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 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.

And can thy proud Apostate eyes
Court her again, with hope t'entice
One gentle language, or a smile
Upon a Renegade so vile?
Thing call'd a Lord, forbear; 'tis fit
Ambition leave thee like thy wit.
Send for an Exorcist from Rome,
And let him with full orders come,
To dispossesse thy wanton sence
Of this grand divel, Impudence.

Can she, in whom shines every grace,
Loves wide fancy can embrace,
Forget her nobler soul to be
Upon thy pride retriv'd by thee?
She hath let fall too many beams;
Thus heaven upon corrupted streams
Hath dropp'd transparent dew, which shewes
The Spring is cleer, whence crystal flowes.

Enjoy thy madnes, or what's worse,
Thy new made Mistris, 'tis a curse
To be in hell, but thine is more,
Whose eyes have witnest heaven before:
Th'Hesperian apples thou maist see
Hereafter, but ne'er climb the tree;
For rather then thou gather fruit,
The Plant will wither at the root.
Dote still upon the Dragon, she
Is fierce, and form'd enough for thee:
And if thy owne ill can dispence,
Kisse there, and suck more poyson thence.

University of Virginia Library

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.