Poems

A Divine Mistress In Nature’s pieces still I see Some error that might mended be; Something my wish could still remove, Alter or add; but my […]

A prayer to the Wind Go thou gentle whispering wind, Bear this sigh; and if thou find Where my cruel fair doth rest, Cast it in […]

A Song: When June is Past, the Fading Rose Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your […]

An Elegy upon the Death of Dr. Donne, Dean of Paul’s Can we not force from widow’d poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy […]

Boldness in Love Mark how the bashful morn in vain Courts the amorous marigold, With sighing blasts and weeping rain, Yet she refuses to unfold. But […]

Celia Beeding, To the Surgeon Fond man, that canst believe her blood Will from those purple channels flow; Or that the pure untainted flood Can any […]

Disdain Returned He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old […]

Epitaph for Maria Wentworth And here the precious dust is laid; Whose purely-temper’d clay was made So fine that it the guest betray’d. Else the soul […]

Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers This little vault, this narrow room, Of Love, and Beauty, is the tomb; The dawning beam that gan to clear […]

Epitaph On The Late Mary Villiers The Lady Mary Villiers lies Under this stone; with weeping eyes The parents that first gave her breath, And their […]