"To Lucasta, Going to the Warres" is a 1649 poem by
Richard Lovelace. It was published in the collection ''Lucasta'' by Lovelace of that year. The initial poems were addressed to Lucasta, not clearly identified with any real-life woman, under the titles "Going beyond the Seas" and "Going to the Warres", on a chivalrous note.
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To Althea, from Prison
"To Althea, from Prison" is a poem written by Richard Lovelace in 1642. The poem is one of Lovelace's best-known works, and its final stanza's first line "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage" is often quoted. Lovelace wrote the ...
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1640 in poetry
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* Early? – ''Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent.'' is published (posthumously) by John Benson in Londo ...
, the year ''Lucasta'' was written
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1649 in poetry, the year the poem was published
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