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George Wither's Poetry, by title

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  • "Amarillis I Did Woo"
    Amarillis I did woo,
    And I courted Phillis too;
    9 lines
  • A Christmas Carol
      So now is come our joyful'st feast,
        Let every man be jolly.
    106 lines
  • A Poet's Home
    Two pretty rills do meet, and meeting make
    Within one valley a large silver lake:
    71 lines
  • A Rocking Hymn
    Sweet baby, sleep! what ails my dear,
      What ails my darling thus to cry?
    82 lines
  • A Sonnet Upon a Stolen Kiss
    Now gentle sleep hath clos'd up those eyes
    Which waking kept my boldest thoughts in awe,
    13 lines
  • A Widow's Hymn
    How near me came the hand of Death,
    When at my side he struck my dear,
    24 lines
  • Change
    The voice which I did more esteem
    Than music in her sweetest key,
    16 lines
  • For Anniversary Marriage-Days
    Lord, living, here are we
    As fast united, yet
    40 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
  • Her Beauty
    Her true beauty leaves behind
    Apprehensions in my mind
    25 lines
  • I Loved a Lass
    I loved a lass, a fair one,
    As fair as e'er was seen;
    48 lines
  • Lilies Without, Lilies Within
    Can I think the Guide of Heaven
    Hath so beautifully given
    18 lines
  • Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See
    Lord! when those glorious lights I see
        With which thou hast adorned the skies,
    34 lines
  • Prelude
    (From _The Shepherd's Hunting_)
    Seest thou not, in clearest days,
    123 lines
  • Psalm CXLVIII
    Come, oh! come, with sacred lays,
    Let us sound th' Almighty's praise;
    50 lines
  • Rhomboidal Dirge
                            Ah me!
               
    88 lines
  • Song I
    Lordly gallants! tell me this
      (Though my safe content you weigh not),
    160 lines
  • Song II
    Shall I, wasting in despair,
    Die, because a woman's fair?
    43 lines
  • Sonnet 5 - I wandered out a while agone,
    I wandered out a while agone,
    And went I know not whither;
    30 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
  • The Choice
    Me so oft my fancy drew
    Here and there, that I ne'er knew
    88 lines
  • The Contented Man's Morice
    False world, thy malice I espie
    With what thou hast designed;
    162 lines
  • The Lord Is King
    The Lord is King, and weareth
    A robe of glory bright:
    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
  • The Marigold
    When with a serious musing I behold
    The grateful and obsequious marigold,
    30 lines
  • The Muse
    She doth tell me where to borrow
    Comfort in the midst of sorrow:
    56 lines
  • The Stedfast Shepherd
    Hence away, thou Syren, leave me!
    Pish! unclaspe these wanton armes;
    71 lines
  • The Virtuous Man
    Thus fears the man whom virtue, beacon-like,
    Hath fix'd upon the hills of eminence;
    20 lines
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