A Complaint of a Sinner (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
O Lord most deare, wh many a teare, lamenting, lameting,I fall before thy face,And for ech crime, done ere this ...
O Lord most deare, wh many a teare, lamenting, lameting,I fall before thy face,And for ech crime, done ere this ...
There came a ghost to Margaret's door,With many a grievous grone,And ay he tirled at the pin;But answer made she ...
Splendidis longum valedico nugis.Farewell fond Love, under whose childish whip,I have serv'd out a weary Prentiship;Thou that hast made me ...
Methought I stood that sacred fountaine night Where high conceites in blessed draughts are lent Whose cristall brest seem'd sudainly to rent And ...
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD The Disincantation.ARGUMENT. Crispulus hic, nulli Nugarum Laude secundus, Cui Mens Lucis inops, Stulta Ruina Dom?s; ...
Love, lift me up upon thy golden wingsFrom this base world unto thy heavens hight,Where I may see those admirable ...
Love, that long since hast to thy mighty powrePerforce subdude my poor captived hart,And raging now therein with restlesse stowre,Doest ...
A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree; O willow, willow, willow!With his hand on his bosom, ...
IT was the time, when rest soft sliding downeFrom heauens hight into mens heauy eyes,In the forgetfulnes of sleepe doth ...
Childe Waters in his stable stoodeAnd stroakt his milke-white steede; To him a fayre yonge ladye cameAs ever ware womans ...
Come, Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While thou dost ever, ever stay:Thy long deferrings ...
Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show, Of touch, or marble; nor canst boast a rowOf polish'd pillars, or ...
O Great Creator of the starrie Pole, and heauenly things O mightie founder of the earthly mole, chiefe king of ...
Whither, O, whither art thou fled, My Lord, my Love?My searches ...
Lord, I will mean and speak thy praise, Thy praise alone.My busie heart shall spin ...
And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove, When I am ...
Thou that hast giv'n so much to me,Give one thing more, a grateful heart.See how thy beggar works on thee ...
HEY! now the day dawis;The jolly cock crawis;Now shroudis the shawis Thro' Nature anon.The thissel-cock cryisOn lovers wha lyis:Now skaillis ...
HEY! now the day dawis; The jolly cock crawis; Now shroudis the shawis Thro' Nature anon. The thissel-cock cryis ...
Lord, with what glorie wast thou serv'd of old,When Solomon's temple stood and flourished! Where most things were of ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
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