The Muses Threnodie: First Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
Of Mr George Ruthven the tears and mournings,Amidst the giddie course of fortune's turnings,Upon his dear friend's death, Mr John ...
Poems about auncient (21 Poems)
The Mourning Muse Of Thestylis (Lodowick Bryskett Poems)
Come forth, ye Nymphes, come forth, forsake your watry bowres,Forsake your mossy caves, and help me to lament:Help me to ...
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 Dreame (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
In pleasaunt moneth of gladsome May I walkt abroad to viewThe fieldes, which nature had bedeckt With flowers of sundry hew.The sight ...
To The Right Worshipfull Sir William Mohun Knight (John Sharrock Poems)
If Maroes Muse, if Homers sacred vaine, (VVhich auncient Poets, intombed lye in molde) Parnassus Nimphes had bett into my braine If that ...
The Auncient Acquaintance, Madam, Betwen Vs Twayn (John Skelton Poems)
The auncient acquaintance, madam, betwen vs twayn,The famylyaryte, the formal dalyaunce,Causyth me that I can not myself refrayneBut that I ...
Of the instability of Fortune (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Who wisely waies false fortunes fickle change,Which in short space turnes loue to mortal hate,Shall find smal cause to deem ...
99 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Like to huge Clowdes of smoake which well may hideThe face of fairest day, though for a while:So wrong may ...
Fair Susan Did Her Wif-Hede Well Menteine – In Chaucer’s Style (Matthew Prior Poems)
Fair Susan did her wif-hede well menteine,Algates assaulted sore by letchours tweine;Now, and I read aright that auncient song,Olde were ...
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: ...
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
The Shepheardes Calender: Februarie (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Februarie: ?gloga Secunda. CVDDIE & THENOT.CVDDIE.AH for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage, These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage? The keene ...
The Visions Of Bellay (Edmund Spenser Poems)
IT was the time, when rest soft sliding downeFrom heauens hight into mens heauy eyes,In the forgetfulnes of sleepe doth ...
The Sheepheard Arsileus Replie to Syrenus Song (Bartholomew Young Poems)
Let that time a thousand moneths endure,Which brings from heaven the sweet and silver showers,And joys the earth (of comfort ...
Alexander Neuyll (Barnabe Googe Poems)
The Moutaines hie the blustryng wids The fluds: ye Rocks wtstadThe Cities strong, the Canons shot, & threatning Cheiftains had.The ...
Cinthia the Nimph, Her Song To Faire Polydora (Bartholomew Young Poems)
Neere to the River banks, with greeneAnd pleasant trees on every side,Where freest minds would most have beene,That never felt ...
Brithers (David Rorie Poems)
'Twas up at the tree near the heid o' the glenI keppit a tinkler chiel,The cauld wind whistled his auld ...
The Historie Of Pesistratus And Catanea. The Argument. (Edmund Elviden Poems)
In Grecian soyle two brothers born there is, they father haue Agenetos, whose blis, In happie time the children ...
It Seemes That Tunis Is An Auncient Towne (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
It seemes that Tunis is an auncient towne Neere to the ruines of Carthage once so prowde,Whose stately buildings now ...
My Ladye’s Eyen (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
Poets ther ben in plenteous line yt take ye auncient themeOf singing to a ladye's eyen whiche maken them to ...