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Occasional Verses of Edward Lord Herbert, Baron of Cherbery and Castle-Island

Deceased in August, 1648

Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert (1583-1648)

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Upon Combing her Hair.

Ditty in imitation of the Spanish Entre tantoque L' Avril.

The State-progress of Ill.

Satyra Secunda.

[I must depart, but like to his last breath]

To his Friend Ben. Johnson,

Epitaph. Cæcil. Boulser

Epitaph. Guli. Herbert de Swansey

In a Glass-Window for Inconstancy.

Elegy for the Prince.

Epitaph of King James.

Ditty to the tune of A che del Quantomio of Pesarino.

Epitaph of a stinking Poet.

A Ditty to the tune of Coseferite,

Epitaph on Sir Edward Saquevile's Child,

Elegy over a Tomb.

Epitaph on Sir Francis Vere.

To Mrs. Diana Cecyll.

Sonnet of Black Beauty.

Another Sonnet to Black it self.

The first Meeting.

A merry Rime sent to the Lady Wroth

To a Lady who did sing excellently.

Melander suppos'd to love Susan, but did love Ann.

Echo to a Rock.

Echo in a Church.

To his Mistress for her true Picture.

Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney

Epitaph for himself.

To the C. of D.

Elegy for Doctor Dunn.

The Brown Beauty.

An Ode upon a Question moved, Whether Love should continue for ever?

The Green-Sickness Beauty.

The Green-Sickness Beauty.

La Gralletta Gallante,

Platonick Love.

Platonick Love.

Platonick Love.

A Meditation upon his Wax-Candle burning out.

October 14. 1664.

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Epitaph of a stinking Poet.

Here stinks a Poet, I confess,
Yet wanting breath stinks so much less.