Katherine Philips Poems (26 Poems)
La Solitude De St. Amant /La Solitude A Alcidon / (Katherine Philips Poems)
1O! Solitude, my sweetest choicePlaces devoted to the night,Remote from tumult, and from noise,How you my restless thoughts delight!O Heavens! what content is mine,To see those trees which have appear’dFrom the nativity of Time,And which hall ages have rever’d,To look … Continue reading
In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbigh-shire, (Katherine Philips Poems)
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude,Yet to be silent were Ingratitude,And Folly too; for if PosterityShould never hear of such a one as thee,And onely know this Age’s brutish fame,They would think Vertue nothing but a Name.And … Continue reading
A Revery (Katherine Philips Poems)
DEATH is a leveller; beauty and kings,And conquerours, and all those glorious things,Are tumbled to their graves in one rude heap,Like common dust as quiet and as cheap.At greater changes who would wonder then, Since Kingdoms have their fates as … Continue reading
Orinda To Lucasia (Katherine Philips Poems)
ADIEU dear object of my Love’s excess,And with thee all my hopes of happiness,With the same fervent and unchanged heartWhich did it’s whole self once to thee impart,(And which though fortune has so sorely bruis’d,Would suffer more, to be from … Continue reading
Epitaph On Her Son H. P. At St. Syth’s Church Wher Her Body Also Lies Interred (Katherine Philips Poems)
What on Earth deserves our trust ? Youth and Beauty both are dust. Long we gathering are with pain, What one moment calls again. Seven years childless, marriage past, A Son, a son is born at last : So exactly lim’d and fair. Full of good Spirits, … Continue reading
An Answer to another persuading a Lady to Marriage (Katherine Philips Poems)
Forbear, bold youth; all ‘s heaven here, And what you do averTo others courtship may appear, ’Tis sacrilege to her.She is a public deity; And were ‘t not very oddShe should dispose herself to be A petty household god? First make the sun in … Continue reading
Against Love (Katherine Philips Poems)
Hence Cupid! with your cheating toys, Your real griefs, and painted joys, Your pleasure which itself destroys. Lovers like men in fevers burn and rave, And only what will injure them do crave. Men’s weakness makes love so severe, They … Continue reading
A Retir’d Friendship (Katherine Philips Poems)
Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre, Where kindly mingling Souls a while, Let’s innocently spend an houre, And at all serious follys smile Here is no quarrelling for Crowns, Nor fear of changes in our fate; No trembling at the … Continue reading
The World (Katherine Philips Poems)
Wee falsely think it due unto our friends, That we should grieve for their too early ends: He that surveys the world with serious eys, And stripps Her from her grosse and weak disguise, Shall find ’tis injury to mourn … Continue reading
Friendships Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia (Katherine Philips Poems)
Come, my Lucasia, since we see That miracles Men’s Faith do move, By wonder and by prodigy To the dull angry World let’s prove There’s a Religion in our Love. For Though we were design’d t’agree, That Fate no liberty … Continue reading
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