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Flosculum Poeticum

Poems Divine and Humane, Panegyrical, Satyrical, Ironical. By P. K. [i.e. Peter Ker]

Ker, Patrick

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Soli Deo omnis Gloria.

To the Memory of KING CHARLES the First.

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POEMS On several Occasions.

THE WORLD'S Unworthiness.

THE WORLD'S Ingratitude.

The Stedfast-Christian

Suspirium Regale:

A Reflection, on the Arreignment OF King Charles the First.

In memoriam Caroli primi docollati, Regis Magnæ Brittanniæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ, &c.

An Elegy, On the Murther and Martyrdome of CHARLES the First: King of Great Brittain, &c.

CHARLES STUART.

King CHARLES the Second, in the Oak.

[Behold and See]

On the Return of CHARLES the Second King of Great Brittain, France, and Ireland, &c.

A Mournful Elegy, ON The Deplorable Death, of the Thrice Vertuous, Religious, and Renowned MARY, Queen to CHARLES the First, King of Great Brittain, &c.

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[One's Name, and Fate, do oft agree]

To His Royal Highness JAMES Duke of York.

JAMES Duke of York.

Meditatio Regalis De Curiæ Conjurationibus.

Bellum Intestinum: A Battle 'twixt, Nature, and Grace:

To a great Oppressour.

On a Beautiful Young Lady.

A Divine Poem, on the Unparallel'd and Religious Mrs. M. F.

An Acrostick on Mrs. J. H.

A Passionate Love-Complement TO Mrs. R. G.

The Luke-warm Lover:

Love's Valedictory:

λογομαχια

Rejoyce in Triumph:

A Song, Sung by the Greenwich-Green-coats, to shew their thankfulness, to their adopted Father, and Entertainer; The Right Honourable, Sr. William Boreman, Knight.

A PROLOGUE To a play entituled, The Indian Empress.

Another PROLOGUE To Criticks Auditors and Spectators.

The A-B. C. On the slow building of St. Pauls Church.

AN ELOGIUM, On D. C. Minister of Marget, in the Isle of Thannet.

His R. H. D. Y. to S. G. G. H. When he was made Chancellour of S.

The London-folly.

The French Tropick-bird

A POEM presented to one whose Loyalty was Suspected.

A Reply to a Pasquil:

Perillu's Bull: OR A Blow to the Hang-Man.

On the Memory Of the Right Honourable, the Earl of OSSORY.

An ELEGY, ON Mr. John Forbes, late Sheriff of Aberdeen in Scotland.

A Mournful ELEGY. ON Mr. I. K. who Died in KENT in ENGLAND.

On the Memory of a Married Maid.

On the death of a hopeful young Boy.

AN EPITAPH On the Brother of Heliogabolus.

REGICIDA Or AN EPITAPH; On the first Death, and second Burial, of the great Traytour, and Usurper; OLIVER CROMWELL

ON DEATH, Mors ultima linia rerum.

A POEM On The STATUE ROYAL, Erected in the Center of the EXCHANGE of LONDON.

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On a Beautiful Young Lady.

Once Beauty, Vertue, Wisdom, Grace,
Conveined in a certain place.
And altogether did combine,
To make a Feminine Divine:
And flying swiftly on a-pace,
Did light upon this Lady's face:
And having all they stood in need,
They to the Work did thus proceed.
BEAUTY (to make her all delight)
Did bring a Rose, was red, and white:
And in a smiling Blush did skip,
From Cherry Cheek, to Scarlet Lip.
Then VERTUE laugh'd at Beauty's weed,
As needful but Secundum quid.
And (with a gentle flame) refin'd
Her eye, the Index of her mind.
Then WISDOME Vertue gave a check,
And did her oversight detect;

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In over-sparkling of her Eye,
To tempt to Vite, or breed envy.
Then having (with a pierceing flash)
Made Vertue proof, of Beauty's dash.
The one she ballenc'd with the other;
That both might live, and die together.
Then GRACE came in a gentle gale,
And set her Soul all under sail.
And (nimbly) flew a modest race,
With all the three, and gain'd her face:
And from her Mouth, and sparkling Eye;
O'rspread her whole Physiognomy.
Yet she no Critick did commence,
To Reason slight, or banish Sense,
Or set at nought the other three;
Because of her precedencie.
But granted them a dwelling place,
Within the Suburbs of her Face:
Subjecting only them to pay
Devotion's Tribute, every day.