Mary Wroth Poems on Joy & Excitement (26 Poems)

42 (Song 6) (Mary Wroth Poems)

You happy blessed eyes,Which in that ruling place,Have force both to delight, and to disgrace;Whose light allures and tyesAll hearts ...

58 (Mary Wroth Poems)

Say Venus how long have I lov'd, and serv'd you heere?Yet all my passions scorn'd or doubted, although cleere;Alas thinke ...

57 (Mary Wroth Poems)

O me, the time is come to part,And with it my life-killing smart:Fond Hope leave me, my deare must goe,To ...

62 (Mary Wroth Poems)

Fairest and still truest eyes,Can you the lights be, and the spiesOf my desires?Can you shine cleare for loves delight,And ...

39 (Mary Wroth Poems)

Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks doe cast,Lest they betray my hearts most secret thought:Be true unto your ...

68 (Mary Wroth Poems)

My paine still smother'd in my grieved brest,Seekes for some ease, yet cannot passage finde,To be discharg'd of this unwellcome ...

13 (Mary Wroth Poems)

Cloy'd with the torments of a tedious night,I wish for day; which come, I hope for joy:When crosse I finde, ...

Sonnet III (Mary Wroth Poems)

HIs flames are ioyes, his bandes true Lovers might,No stain is there, but pure, as purest white,Where no cloud can ...

18 (Mary Wroth Poems)

Sleepe fye possesse me not, nor doe not frightMe with thy heavy, and thy deathlike might:For counterfetting's wilder then death's ...

33 (Mary Wroth Poems)

Fly hence O Joy, noe longer heere abide,Too great thy pleasures are for my despaireTo looke on, losses now must ...

63 (Mary Wroth Poems)

In night yet may we see some kinde of light,When as the Moone doth please to shew her face,And in ...

26 (Mary Wroth Poems)

When every one to pleasing pastime hiesSome hunt, some hawke, some play, while some delightIn sweet discourse, and musicke shewes ...

47 (Mary Wroth Poems)

You blessed Starres, which doe Heaven's glory show,And at your brightnesse make our eyes admire:Yet envy not, though I on ...

45 (Mary Wroth Poems)

If I were given to mirth, 'twould be more crosse,Thus to be robbed of my chiefest joy:But silently I beare ...

37 (Mary Wroth Poems)

How fast thou fliest, O time, on loves swift wings,To hopes of joy, that flatters our desire:Which to a Lover ...

19 (Mary Wroth Poems)

Sweet shades, why doe you seeke to giwe delightTo me, who deeme delight in this wilde place:But torment, sorrow, and ...

17 (Mary Wroth Poems)

Truly (poore night) thou welcome art to me,I love thee better in this sad attireThen that which rayseth some mens ...

69 (Mary Wroth Poems)

An end fond Jelousie, alas I knowThy hiddenest, and thy most secret Art,Thou canst no new invention frame but part,I ...

32 (Mary Wroth Poems)

Griefe, killing griefe, have not my torments beeneAlready great and strong enough? but stillThou dost increase, nay glory in mine ...

36 (Mary Wroth Poems)

After long trouble in a tedious way,Of Loves unrest, laid downe to ease my paine,Hoping for rest, new torments I ...

66 (Mary Wroth Poems)

Cruell suspition, O! be now at rest,Let daily torments bring to thee some stay,Alas, make not my ill thy ease-full ...

44 (Mary Wroth Poems)

What pleasure can a banish'd creature haveIn all the pastimes that invented areBy wit or learning? Absence making warreAgainst all ...

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