AN ELEGY Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (Henry King Poems)
Like a cold fatal sweat which ushers deathMy thoughts hang on me, & my lab'ring breathStopt up with sighs, my ...
Like a cold fatal sweat which ushers deathMy thoughts hang on me, & my lab'ring breathStopt up with sighs, my ...
Love is our Reasons Paradox, which stillAgainst the judgment doth maintain the Will:And governs by such arbitrary laws,It onely makes ...
My dearest Love! when thou and I must part,And th' icy hand of death shall seize that heartWhich is all ...
Should we our Sorrows in this Method range,Oft as Misfortune doth their Subjects change,And to the sev'ral Losses which befall,Pay ...
To have liv'd eminent in a degreeeBeyond our lofty'st flights, that is like thee;Or t'have had too much merit is ...
Great Lady! That thus quite against our use,We speak your welcome by an English Muse,And in a vulgar tongue our ...
Essex twice made unhappy by a Wife,Yet Marry'd worse unto the Peoples strife:He who by two Divorces did untieHis Bond ...
VVhat is th' Existence of Mans life?But open war, or slumber'd strife.Where sickness to his sense presentsThe combat of the ...
Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sureOn thy supporters shoulders, left past cure,Thou dasht in ruine fall by a griefs ...
Like an Oblation set before a Shrine,Fair One! I offer up this heart of mine.Whether the Saint accept my Gift ...
VVhen first the Magick of thine ey,Usurpt upon my liberty,Triumphing in my hearts spoyl, thouDidst lock up thine in such ...
BRAVE flowers—that I could gallant it like you, And be as little vain!You come abroad, and make a harmless show, And to ...
Peace my hearts blab, be ever dumb,Sorrowes speak loud without a tongue:And my perplexed thoughts forbearTo breath your selves in ...
Perhaps 'twas but conceit. Erroneous sence!Thou art thine own distemper and offence.Imagine then, that sick unwholsom steamWas thy corruption breath'd ...
Praise ye the Lord, your Songs addressTo praise His Holynes:O praise Him in His pow'rs extent,Who rules the firmament.Praise Him ...
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