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John Fletcher's Poetry, by first line

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  • Sleep
    COME, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
    Lock me in delight awhile;
    12 lines
  • Care-charming Sleep
    Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes,
    Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose
    10 lines
  • Aspatia's Song
    LAY a garland on my herse
    Of the dismal yew;
    8 lines
  • Away, Delights
    AWAY, delights! go seek some other dwelling,
    For I must die.
    16 lines
  • Beauty Clear and Fair
    BEAUTY clear and fair,
    Where the air
    18 lines
  • Bridal Song
    CYNTHIA, to thy power and thee
    We obey.
    16 lines
  • God Lyaeus
    GOD Lyaeus, ever young,
    Ever honour'd, ever sung,
    10 lines
  • Hear, ye Ladies
    HEAR, ye ladies that despise
    What the mighty Love has done;
    20 lines
  • Hymn to Pan
    SING his praises that doth keep
    Our flocks from harm.
    14 lines
  • Love's Emblems
    NOW the lusty spring is seen;
    Golden yellow, gaudy blue,
    20 lines
  • Melancholy
    HENCE, all you vain delights,
    As short as are the nights
    19 lines
  • Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away
    Take, oh take those lips away,
    That so sweetly were forsworn,
    12 lines
  • Weep no more
    WEEP no more, nor sigh, nor groan,
    Sorrow calls no time that 's gone:
    10 lines
  • The Honest Man's Fortune (excerpt) - Man is his own star
    Man is his own star; and the soul that can
    Render an honest and a perfect man
    6 lines
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