Blacklight

Search Constraints

Start Over
You searched for: Poem Genre / Form Extract / snippet from longer work Remove constraint Poem Genre / Form: Extract / snippet from longer work Related People Sir William Davenant Remove constraint Related People: Sir William Davenant
| 161 - 170 of 268 |
Number of results to display per page
View results as:
List Gallery

Search Results

161. Suppose | She be a virgin alas poor green thing what

First Line:
Suppose | She be a virgin alas poor green thing what
Last Line:
From an aged wall and swallow it most greedily
DMI number:
41505

162. Such days of joy before the marriage day

First Line:
Such days of joy before the marriage day
Last Line:
For laws by force customs by pleasure last
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
14387

163. Some princes that they may the rumour gain

First Line:
Some princes that they may the rumour gain
Last Line:
As all with joy walk out to see the spring
DMI number:
40833

164. Temperate in what does needy life preserve

First Line:
Temperate in what does needy life preserve
Last Line:
Ready as pilots waked with sudden winds
DMI number:
41248

165. Th' ambitious maid at scornful distance stood

First Line:
Th' ambitious maid at scornful distance stood
Last Line:
Ambition is the mind's immodesty
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
13519

166. The ambitious statesman not himself admires

First Line:
The ambitious statesman not himself admires
Last Line:
Whom even the proud envy the humble fear
DMI number:
41200

167. Surely one

First Line:
Surely one
Last Line:
Only his virtue is he will not outlast it
DMI number:
40717

168. That courage which the vain for valour take

First Line:
That courage which the vain for valour take
Last Line:
This noble valour is and this is yours
DMI number:
41431

169. Tell me why heaven first did suffer sin

First Line:
Tell me why heaven first did suffer sin
Last Line:
Which strive to guide her where they see no way
DMI number:
41021

170. That to great faithless wits can truth dispense

First Line:
That to great faithless wits can truth dispense
Last Line:
When they have weakened it cry twill not hold
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
14686