To His Love When He Had Obtained Her
Now Serena be not coy, Since we freely may enjoy Sweet embraces, such delights, As will shorten tedious nights. Think […]
Now Serena be not coy, Since we freely may enjoy Sweet embraces, such delights, As will shorten tedious nights. Think […]
WRONG not, sweet empress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart, That […]
Go, Soul, the body’s guest, Upon a thankless errand; Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy […]
Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired, And past return are all my dandled days; My love misled, and […]
Attend my words, my gentle knave, And you shall learn from me How boys at dinner may behave With due […]
When I am safely laid away, Out of work and out of play, Sheltered by the kindly ground From the […]
Even such is time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but […]
PASSIONS are liken’d best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields […]
I was a Poet! But I did not know it, Neither did my Mother, Nor my Sister nor my Brother. […]
Nature, that washed her hands in milk, And had forgot to dry them, Instead of earth took snow and silk, […]
IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd’s tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move […]
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; […]
The Artist and his Luckless Wife They lead a horrid haunted life, Surrounded by the things he’s made That are […]
Farewell, false love, the oracle of lies, A mortal foe and enemy to rest, An envious boy, from whom all […]