Art Thou Poor (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?O sweet content!Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplexed?O punishment!Dost thou laugh ...
Thomas Dekker Poems (18 Poems)
Country Glee (Thomas Dekker Poems)
HAYMAKERS, rakers, reapers, and mowers,Wait on your Summer-queen;Dress up with musk-rose her eglantine bowers,Daffodils strew the green;Sing, dance, and play,'Tis ...
Haymakers, Rakers, Reapers, And Mowers (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Haymakers, rakers, reapers, and mowers,Wait upon your summer queen.Dress up with musk-rose her eglantine bowers,Daffodils strew the green.Sing, dance, and ...
Prologue: The Pleasant Comedy Of Old Fortunatus (Thomas Dekker Poems)
OF Love's sweet war our timorous Muse doth sing,And to the bosom of each gentle dear,Offers her artless tunes, borne ...
Sweet Content (Thomas Dekker Poems)
ART thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? O sweet content!Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplex'd? O punishment!Dost thou laugh ...
The Merry month of May (Thomas Dekker Poems)
O THE month of May, the merry month of May,So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!O, ...
from: Shoemaker’s Holiday, Or The Gentle Craft (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain,Saint Hugh be our good speed ;Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain,Nor ...
Cast away care (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Cast away care; he that loves sorrowLengthens not a day, nor can buy to-morrow ;Money is trash, and he that ...
Rose (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Here sit thou down upon this flow'ry bank,And make a garland for thy Lacy's head.These pinks, these roses, and these ...
Fortune Smiles (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Fortune smiles, cry holiday,Dimples on her cheeks do dwell,Fortune frowns, cry welladay,Her love is heaven, her hate is hell:Since heaven ...
Beauty Arise (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Beauty arise, show forth thy glorious shining,Thine eyes feed love, for them he standeth pining ;Honor and youth attend to ...
The Noble Spanish Soldier (Thomas Dekker Poems)
O, SORROW, SORROW, say where dost thou dwell?In the lowest room of hell.Art thou born of human race?No, no, I ...
What Bird So Sings (Thomas Dekker Poems)
What bird so sings, yet so does wail,'Tis Philomel the Nightingale;Jug, jug, jug, tereu she cries,And hating earth, to heaven ...
Here Lies The Blithe Spring (Thomas Dekker Poems)
HERE lies the blithe Spring,Who first taught birds to sing,Yet in April herself fell a-crying:Then May growing hot,A sweating sickness ...
Cradle Song (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,Smiles awake you when you rise ;Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,And I will sing a ...
Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,Smiles awake you when you rise ;Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,And I will sing a ...
Fancies Are But Streams (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Fancies are but streamsOf vain pleasure:They who by their dreamsTrue joys measureFeasting, starve; laughing, weep;Playing, smart. Whilst in sleepFools with ...
Patience (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Patience! why, 'tis the soul of peace:OF all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven:It makes men look like gods. ...