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Poems

By W. H. [i.e. William Hammond]
Hammond, William
 
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POEMS.
 
Commanded to write Verses.
 
The Walke.
 
Husbandry.
 
Mutuall Love.
 
The forsaken Maid.
 
Another.
 
J. C.
 
De Melidoria.
 
Delay. Upon advice to deferr Loves Consummation.
 
Upon Cloris her visit after Marriage,
 
On the infrequency of Celias Letters.
 
To her questioning his Estate.
 
The Spring.
 
The cruell Mistresse.
 
To his Mistresse, Desiring him to absent himselfe.
 
To his scornfull Mistresse.
 
To Mr. J. L. Upon his Treatise of Dialling.
 
Epithalamium, To the L. T. marryed in the North.
 
To Eugenio,
 
To the same being sicke of a feavour.
 
To the same,
 
To the same.
 
To the same,
 
To the same, on his Poems and Translations.
 
To the same on his Poems,
 
To the same
 
To the same.
 
On the Marriage of my deare Kinsman T. S. Esq; and Mrs. D. E.
 
To Mrs. D. S. on the birth of Sidney, her second Son.
 
Horat: Od. 3. 3.
 
To Sr. J. G. wishing me to regain my fortunes by complyance with the Parliament.
 
The World.
 
Gray Haires.
 
A Dialogue upon death.
 
Death.
 
On the death of my dear brother Mr. H. S. drown'd.
 
On the same.
 
On the same.
 
To my dear Sister Mrs. S.
 
To the same.
 
To the same.
 
To the same.
 
To the same.
 
To the same.
 
To the same.
 
On the death of my much honourd Uncle Mr. G. Sandys.
 
Epitaph on Sir R. D.
 
Grace Compar'd to the Sun.
 
Upon the Nativity of our saviour and Sacrament then received.

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To the same.

The Reasons.

Is it because he died, or that his yeares
Not many were, that causeth all these teares?
If for the first, you should have alwayes wept,
Even in his life from first acquaintance kept
Sorrow awake, for that you know his Fate
Prefixed had a necessary date;
How unadvisedly do you lament
Because things mortall are not permanent?
Or is 't because he ere his aged Snow,
Or Autume came, was ravishd from the bough?
Ask but the sacred Oracle, you there
Shall find, untimely deaths no windfall are.
The grand example, Miracle of good,
(In vertue onely old) slain in the bud
Newly disclosing man. It were a shame
To wish then that of his, a longer flime.
Who would not dy before subdued by age?
That Conquest oft Fortune pursues with rage;
Or sin in that advantage wounds him worse:
To wish him long life then, had been a curse.
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