The Famous Historie: Cap. XV (Patrick Gordon Poems)
The Argument.A messinger vnto the King doth schoSad news that doth incense his wrathfull IreFrom Roxbrughs tours braue Douglas beats ...
Poems about storie (21 Poems)
The Famous Historie: Cap. XIV (Patrick Gordon Poems)
The Argument.The feild of Cree feirce Edwards praise beginnHe beats with fiftie fiftein hundreth foesThe thrid time Douglas doth his ...
The Muses Threnodie: Fifth Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
Yet bold attempt and dangerous, said I,Upon these kinde of men such chance to try,By nature inhumaine, much given to ...
The Letter of Cupid (Thomas Hoccleve Poems)
Cupido, unto whos commandementThe gentil kinrede of goddes on hyAnd peple infernal been obedient,And the mortel folk seruen bisyly,Of goddesse ...
The Muses Threnodie: Third Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
as we did behold the salmon sporting,We spied some countrie clowns to us resorting,Who striken were with sudden admiration,To see ...
The Muses Threnodie: Fourth Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
This time our boat passing too nigh the land,The whirling stream did make her run on sand;Aluif, we cry'd, but ...
My Name Was Martha (Martha Moulsworth Poems)
A Renaissance Woman'sAutobiographical PoemNouember the 10th 1632The Memorandum of Martha MoulsworthWiddoweThe tenth day of the winter month NouemberA day which ...
A Dittie (John Lyly Poems)
Behold her lockes like wiers of beaten gold,her eyes like starres that twinkle in the skie,Her heavenly face not framd ...
The Church-Porch. Perirrhanterium (George Herbert Poems)
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
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 ...
Anelida and Arcite (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
Thou ferse god of armes, Mars the rede,That in the frosty contre called Trace,Within thy grisly temple ful of dredeHonoured ...
The Description Of Cooke-ham (Aemilia Lanyer Poems)
Farewell (sweet Cooke-ham) where I first obtain'dGrace from that Grace where perfit Grace remain'd;And where the Muses gaue their full ...
Satyre Preludium (Edward Guilpin Poems)
Fie on these Lydian tunes which blunt our sprightsAnd turne our gallants to Hermaphrodites:Giue me a Doricke touch, whose Semphony,And ...
King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
I read that once in AffricaA princely wight did raine,Who had to name Cophetua, As poets they did faine.From natures ...
Quando? (Ferdinando Fontana Poems)
(A DINO MARAZZANI)Quando i giorni verrannoDella malinconia,E morira' d'affannoNel mio cranio la giovin fantasia,Io pensero' alle notti,Che passai con me ...
The Bag (George Herbert Poems)
Away despair; my gracious Lord doth heare, Though windes and waves assault my keel, He doth preserve it: ...
The Bunch Of Grapes (George Herbert Poems)
Joy, I did lock thee up: but some bad man Hath let thee out again:And ...
The Holy Scriptures (George Herbert Poems)
Oh Book! infinite sweetnesse! let my heart Suck ev'ry letter, and a hony gain, Precious for any grief ...
Self-Condemnation (George Herbert Poems)
Thou who condemnest Jewish hate,For choosing Barabbas a murderer Before the Lord ...
Complaining (George Herbert Poems)
Do not beguile my heart, Because thou artMy ...
The Windows (George Herbert Poem)
Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word? He is a brittle crazie glasse: Yet in thy temple thou dost ...