If friendless faith, if guiltless thought may shield
If life be time that here is lent
If women could be fair, and yet not fond
I have no wine of Gaza nor Falerna wine
In the main sea the isle of Crete doth lie
In vain mine eyes, in vain you waste your tears
I sacrifice to God the beef which you adore.
Lady, farewell, whom I in silence serve!
Leave me, O love! which reachest but to dust
Let them bestow on every airt a limb.
Like hermit poor in pensive place obscure
Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired
Man's life's a tragedy; his mother's womb
Many by valour have deserved renown
Many desire, but few or none deserve
Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay
More holy than the rest, and understanding more
My body in the walls captived
My days' delights, my spring-time joys fordone
My dear and only love, I pray
My lute, awake! perform the last
My mind to me a kingdom is
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares
My soul, exalt the Lord with hymns of praise
My wanton Muse, that whilome wont to sing
Nine furlongs stretched lies Tityus, who for his wicked
deeds
Noble, lovely, virtuous creature.
No man was better nor more just than he
Nor southern heat nor northern snow
O faithless world, and thy most faithless part
Of many now that sound with hope's consort
Of yew the Ituræans' bows were made
O had truth power, the guiltless could not fall
One fire than other burns more forcibly
O Thou great Power! in whom I move
O Thou, who all things hast of nothing made
Our graver Muse from her long dream awakes
Over the Medes and light Sabæans reigns
O wasteful riot, never well content
Passions are likened best to floods and streams
Phoenicians first, if fame may credit have
Praised be Diana's fair and harmless light
Prometheus when first from heaven high
Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares
Rise, O my soul! with thy desires to heaven
Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse
Saturn descending from the heavens high
Saturn to be the fatter is not known
Saviour of mankind, Man, Emmanuel
Seldom the villain, though much haste he make
Semiramis with walls of brick the city did enclose
Shall I, like an hermit, dwell
Shepherd, what's love, I pray thee tell?
Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best
Some old Auruncans, I remember well
Strong Ilion thou shalt see with walls and towers high
Such as like heavenly wights do come
Sufficeth it to you, my joys interred
Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young
Sweet violets, Love's Paradise, that spread
Sweet were the joys that both might like and last
Sweet were the sauce would please each kind of taste
The Amazon with crescent-formed shield
The ancients called me Chaos; my great years
The Arcadians the earth inhabited
The brazen tower, with doors close barred
The Chalybes plough not their barren soil
The Cretans ever liars were; they care not what they
The doubt of future foes
The East wind with Aurora hath abiding
The Egyptians think it sin to root up or to bite
The first of all is God, and the same last is He
The foe to the stomach and the word of disgrace
The giants did advance their wicked hand
The greatest kings do least command content
The heaven and earth and all the liquid main
The higher that the cedar tree unto the heavens doth
The joyful spring did ever last, and Zephyrus did breed
The labouring man that tills the fertile soil
The man of life upright, whose guiltless heart is free
The man whose thoughts against him do conspire
The minds of men are ever so affected
The moistened osier of the hoary willow
Then came the Ausonian bands and the Sicanian tribes
Then marking this my sacred speech, but truly lend
The plants and trees made poor and old
The praise of meaner wits this work like profit brings
The queen anon commands the weighty bowl
There is a land which Greeks Hesperia name
There is none, O none, but you
The thirsting Tantalus doth catch at streams that from
him flee
The ways on earth have paths and turnings known
The white dove is for holy held in Syria Palestine
The word of denial and the letter of fifty
The world discerns itself, while I the world behold
The world's a bubble, and the life of man
The worst is told; the best is hid
Things thus agreed, Titan made Saturn swear
Though Cæsar's paragon I cannot be
Three things there be that prosper all apace
Thy flower of youth is with a north wind blasted
To praise thy life or wail thy worthy death
Troublous seas my soul surround
Tyrus knew first how ships might use the wind
Untimely fever, rude insulting guest
We fear by light, as children in the dark
Were I a king, I could command content
Wert thou a king, yet not command content
What is our life? The play of passion
When all is done and said
Whence comes my love? O heart, disclose
When I look back, and in myself behold
While fury gallops on the way
Whiles I admire thy first and second ways
Whilst my soul's eye beheld no light.
Who grace for zenith had
Who rules the duller earth, the wind-swollen streams
Who would have thought there could have been.
Why, pilgrim, dost thou stray
With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!
With wisdom's eyes had but blind fortune seen
Wrong not, sweet empress of my heart
Yet, though thou fetch thy pedigree so far
You meaner beauties of the night
BACON, FRANCIS, LORD. Part II. Nos. xxii. xxiii.
BROOKE, FULKE GREVILLE, LORD. Part 111. No. xxi.
BROOKE, SAMUEL, D.D. Part II. No. xix.
CHARLES I., KING. Part III. No. xxxvii.
DYER, SIR EDWARD. Part III. Nos. xvi. xvii. xviii. xix.;
with list of his other Poems among the Notes, p. 243.
ELIZABETH, QUEEN. Part III. No. viii.
ESSEX, ROBERT, EARL of. Part III. Nos. xxiv. xxv.
xxvi.; with list of his other Poems among the Notes,
p. 248.
GORGES, SIR ARTHUR. Part III. No. xxx.
229.
HARYNGTON, JOHN. Part III. Nos. vi. (doubtful) vii.
HEYWOOD, JOHN. Part III. No. ii. (very doubtful.)
HEYWOOD, THOMAS. Part I. No. xxvii. (very doubtful.)
HOSKINS, JOHN. Part II. Nos. ii. (in part), xxv.
HUNNIS, WILLIAM. Part I. No. xxv. (doubtful.) Part III.
No. iv. (doubtful.)
JAMES I., KING. Part III. No. xxix.
JONSON, BEN. Part II. No. xi. (an erroneous claim.)
L'ESTRANGE, SIR ROGER. Part 111. No. xxxviii.
LODGE, THOMAS. Part 111. No. xxii.
M., F. Part III. No. xv. 3.
MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER.
MONTROSE, JAMES, MARQUIS OF. Part. III. Nos. xxxix.
xl. xli.; with list of his other Poems among the Notes,
p. 252.
OXFORD, EDWARD, EARL OF. Part III. Nos. xi. xii. xiii.
xiv. xv. 1; with list of his other Poems among the
Notes, p. 241.
PEMBROKE, MARY, COUNTESS OF. Part III. No. x.
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER.
All Part 1., except No. vi. 1.
But Nos. xxv. xxvi. xxvii. xxviii. xxix. and xxx. are
doubtful. The following also have been assigned to
him, though on insufficient evidence: Part II. Nos
iv. xvi. xvii. xviii. xx. 1. xxi. xxiv. 1. Part III. Nos.
xxiii. xxviii. See also Appendix to the Introduction, B.
ROCHFORD, VISCOUNT. Part III. No. i. (doubtful.)
S., E. Part I. No. xxv. (doubtful.)
Part III. Nos. xxxiii. xxxiv. xxxv.
SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP. Part III. Nos. ix. xv. 2, xvii. 2.
SOUTHWELL, ROBERT. Part III. No. xx.
TYCHBOURNE, CHIDIOCK. Part II. No. xx. 1.
UNCERTAIN OR UNKNOWN (besides other poems in this list
marked "doubtful.") Part 11. Nos. xvi. xvii. xviii. xx.
2, xxi. xxiv. Part III. Nos. ii. xv. 4, xxiii. xxxi. xxxvi.
VAUX, THOMAS, LORD. Part III. Nos. iii. iv. (doubtful),
v. vi. (doubtful); with list of his Poems among the
Notes, p. 238.
W., A. Part III. Nos. xxvii. xxviii.
WOTTON, SIR HENRY. Part II. Nos. i. ii. (in part), iii.
iv. v. vi. vii. viii. ix. x. xi. xii. xiii. xiv. xv. and
perhaps also Nos. xvi. and xvii.
WYATT, SIR THOMAS. Part III. No. i. (doubtful.)
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