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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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Son. 59.

[Whil'st euery youth to entertaine his loue]

Whil'st euery youth to entertaine his loue,
Did straine his wits as farre as they might reach,
And arming passions with a pow'rfull speach,
Vsde each patheticke phrase that seru'd to moue:
Then to some corner still retir'd alone,
I, whom melancholly from mirth did leade,
As hauing view'd Medusaes snakie head,
Seem'd metamorphos'd in a marble stone:
And as that wretched mirrour of mischiefe,
Whom earst Apollo spoil'd, doth still shed teares,
And in a stone the badge of sorrow beares,
While as a humid vapor shewes her griefe:
So whil'st transform'd as in a stone I stay,
A firie smoke doth blow my griefe away.
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