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 ...
It is, Sir, a confest intrusion hereThat I before your labours do appear,Which no loud Herald need, that may proclaimOr ...
Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?He may as useful, and more constant prove.Experience shews you that maturer ...
But say thou very woman, why to meThis fit of weakness and inconstancie?What forfeit have I made of word or ...
I see that wreath which doth the wearer arm'Gainst the quick strokes of thunder, is no charmTo keep off deaths ...
Con mala Muger el remedioMucha Tierra por el medio.I have oft wondred why thou didst electThy Mistress of a stuff ...
But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play,That Christ-Church and the Arts have lost the day;That Ignoramus should so ...
VVhen first the Magick of thine ey,Usurpt upon my liberty,Triumphing in my hearts spoyl, thouDidst lock up thine in such ...
The man is blest whose feet not tread,By wicked counsailes led:Nor stands in that perverted way,In which the Sinners stray;Nor ...
Perhaps 'twas but conceit. Erroneous sence!Thou art thine own distemper and offence.Imagine then, that sick unwholsom steamWas thy corruption breath'd ...
Like to the falling of a star,Or as the flights of eagles are,Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue,Or silver ...
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