Poems

He That Loves A Rosy Cheek He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain […]

I Do Not Love Thee For That Fair I do not love thee for that fair Rich fan of thy most curious hair; Though the wires […]

Ingrateful Beauty Threatened Know Celia, since thou art so proud, ‘Twas I that gave thee thy renown; Thou hadst, in the forgotten crowd Of common beauties, […]

Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud Know, Celia, since thou art so proud, ‘Twas I that gave thee thy renown. Thou hadst in the forgotten […]

Lips and Eyes. IN Celia’s face a question did arise, Which were more beautiful, her lips or eyes ? “ We,” said the eyes, “send forth […]

Mediocrity in Love Rejected Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid, or the frozen zone, Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords […]

My Mistress Commanding Me to Return Her Letters. SO grieves th’ adventurous merchant, when he throws All the long toil’d-for treasure his ship stows Into the […]

Secrecy Protested. FEAR not, dear love, that I’ll reveal Those hours of pleasure we two steal ; No eye shall see, nor yet the sun Descry, […]

Song ASK me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauty’s orient deep These flowers, as in their […]

Song. A Beautiful Mistress. IF when the sun at noon displays His brighter rays, Thou but appear, He then, all pale with shame and fear, Quencheth […]