For a Gentlewoman (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Like as a forte or fenced towne, By foes assault that lies in field,When Bulwarkes all are beaten downe, Is by perforce ...
Poems about foole (20 Poems)
To The Ingratefvll (John Andrewes Poems)
Is't long of thy short memorie, that thouyeeld'st not due thanks, where thou the same do'st owe?Alas, good man; why ...
On Six Cambridge Lasses Bathing Themselves (Thomas Randolph Poems)
1 When bashfull daylight now was gone2 And night, that hides a blush, came on.3 Sixe Pretty Nymphes to wash ...
Rhodon And Iris. Prologue (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Dramatis Personae: RHODON. Shepheard ACANTHUS a friend to Rhodon. Shepheard MARTAGON. Shepheard CYNOSBATUS a friend to Martag. Shepheard ANTHOPHOTUS. Shepheard ...
The Stedfast Shepherd (George Wither Poems)
Hence away, thou Syren, leave me!Pish! unclaspe these wanton armes;Sugred words can ne'er deceive me,(Though thou prove a thousand charmes).Fie, ...
To his friende (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Muse not too much (o wight of worthy fame)At view of this my rude & ragged rime,I am almost enforst ...
The Lover’s Resolution (George Wither Poems)
Shall I, wasting in despaire,Dye because a woman's faire?Or make pale my cheeks with care'Cause another's rosie are?Be shee fairer ...
A Lady With A Falcon On Her Fist. To The Honourable My Cousin A[nne] L[ovelace] (Richard Lovelace Poems)
I.This Queen of Prey (now prey to you),Fast to that pirch of ivoryIn silver chaines and silken clue,Hath now made ...
The Translator To The Most Worthy And Wel-Deseruing Author (John Vicars Poems)
True Imitation of mens worthy Deedes From Loue of them (as I suppose) proceedes Yet many-times Ambitious Emulation! May in such Actions staine ...
18 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Sleepe fye possesse me not, nor doe not frightMe with thy heavy, and thy deathlike might:For counterfetting's wilder then death's ...
33 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Fly hence O Joy, noe longer heere abide,Too great thy pleasures are for my despaireTo looke on, losses now must ...
Mother Bombie (John Lyly Poems)
Sil.O Cupid ! Monarch ouer Kings,Wherefore hast thou feete and wings?It is to shew how swift thou art,When thou wound'st ...
A Pleasant Ballad Of King Henry II. And The Miller Of Mansfield (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Part the First.Henry, our royall kind, would ride a huntingTo the greene forest so pleasant and faire;To see the harts ...
Guy and Amarant (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Guy journeyes towards that sanctifyed groundWhereas the Jewes fayre citye sometime stood,Wherin our Saviours sacred head was crownd,And where for ...
King Edward IV. And The Tanner of Tamworth (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
In summer time, when leaves grow greene,And blossoms bedecke the tree,King Edward wolde a hunting ryde,Some pastime for to see.With ...
XI: Epode (Ben Jonson Poems)
Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state, Is vertue, and not Fate:Next, to that vertue, is to ...
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 ...
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, ...
Elegy VII (John Donne Poem)
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistry, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtle: Foole, thou ...
An Allusion to Horace (John Wilmot Poems)
Well Sir, 'tis granted, I said Dryden's Rhimes, Were stoln, unequal, nay dull many times: What foolish Patron, is there ...