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Poems (1872)

Essex, Robert Devereux (1566-1601)

Robert, Earl of Essex.

I. LOYAL APPEAL IN COURTESY.

II.

II. THE BUZZEINGE BEE'S COMPLAYNT.

III.

III. THE FALSE, FORGOTTEN.

IV.

IV. THERE IS NONE, O, NONE BUT YOU.

V. A PASSION OF MY LO. OF ESSEX.

VII.

VII. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT EARLE OF ESSEX: EARLE MARSHALL OF ENGLAND.

VIII.

VIII. VERSES MADE BY (THE) EARL OF ESSEX IN HIS TROUBLE.

IX.

IX. ORACLE FROM A DEVICE MADE BY THE EARL OF ESSEX FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE QUEEN.

X. ESSEX LASTE VOYAGE TO THE HAUEN OF HAPPINESS.

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V. A PASSION OF MY LO. OF ESSEX.

Happy were he coulde finish forth his fate
In some vnhaunted desert, moste obscure
From all society, from loue and hate
Of worldly folkes; there might he sleepe secure

There wake againe, and giue God euer praise,
Content wth hippes and hawes, and brambleberrie,
In contemplacion passing still his dayes,
And change of holy thoughts to make him merrie;
That when he dyes his tombe might be a bush
Where harmles Robin dwels wth gentle thursh.

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Poem VI is in Latin, and is therefore omitted.