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The Poetical Works of Sir William Alexander

Earl of Stirling: Edited by L. E. Kastner ... and H. B. Charlton
Stirling, William Alexander (1567 or 8-1640)

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Volume the Second
  
[Like Sophocles (the hearers in a trance)]
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DOOMES-DAY,
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The first Houre.
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The second Houre.
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The third Houre.
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The fourth Houre.
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The fifth Houre.
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The sixth Houre.
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The seventh Houre.
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The eighth Houre.
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The ninth Houre.
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The tenth Houre.
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The eleventh Houre.
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The twelfth Houre.
  
To Prince Charles.
  
A PARÆNESIS TO PRINCE HENRY.
  
JONATHAN:
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Poems suppressed in Recreations with the Muses.
  
[dedication]
  
Sonet 1.
  
Son. 2.
  
Son. 3.
  
Song 1.
  
Son. 4.
  
Son. 5.
  
Son. 6.
  
Son. 7.
  
Son. 8.
  
Son. 9.
  
Elegie 1.
  
Madrig. 1.
  
Sestin. 1.
  
Song 2.
  
Son. 10.
  
Son. 11.
  
Son. 12.
  
Son. 13.
  
Son. 14.
  
Son. 15.
  
Son. 16.
  
Son. 17.
  
Son. 18.
  
Son. 19.
  
Song 3.
  
Son. 20.
  
Son. 21.
  
Son. 22.
  
Son. 23.
  
Son. 24.
  
Son. 25.
  
Son. 26.
  
Son. 27.
  
Son. 28.
  
Son. 29.
  
Son. 30.
  
Elegie 2.
  
Song 4.
  
Son. 31.
  
Son. 32.
  
Son. 33.
  
Son. 34.
  
Sestin. 2.
  
Son. 35.
  
Son. 36.
  
Son. 37.
  
Son. 38.
  
Son. 39.
  
Son. 40.
  
Son. 41.
  
Son. 42.
  
Son. 43.
  
Son. 44.
  
Son. 45.
  
Son. 46.
  
Song 5.
  
Son. 47.
  
Son. 48.
  
Song 6.
  
Son. 49.
  
Son. 50.
  
Son. 51.
  
Son. 52.
  
Son. 53.
  
Son. 54.
  
Son. 55.
  
Son. 56.
  
Son. 57.
  
Son. 58.
  
Son. 59.
  
Son. 60.
  
Son. 61.
  
Son. 62.
  
Son. 63.
  
Son. 64.
  
Song 7.
  
Son. 65.
  
Son. 66.
  
Son. 67.
  
Son. 68.
  
Son. 69.
  
Son. 70.
  
Son. 71.
  
Son. 72.
  
Madr. 2.
  
Son. 73.
  
Son. 74.
  
Son. 75.
  
Son. 76.
  
Son. 77.
  
Son. 78.
  
Madr. 3.
  
Madr. 4.
  
Son. 79.
  
Son. 80.
  
Son. 81.
  
Son. 82.
  
Song 8.
  
Son. 83.
  
Son. 84.
  
Son. 85.
  
Song 9.
  
An Eccho.
  
Son. 86.
  
Son. 87.
  
Son. 88.
  
Son. 89.
  
Son. 90.
  
Son. 91.
  
Son. 92.
  
Son. 93.
  
Son. 94.
  
Son. 95.
  
Son. 96.
  
Son. 97.
  
Son. 98.
  
Son. 99.
  
Son. 100.
  
Son. 101.
  
Elegie 3.
  
Son. 102.
  
Son. 103.
  
Son. 104.
  
Son. 105.
  
Song 10.
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AN ELEGIE ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRIE.
  
To his Majestie.
  
A SHORT VIEW of the state of man.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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I. SOME VERSES Written to his Majestie by the Authour at the time of his Maiesties first entrie into England.
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II. SOME VERSES Written shortly thereafter by reason of an inundation of Douen, a water neere vnto the Authors house, wherevpon his Maiestie was sometimes wont to Hawke.
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III. TO M. MICHAELL DRAYTON.
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IV. To the Author.
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V. TO THE AVTHOR PARTHENIVS.
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VI. Alexis.
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VII. On the Death of Mr. John Murray.
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VIII. A Poem by Sir William Alexander.
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IX.
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X. To his most affectionate friend, W. Lithgow .
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XI. TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND MASTER WALTER QUIN.
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XII. Sonnet. To the Authour.
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XIII. On the Report of the Death of the Author.
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XIV. To his deservedlie honored frend, Mr. Edward Allane, the first founder and Master of the Colleige of Gods Gift.
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XV.
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Son. 8.

[Ah what disastrous fortune haue I had!]

Ah what disastrous fortune haue I had!
Lo still in league with all that may annoy,
And entred in enimitie with Ioy,
I entertaine all things that make me sad,
With many miseries almost gone mad:
To purchase paines I all my paines employ,
And vse all meanes my selfe for to destroy,
The tenour of my starre hath bene so bad.
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And though my state a thousand times were worse,
As it is else past bounds of all beleefe:
Yet all Pandora's plagues could not haue force,
To aggrauate the burthen of my griefe:
Th'Occasion might moue mountaines to remorce:
I hate all helpe, and hope for no releefe.
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