As You Came from the Holy Land (Sir Walter Raleigh Poems)
As you came from the holy landOf Walsingham,Met you not with my true loveBy the way as you came?'How shall ...
As you came from the holy landOf Walsingham,Met you not with my true loveBy the way as you came?'How shall ...
Prais'd be Diana's fair and harmless light;Prais'd be the dews wherewith she moists the ground;Prais'd be her beams, the glory ...
Rise, O my soul! with thy desires to heaven,And with divinest contemplation useThy time, when time's eternity is given,And let ...
Three things there be that prosper up apaceAnd flourish, whilst they grow asunder far,But on a day, they meet all ...
Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay,Within that temple where the vestal flameWas wont to burn; and, passing by ...
Even such is time, which takes in trustOur youth, our joys, and all we have,And pays us nought but age ...
Even such is time, which takes in trustOur youth, our joys, and all we have,And pays us but with age ...
The sun may set and rise,But we, contrariwise,Sleep, after our short light,One everlasting night.(Sir Walter Raleigh)
Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired, And past return are all my dandled days; My love misled, and ...
Your dog is not a dog of grace; He does not wag the tail or beg; He bit Miss Dickson ...
The Artist and his Luckless Wife They lead a horrid haunted life, Surrounded by the things he's made That are ...
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move ...
When I am safely laid away, Out of work and out of play, Sheltered by the kindly ground From the ...
Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand; Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy ...
EVEN such is Time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but ...
What is our life? A play of passion, Our mirth the music of division, Our mother's wombs the tiring-houses be, ...
Now Serena be not coy, Since we freely may enjoy Sweet embraces, such delights, As will shorten tedious nights. Think ...
Farewell, false love, the oracle of lies, A mortal foe and enemy to rest, An envious boy, from whom all ...
IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move ...
GIVE me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My ...
Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expir'd, And past return are all my dandled days; My love misled, and ...
I was a Poet! But I did not know it, Neither did my Mother, Nor my Sister nor my Brother. ...
Our great work, the Otia Merseiana, Edited by learned Mister Sampson, And supported by Professor Woodward, Is financed by numerous ...
WRONG not, sweet empress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart, That ...
Attend my words, my gentle knave, And you shall learn from me How boys at dinner may behave With due ...
Nature, that washed her hands in milk, And had forgot to dry them, Instead of earth took snow and silk, ...
To Griggs, that learned man, in many a bygone session, His kids were his delight, and physics his profession; Now ...
Now what is Love, I pray thee, tell? It is that fountain and that well Where pleasure and repentance dwell; ...
PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields ...
VERSE I In a famed town of Caledonia's land, A prosperous port contiguous to the strand, A monarch feasted in ...
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