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 ...
Poems about darknesse (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 ...
7 (Song 1) (Mary Wroth Poems)
The spring now come at lastTo Trees, Fields, to Flowres,And meadowes makes to tasteHis pride, while sad showresWhich from mine ...
57 (Mary Wroth Poems)
O me, the time is come to part,And with it my life-killing smart:Fond Hope leave me, my deare must goe,To ...
from: Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (Mary Wroth Poems)
When night's blacke Mantle could most darknesse prove,And sleepe (deaths Image) did my senses hyre,From Knowledge of my selfe, then ...
50 (Mary Wroth Poems)
O dearest eyes, the lights, and guides of Love,The joyes of Cupid, who himselfe borne blinde,To your bright shining, doth ...
22 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Come darkest Night, becomming sorrow best,Light leave thy light, fit for a lightsome soule:Darknesse doth truely sute with me opprest,Whom ...
23 (Mary Wroth Poems)
The Sunne which glads, the earth at his bright sight,When in the morne he showes his golden face,And takes the ...
20 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Which should I better like of, day or night?Since all the day, I live in bitter woe:Injoying light more cleere ...
Motion is the Life of all things. (Margaret Cavendish Poems)
As darknesse a privation is of Light;That's when the Optick Nerve is stopt from Light:So Death is even a cessation ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto XIII (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE PLEASVRE OF RETIREMENT. The Reinvitation. THEOPHISA's fill'd wth Sweetness, & so Fair: Her Eyes so mild, her Breath perfumes ...
The Teares of the Muses (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine:The golden brood of great Apolloes wit,Those piteous plaints and sorrowful sad tine,Which late ...
An Hymne In Honour Of Beautie (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Ah! whither, Love! wilt thou now carry mee?What wontlesse fury dost thou now inspireInto my feeble breast, too full of ...
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 ...
The Church Militant (George Herbert Poems)
Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throneSeest and rulest all things ev'n as one:The smallest ant or atome knows thy ...
An Hymne In Honour Of Love (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Love, that long since hast to thy mighty powrePerforce subdude my poor captived hart,And raging now therein with restlesse stowre,Doest ...
On Gray Eyes (William Strode Poems)
Looke how the russet morne exceeds the night, How sleekest Jett yields to the di'monds light, So farr the glory ...
Epithalamion (Edmund Spenser Poems)
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
Sonnet XXXIIII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Lyke as a ship that through the Ocean wyde, by conduct of some star doth make her way. whenas a ...
Poem 23 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
And ye high heauens, the temple of the gods, In which a thousand torches flaming bright Doe burne, that to ...
Sonnet LXVI (Edmund Spenser Poems)
TO all those happy blessings which ye haue, with plenteous hand by heauen vpon you thrown: this one disparagement they ...