Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669)
English poet who served as Bishop of Chichester

Poems by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester

• A Contemplation upon Flowers
• A Penitential Hymne
• A Renunciation
• A Salutation Of His Majesties Ship The Soveraign
• An Acknowledgment
• An Elegy Upon The Death Of Mr. Edward Holt
• An Elegy Upon The Most Victorious King Of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus
• Another Of The Same, Paraphrased For An Antheme
• Being Waked Out Of My Sleep By A Snuff Of Candle Which Offended Me, I Thus Thought:
• By Occasion Of The Young Prince His Happy Birth
• Epigram (He whose advent’rous keele ploughes the rough Seas)
• Epigram (I would not in my love top soone prevaile)
• Epigram (To what serve Lawes, where only Money reignes?)
• Exequy On His Wife
• Loves Harvest
• Madam Gabrina, Or The Ill-Favourd Choice
• My Midnight Meditation
• On the Earl of Essex
• On Two Children Dying Of One Disease, And Buried In One Grave
• Paradox. That It Is Best For A Young Maid To Marry An Old Man
• Psalm I
• Sic Vita
• Silence
• Sonnet. Dry those fair, those chrystal eyes
• Sonnet. Go thou that vainly do'st mine eyes invite
• Sonnet. I Prethee Turn That Face Away
• Sonnet. Tell me you stars that our affections move
• Sonnet. VVere thy heart soft as thou art faire
• “Tell Me No More How Fair She Is”
• The Acquittance
• The Boyes Answer To The Blackmoor
• The Change
• The Dirge
• The Farewell
• The Forfeiture
• The Labyrinth
• The Legacy
• The Pink
• The Retreat
• The Short Wooing
• The Surrender
• The Vow-Breaker
• To a Lady Who Sent me a Copy of Verses at my Going to Bed
• To His Friends of Christ-Church upon the Mislike of the Marriage of the Arts Acted at Woodstock
• To His Shaddow
• To His Unconstant Friend
• To My Dead Friend Ben Johnson
• To My Sister Anne King, Who Chid Me In Verse For Being Angry
• To One That Demaunded Why The Wine Sparkles
• To the Queen at Oxford
• Upon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H.
• Upon A Table-Book Presented To A Lady

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