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 ...
Henry King Poems on Fear (5 Poems)
PARADOX. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man (Henry King Poems)
Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?He may as useful, and more constant prove.Experience shews you that maturer ...
To the Queen at Oxford (Henry King Poems)
Great Lady! That thus quite against our use,We speak your welcome by an English Muse,And in a vulgar tongue our ...
The Dirge (Henry King Poems)
VVhat is th' Existence of Mans life?But open war, or slumber'd strife.Where sickness to his sense presentsThe combat of the ...
A Contemplatio (Henry King Poems)
BRAVE flowers—that I could gallant it like you, And be as little vain!You come abroad, and make a harmless show, And to ...