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 ...
So breaks the day when the returning SunHath newly through his Winter Tropick run,As You (Great Sir!) in this regress ...
VVhether thy Fathers, or diseases rage,More mortal prov'd to thy unhappy age,Our sorrow needs not question; since the firstIs known ...
Sad Relick of a blessed Soul! whose trustWe sealed up in this religious dust.O do not thy low Exequies suspectAs ...
Brought forth in sorrow, and bred up in care,Two tender Children here entombed are:One Place, one Sire, one Womb their ...
Out of the horrour of the lowest Deep,Where cares & endlesse fears their station keep,To thee (O Lord) I send ...
I prethee turn that face awayWhose splendour but benights my day.Sad eyes like mine, and wounded heartsShun the bright rayes ...
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