRTUE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Virtue! Why first she brings not in
Last Line: Should fools thy lustre praise.
Subject(s): Virtue


VIRTUE THE BEST MONUMENT, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not caesar's birth made caesar to survive, / but caesar's virtues .. Yet alive
Last Line: Or faintly beating, show them dead or ill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Subject(s): Virtue


VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE], by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright
Last Line: Then chiefly lives.
Variant Title(s): Memento Mori;sweet Day;virtue [immortal];sweet Life
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Mortality; Soul; Transience; Virtue; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Impermanence


WHAT IS'T TO US WHO GUIDES THE STATE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And drink and sing to those we love
Subject(s): Virtue