A Lawde and Prayse (John Skelton Poems)
The Rose both white and RedeIn one rose now dothe ...
The Rose both white and RedeIn one rose now dothe ...
Alexis shun'd his Fellow Swains,Their rural Sports, and jocund Strains:(Heav'n guard us all from Cupid's Bow!)He lost his Crook, He ...
By Sylvia if thy charming self be meant;If friendship be thy virgin vows' extent,O! let me in Aminta's praises join,Hers ...
Palemnon, in the hawthorn bower,With fond impatience lay,He counted every anxious hourThat stretch'd the tedious day.The rosy dawn, Pastora nam'd,And ...
OF all your friends, when at your last resource,Avoid the man that deals in words of course.DAMON'S in love, he ...
He saw through his own soul.—TennysonAlexis grew up, and through all his youthRan dreams and splendours, as a summer bowLighting ...
A Shepherd's Boy (he seeks no better name)Led forth his flocks along the silver Thame,Where dancing sun-beams n the waters ...
Lycidas. Thyrsis, the music of that murm'ring spring,Is not so mournful as the strains you sing.Nor rivers winding thro' the ...
My loyal Muse would feign aspire to sing The Praises of our gracious King: But, ah! 'twould ill become his ...
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid,Whilst the World dissolves in Heat,Take this cool, ...
Amaryllis. While from the skies the ruddy sun descends,And rising night the evening shade extends;While pearly dews o'erspread the fruitful ...
SUCH were the notes our chaster SAPPHO sung,And every muse dropt honey on her tongue.Blest shade ! how pure a ...
Patron of BeggarsWe who beg for bread as we daily tread Country lane and city street,Let us kneel and pray ...
Who made love to me,Imagin'd more than woman. Fair lovely Maid, or if that Title beToo weak, too Feminine for ...
"HOW strongly does my passion flow, Divided equally 'twixt two? Damon had ne'er subdued my heart, Had not Alexis took ...
WHen first Alexis did in Verse delight, His Muse in Low, but Graceful Numbers walk't, And now and then a ...
Dorinda. SAbæan Perfumes fragrant Roses bring, With all the Flowers that Paint the gaudy Spring: Scatter them all in young ...
We who beg for bread as we daily tread Country lane and city street, Let us kneel and pray on ...
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid, Whilst the World dissolves in Heat, Take ...
In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole A wise old age anticipate, Desiring, with his pipe and bowl, No Khan's ...
See what delights in sylvan scenes appear! Descending Gods have found Elysium here. In woods bright Venus with Adonis stray'd, ...
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