Katherine Philips Alone Poems
- 1. The World
Wee falsely think it due unto our friends,
That we should grieve for their too early ends:
He that surveys the world with serious eys,
And stripps Her from her grosse and weak disguise,
... - 2. L'amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey.
Soule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend!
A name which all the rest doth comprehend;
How happy are we now, whose sols are grown,
By an incomparable mixture, One:
... - 3. La Solitude De St. Amant /la Solitude A Alcidon /
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O! Solitude, my sweetest choice
Places devoted to the night,
Remote from tumult, and from noise,
... - 4. 6th April 1651 L'amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey
Soule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend!
A name which all the rest doth comprehend;
How happy are we now, whose sols are grown,
By an incomparable mixture, One:
... - 5. Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia
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COme, my Lucasia, since we see
That Miracles Mens faith do move,
By wonder and by prodigy
... - 6. Orinda Upon Little Hector Philips
Twice forty months of Wedlock did I stay,
Then had my vows crown'd with a Lovely boy,
And yet in forty days he dropt away,
O swift Visissitude of humane joy.
... - 7. Friendships Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia
Come, my Lucasia, since we see
That miracles Men's Faith do move,
By wonder and by prodigy
To the dull angry World let's prove
... - 8. Content, To My Dearest Lucasia
Content, the false World's best disguise,
The search and faction of the Wise,
Is so abstruse and hid in night,
That, like that Fairy Red-cross Knight,
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