The Famous Historie: Cap. X (Patrick Gordon Poems)
The Argument.Whill Fortune houeres doutfull of hir cho'sNor peace nor warre on ether syd displaysHard fait anon prepaireth greatter voesGreat ...
Poems about stirre (20 Poems)
Farewell Court (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
I Youth, when Fancie bare the sway, Within my peeuish braine:And Reasons lore by no meanes could My wanton will restraine:My gadding ...
To The Envied (John Andrewes Poems)
Is it not strange, that such can liue, whose foodeis dres'd by Enuie, and with poyson mixt,Whose heart's the kitchin, ...
“Take heede, my Muse, what? patroniz’d by none?” (James Day Poems)
Take heede, my Muse, what? patroniz'd by none?Oben't o're bold; can infants stand alone?Make haste unto some sheltring place, or ...
60 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Love as well can make abidingIn a faithfull Shepheards brestAs in Princes: whose thoughts slidingLike swift riuers never rest.Change to ...
97 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Juno still jealous of her husband Jove,Descended from above, on earth to try,Whether she there could find his chosen Love,Which ...
Book VII (Arthur Hall Poems)
Nowe warlike Hector doth depart with Paris out the towne,They willing both in armes to shewe some deede of great ...
The Minte of deformities (C G Gent Poems)
No Thrasion harpe, but a steeld furious whippe, no Nightingales, but Mandrakes shreeking sound,Adastors snakes to make these Thrasors skippe: ...
An Hymne In Honour Of Beautie (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Ah! whither, Love! wilt thou now carry mee?What wontlesse fury dost thou now inspireInto my feeble breast, too full of ...
An Hymne of Heavenly Love (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Love, lift me up upon thy golden wingsFrom this base world unto thy heavens hight,Where I may see those admirable ...
The Church Militant (George Herbert Poems)
Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throneSeest and rulest all things ev'n as one:The smallest ant or atome knows thy ...
The Shepheardes Calender: December (Edmund Spenser Poems)
December: ?gloga Duodecima.He gentle shepheard satte beside a springe, All in the shadowe of a bushy brere, That Colin hight, ...
Longing (George Herbert Poems)
With sick and famisht eyes,With doubling knees and weary bones, ...
Assurance (George Herbert Poems)
O Spitefull bitter thought!Bitterly spitefull thought! Couldst thou inventSo high a torture? Is ...
Employment [II] (George Herbert Poems)
He that is weary, let him sit. My soul would stirre And trade ...
A Parodie (George Herbert Poems)
Soul's joy, when thou art gone, And I alone, ...
Dooms-Day (George Herbert Poems)
Come away, Make no delay.Summon all the dust to ...
John Donne – The Paradox (John Donne Poem)
No Lover saith, I love, nor any other Can judge a perfect Lover; Hee thinkes that else none can, nor ...
The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto IV (excerpts) (Edmund Spenser Poems)
CANTO IIII To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa guides the faithfull knight, Where brothers death to wreak Sansjoy doth chalenge ...
Sonnet LXXXVI (Edmund Spenser Poems)
VEnemous toung tipt with vile adders sting, Of that selfe kynd with which the Furies tell theyr snaky heads doe ...