An Antheme (William Strode Poems)
O sing a new song to the Lord, Praise in the hight and deeper strayne; Come beare your parts with ...
O sing a new song to the Lord, Praise in the hight and deeper strayne; Come beare your parts with ...
Hence, hence, all you vaine delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly: Ther's nought in ...
Looke how the russet morne exceeds the night, How sleekest Jett yields to the di'monds light, So farr the glory ...
Though after Death, Thanks lessen into Praise, And Worthies be not crown'd with gold, but bayes; Shall we not thank? ...
The Sheriffe of Oxford late is grown so wise As to repreive his Beere till next assize: Alas! twas not ...
'Tis vayne to add a ring or gemme, Your eare itselfe outpasseth them. When idle words are passing here, I ...
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Denys hath merited no slender praise, In that She well supplied the Formers daies. Conceive how Good she was, whose ...
What is our life? a play of passion; Our mirth the musick of division: Our mother's wombes the tyring houses ...
When Orpheus sweetly did complayne Upon his lute with heavy strayne How his Euridice was slayne, The trees to heare ...
Whene'er the wast makes too much hast, That hast againe makes too much wast. I here stand keeper while 'tis ...
What are thy gaines, O death, if one man ly Stretch'd in a bed of clay, whose charity Doth hereby ...
Like to the rowling of an eye, Or like a starre shott from the skye, Or like a hand upon ...
Marie, Incarnate Virtue, Soule and Skin Both pure, whom Death not Life convincd of Sin, Had Daughters like seven Pleiades; ...
These dolphins twisting each on either side For joy leapt upp, and gazing there abide; And whereas other waters fish ...
Here is paper, pen, and inke, That your heart and seale may sinke Into such markes as may expresse A ...
Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde, And whence the Lilly whitenesse borrowed: You blusht, and then ...
Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell; Whose practise shew'd goodness was possible, Who reach'd the full outstretch'd perfection Of Man, of ...
Could any shewe where Plynyes people dwell Whose head stands in their breast; who cannot tell A smoothing lye because ...
There is a thing that nothing is, A foolish wanton, sober wise; It hath noe wings, noe eyes, noe eares, ...
Is Death so cunning now that all her blowe Aymes at the heade? Doth now her wary Bowe Make surer ...
These veines are nature's nett, These cords by art are sett. If love himselfe flye here, Love is intangled here. ...
See sinfull soul thy Saviours suffering see, His Blessed hands and feet fix't fast to tree: Observe what Rivulets of ...
Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay Doubles each houre of the day: The winged hast of nimble love Makes ...
Dawson the Butler's dead: Although I think Poets were ne'er infusde with single drinke Ile spend a farthing muse; some ...
When Westwell Downes I gan to tread, Where cleanely wynds the greene did sweepe, Methought a landskipp there was spread, ...
We are prevented; you whose Presence is A Publick New-yeares gift, a Common bliss To all that Love or Feare, ...
I SAW fair Chloris walk alone, When feather'd rain came softly down, As Jove descending from his Tower To court ...
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Take, greedy death, a body here entomd That by a thousand stroakes was made one wound, Where all thy shafts ...
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