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Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonets

[by Henry King]

King, Henry (1592-1669)

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The Vow-Breaker.

Upon a Table-Book presented to a Lady.

To the same Lady upon Mr. Burtons Melancholy.

A Black-moor Maid wooing a fair Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds.

The Boyes answer to the Blackmoor.

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To a Friend upon Overbury's wife given to her.

To A. R. vpon the same.

An Epitaph on Niobe turned to Stone.

Upon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H.

The Forlorn Hope.

To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed.

To his Friends of Christ-Church upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Arts acted at Woodstock.

The short Wooing.

St. Valentines day.

To his unconstant Friend.

To One demanding why Wine sparkles.

By occasion of the Young Prince his happy birth.

Upon the Kings happy return from Scotland.

To the Queen at Oxford.

A salutation of his Majesties Ship the Soveraign.

On two Children dying of one Disease, and buried in one Grave.

An Acknowledgment.

The Acquittance.

The Forfeiture.

To my Sister Anne King, who chid me in verse for being angry.

To my dead friend Ben: Johnson.

Upon the death of my ever desired friend Doctor Donne Dean of Pauls.

To my Noble and Judicious Friend Sir Henry Blount upon his Voyage.

To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys.

The Woes of Esay.

An Essay on Death and a Prison.

Being waked out of my sleep by a snuff of Candle which offended me, I thus thought.

My Midnight Meditation.

A Penitential Hymne.

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On the Earl of Essex.

An Elegy on Sir Charls Lucas, and Sir George Lisle.

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An Epitaph on Niobe turned to Stone.

This Pile thou seest built out of Flesh, not Stone,
Contains no shroud within, nor mouldring bone:

This bloodless Trunk is destitute of Tombe
Which may the Soul-fled Mansion enwombe.

This seeming Sepulchre (to tell the troth)
Is neither Tomb nor Body, and yet both.