A Gallery To The Temple. The Deprecation (Ralph Knevet Poems)
(Lord) cease this direfull tintamarre Of civill warre: The bellowing drumme, and trumpet shrill, Are musicke meete, Rather for flameing Sinai Hill, Then Sion sweet. The ...
Poems about musicke (21 Poems)
Of The Ingratefvl (John Andrewes Poems)
Some haue compar'd (and not improperly)him that is tainted with this worst of illsvnto the Swine, who (freely, daily) fillsHis ...
A Carolle. (Nicholas Bacon Poems)
CHORVS O gratyous Lorde, ohe sauyor dere, Our onelye hope and all our chere, Our presente ayde in euerye woe, Our hole defence agaynste ...
In the praise of Musike (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
The bookes of Ouids changed shapes, A story strange doe tell,How Orpheus to fetch his wife, Made voyage vnto hell.Who hauing past ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Lamentation (Ralph Knevet Poems)
The Heavens did mourne: The windes did grinne: These vapours blacke, Their rise did make, From the vast Ocean of our sinne: For from ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Infirmitye (Ralph Knevet Poems)
I want a volubility of tongue, To trafficke for applause; Although I know the lawes And rights of rhetoricke: I am not strung For ...
To The Honorable Knight, Sir Edward Wingfield (Gervase Markham Poems)
When Alexander read Achilles prayse,VVwith honours enuie, and a loftie hart,He shed stout teares, in ruth of stonie dayesVVhich to ...
26 (Mary Wroth Poems)
When every one to pleasing pastime hiesSome hunt, some hawke, some play, while some delightIn sweet discourse, and musicke shewes ...
Motion directs, while Atomes dance. (Margaret Cavendish Poems)
ATomes will dance, and measures keep just time;And one by one will hold round circle line,Run in and out, as ...
The Authors Dreame To The Ladie Marie (Aemilia Lanyer Poems)
ME Thought I pass'd through th'Edalyan Groues,And askt the Graces, if they could directMe to a Lady whom Minerva chose,With ...
The Beggar’s Daughter of Bednall-Green (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Part the FirstItt was a blind beggar, had long lost his sight,He had a faire daughter of bewty most bright;And ...
An Hymne In Honour Of Beautie (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Ah! whither, Love! wilt thou now carry mee?What wontlesse fury dost thou now inspireInto my feeble breast, too full of ...
The Bride’s Burial. To The Tune Of The Lady’s Fall (Anonymous British Poems)
Come mourne, come mourne with mee,You loyall lovers all;Lament my loss in weeds of woe,Whom griping grief doth thrall.Like to ...
The Liberall Arts Kneeling To The King (Francis Kynaston Poems)
Musicke. Phobus gave me my voyce, which pleasant Thrushes ...
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 ...
Fair Rosamond (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
When as King Henry rulde this land,The second of that name,Besides the queene, he dearly lovdeA faire and comely dame.Most ...
The Lady Turned Serving-Man (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
You beauteous ladyes, great and small,I write unto you one and all,Whereby that you may understandWhat I have suffered in ...
Greensleeves (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
"A new Courtly Sonnet, of the Ladie Greensleeves. Alas, my love, you do me wrong To cast me off discourteously ...
Green Sleeves (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Alas my loue, ye do me wrong, to cast me off discurteously: And I haue loued you so long Delighting ...
To Cynthia On Concealement Of Her Beauty (Francis Kynaston Poems)
Do not conceale thy radiant eyes, The starre-light of serenest skies, ...
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 ...