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

The World's a trifle, and the life of Man
A hand in bredth, in Longitude a span.
Our Pleasures are but Pain; our Joyes relent,
Before the Morning of our dayes be spent.
I've seen a Dunce, prefer'd before a Wit,
Base Beggars ride, when Princes walk'd a foot.

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To swift or strong, by chance, no prize at all:
But God doth send, what ever doth befal.
Then why should I repine, my Heart reply'd,
The finest Gold is often purified.
This Object of our present Grief and Woe,
What I affirm without debate may show;
Whose Partes and Person, readiness of Wit,
Did of no Blot, or Blemish base admit.
Religion's root ne'r wither'd nor decay'd
In him: till he Lif's utmost minute pay'd.
Oft Satan snatch'd; but he could only roar;
The God of Truth had muzzl'd him before.
Then (charitable Reader) write me down,
A Christian cros'd doth wear an endless Crown.