Meditation on the Inconstancy and Vanity of the World (Mary Stuart Poems)
When it is meet for rest to be our guideAnd for a while set every care aside,A memory of my ...
Mary Stuart Poems (39 Poems)
Ode On The Death Of Her Husband, King Francis II (Mary Stuart Poems)
In my sad, quiet song,A melancholy air,I shall look deep and longAt loss beyond compare,And with bitter tears,I'll pass my ...
Diamond Speaks (Mary Stuart Poems)
'Tis not because my strength outranks both flame and brand,Nor because my facets display a cunning hand,Nor because, set in ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 8 (Mary Stuart Poems)
While you made love, she lay with cold disdain.If you were suffering the heat of passionThat comes from loving with ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 11 (Mary Stuart Poems)
My heart, my blood, my soul and my great care,Alas you promised we should have the pleasureOf whiling away the ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 2 (Mary Stuart Poems)
She does your bidding for her honour's sake.I do your bidding and have naught but strifeSince, unlike her, alas, I'm ...
Sonnet to Queen Elizabeth I of England (Mary Stuart Poems)
One thought, that is my torment and delight,Ebbs and flows bittersweet within my heartAnd between doubt and hope rends me ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 3 (Mary Stuart Poems)
Through you, my heart, and through your marriage vow,She has restored her honour and estate;She has achieved through you a ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 4 (Mary Stuart Poems)
My love for him is growing and shall growThroughout my life as long as there's a partWhere it can grow ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 9 (Mary Stuart Poems)
And now at last she starts to comprehendHow poor her judgement was and to discoverShe should not undervalue such a ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 7 (Mary Stuart Poems)
Into his hands and wholly in his powerI place my son, my honour and my all,My country, my subjects, my ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 1 (Mary Stuart Poems)
Lord, grant your mercy unto me:Teach me some way that he may knowMy love for him is not an empty ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 10 (Mary Stuart Poems)
You trust in her; alas I see too well you do!And you cast doubt upon my constancy,(You, who are the ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 5 (Mary Stuart Poems)
And I have shed for him so many a tear.First when he took my body and made it his ownAlthough ...
O Lord My God, Receive My Prayer (Mary Stuart Poems)
O Lord my God, receive my prayerWhich is according to thy holy will;For if, O great king, it should please ...
Sonnet Written at Fotheringhay (Mary Stuart Poems)
Alas what am I? What use has my life?I am but a body whose heart's torn away,A vain shadow, an ...
Give Me, O Lord, the Patience to Progress (Mary Stuart Poems)
Give me, O Lord, the patience to progressAnd give resolve to my too feeble faith.May thy spirit guide me in ...
Sonnet Written During Her Imprisonment (Mary Stuart Poems)
The wrath of God is not appeased by bloodOf goats nor oxen on the altar laid,No incense nor any sacrifice ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 6 (Mary Stuart Poems)
I call you my sole sustenance of lifeOnly because I seek to make it true;Thus I dare force myself in ...
Verses to Ronsard (Mary Stuart Poems)
Ronsard, if your good, gentle-natured heartDeceives you for some sustenance at court,Which you received when young from a king's handIn ...
To the Bishop of Ross, After His Deliverance from Prison (Mary Stuart Poems)
Since God has, in his generosity,Granted you such good fortune nowIn all good standing to be free to go,With a ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 12 (Mary Stuart Poems)
Not seeing you, although you promised me,I've taken pen and paper so to writeAbout a dispute that I would indite.I ...
Poem Composed on the Morning of Her Execution (Mary Stuart Poems)
O my Lord and my God, I have trusted in Thee.O my dear Jesus, no liberate me.In shackle and chain, ...
Verses – 2 (Mary Stuart Poems)
The gods, the heavens, death, envy and hate rail on;They are deaf, angry, cruel, marshalled against me.To pray, weep, suffer, ...
Verses Written in Her Book of Hours – 9 (Mary Stuart Poems)
With feigned good will my friends change toward me,All the good they do me is to wish me dead,As if, ...
Quatrain Written in the Mass Book Belonging to Her Aunt Anne of Lorraine (Mary Stuart Poems)
If I am ordered to write in this spaceBecause you're pleased by such a souvenir,I ask of you always to ...
Verses Written in Her Book of Hours – 1 (Mary Stuart Poems)
Did any more ill-fated e'er draw breath?Wherefore life has no more use than death.Rather than change my sorrows' destiny,All change ...
Verses Written in Her Book of Hours – 12 (Mary Stuart Poems)
Old age is an ill none can cureAnd youth a good that nobody can store.As soon as man is born ...
Verses Written in Her Book of Hours – 5 (Mary Stuart Poems)
None has the right to bear these armsBut those whose dauntless hearts withstood,Like us, the terror of alarmsIn powerful times ...
Verses – 1 (Mary Stuart Poems)
A man is lacking in civilityIf, when time calls, he fail to show his wit.And when the occasion merits poetryHe ...