The Stedfast Shepherd (George Wither Poems)
Hence away, thou Syren, leave me!Pish! unclaspe these wanton armes;Sugred words can ne'er deceive me,(Though thou prove a thousand charmes).Fie, ...
Hence away, thou Syren, leave me!Pish! unclaspe these wanton armes;Sugred words can ne'er deceive me,(Though thou prove a thousand charmes).Fie, ...
Satan rejoyc'd, when Hee had wonne False Judas, to his wicked will, And made him to betray the Virgins sonne, That so Death's ...
Why ist damnation to dispaire and die,When life is my true happinesse disease?My soule, my soule, thy safetye makes me ...
My Lord lay in a stable twice; First when his Godhead was, Plac'd in that homely edifice, Where the tame Oxe, and Asse, His ...
Neere to the place where Nilus channels runne, There stood a town by loue long since vndone For ...
Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine:The golden brood of great Apolloes wit,Those piteous plaints and sorrowful sad tine,Which late ...
ME Thought I pass'd through th'Edalyan Groues,And askt the Graces, if they could directMe to a Lady whom Minerva chose,With ...
Part the First.Henry, our royall kind, would ride a huntingTo the greene forest so pleasant and faire;To see the harts ...
Come mourne, come mourne with mee,You loyall lovers all;Lament my loss in weeds of woe,Whom griping grief doth thrall.Like to ...
On the happy entrace of Iames, our Soveraigne, to His first high Session of Parliament in this his Kingdome, the ...
You beauteous ladyes, great and small,I write unto you one and all,Whereby that you may understandWhat I have suffered in ...
Madame,VVhil'st that, for which all vertue now is sold, And almost every vice, almightie gold,That which, to boote with hell, ...
Never a greater foe did Love disdaine, Or trode on grasse so gay,Nor Nimph ...
Syrenus. Who hath of Cupids cates and dainties prayed,May feede his stomack with them at his pleasure:If in his drinke ...
NOT lawfull loue, bot lecherie I lacke:Not women wise, but witlesse I disdaine:Not constant trueth, but tromperie I detract:Not innocence, ...
Deare Friend. I heare this Towne does soe abound, With sawcy Censurers, that faults are found, With what of late ...
When men for injuryes unsatisfy'd, For hopes cutt off, for debts not fully payd, For legacies in vain expected, mourne ...
CANTO IIII To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa guides the faithfull knight, Where brothers death to wreak Sansjoy doth chalenge ...
OCTOBER: Ægloga DecimaPIERCE & CUDDIE Cuddie, for shame hold up thy heavye head, And let us cast with what delight ...
WAs it the worke of nature or of Art? which tempred so the feature of her face: that pride and ...
ONe day I sought with her hart-thrilling eies, to make a truce and termes to entertaine: all fearlesse then of ...
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