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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
VVhat is th' Existence of Mans life?But open war, or slumber'd strife.Where sickness to his sense presentsThe combat of the ...
Il sabio mude conseio: Il loco persevera.We lov'd as friends now twenty years and more:Is't time or reason think you ...
Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sureOn thy supporters shoulders, left past cure,Thou dasht in ruine fall by a griefs ...
Sad Relick of a blessed Soul! whose trustWe sealed up in this religious dust.O do not thy low Exequies suspectAs ...
Splendidis longum valedico nugis.Farewell fond Love, under whose childish whip,I have serv'd out a weary Prentiship;Thou that hast made me ...
VVhen first the Magick of thine ey,Usurpt upon my liberty,Triumphing in my hearts spoyl, thouDidst lock up thine in such ...
My Dearest, To let you or the world knowWhat Debt of service I do truly owTo your unpattern'd self, were ...
Since thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grownA solid stone:To bring again to softness thy hard heartIs past my ...
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