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 ...
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 ...
But say thou very woman, why to meThis fit of weakness and inconstancie?What forfeit have I made of word or ...
Great Lady! That thus quite against our use,We speak your welcome by an English Muse,And in a vulgar tongue our ...
Move on thou floating Trophee built to fame!And bid her trump spread thy Majestick name;That the blew Tritons, and those ...
Sad Relick of a blessed Soul! whose trustWe sealed up in this religious dust.O do not thy low Exequies suspectAs ...
Lady your art or wit could nere deviseTo shame me more then in this nights surprise.Why I am quite unready, ...
Go thou that vainly do'st mine eyes inviteTo taste the softer comforts of the night,And bid'st me cool the feaver ...
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