Gascoigne’s Lullaby (George Gascoigne Poems)
1 Sing lullaby, as women do,2 Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;3 And lullaby can I sing to,4 As ...
1 Sing lullaby, as women do,2 Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;3 And lullaby can I sing to,4 As ...
SING lullaby, as women do, Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullaby can I sing too, As womanly as can the ...
O knights, O squires, O gentle bloods yborn, You were not born all only for yourselves: Your country claims ...
WHEN thou hast spent the lingering day in pleasure and delght, Or after toil and weary way, dost seek to ...
Fie pleasure, fie! thou cloyest me with delight, Thou fill'st my mouth with sweetmeats overmuch; I ...
AT Beauty's bar as I did stand, When False Suspect accused, ''George,'' quod the judge, ''hold up thy hand; Thou ...
In court whoso demaundesWhat dame doth most excell;For my conceit I must needes say,Faire Bridges beares the bel. Upon whose ...
HEY! now the day dawis; The jolly cock crawis; Now shroudis the shawis Thro' Nature anon. The thissel-cock cryis ...
SING lullaby, as women do, Wherewith they bring their babes to rest; And lullaby can I sing too, ...
AMID my bale I bathe in bliss, I swim in heaven, I sink in hell; I find amends for every ...
THOU, with thy looks, on whom I look full oft, And find therein great cause of deep delight, Thy face ...
And if I did, what then? Are you aggriev'd therefore? The sea hath fish for every ...
IF any flower that here is grown Or any herb may ease your pain, Take and account it as your ...
YOU must not wonder, though you think it strange, To see me hold my louring head so low; And that ...
You must not wonder, though you think it strange, To see me hold my lowering head so low; And that ...
To prink me up, and make me higher placed, All came too late that tarried any time; Piles of provision ...
No haste but good, where wisdom makes the way, For proof whereof behold the simple snail (Who sees the soldier's ...
Before mine eye, to feed my greedy will, 'Gan muster eke mine old acquainted mates, Who helped the dish (of ...
For why the gains doth seldom quit the charge: And so say I by proof too dearly bought, My haste ...
All were too little for the merchant's hand, And yet my bravery bigger than his book; But when this hot ...
IN haste, post haste, when first my wandering mind Beheld the glistring Court with gazing eye, Such deep delights I ...
And every year a world my will did deem, Till lo! at last, to Court now am I come, A ...
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