Toggle navigation
Blacklight
Bookmarks (
0
)
History
Login
Search in
All Fields
Related People
Poem Title In Miscellany
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Blacklight
Toggle facets
Limit your search
Content type
Poem
10
Related People
Virgil
[remove]
10
John Dryden
6
Not attributed
4
Christopher Pitt
1
Joseph Warton
1
Poem Theme
Animals
[remove]
10
Mythology
3
Grief / sadness / melancholy
2
Death
1
Fear
1
Glories of past ages
1
Nature
1
Sex / relations between the sexes
1
Social order
1
War
1
Poem Genre / Form
Couplet
9
Extract / snippet from longer work
9
Imitation / translation / paraphrase
8
Triplet
3
Epic simile
2
Georgic
1
Search Constraints
Start Over
You searched for:
Poem Theme
Animals
Remove constraint Poem Theme: Animals
Related People
Virgil
Remove constraint Related People: Virgil
1
-
10
of
10
Number of results to display per page
10 per page
10
per page
20
per page
50
per page
100
per page
View results as:
List
Gallery
Search Results
1.
Describe we next the nature of the bees
First Line:
Describe we next the nature of the bees
Last Line:
And think it honour at his feet to die
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute) & Virgil (Absolute)
DMI number:
30628
2.
Freed from his keepers thus with broken reins
First Line:
Freed from his keepers thus with broken reins
Last Line:
Before his ample chest the frothy waters fly
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
12911
3.
Lo while he toils the galling yoke beneath
First Line:
Lo while he toils the galling yoke beneath
Last Line:
Headlong they fall and leave their lives above
Author:
Joseph Warton (Absolute)
DMI number:
30627
4.
Surprised with fear he fled along the field
First Line:
Surprised with fear he fled along the field
Last Line:
The mortal tumult mounts and thunders in the skies
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
28603
5.
The fiery courser when he hears from far
First Line:
The fiery courser when he hears from far
Last Line:
He bears his rider headlong on the foe
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
30626
6.
Then as a hungry lion who beholds
First Line:
Then as a hungry lion who beholds
Last Line:
With unchewed morsels while he churns the gore
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
12907
7.
Then to the tent his hasty court he sped
First Line:
Then to the tent his hasty court he sped
Last Line:
To raise this sated town this second Troy
DMI number:
28434
8.
To close the pomp Aethon the steed of state
First Line:
To close the pomp Aethon the steed of state
Last Line:
He walks and the big tears run rolling down his face
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
12899
9.
Whether the nobler horses breed you raise
First Line:
Whether the nobler horses breed you raise
Last Line:
Whilst ravished we the pleasing theme pursue
DMI number:
4816
10.
Wilt then by turns we hand to hand do try
First Line:
Wilt then by turns we hand to hand do try
Last Line:
What pawn thou'lt gage with her to countervail
DMI number:
44520