In Commendacion Of The Meane Estate (Nicholas Bacon Poems)
The suereste state and beste degree Is to possesse mediocritye. By proofe we finde in everye storme The hier tree the sorer torne: The ...
Poems about excesse (19 Poems)
A Feruent Supplication (Henry Arthington Poems)
A feruent supplication,Tending to mortification,And new regeneration,That leadeth to saluation.Most louing Lord, and Father deere,I humbly sue vnto thy grace,That ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Lamentation (Ralph Knevet Poems)
The Heavens did mourne: The windes did grinne: These vapours blacke, Their rise did make, From the vast Ocean of our sinne: For from ...
58 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Say Venus how long have I lov'd, and serv'd you heere?Yet all my passions scorn'd or doubted, although cleere;Alas thinke ...
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 ...
The Summary of Wisedome (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto V (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The Representation.ARGUMENT. Mundus Opes, Animam Coelum, Terramque resumpsit Terra: DEUS, Vitam cum tulit, Ipse dedit. Solus Amor facit esse DEUM; ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto XI (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD The Disincantation.ARGUMENT. Crispulus hic, nulli Nugarum Laude secundus, Cui Mens Lucis inops, Stulta Ruina Dom?s; ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto X (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD. The Abnegation.ARGUMENT. What's potent Opulencie? What's remiss Voluptuousness? World, what's All This, To That the ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto I (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE PRELIBATION To the SACRIFICE.ARGUMENT. Spes alit occiduas qui Sublunaribus haeret; Rivales JESUS non in Amore sinit. Quid mihi non ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto IV (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The Inammoration.ARGUMENT. O, DEUS, aut nullo caleat mihi Pectus ab Igne! Aut solo caleat Pectus ab Igne Tui! Languet ut ...
The Old Worlds Tragedie (Francis Sabie Poems)
I sing of horrors sad and dreadfull rage, Of stratagems wrought in the former age, Contagious vice, and in conclusion, ...
Miserie (George Herbert Poems)
Lord, let the Angels praise thy name.Man is a foolish thing, a foolish thing, Folly and Sinne ...
Satyre Preludium (Edward Guilpin Poems)
Fie on these Lydian tunes which blunt our sprightsAnd turne our gallants to Hermaphrodites:Giue me a Doricke touch, whose Semphony,And ...
The Sheepheard Firmius His Song (Bartholomew Young Poems)
Sheepheards give eare, and now be stillUnto my passions, and their cause, and what ...
Alianus the Sheppheard, His Dolefull Song, Complayning of Ismeniaes Crueltie (Bartholomew Young Poems)
No more (o cruell Nimph,) now hast thou prayedEnough in thy revenge, proove not thine ireOn him that yeelds, the ...
A Dialogue Song Betweene Sylvanus and Arsilius (Bartholomew Young Poems)
Syl. Sheepheard, why doo'st thou hold thy peace? Sing, and thy joy to us report:Arsil. ...
John Donne – The Paradox (John Donne Poem)
No Lover saith, I love, nor any other Can judge a perfect Lover; Hee thinkes that else none can, nor ...
In Memory of F.P. (Katherine Philips Poems)
If I could ever write a lasting verse, It should be laid, deare Sainte, upon thy herse. But Sorrow is ...