William Browne Good Poems
- 1. Epitaph - On The Countess Dowager Of Pembroke
Underneath this sable herse
Lies the subject of all verse:
Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother:
Death, ere thou hast slain another,
... - 2. Spring Morning - Ii
Willie.
Roget, droop not, see the spring
Is the earth enamelling,
... - 3. A Pleasant Grove
Unto a pleasant grove or such like place,
Where here the curious cutting of a hedge:
There, by a pond, the trimming of the sedge:
Here the fine setting of well-shading trees:
... - 4. Caelia - Sonnet - 1
Lo, I the man that whilom lov'd and lost,
Not dreading loss, do sing again of love;
And like a man but lately tempest-toss'd,
Try if my stars still inauspicious prove:
... - 5. A Round
All.
Now that the Spring hath fill'd our veins
With kind and active fire,
... - 6. Visions - Sonnet - 4
A gentle shepherd, born in Arcady,
That well could tune his pipe, and deftly play
The nymphs asleep with rural minstrelsy,
Methought I saw, upon a summer's day,
... - 7. On The Countess Dowager Of Pembroke
Underneath this sable herse
Lies the subject of all verse:
Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother:
Death, ere thou hast slain another
...