To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys (Henry King Poems)
It is, Sir, a confest intrusion hereThat I before your labours do appear,Which no loud Herald need, that may proclaimOr ...
It is, Sir, a confest intrusion hereThat I before your labours do appear,Which no loud Herald need, that may proclaimOr ...
Love is our Reasons Paradox, which stillAgainst the judgment doth maintain the Will:And governs by such arbitrary laws,It onely makes ...
Accept, thou shrine of my dead saint,Instead of dirges, this complaint;And for sweet flow'rs to crown thy hearse,From thy griev'd ...
Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?He may as useful, and more constant prove.Experience shews you that maturer ...
I see that wreath which doth the wearer arm'Gainst the quick strokes of thunder, is no charmTo keep off deaths ...
To have liv'd eminent in a degreeeBeyond our lofty'st flights, that is like thee;Or t'have had too much merit is ...
So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss eyes;When tis not Fire but light in either flyes.Beauty not thaw'd by lustful flames ...
Now that each feather'd Chorister doth singThe glad approches of the welcome Spring:Now Phobus darts forth his more early beam,And ...
Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sureOn thy supporters shoulders, left past cure,Thou dasht in ruine fall by a griefs ...
Splendidis longum valedico nugis.Farewell fond Love, under whose childish whip,I have serv'd out a weary Prentiship;Thou that hast made me ...
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