A Lesson for all estates (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Hast thou desire thy golden dayes to spend,In blisfull state exempt from all annoyes?So liue, as if death now thy ...
Poems about ioyes (21 Poems)
To his friend (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
If thou wilt shun the pricking briers,And thornie cares that folly breedes,Put bridle to thy fond desires,Make reason mistres of ...
A Complaynt of a Louer (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
If euer wofull wight had cause, to pipe in bitter smart,I which am thrall to Cupids lawes, with him may ...
To his approued friend (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Serue God thy Lord, delight to keepe his lawes.Alwayes, haue care to doe his holy hest.Commit not that which may ...
Sonnet II (Mary Wroth Poems)
Is to leave all, and take the threed of Love,Which line straite leades unto the soules content,Where choice delights with ...
Sonnet III (Mary Wroth Poems)
HIs flames are ioyes, his bandes true Lovers might,No stain is there, but pure, as purest white,Where no cloud can ...
Agaynste A Mynde Not Contented (Nicholas Bacon Poems)
Nothinge in earthe soe good I fynde As in a mann a contented mynde. Fewe thinges with this doe sarue alone, And without ...
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 ...
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 of Heavenly Love (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Love, lift me up upon thy golden wingsFrom this base world unto thy heavens hight,Where I may see those admirable ...
On Oxford, The Muses Paradise. (Edward Benlowes Poems)
I. Leave, bashfull Muse, the too hot Latian Shore, To Albions temperate Clime sail or'e; Sing Learnings Tempe, where clear ...
The Description Of Cooke-ham (Aemilia Lanyer Poems)
Farewell (sweet Cooke-ham) where I first obtain'dGrace from that Grace where perfit Grace remain'd;And where the Muses gaue their full ...
The Shepheardes Calender: Januarie (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Januarie: ?gloga Prime. Colin Cloute.A Shepeheards boye (no better doe him call)when Winters wastful spight was almost spent,All in a ...
A Dittie In The Worthie Praise Of An High And Mightie Prince (Bernard Garter Poems)
When heapes of heauie hap, had fild my harte right full, And sorrow set forth pensiuenes, my ioyes away ...
To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus (Richard Crashaw Poem)
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
Prayer (Richard Crashaw Poem)
LO here a little volume, but great Book A nest of new-born sweets; Whose native fires disdaining To ly thus ...
Troilus And Criseyde: Book 01 (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
You Gote-heard Gods (Sir Philip Sidney Poems)
Strephon. You Gote-heard Gods, that loue the grassie mountaines, You Nimphes that haunt the springs in pleasant vallies, You Satyrs ...
Poem 20 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
BVt let stil Silence trew night watches keepe, That sacred peace may in assurance rayne, And tymely sleep, when it ...
Poem 23 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
And ye high heauens, the temple of the gods, In which a thousand torches flaming bright Doe burne, that to ...
Sonnet VIII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
MOre then most faire, full of the liuing fire, Kindled aboue vnto the maker neere: no eies buy ioyes, in ...