Poems

Song. Good Counsel to a Young Maid GAZE not on thy beauty’s pride, Tender maid, in the false tide That from lovers’ eyes doth slide. Let […]

Song. Mediocrity in love rejected. GIVE me more love or more disdain ; The torrid or the frozen zone Bring equal ease unto my pain, The […]

Song. Murdering Beauty I’LL gaze no more on her bewitching face, Since ruin harbours there in every place ; For my enchanted soul alike she drowns […]

Song: Eternity of Love Protested How ill doth he deserve a lover’s name, Whose pale weak flame Cannot retain His heat, in spite of absence or […]

Song: Persuasions to Enjoy If the quick spirits in your eye Now languish and anon must die; If every sweet and every grace Must fly from […]

The Primrose Ask me why I send you here The firstling of the infant year; Ask me why I send to you This primrose all bepearled […]

The Spring Now that the winter’s gone, the earth hath lost Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost Candies the grass, or casts an […]

To A. L. Persuasions to Love. THINK not, ’cause men flattering say You’re fresh as April, sweet as May, Bright as is the morning star, That […]

To Ben Jonson upon Occasion of his Ode of Defiance Annexed t ‘Tis true, dear Ben, thy just chastising hand Hath fix’d upon the sotted age […]

To my Inconstant Mistress When thou, poor excommunicate From all the joys of love, shalt see The full reward and glorious fate Which my strong faith […]