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 ...
Henry King Poems (63 Poems)
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 ...
PARADOX. That Fruition destroyes Love (Henry King Poems)
Love is our Reasons Paradox, which stillAgainst the judgment doth maintain the Will:And governs by such arbitrary laws,It onely makes ...
The Exequy (Henry King Poems)
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 ...
PARADOX. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man (Henry King Poems)
Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?He may as useful, and more constant prove.Experience shews you that maturer ...
To his unconstant Friend (Henry King Poems)
But say thou very woman, why to meThis fit of weakness and inconstancie?What forfeit have I made of word or ...
The Departure. AN ELEGY. (Henry King Poems)
VVere I to leave no more then a good friend,Or but to hear the summons to my end,(Which I have ...
To my dead friend Ben Johnson (Henry King Poems)
I see that wreath which doth the wearer arm'Gainst the quick strokes of thunder, is no charmTo keep off deaths ...
The Legacy (Henry King Poems)
My dearest Love! when thou and I must part,And th' icy hand of death shall seize that heartWhich is all ...
AN ELEGY Upon my Best Friend L. K. C. (Henry King Poems)
Should we our Sorrows in this Method range,Oft as Misfortune doth their Subjects change,And to the sev'ral Losses which befall,Pay ...
Upon the death of my ever desired friend Doctor Donne Dean of Pauls (Henry King Poems)
To have liv'd eminent in a degreeeBeyond our lofty'st flights, that is like thee;Or t'have had too much merit is ...
To the Queen at Oxford (Henry King Poems)
Great Lady! That thus quite against our use,We speak your welcome by an English Muse,And in a vulgar tongue our ...
Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (Henry King Poems)
Con mala Muger el remedioMucha Tierra por el medio.I have oft wondred why thou didst electThy Mistress of a stuff ...
Upon the Kings happy return from Scotland (Henry King Poems)
So breaks the day when the returning SunHath newly through his Winter Tropick run,As You (Great Sir!) in this regress ...
The Labyrinth (Henry King Poems)
Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and weAre daily lost in that Obliquity.'Tis a perplexed circle, in whose roundNothing but sorrows ...
On the Earl of Essex (Henry King Poems)
Essex twice made unhappy by a Wife,Yet Marry'd worse unto the Peoples strife:He who by two Divorces did untieHis Bond ...
The Surrender (Henry King Poems)
MY once dear love, hapless that I no moreMust call thee so, the rich affection's storeThat fed our hope lies ...
A salutation of his Majesties Ship the Soveraign (Henry King Poems)
Move on thou floating Trophee built to fame!And bid her trump spread thy Majestick name;That the blew Tritons, and those ...
To One demanding why Wine sparkles (Henry King Poems)
So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss eyes;When tis not Fire but light in either flyes.Beauty not thaw'd by lustful flames ...
AN ELEGY Upon the death of Mr. Edward Holt (Henry King Poems)
VVhether thy Fathers, or diseases rage,More mortal prov'd to thy unhappy age,Our sorrow needs not question; since the firstIs known ...
The Dirge (Henry King Poems)
VVhat is th' Existence of Mans life?But open war, or slumber'd strife.Where sickness to his sense presentsThe combat of the ...
A Penitential Hymne (Henry King Poems)
Hearken O God unto a Wretches cryesWho low dejected at thy footstool lies.Let not the clamour of my heinous sinDrown ...
St. Valentines day (Henry King Poems)
Now that each feather'd Chorister doth singThe glad approches of the welcome Spring:Now Phobus darts forth his more early beam,And ...
The Change (Henry King Poems)
Il sabio mude conseio: Il loco persevera.We lov'd as friends now twenty years and more:Is't time or reason think you ...
AN ELEGY Upon Prince Henry’s death. (Henry King Poems)
Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sureOn thy supporters shoulders, left past cure,Thou dasht in ruine fall by a griefs ...
The short Wooing (Henry King Poems)
Like an Oblation set before a Shrine,Fair One! I offer up this heart of mine.Whether the Saint accept my Gift ...
AN ELEGY Upon the L. Bishop of London John King (Henry King Poems)
Sad Relick of a blessed Soul! whose trustWe sealed up in this religious dust.O do not thy low Exequies suspectAs ...
To his Friends of Christ-Church upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Arts acted at Woodstock (Henry King Poems)
But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play,That Christ-Church and the Arts have lost the day;That Ignoramus should so ...
The Farewell (Henry King Poems)
Splendidis longum valedico nugis.Farewell fond Love, under whose childish whip,I have serv'd out a weary Prentiship;Thou that hast made me ...
The Defence (Henry King Poems)
Piensan los EnamoradosQue tienen los otros, los oios quebranta dos.VVhy slightest thou what I approve?Thou art no Peer to try ...