Farewell Court (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
I Youth, when Fancie bare the sway, Within my peeuish braine:And Reasons lore by no meanes could My wanton will restraine:My gadding ...
I Youth, when Fancie bare the sway, Within my peeuish braine:And Reasons lore by no meanes could My wanton will restraine:My gadding ...
And is there any wight aliue, That rightly may compare,Or goe beyond me silly wretch, In sadnesse and in care?Some such may ...
As late abroad asleepe I lay, Mee thought I came by wondrous chaunce:Whereas I heard a harper play, And saw great store ...
Yee that would heare a Story straunge To this example rare, Attentiuely take heede:Which pictures heere, before your face, A worthy wight indeede.A ...
A thing most straunge to tell, of late did chaunce to me:whiles yt I tooke my pen in had, to ...
Like as the theefe in prison cast, With wofull wayling mones,When hope of pardon cleane is past, And sighes with dolefull grones:So ...
Reueale (O tongue) the secretes of my thought,Tel forth the game that perfect friendship brings:Expresse what ioyes by her to ...
VVhen dreadfull death with dint of pearcing darte,By fatall doome, this corpes of mine shal kill;When lingring life shall from ...
Hast thou desire thy golden dayes to spend,In blisfull state exempt from all annoyes?So liue, as if death now thy ...
Serue God thy Lord, delight to keepe his lawes.Alwayes, haue care to doe his holy hest.Commit not that which may ...
Amongst the firiendships rare, Of which old writers tell:This may bee plaste in highest roome, And doth deserue it well.Whiles death with ...
A certain dead creature in mine armes I take,With her back to my bosome, great glee doth she makeAs thus ...
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