Poems &c. By James Shirley

Shirley, James (1596-1666)

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[VVhen th'Age groan'd out Thou and thy Muse were gone]

To his Mistris confined.

Loves Hue and Cry.

Goodnight.

[Would you know what's soft? I dare]

A Fayring.

To L. for a wreath of Bayes sent.

To the Painter preparing to draw M. M. H.

To a L. who had courted a Lady of much perfection, and after offered his Service to another of an inferiour Beauty and Parts; in confidence that the first would re-accept him.

A Lover that durst not speak to his M.

To one that said his Mistris was old.

Upon his M. Dancing.

Upon his Mistris sad.

A Gentleman in Love with two Ladies.

Melancholy converted.

To a Mistris in whose Letter some Tears were dropt.

Presenting his Mistris with a Bird.

Upon Scarlet and blush coloured Ribbands given by two Ladies.

To his Mistris upon the Bayes withered.

Strephon, Daphne.

Taking leave when his Mistris was to ride.

Love for Enjoying.

Upon the Princes Birth.

To his honoured friend Tho. Stanley Esquire, upon his elegant Poems.

To the E. of S. upon his recovery.

One that loved none but deformed Women.

The Common-Wealth of Birds.

To the Excellent Pattern of Beauty and Vertue, L. El. Co. of Or.

To the H. Lady, D. C. at his departure.

A Letter to the Lady D. S. sent with a New Comedy.

To the never enough Honoured E. of St. on New-yeares day at night, after other entertainment.

To W. M. of N.

To M. Phil. Massenger on his Renegado.

Io.

To a L. upon a Looking-Glasse sent.

A Song in a Play called Hide-Parke.

Epithalamium.

A Mother hearing her child was sick of the Small-Poxe.

Epithalamium. To his Noble Friend, Mr. I. W.

A Catch.

On a black Ribband.

To Gent. that broke their promise of a meeting, made when they drank Claret.

Upon a Gentlewoman that died of a Fever.

Upon the death of G. M.

Upon the death of K. James.

Vpon the death of Sr. Th. Nevill.

An Elegie upon the honourable, fair, and vertuous M. Borlase.

Upon the Death of C. D. Engineere, who died upon service to which he had no command.

Epitaph On the Duke of BUCKINGHAM.

An Elegie upon the truly Honourable Tho. Viscount Savage

Vpon Mr. Charles Beaumont who died of a Consumption.

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To his Mistris upon the Bayes withered.

Fair Cruel, see the Bayes which thou
Didst send to crown my verse:
How well with Cypresse, and sad Ewe
Would it become my herse?

'Tis thy unkindnes that doth kill
The leaves, which fade like me,
Yet on the wreath but cast a smile,
'Twill seem another Tree.

Such shine will quicken what is dead,
Then send it me agen,
Which shall have vertue on my head,
To make the wearer green.

Thus in a frost I'le meet a flame,
And Phœbus Priest am made,
And Thee, I growing fresh, will name
My Nymph, my light, my shade.

University of Virginia Library

To his Mistris upon the Bayes withered.