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 ...
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 ...
VVere I to leave no more then a good friend,Or but to hear the summons to my end,(Which I have ...
My dearest Love! when thou and I must part,And th' icy hand of death shall seize that heartWhich is all ...
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 ...
Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and weAre daily lost in that Obliquity.'Tis a perplexed circle, in whose roundNothing but sorrows ...
VVhat is th' Existence of Mans life?But open war, or slumber'd strife.Where sickness to his sense presentsThe combat of the ...
Piensan los EnamoradosQue tienen los otros, los oios quebranta dos.VVhy slightest thou what I approve?Thou art no Peer to try ...
Out of the horrour of the lowest Deep,Where cares & endlesse fears their station keep,To thee (O Lord) I send ...
Lady your art or wit could nere deviseTo shame me more then in this nights surprise.Why I am quite unready, ...
Pursue no more (my thoughts!) that false unkind,You may assoon imprison the North-wind;Or catch the Lightning as it leaps; or ...
Go thou that vainly do'st mine eyes inviteTo taste the softer comforts of the night,And bid'st me cool the feaver ...
If in this Glass of Humours you do findThe Passions or diseases of your mind,Here without pain, you safely may ...
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