A straunge historie (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Yee that would heare a Story straunge To this example rare, Attentiuely take heede:Which pictures heere, before your face, A worthy wight indeede.A ...
Poems about needes (21 Poems)
Whether (By The Workes Of The Law) Any Of Adams Heyres May Be Restored Into Gods Fauour. (Henry Arthington Poems)
Some Men suppose, that though mans fallDid bring his of spring into paine,Yet God his Law gaue vnto all,To reconcile ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Passion (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Who can reviewe, without a pretious losse Of teares, the bitter sorowes of thy crosse (Oh Dearest Lord) Whose corps was gor'd, In every ...
The complaynt of a sinner (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Like as the theefe in prison cast, With wofull wayling mones,When hope of pardon cleane is past, And sighes with dolefull grones:So ...
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 ...
The life of man metaphorical (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Haste homewardes, man, draw neerer to the shore,The skies doe scowle, the windes doe blow amaine:The raged rockes, with rumbling ...
A Newyeeres gift to Maister G. R. (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
The curtesies yee haue to me profest,The bounty great that doth from you proceed,Woulde make me deeme that day to ...
What Christ Suffered In His Body, For The Sinnes Of Our Bodies. (Henry Arthington Poems)
Immanuell Iesus Christ our Lord,Hauing fulfild his Fathers Law,Did likewise willingly accord,The penalty to vndergo.That where we all deserued shame,In ...
Epicedium (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Needes Shee another Monument of stone, Who had so many better than this one: All which were Noble Hearts, whom her decease, Transmuted ...
Lament for Chaucer (Thomas Hoccleve Poems)
ALLAS! my worthi maister honorable,This landes verray tresor and richesse!Deth by thy deth hath harme irreparableUnto us doon: hir vengeable ...
Book VII (Arthur Hall Poems)
Nowe warlike Hector doth depart with Paris out the towne,They willing both in armes to shewe some deede of great ...
The Minte of deformities (C G Gent Poems)
No Thrasion harpe, but a steeld furious whippe, no Nightingales, but Mandrakes shreeking sound,Adastors snakes to make these Thrasors skippe: ...
The Shepheardes Calender: September (Edmund Spenser Poems)
September: ?gloga Nona. Hobbinol & Diggon Dauie.Hobbinol.Diggon Dauie, I bidde her god day: Or Diggon her is, or I missaye. ...
The Shepheardes Calender: May (Edmund Spenser Poems)
May: AEgloga Quinta. Palinode & Piers. Palinode.IS not thilke the mery moneth of May, When loue lads masken in fresh ...
The Shepheardes Calender: July (Edmund Spenser Poems)
July: ?gloga Septima. Thomalin & Morrell.Thomalin.IS not thilke same a goteheard prowde, that sittes on yonder bancke, Whose straying heard ...
Guy and Amarant (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Guy journeyes towards that sanctifyed groundWhereas the Jewes fayre citye sometime stood,Wherin our Saviours sacred head was crownd,And where for ...
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 ...
Praise of the Fair Bridges, afterwards Lady Sandes, on Her Having a Scar in Her Forehead (George Gascoigne Poems)
In court whoso demaundesWhat dame doth most excell;For my conceit I must needes say,Faire Bridges beares the bel. Upon whose ...
The Sheepheard Sylvanus His Song (Bartholomew Young Poems)
My life (young Sheepheardesse) for thee Of needes to death must post:But yet my ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...