In praise of the contented minde (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
If all the ioyes that worldly wightes possesse,Were throughly scand, and pondred in their kindes,No man of wit, but iustly ...
If all the ioyes that worldly wightes possesse,Were throughly scand, and pondred in their kindes,No man of wit, but iustly ...
Long haue I wishid my Muse, to sound thy prayseThe worthe, the fame, the due, to the belonge,But she onlernd ...
Bury'd alive I dwell (Like a defiled Vestall) in a cell: This habitation is Better, then Hell: Here solitude I kisse, And mende what is ...
Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part,Remember well thy selfe, and think on me;Shine in those eyes ...
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
New formed Adam of the reddish earth, Exilde from Eden, Paradice of pleasure By Gods decree cast down to woes ...
Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine:The golden brood of great Apolloes wit,Those piteous plaints and sorrowful sad tine,Which late ...
The First Part'When Flora with her fragrant flowersBedeckt the earth so trim and gaye,And Neptune with his daintye showersCame to ...
Love, lift me up upon thy golden wingsFrom this base world unto thy heavens hight,Where I may see those admirable ...
Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throneSeest and rulest all things ev'n as one:The smallest ant or atome knows thy ...
Februarie: ?gloga Secunda. CVDDIE & THENOT.CVDDIE.AH for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage, These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage? The keene ...
?neas read what Dido wrote, And sent her this replie;And sought to cure the curelesse wound,Which Dido made to die.When ...
Fie on these Lydian tunes which blunt our sprightsAnd turne our gallants to Hermaphrodites:Giue me a Doricke touch, whose Semphony,And ...
In the third day of May,To Carleile did comeA kind curteous child, That cold much of wisdome.A kirtle and a ...
Come ye hither all, whose taste Is your waste;Save ...
Thou who condemnest Jewish hate,For choosing Barabbas a murderer Before the Lord ...
Lament eche one the blazing fire That downe from heaven came,And burnt S. Powles his lofty spyre With ...
Good Reader yeld thy listing earelet hart and minde be prest,For thinges right wondrous thou shalt heareand learne to choose ...
Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell; Whose practise shew'd goodness was possible, Who reach'd the full outstretch'd perfection Of Man, of ...
What is our life? a play of passion; Our mirth the musick of division: Our mother's wombes the tyring houses ...
THis holy season fit to fast and pray, Men to deuotion ought to be inclynd: therefore, I lykewise on so ...
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