Poems

A Farewel To Worldly Joys Farewell ye Unsubstantial Joyes, Ye Gilded Nothings, Gaudy Toyes, Too long ye have my Soul misled, Too long with Aiery Diet […]

Alexandreis I Sing the Man that never Equal knew, Whose Mighty Arms all Asia did subdue, Whose Conquests through the spacious World do ring, That City-Raser, […]

An Invective Against Gold OF all the Poisons that the fruitful Earth E’er yet brought forth, or Monsters she gave Birth, Nought to Mankind has e’er […]

First Epigram: Upon Being Contented with a Little We deem them moderate, but Enough implore, What barely will suffice, and ask no more: Who say, (O […]

Love, The Soul Of Poetry When first Alexis did in Verse delight, His Muse in Low, but Graceful Numbers walk’t, And now and then a little […]

On Death Tell me thou safest End of all our Woe, Why wretched Mortals do avoid thee so: Thou gentle drier o’ th’ afflicted Tears, Thou […]

The Complaint Of A Lover Seest thou younder craggy Rock, Whose Head o’er-looks the swelling Main, Where never Shepherd fed his Flock, Or careful Peasant sow’d […]

The Discontent I. Here take no Care, take here no Care, my Muse, Nor ought of Art or Labour use: But let thy Lines rude and […]

The Miseries of Man In that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam’d, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam’d; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting Crown, Casts […]

A Contemplation Indulg’d by ev’ry active thought When upwards they wou’d fly Nor can Ambition be a fault If plac’d above the sky When humbld first […]