Poems

Under the Greenwood Tree Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird’s throat, Come hither, […]

Venus and Adonis ‘Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.’ TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF […]

Venus and Adonis (excerpt) Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose […]

Winter When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home […]

Witches Chant (from Macbeth) Round about the couldron go: In the poisones entrails throw. Toad,that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Sweated venom sleeping […]

On A Nightingale In April The yellow moon is a dancing phantom Down secret ways of the flowing shade; And the waveless stream has a murmuring […]

A Pastoral Ballad I: Absence Ye shepherds so chearful and gay, Whose flocks never carelessly roam; Should Corydon’s happen to stray, Oh! call the poor wanderers […]

A Pastoral Ballad II: Hope My banks they are furnish’d with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep; My grottos are shaded with trees, And my […]

A Pastoral Ballad III: Solicitude Why will you my passion reprove? Why term it a folly to grieve? Ere I shew you the charms of my […]

A Pastoral Ballad IV: Disappointment Ye shepherds give ear to my lay, And take no more heed of my sheep: They have nothing to do but […]