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By W. H. [i.e. William Hammond]

Hammond, William

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POEMS.

Commanded to write Verses.

Husbandry.

Delay. Upon advice to deferr Loves Consummation.

Upon Cloris her visit after Marriage,

On the infrequency of Celias Letters.

To her questioning his Estate.

The Spring.

The cruell Mistresse.

To his Mistresse, Desiring him to absent himselfe.

To his scornfull Mistresse.

To Mr. J. L. Upon his Treatise of Dialling.

Epithalamium, To the L. T. marryed in the North.

To Eugenio,

To the same being sicke of a feavour.

To the same,

To the same.

To the same,

To the same, on his Poems and Translations.

To the same on his Poems,

To the same

To the same.

On the Marriage of my deare Kinsman T. S. Esq; and Mrs. D. E.

To Mrs. D. S. on the birth of Sidney, her second Son.

Horat: Od. 3. 3.

To Sr. J. G. wishing me to regain my fortunes by complyance with the Parliament.

The World.

Gray Haires.

A Dialogue upon death.

Death.

On the death of my dear brother Mr. H. S. drown'd.

On the same.

To my dear Sister Mrs. S.

To the same.

On the death of my much honourd Uncle Mr. G. Sandys.

Epitaph on Sir R. D.

Grace Compar'd to the Sun.

Upon the Nativity of our saviour and Sacrament then received.

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Husbandry.

When I began my Love to sow,
Because with Venus Doves I plow'd,
Fool that I was, I did not know
That frowns for furrows were allow'd.

The broken heart to make Clods torn
By the sharp Harrows of disdain,
Crumbled by pressing rolls of scorn,
Gives issue to the springing grain.

Coyness shuts Love into a Stove,
So frost-bound lands their own heat feed:
Neglect sits brooding upon Love
As pregnant Snow on Winter-seed.

The Harvest is not till we two
Shall into one contracted be;
Loves crop alone doth richer grow
Decreasing to Identity.

All other things not nourish'd are
But by Assimilation:
Love, in himself and Dyet spare,
Grows fat by Contradiction.