The Famous Historie: Cap. XVI (Patrick Gordon Poems)
The Argument.The English armie furth before their KingTo mater comes and all their foraigne aidDouglas returnd recounteth eurie thingDitchis t'intrap ...
Poems about spoyle (21 Poems)
A Threnode (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Upon the Death of those two Honourable Gentlemen, Sir JOHN BURROWES, late Lieutenant of the English Infantrie in the Ile ...
How Gods Iustice And Mercy Ioyne Both Together In Mankinds Restoration. (Henry Arthington Poems)
Almighty God, beholding Man,Depryued of his blessednesse,)To looke with visage pale and wan,(By reason of his wretchednesse.)And knowing him in ...
A Dreame (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
In pleasaunt moneth of gladsome May I walkt abroad to viewThe fieldes, which nature had bedeckt With flowers of sundry hew.The sight ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Prodigyes (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Wee heare of dire portents, and Prodigies, Sad meteours of bloud, and fire, The signes of heavenly ire, Forewarners of the Earths calamityes, Summons ...
The Monke’s Complaynte To Alma Mater Of Dyverse Newe Matters Wroughte In Oxenforde Citie (Henry Harington Poems)
Whie, holie Mother, whie dothe ruthlesse HondeThus smyte thie Gates of hoarie Majestie?Workynge rude Spoyle, wheere Scyence kepte her Stonde,Contente ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Vanitye (Ralph Knevet Poems)
When Butterflyes, and Prizes vaine I spye, In silke wormes labours clad, That a faire tincture had From silly wormes likewise: then presently, I ...
Perilles Followeinge Fortune By Enuye And Malice (Nicholas Bacon Poems)
Like as the tree of frute moste puer To save from spoyle requires moste cuer, And as the grape of sweteste taste The ...
15 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Deare famish not what you your selfe gave food,Destroy not what your glory is to save:Kill not that soule to ...
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 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 Visions Of Bellay (Edmund Spenser Poems)
IT was the time, when rest soft sliding downeFrom heauens hight into mens heauy eyes,In the forgetfulnes of sleepe doth ...
The Rising In The North (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Listen, lively Lordings all,Lithe and listen unto mee,And I will sing of a noble earle,The noblest earle in the north ...
Gernutus the Jew of Venice (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
The First PartIn Venice towne not long agoeA cruel Jew did dwell,Which lived all on usurie,As Italian writers tell.Gernutus called ...
The Visions Of Petrarch (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Being one day at my window all alone,So manie strange things happened me to see,As much it grieueth me to ...
Mary Ambree (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
When captaines couragious, whom death cold not daunte,Did march to the siege of the citty of Gaunt,They mustred their souldiers ...
The Miseries of Man (Anne Killigrew Poem)
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
Sonnet LXXVI (Edmund Spenser Poems)
FAyre bosome fraught with vertues richest tresure, The neast of loue, the lodging of delight: the bowre of blisse, the ...
Visions of the worlds vanitie. (Edmund Spenser Poems)
One day, whiles that my daylie cares did sleepe, My spirit, shaking off her earthly prison, Began to enter into ...
Poem 95 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
VNto his mother straight he weeping came, and of his griefe complayned: Who could not chose but laugh at his ...
Sonnet XXXIII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
GReat wrong I doe, I can it not deny, to that most sacred Empresse my dear dred, not finishing her ...