The Siege (John Suckling Poems)
'Tis now, since I sat down beforeThat foolish fort, a heart,(Time strangely spent) a year and more,And still I did ...
'Tis now, since I sat down beforeThat foolish fort, a heart,(Time strangely spent) a year and more,And still I did ...
One of her hands one of her cheeks lay under, Cosening the pillow of a lawful kiss, Which therefore swell'd, and seem'd ...
O! for some honest lover's ghost, Some kind unbodied post Sent from the shades below! I strangely long to knowWhether the noble chaplets ...
Dost see how unregarded now That piece of beauty passes?There was a time when I did vow To that alone; But mark the ...
Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white,To make up my delight;No odd becoming graces,Black eyes, or little ...
No, no, fair heretic, it needs must beBut an ill love in me,And worse for thee.For were it in my ...
That none beguiled be by Time's quick flowing,Lovers have in their hearts a clock still going;For, though Time be nimble, ...
WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale?Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so ...
I am a man of war and might,And know thus much, that I can fight,Whether I am in the wrong ...
Hast thou seen the down in the air,When wanton blasts have tossed it?Or the ship on the sea,When ruder waves ...
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