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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VIRTUE Matches Found: 140 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "FOOLED THOU MUST BE, THOUGH WISEST OF THE WISE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 friendits 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 |
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