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The poetical works of William Strode

... Now first collected from manuscript and printed sources: to which is added: The floating island a tragi-comedy: Now first reprinted from the original edition of 1655: Edited by Bertram Dobell with a memoir of the author

Strode, William (1600 or 1601-1645)

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SONG

IN COMMENDATION OF MUSICK

SONG

ANOTHER VERSION TO HIS MISTRESSE

SONG

A SONG ON A SIGH.

A SONG ON THE BATHS

SONG A STRANGE GENTLEWOMAN PASSING BY HIS WINDOW

SONG ON A FRIENDS ABSENCE

MELANCHOLLY

OPPOSITE TO MELANCHOLY

A TRANSLATION OF THE NIGHTINGALE OUT OF STRADA

ON WESTWELL DOWNES

ON A GREAT HOLLOW TREE.

ON FAYRFORD WINDOWES

ON A GENTLEWOMAN'S BLISTRED LIPP

TO A GENTLEWOMAN FOR A FRIEND

FOR A GENTLEMAN, WHO, KISSINGE HIS FRIEND AT HIS DEPARTURE LEFT A SIGNE OF BLOOD ON HER

ON A DISSEMBLER

ON GRAY EYES

ON A GENTLEWOMAN'S WATCH THAT WANTED A KEY

A WATCH SENT HOME TO MRS. ELIZ: KING, WRAPT IN THEIS VERSES

ON A WATCH MADE BY A BLACKSMITH

ON A GENTLEWOMAN THAT SUNG AND PLAY'D UPON A LUTE

UPON THE BLUSH OF A FAIRE LADIE

ON A GENTLEWOMAN WALKING IN THE SNOWE

ON CHLORIS STANDING BY THE FIRE

TO A VALENTINE

A SUPERSCRIPTION ON SIR PHILIP SIDNEY'S ARCADIA, SENT FOR A TOKEN

ON THE PICTURE OF TWO DOLPHINS IN A FOUNTAYNE

SONNETT

TO HIS MISTRESSE

A LOVER TO HIS MISTRESS

A RIDDLE: ON A KISS

ON A GENTLEWOMAN THAT HAD HAD THE SMALL POXE

ON JEALOUSY

OF DEATH & RESURRECTION.

ON THE BIBLE.

ON A REGISTER FOR THE BIBLE

ANOTHER

ANTHEM FOR GOOD FRYDAY

AN ANTHEME

JUSTIFICATION

ON THE LIFE OF MAN

ON THE DEATH OF MRS. MARY NEUDHAM

ON THE DEATH OF MISTRESS MARY PRIDEAUX

ON THE SAME M. M. P.

CONSOLATORIUM, AD PARENTES

HER EPITAPH

ON THE DEATH OF SIR THO: PELTHAM

ON THE DEATH OF A TWIN

ON THE YONG BARONETT PORTMAN DYING OF AN IMPOSTUME IN'S HEAD

ON THE DEATH OF DR. LANCTON PRESIDENT OF MAUDLIN COLLEGE

ON DR. LANCTON'S DEATH

ON THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS LEA

AN EPITAPH ON SR JOHN WALTER, LORD CHEIFE BARON

REMEMBRANCES OF THE RENOWNED KNIGHT, SIR ROWLAND COTTON, OF BELLAPORT IN SHROPSHIRE, CONCERNING HIS AGILITY OF BODY, TONGUE, AND MIND

ON THE DEATH OF SIR ROWLAND COTTON SECONDING THAT OF SIR ROBERT

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LADY PENELOPE DOWAGER OF THE LATE VIS-COUNT BAYNING

ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD VISCOUNT BAYNING

ON THE DEATH OF LADIE CÆSAR

AN EPITAPH ON MR. FISHBORNE THE GREAT LONDON BENEFACTOR, AND HIS EXECUTOR

ON THE DEATH OF MR. JAMES VAN OTTON

ON SIR THOMAS SAVILL DYING OF THE SMALL POX

EPITAPH ON MR. BRIDGEMAN

TO MR. RIVES UPPON HIS RECOVERY

A NEW YEAR'S GIFT

TO A FRIEND

A LETTER

WITH PENNE, INKE, AND PAPER TO A DISTRESSED FRIEND

THANKS FOR A WELCOME

A PARALELL BETWEEN BOWLING AND PREFERMENT

THE CAPPS

ON A GOOD LEGG AND FOOT

ON JOHN DAWSON, BUTLER OF C.C.

JACKE-ON-BOTH-SIDES

CHIMNEY-SWEEPER'S SONG.

A DEVONSHIRE SONG

UPON THE SHERIFFS BEERE

LOVE COMPARED TO A GAME OF TABLES

ON A BUTCHER MARRYING A TANNER'S DAUGHTER

EPITAPHES ON THE MONUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM STRODE

UPON HEAVENS BEST IMAGE, HIS FAIRE AND VERTUOUS MISTRESSE, M.S.

ON HIS MISTRESSE

A SONG

UPON A GENTLEWOMAN'S ENTERTAINMENT OF HIM

TO HIS PAPER

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TO HIS PAPER
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

Flye nimble paper, light upon those hands
Which have detained mee in perpetual bands:
Go count those ivory palmes whose lilly hewe
May represent thee to immortall view.
Mount upp unto her eyes that there may shine
Impressions of my love in every lyne;
Expresse with silent eloquence the rare
And true affection allwayes that I bare
To thy sweete reader: lett her there behold
The discontent and zealous payne enrolld
Within a lover's breast. Tell her how I
Am forc't to vent my sighes in poetry,
And pine away with pastime of a verse,
Making thee both my epicede and hearse.
Present unto her an eternal mapp
Of my disastrous fortune and mishapp:
Delineate my passion and my payne
Bredd with a deepe conceyt of her disdayne:
Perhapps her flinty hart will then strike fire,
And equall joyne her flames with my desire:
Perhapps her cheerful brow and starlike eye
Will lend a better aspect e'er I dye:
But if shee frown and thou neglected lye,
Thou know'st (deare paper) thy fowle destiny.

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TO HIS PAPER[_] The attribution of this poem is questionable.

TO HIS PAPER
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.