The Aeneid (excerpts) (Gavin Douglas Poems)
Laude, honor, prasingis, thankis infynite To the, and thi dulce ornate fresch endite, Mast reverend Virgill, of Latyne ...
Laude, honor, prasingis, thankis infynite To the, and thi dulce ornate fresch endite, Mast reverend Virgill, of Latyne ...
This wrecched worldes transmutacioun,As wele or wo, now povre and now honour,Withouten ordre or wys discreciounGoverned is by Fortunes errour.But ...
Balow, my babe, lye still and sleipe!It grieves me sair to see thee weipe:If thoust be silent, Ise be glad,Thy ...
As Phebus bricht in speir merediane,E of the warld, and lamp Etheriall,Passis the licht that cleipit is Dyane,Quhen scho is ...
In court whoso demaundesWhat dame doth most excell;For my conceit I must needes say,Faire Bridges beares the bel. Upon whose ...
The king sits in Dumferling toune, Drinking the blude-reid wine: "O whar will I get ...
The rain rins doun through Mirry-land toune,Sae dois it doune the Pa:Sae dois the lads of Mirry-land toune,Quhan they play ...
In Grecian soyle two brothers born there is, they father haue Agenetos, whose blis, In happie time the children ...
An hendy hap ichabbe yhent; Ichot, from hevene it is me sent; From ...
Lenten ys come with love to toun{.e}, With blosmen and with bridd{.e}s roun{.e}, That al ...
Poets ther ben in plenteous line yt take ye auncient themeOf singing to a ladye's eyen whiche maken them to ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
The bell struck one, and shook the silent tower; The graves give up their dead: fair Elenor Walk'd by the ...
Lett her parents then confesse That they beleeve her happinesse, Which now they question. Thinke as you Lent her the ...
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
YE tradefull Merchants that with weary toyle, do seeke most pretious things to make your gain: and both the Indias ...
Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace, Seeing the game from him escapt away: sits downe to rest him in ...
THe rolling wheele that runneth often round, The hardest steele in tract of time doth teare: and drizling drops that ...
NEw yeare forth looking out of Ianus gate, Doth seeme to promise hope of new delight: and bidding th'old Adieu, ...
WAke now my loue, awake; for it is time, The Rosy Morne long since left Tithones bed, All ready to ...
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
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