[O That no day would ever more appear] (Mary Wroth Poems)
O that no day would ever more appeare,But clowdy night to governe this sad place,Nor light from Heaven these haples ...
O that no day would ever more appeare,But clowdy night to governe this sad place,Nor light from Heaven these haples ...
He that shuns Love, doth love himselfe the lesse,And cursed he whose spirit, not admiresThe worth of Love, where endlesse ...
Which should I better like of, day or night?Since all the day, I live in bitter woe:Injoying light more cleere ...
Except my heart, which you bestow'd before,And for a signe of Conquest gave awayAs worthlesse to be kept in your ...
Cruell suspition, O! be now at rest,Let daily torments bring to thee some stay,Alas, make not my ill thy ease-full ...
When I beheld the Image of my deare,With greedy lookes mine eyes would that way bend,Feare, and Desire, did inwardly ...
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD. The Abnegation.ARGUMENT. What's potent Opulencie? What's remiss Voluptuousness? World, what's All This, To That the ...
GIVE me O indulgent Fate!Give me yet, before I Dye,A sweet, but absolute Retreat,'Mongst Paths so lost, and Trees so ...
All tender hearts, that ake to hearOf those that suffer wrong;All you that never shed a tear,Give heed unto my ...
Let now the goodly Spring-tide make us merrie, And fields, which pleasant flowers doo adorne: And Vales, Meades, ...
Give me leave (fairest Cynthia) to envy Thy looking glasse farre happyer then ...
When London's fatal bills were blown abroadAnd few but Specters travel'd on the road,Not towns but men in the black ...
Let now each Meade with flowers be depainted, Of sundry colours sweetest odours glowing:Roses yeeld foorth your smells so ...
A faire Mayde wed to prying Jealousie,One of the fairest as ever I did see:If that thou wilt a secret ...
Till now I doubted whether love, or sight Of thy dear beauties (Cynthia) ...
If that the gentle winde dooth moove the leaves with pleasant sound,If that the ...
When that I poore soule was borne,I was borne unfortunate:Presently the Fates had sworne,To fore-tell my haplesse state.Titan his faire ...
Come little Infant, Love me now, While thine unsuspected years Clear thine aged Fathers brow From cold Jealousie and Fears. ...
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