In praise of the contented minde (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
If all the ioyes that worldly wightes possesse,Were throughly scand, and pondred in their kindes,No man of wit, but iustly ...
Poems about possesse (21 Poems)
A Gallery To The Temple. Moderation (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Arts are th' Egyptian Handmaydes, to the Queene Of sciences: Moses the chiefe of Prophets, and of Men, Did these possesse: Our moderation must ...
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 ...
In the praise of Friendship (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Reueale (O tongue) the secretes of my thought,Tel forth the game that perfect friendship brings:Expresse what ioyes by her to ...
A Dumpe by his friende. G. C. (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
My heauy heart in dolours drownde, Consumes and pines away:And for me wreth, nought can be found, To cause my cares decay.Yee ...
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 ...
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 Gallery To The Temple. The Habitation (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Man is no Microcosme, and they detract From his dimensions, who apply This narrow terme to his immensitye: Heaven, Earth, and Hell, in ...
50 (Mary Wroth Poems)
O dearest eyes, the lights, and guides of Love,The joyes of Cupid, who himselfe borne blinde,To your bright shining, doth ...
18 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Sleepe fye possesse me not, nor doe not frightMe with thy heavy, and thy deathlike might:For counterfetting's wilder then death's ...
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: ...
Muiopotmos, Or The Fate Of The Butterflie (Edmund Spenser Poems)
I SING of deadly dolorous debate,Stir'd vp through wrathfull Nemesis despight,Betwixt two mightie ones of great estate,Drawne into armes, and ...
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 ...
The Speeches of Gratulations (Ben Jonson Poems)
GENIUS.Time, Fate, and Fortune have at length conspir'd,To give our Age the day so much desir'd.What all the minutes, houres, ...
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 Sheepheard Arsileus Replie to Syrenus Song (Bartholomew Young Poems)
Let that time a thousand moneths endure,Which brings from heaven the sweet and silver showers,And joys the earth (of comfort ...
The Children In The Wood: Or, The Norfolk Gentleman’s Last Will And Testament: To The Tune Of Rogero (Anonymous British Poems)
Now ponder well, you parents deare,These wordes which I shall write;A doleful story you shall heare,In time brought forth to ...
Love Unknown (George Herbert Poems)
Deare friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad:And in my faintings I presume your loveWill more complie, then ...
A Riddle: On A Kiss (William Strode Poems)
What thing is that, nor felt nor seene Till it bee given? a present for a Queene: A fine conceite ...
Epithalamion (Edmund Spenser Poems)
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
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 ...