Ralph Knevet Poems on Fate & Destiny (14 Poems)

Rhodon And Iris. Act I (Ralph Knevet Poems)

SCEN. 1.Poneria, Agnostus.Ag. Is the worlds eye not yet asleepe? Po. Hath Jove not yet put on his starry night-cap? No; nor Juno her spangl’d smocke? Ag. What, hath Hesperus forgot to light heavens tapers up? Or be the Charret wheeles of Night o’re loaden with the … Continue reading →

Rhodon And Iris. Act V (Ralph Knevet Poems)

SCEN. 1.Acanthus, Anthophotus.An. Thou speak’st of things beyond beleefe, Acanthus. Ac. Too true it is, I shrewdly feare, For every circumstance makes it appeare That Rhodon in the mirtle grove, last night, Had private conference with Iris, From whom (it seemes) he tooke the venom’d potion, For now … Continue reading →

Rhodon And Iris. Act II (Ralph Knevet Poems)

SCEN. 1.Poneria, Agnostus.Po. Bold foolish wickednesse is that Which walks by day, expos’d to the world’s eie. Sinne is the daughter of the darkest night, And therefore doth abhorre to come to light. Give me that cole blacke sinne that can lye hid. Under the candid robes … Continue reading →

A Threnode (Ralph Knevet Poems)

Upon the Death of those two Honourable Gentlemen, Sir JOHN BURROWES, late Lieutenant of the English Infantrie in the Ile of Ree, and Sir WILLIAM HEYDON, Lieutenant of the Ordinance The thousand Torch-bearers of Jove, Which mightily to his Bed him … Continue reading →

Funerall Elegy 3. (Ralph Knevet Poems)

When Hils, and Valleys, wrap’t in sheets of snow, Did pennance for their summer luxury, And Winter old unto the world did show, The Sceletons of trees, muffling the skye With vapours cold, and strewing frequently The earth with wat’ry confects, then I stood On that … Continue reading →

A Gallery To The Temple. The Pilgrimage (Ralph Knevet Poems)

Errours of youth. How did my sorowes mount above My hopes, and threate Me to defeate, While I did wander in a grove, Through crooked pathes of doubts, and feares, Where little light of joy appeares. On neither hand I could descry, A beacon bright, To sett mee right, No … Continue reading →

Funerall Elegy 2. (Ralph Knevet Poems)

Retreate (sad passions) to your chanels now, Let sorrowes inundations cease to flow: Griefes, (which distinguish Mortals from the Gods) Ought to be limited with periods, Lest action by such torrents overborne, Should vertue leave abandon’d to the scorne Of faithlesse Fortune, her undoubted slave Then cease … Continue reading →

A Gallery To The Temple. The Apparition (Ralph Knevet Poems)

A true French story Three jocund Gallants in their golden age, Court Cock’rells, in their pucellage of witt; For yet Discretion had not bedded it, Rode to the forrest in faire equipage, Where haveing pleas’d their phantasyes at least, With chase, and quarry, They their … Continue reading →

Rhodon And Iris. Prologue (Ralph Knevet Poems)

Dramatis Personae: RHODON. Shepheard ACANTHUS a friend to Rhodon. Shepheard MARTAGON. Shepheard CYNOSBATUS a friend to Martag. Shepheard ANTHOPHOTUS. Shepheard IRIS sister to Anthophotus. Shepherdess VIOLETTA sister to Rhodon. Shepherdess EGLANTINE sister to Cynosbatus. Shepherdess PANAS a servant to Iris. … Continue reading →

Upon The Death Of Sir Ralphe Shelton (Ralph Knevet Poems)

I am what, passion will: a stone, or tree: A mad Hercuba or sad Niobe. For who can see such ruines, and not feele A marble chilnesse creepe from head to heele: Like sad Electra that could not abide To see Troy Urn’d: but her … Continue reading →