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 Life (9 Poems)
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 ...
The Exequy (Henry King Poems)
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 ...
The Legacy (Henry King Poems)
My dearest Love! when thou and I must part,And th' icy hand of death shall seize that heartWhich is all ...
The Labyrinth (Henry King Poems)
Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and weAre daily lost in that Obliquity.'Tis a perplexed circle, in whose roundNothing but sorrows ...
On the Earl of Essex (Henry King Poems)
Essex twice made unhappy by a Wife,Yet Marry'd worse unto the Peoples strife:He who by two Divorces did untieHis Bond ...
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 Penitential Hymne (Henry King Poems)
Hearken O God unto a Wretches cryesWho low dejected at thy footstool lies.Let not the clamour of my heinous sinDrown ...
The short Wooing (Henry King Poems)
Like an Oblation set before a Shrine,Fair One! I offer up this heart of mine.Whether the Saint accept my Gift ...