To Mistress Margaret Hussey (John Skelton Poems)
MERRY Margaret As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower:With solace and gladness,Much mirth and no madness,All good and no ...
MERRY Margaret As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower:With solace and gladness,Much mirth and no madness,All good and no ...
By saint Mary, my lady,Your mammy and your daddyBrought forth a goodly baby!My maiden Isabel,Reflaring rosabel,The ruddy rosary,The sovereign rosemary,The ...
Merry Margaret,As midsummer flower,Gentle as falcon,Or hawk of the tower;With solace and gladness,Much mirth and no madness,All good and no ...
Soft-throated South, breathing of summer's ease(Sweet breath, whereof the violet's life is made!)Through lips moist-warm, as thou hadst lately stayed'Mong ...
When the shy star goes forth in heavenAll maidenly, disconsolate,Hear you amid the drowsy evenOne who is singing by your ...
The Lady Lorraine was sweet and fair; The Lady Lorraine was young; She had wonderful eyes and glorious hair, And ...
Do I believe, sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me,And what their followers' band boldly and readily ...
With nice observance of the rulesAnd precepts of the pastoral schools,A shepherdess, as fair as pure, ,Beneath a hedgerow sat ...
Wellington.HERE, where the surges of a world of seaBreak on our bastioned walls with league-long sweep,Four fair young queens their ...
AIR--_"Todlin' hame."_ I neither got promise of siller nor land With the bonnie wee darling who gave me ...
I have found out a gift for my fair; I know where the fossils abound,Where the footprints of Aves declare ...
Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say, Though late it be, though lily-time be past, Though all ...
Maidenly lake, fathomless lake,Stay as you were once, overgrown with rushes,Idling with a reflected cloud, for my sakeWhom your shore ...
Ah, Manon, say, why is it we Are one and all so fain of thee? Thy rich red beauty debonnaire ...
Here they come the clever ladiesin their detachable Peter Pan collarstheir fringes their sober meinhiding such anger suchsubtle vices dizzying ...
When the shy star goes forth in heaven All maidenly, disconsolate, Hear you amid the drowsy even One who is ...
(* In the original, Schwager, which has the twofold meaning of brother-in-law and postilion.) HASTEN thee, ...
TRUE hearted was he, the sad swain o' the Yarrow, And fair are the maids on the banks of the ...
"Do I believe," sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me, And what their followers' band boldly and ...
I love you - though it makes me beat, Though vain it seems, and melancholy - Yet to this shameless, ...
Maidenly lake, fathomless lake, Stay as you were once, overgrown with rushes, Idling with a reflected cloud, for my sake ...
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