A CONJURATION: TO ELECTRA (Robert Herrick Poems)
By those soft tods of wool,With which the air is full;By all those tinctures thereThat paint the hemisphere;By dews and ...
By those soft tods of wool,With which the air is full;By all those tinctures thereThat paint the hemisphere;By dews and ...
Thou art to all lost love the best,The only true plant found,Wherewith young men and maids distrestAnd left of love, ...
The Hag is astride, This night for to ride, The devil and she together; Through thick and through thin, Now ...
Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like ...
THE APPARITION OF HIS, MISTRESS, CALLING HIM TO ELYSIUM DESUNT NONNULLA-- Come then, and like two doves with silvery wings, ...
Holy-Rood, come forth and shield Us i' th' city and the field; Safely guard us, now and aye, From the ...
MONTANO, SILVIO, AND MIRTILLO, SHEPHERDS MON. Bad are the times. SIL. And worse than they are we. MON. Troth, bad ...
Can I not sin, but thou wilt be My private protonotary? Can I not woo thee, to pass by A ...
Night hath no wings to him that cannot sleep; And Time seems then not for to fly, but creep; Slowly ...
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, From murders Benedicite. From all mischances that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in ...
Life of my life, take not so soon thy flight, But stay the time till we have bade good-night. Thou ...
Happily I had a sight Of my dearest dear last night; Make her this day smile on me, And I'll ...
Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee, And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like ...
BE those few hours, which I have yet to spend, Blest with the meditation of my end; Though they be ...
Be the mistress of my choice, Clean in manners, clear in voice; Be she witty, more than wise, Pure enough, ...
Not all thy flushing suns are set, Herrick, as yet ; Nor doth this far-drawn hemisphere Frown and look sullen ...
Come pity us, all ye who see Our harps hung on the willow-tree; Come pity us, ye passers-by, Who see ...
Thou art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distrest And ...
Chorus. What sweeter music can we bring, Than a Carol, for to sing The Birth of this our heavenly King? ...
HERE, Here I live with what my board Can with the smallest cost afford; Though ne'er so mean the viands ...
Bell-man of night, if I about shall go For to deny my Master, do thou crow! Thou stop'st Saint Peter ...
TO THE HONOURED MR ENDYMION PORTER, GROOM OF THE BED-CHAMBER TO HIS MAJESTY Sweet country life, to such unknown, Whose ...
O years! and age! farewell: Behold I go, Where I do know Infinity to dwell. And these mine eyes shall ...
By those soft tods of wool With which the air is full; By all those tinctures there, That paint the ...
Ah, my Perilla, dost thou grieve to see Me day by day to steal away from thee? Age calls me ...
Get up, get up for shame! the blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws ...
So Good-Luck came, and on my roof did light, Like noiseless snow, or as the dew of night; Not all ...
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