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 ...
Arts are th' Egyptian Handmaydes, to the Queene Of sciences: Moses the chiefe of Prophets, and of Men, Did these possesse: Our moderation must ...
Haste homewardes, man, draw neerer to the shore,The skies doe scowle, the windes doe blow amaine:The raged rockes, with rumbling ...
Reueale (O tongue) the secretes of my thought,Tel forth the game that perfect friendship brings:Expresse what ioyes by her to ...
My heauy heart in dolours drownde, Consumes and pines away:And for me wreth, nought can be found, To cause my cares decay.Yee ...
Hast thou desire thy golden dayes to spend,In blisfull state exempt from all annoyes?So liue, as if death now thy ...
If thou wilt shun the pricking briers,And thornie cares that folly breedes,Put bridle to thy fond desires,Make reason mistres of ...
Man is no Microcosme, and they detract From his dimensions, who apply This narrow terme to his immensitye: Heaven, Earth, and Hell, in ...
O dearest eyes, the lights, and guides of Love,The joyes of Cupid, who himselfe borne blinde,To your bright shining, doth ...
Sleepe fye possesse me not, nor doe not frightMe with thy heavy, and thy deathlike might:For counterfetting's wilder then death's ...
No Thrasion harpe, but a steeld furious whippe, no Nightingales, but Mandrakes shreeking sound,Adastors snakes to make these Thrasors skippe: ...
I SING of deadly dolorous debate,Stir'd vp through wrathfull Nemesis despight,Betwixt two mightie ones of great estate,Drawne into armes, and ...
Love, that long since hast to thy mighty powrePerforce subdude my poor captived hart,And raging now therein with restlesse stowre,Doest ...
GENIUS.Time, Fate, and Fortune have at length conspir'd,To give our Age the day so much desir'd.What all the minutes, houres, ...
Farewell (sweet Cooke-ham) where I first obtain'dGrace from that Grace where perfit Grace remain'd;And where the Muses gaue their full ...
Let that time a thousand moneths endure,Which brings from heaven the sweet and silver showers,And joys the earth (of comfort ...
Now ponder well, you parents deare,These wordes which I shall write;A doleful story you shall heare,In time brought forth to ...
Deare friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad:And in my faintings I presume your loveWill more complie, then ...
What thing is that, nor felt nor seene Till it bee given? a present for a Queene: A fine conceite ...
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
And ye high heauens, the temple of the gods, In which a thousand torches flaming bright Doe burne, that to ...
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