George Wither's Poetry, by popularity

• A Poet's Home

  Two pretty rills do meet, and meeting make
  Within one valley a large silver lake:

  71 lines
• Her Beauty

  Her true beauty leaves behind
  Apprehensions in my mind

  25 lines
• Song I

  Lordly gallants! tell me this
    (Though my safe content you weigh not),

  160 lines
• Sonnet: On A Stolen Kiss

  Now gentle sleep hath closèd up those eyes,
    Which waking kept my boldest thoughts in awe,

  13 lines
• Sonnet: On The Death Of Prince Henry

  Methought his royal person did foretell
  A kingly stateliness, from all pride clear;

  13 lines
• From A Satire Written To King James I

  Did I not know a great man's power and might
  In spite of innocence can smother right,

  13 lines
• Prelude

  (From _The Shepherd's Hunting_)
  Seest thou not, in clearest days,

  123 lines
• Song II

  Shall I, wasting in despair,
  Die, because a woman's fair?

  43 lines
• "Amarillis I Did Woo"

  Amarillis I did woo,
  And I courted Phillis too;

  9 lines
• A Rocking Hymn

  Sweet baby, sleep! what ails my dear,
    What ails my darling thus to cry?

  82 lines
• Rhomboidal Dirge

                          Ah me!
             

  88 lines
• Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See

  Lord! when those glorious lights I see
      With which thou hast adorned the skies,

  34 lines
• The Lord Is King

  The Lord is King, and weareth
  A robe of glory bright:

  16 lines
• The Stedfast Shepherd

  Hence away, thou Syren, leave me!
  Pish! unclaspe these wanton armes;

  71 lines
• I Loved a Lass

  I loved a lass, a fair one,
  As fair as e'er was seen;

  48 lines
• Change

  The voice which I did more esteem
  Than music in her sweetest key,

  16 lines
• Sonnet 5 - I wandered out a while agone,

  I wandered out a while agone,
  And went I know not whither;

  30 lines
• Time is a Fading-flowre, that's found

  Five Termes, there be, which five I doe apply
  To all, that was, and is, and shall be done.

  30 lines
• The Muse

  She doth tell me where to borrow
  Comfort in the midst of sorrow:

  56 lines
• The Marigold

  When with a serious musing I behold
  The grateful and obsequious marigold,

  30 lines
• The Contented Man's Morice

  False world, thy malice I espie
  With what thou hast designed;

  162 lines
• A Widow's Hymn

  How near me came the hand of Death,
  When at my side he struck my dear,

  24 lines
• The Virtuous Man

  Thus fears the man whom virtue, beacon-like,
  Hath fix'd upon the hills of eminence;

  20 lines
• Psalm CXLVIII

  Come, oh! come, with sacred lays,
  Let us sound th' Almighty's praise;

  50 lines
• The Choice

  Me so oft my fancy drew
  Here and there, that I ne'er knew

  88 lines
• Lilies Without, Lilies Within

  Can I think the Guide of Heaven
  Hath so beautifully given

  18 lines
• For Anniversary Marriage-Days

  Lord, living, here are we
  As fast united, yet

  40 lines
• Veil, lord, mine eyes till she be past

  Keep Thou my palate and my taste
  From gluttonous delight.

  16 lines
• The Lover's Resolution

  Shall I, wasting in despaire,
  Dye because a woman's faire?

  40 lines
• The Manly Heart

  If she love me, this believe,
  I will die ere she shall grieve;

  40 lines, 1 comment

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