The Letter of Cupid (Thomas Hoccleve Poems)
Cupido, unto whos commandementThe gentil kinrede of goddes on hyAnd peple infernal been obedient,And the mortel folk seruen bisyly,Of goddesse ...
Poems about deeme (21 Poems)
Farewell Court (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
I Youth, when Fancie bare the sway, Within my peeuish braine:And Reasons lore by no meanes could My wanton will restraine:My gadding ...
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 ...
To The Flattered (John Andrewes Poems)
Fond Man, that suck'st the pleasing poyson in(which from the Syrens vnsuspected tongueIs kindly offer'd to thine eare) whereinare all ...
The Aspen Leaf (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
I would some instruction draw,And raise pleasure to the height,Through the meanest object's sight.By the murmur of a spring,Or the ...
In the praise of Musike (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
The bookes of Ouids changed shapes, A story strange doe tell,How Orpheus to fetch his wife, Made voyage vnto hell.Who hauing past ...
A Newyeeres gift to Maister G. R. (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
The curtesies yee haue to me profest,The bounty great that doth from you proceed,Woulde make me deeme that day to ...
A Dumpe (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
The pangues, the priuie mones, The inward secrete smarte,The griefes, the heauie grones, That vexe my dolefull heart,So plundge my life in ...
To Mr. Thomas Warde Of Bixley (Ralph Knevet Poems)
If my devout Muse could ever bring Ought worth acceptance, or an offering Unto thy Vertue, justly I might deeme My selfe thrice ...
46 (Mary Wroth Poems)
It is not Love which you poore fooles do deeme,That doth appeare by fond and outward showesOf kissing, toying, or ...
19 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Sweet shades, why doe you seeke to giwe delightTo me, who deeme delight in this wilde place:But torment, sorrow, and ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Aeneas to Dido (F L Poems)
?neas read what Dido wrote, And sent her this replie;And sought to cure the curelesse wound,Which Dido made to die.When ...
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 ...
The Shepheardes Calender: August (Edmund Spenser Poems)
August: ?gloga Octaua. Willye. Perigot. Cuddie.Willye.Ell me Perigot, what shalbe the game, Wherefore with myne thou dare thy musick matche? ...
XII: Epistle To Elizabeth Countesse Of Rutland (Ben Jonson Poems)
Madame,VVhil'st that, for which all vertue now is sold, And almost every vice, almightie gold,That which, to boote with hell, ...
Good Counsel of Chaucer (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
Flee from the press, and dwell with soothfastness;Suffice thee thy good, though it be small;For hoard hath hate, and climbing ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Sonnet LXXXV (Edmund Spenser Poems)
THe world that cannot deeme of worthy things, when I doe praise her, say I doe but flatter: so does ...