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. To His Shaddow
6. A Penitential Hymne
7. A Salutation Of His Majesties Ship The Soveraign
8. Epigram (To what serve Lawes, where only Money reignes?)
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. Silence
14. A Renunciation
15. The Surrender
16. The Farewell
17. The Dirge
18. Exequy On His Wife
19. The Legacy
20. The Change
21. By Occasion Of The Young Prince His Happy Birth
22. An Elegy Upon The Most Victorious King Of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus
23. To My Dead Friend Ben Johnson
24. Madam Gabrina, Or The Ill-Favourd Choice
25. To the Queen at Oxford
26. Sonnet. Tell me you stars that our affections move
27. To a Lady Who Sent me a Copy of Verses at my Going to Bed
28. Sonnet. VVere thy heart soft as thou art faire
29. The Boyes Answer To The Blackmoor
30. To His Friends of Christ-Church upon the Mislike of the Marriage of the Arts Acted at Woodstock
31. Sonnet. Go thou that vainly do'st mine eyes invite
32. Another Of The Same, Paraphrased For An Antheme
33. The Acquittance
34. Loves Harvest
35. The Vow-Breaker
36. Sonnet. I Prethee Turn That Face Away
37. An Acknowledgment
38. To His Unconstant Friend
39. The Labyrinth
40. Upon A Table-Book Presented To A Lady
41. On Two Children Dying Of One Disease, And Buried In One Grave
42. The Pink
43. An Elegy Upon The Death Of Mr. Edward Holt
44. Tell Me No More How Fair She Is
45. The Retreat
46. To My Sister Anne King, Who Chid Me In Verse For Being Angry
47. The Short Wooing
48. Sonnet. Dry those fair, those chrystal eyes
49. On the Earl of Essex
50. Psalm I
51. The Forfeiture
52. Upon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H.

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