Follow Thy Fair Sun

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3. Lux, My Fair Falcon Lux, my fair falcon, and your fellows all, How well pleasant it were your liberty. Ye not forsake me that […]...
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5. If Women Could Be Fair If women could be fair and yet not fond, Or that their love were firm, not fickle still, I would […]...
6. When I was fair and young When I was fair and young then favour graced me; Of many was I sought their mistress for to be. […]...
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8. Avising the bright beams of those fair eyes Avising the bright beams of those fair eyes, Where he abides that mine oft moisteth and washeth; The wearies mind […]...
9. I never saw my Lady lay apart I never saw my Lady lay apart Her cornet black, in cold nor yet in heat, Sith first she knew […]...
10. Leave me, O love Leave me, O love which reachest but to dust; And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things; Grow rich in […]...
11. What then is loue but mourning? What then is loue but mourning? What desire, but a selfe-burning? Till shee that hates doth loue returne, Thus will […]...
12. AN ELEGY – Since you must go Since you must go, and I must bid farewell, Hear, mistress, your departing servant tell What it is like: and […]...
13. LOVER’S ALCHEMY Some that have deeper digg’d love’s mine than I, Say, where his centric happiness doth lie. I have loved, and […]...
14. AN ELEGY ON THE LADY JANE PAWLET, MARCHIONESS OF WINTON What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew, And beckoning woos me, from the […]...
15. What Cunning Can Express What cunning can express The favor of her face To whom in this distress I do appeal for grace? A […]...
16. My loue hath vowd hee will forsake mee My loue hath vowd hee will forsake mee, And I am alreadie sped. Far other promise he did make me […]...
17. Fortune Verses First Ballad to the tune of “Lewis the lost lover.” Eye-flattering Fortune! look thou ne’er so fair, Or ne’er so […]...
18. The twelve weapons of spiritual battle, which every man should have at hand when the pleasure of a sinful temptation cometh to mind The pleasure little and short. The nature and dignity of man. The followers grief and heaviness. The peace of a […]...
19. A Dialogue between two shepherds, Thenot and Piers in praise of ASTREA, made by the excellent Lady, the Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke at the Queen’s Majesty’s being […]...
20. Because I still kept thee from lies and blame Because I still kept thee from lies and blame, And to my power always thee honoured, Unkind tongue! to ill […]...
21. Who hath his fancy pleasèd Who hath his fancy pleasèd With fruits of happy sight; Let here his eyes be raisèd, On Nature’s sweetest light; […]...
22. Come, O come, my lifes delight Come, O come, my lifes delight, Let me not in languor pine: Loue loues no delay; thy sight, The more […]...
23. An Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior I sing the birth was born to-night, The author both of life and light; The angels so did sound it. […]...
24. When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground When thou must home to shades of underground, And there arrived, a new admirèd guest, The beauteous spirits do engirt […]...
25. Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice, In temperate […]...
26. When thou must home to shades of vnder ground When thou must home to shades of vnder ground, And there ariu’d, a newe admired guest, The beauteous spirits do […]...
27. And Wilt Thou Leave me Thus? And wilt thou leave me thus? Say nay, say nay, for shame, To save thee from the blame Of all […]...
28. In faith I woth not what to say In faith I woth not what to say, Thy chances been so wonderous, Thou Fortune, with thy divers play That […]...
29. Gascoignes good morrow You that have spent the silent night, In sleepe and quiet rest, And joye to see the cheerefull lyght That […]...
30. Prothalamion Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play- A gentle spirit, that lightly did […]...
31. TO THE AUTHOR In picture, they which truly understand, Require (besides the likeness of the thing) Light posture, heightening, shadow, coloring, All which […]...
32. Your faire lookes enflame my desire Your faire lookes enflame my desire: Quench it againe with loue. Stay, O striue not still to retire: Doe not […]...
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34. AGAINST JEALOUSY Wretched and foolish Jealousy, How cam’st thou thus to enter me? I ne’er was of thy kind : Nor have […]...
35. The Garden There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein […]...
36. TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US To draw no envy, Shakspeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess […]...
37. There is a garden in her face There is a Garden in her face, Where Roses and white Lillies grow; A heau’nly paradice is that place, Wherein […]...
38. AN ELEGY – Let me be what I am Let me be what I am: as Virgil cold, As Horace fat, or as Anacreon old; No poet’s verses yet […]...
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