Poems

My Sweetest Lesbia My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven’s great […]

Now Winter Nights Enlarge Now winter nights enlarge The number of their hours, And clouds their storms discharge Upon the airy towers. Let now the chimneys […]

O come quickly! NEVER weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore, Never tired pilgrim’s limbs affected slumber more, Than my wearied sprite now longs to fly […]

Rose-Cheeked Laura Rose-cheek’d Laura, come, Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty’s Silent music, either other Sweetly gracing. Lovely forms do flow From concent divinely framed; Heav’n […]

The Garden There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do […]

Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air, Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair, Then thrice three times tie […]

Vobiscum est Iope WHEN thou must home to shades of underground, And there arrived, a new admired guest, The beauteous spirits do engirt thee round, White […]

When Thou Must Home To Shades Of Underground When thou must home to shades of underground, And there arrived, a new admirèd guest, The beauteous spirits […]

Winter Nights NOW winter nights enlarge The number of their hours, And clouds their storms discharge Upon the airy towers. Let now the chimneys blaze And […]

A Cruel Mistress. We read of kings and gods that kindly took A pitcher fill’d with water from the brook ; But I have daily tender’d […]