Featured Poems
Click on a poem below (listed both by first line and by title) to see:
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By first line
- ’Tis strange, this heart within my breast ❧ A Song
- Persuade me not, there is a grace ❧ A Song.
- Proud Babilon, thou saw’st us weep ❧ Psalm the 137th: paraphras'd to the 7th: Verse
- Reputation, Love, and Death ❧ Love Death and Reputation A Fable
- This, to the Crown, and blessing of my life ❧ A Letter to Dafnis April: 2d: 1685
- Turenne with sleeping Monarchs lies interr’d ❧ Under the picture of Marshall Turenne taken from his epitaph written in French.
- Wellcome, what e’re my tender flesh may say ❧ On Affliction
- A Song ❧ ’Tis strange, this heart within my breast
- A Song. ❧ Persuade me not, there is a grace
- Psalm the 137th: paraphras'd to the 7th: Verse ❧ Proud Babilon, thou saw’st us weep
- Love Death and Reputation A Fable ❧ Reputation, Love, and Death
- A Letter to Dafnis April: 2d: 1685 ❧ This, to the Crown, and blessing of my life
- Under the picture of Marshall Turenne taken from his epitaph written in French. ❧ Turenne with sleeping Monarchs lies interr’d
- On Affliction ❧ Wellcome, what e’re my tender flesh may say
