The Exequy (Henry King Poems)
Accept, thou shrine of my dead saint,Instead of dirges, this complaint;And for sweet flow'rs to crown thy hearse,From thy griev'd ...
Accept, thou shrine of my dead saint,Instead of dirges, this complaint;And for sweet flow'rs to crown thy hearse,From thy griev'd ...
LINES._Written for a Young Gentleman to speak at the Audit at St. Saviour'sSchool, Southwark, after the Battle of Trafalgar_. --------While others, ...
THE PLEASVRE OF RETIREMENT. The Reinvitation. THEOPHISA's fill'd wth Sweetness, & so Fair: Her Eyes so mild, her Breath perfumes ...
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD. The Abnegation.ARGUMENT. What's potent Opulencie? What's remiss Voluptuousness? World, what's All This, To That the ...
"WHAT! dost thou pray that the outgone tide be rolled back on the strand, The flame be rekindled that mounted ...
With what sharp checks I in myself am shent, When into Reason's audit I do go: And by just counts ...
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend, And being ...
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And ...
Against that time, if ever that time come, When I shall see thee frown on my defects, When as thy ...
FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this ...
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time's fickle glass his fickle hour; Who hast by ...
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And ...
Against that time, if ever that time come, When I shall see thee frown on my defects, When as thy ...
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour; Who hast by ...
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