#EnglishWriters
If it might stand with justice to… The swift conversion of all follie… Such is my mercy, that I could ad… All sorts should equally approve t… Of this thy even work, whose growi…
If thou hadst itch’d after the wil… Of common people, and hadst made t… In writing such as catch’d at pres… I should commend the thing, but no… But thou hast squared thy rules by…
The sun, which doth the greatest c… To absent friends (because the sel… They know they see, however absent… Here our best hay-maker (forgive m… It is our country style); in this…
When Cupid read this title, strai… ‘Wars, I perceive, against me wil… But spare, oh Love! to tax thy po… Who oft bath borne thy ensign 'gai… I am not he by whom thy mother ble…
May I find a woman fair, And her mind as clear as air, If her beauty go alone, ’Tis to me as if’t were none. May I find a woman rich,
Since thou art dead, Clifton, the… A certain end of flesh and blood i… Till then a way was left for man t… Flesh may be made so pure it canno… But now thy unexpected death doth…
Like to the weake estate of a poor… To whom sweet fortune hath bene eu… VVhich dayly doth that happy howr… VVhen his poore state may his aff… So fares my loue, not able as the…
Now fie on foolish love, it not be… Or man or woman know it. Love was not meant for people in t… And they that fondly show it Betray the straw, and features in…
Cold Virtue guard me, or I shall… From the next glance a double cale… Of fire and lust! Two flames, two… Dwell in those eyes, whose looser… Would thaw the frozen Russian int…
I may forget to drink, to eat, to… Remembering thee: but when I do,… In well-weighed lines, that men sh… Envy the sorrow which brought fort… May my dull understanding have the…
MORTALITY, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones: Here they lie had realms and lands…
I know too well, that, no more tha… That travels through the burning d… When he is beaten with the raging… Half-smother’d with the dust, have… From a cool river, which himself d…
IT is a statute in deepe wisdomes… That for his lines none should a p… By wealth or pouerty, by lesse or… But who the same is able to peruse… Nor ought a man his labours dedica…
Sleep not too much; nor longer tha… Within thy bed thy lazy body keep; For when thou, warm awake, shall f… Fond cogitations will assail thee… Then start up early, study, work,…
Never more will I protest, To love a woman but in jest: For as they cannot be true, So, to give each man his due, When the wooing fit is past