Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669)

The Rating of Henry King, Bishop of Chichester's Poems

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

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