Poems by Anne Killigrew
Alexandreis.
... undertaken hard, she laid it by till Practice and more time should make her equal to so great a Work ...
To the Queen.
... Of Grace and Goodness, not with Harms, Erects a Throne i'th' inward Parts, ...
A Pastoral Dialogue.
... Eternal Groves, all Earthly, that excel: And think to wean us from our Loves below, ...
On Death.
... Thou mayst to Joy, but ne'er to Fear give Birth, ...
First EPIGRAM. (Upon being Contented with a Little)
... Among the Suits, O Jove, my humbler take ...
The Second EPIGRAM. (On BILLINDA)
... I've chang'd my Love of late into disdain: Calls me unconstant, cause I now adore ...
The Third Epigram. (On an ATHEIST)
... 'Gainst Incest, Rapine, ---- straight upon the Tale ...
The Fourth EPIGRAM. (On GALLA)
... Now Vot'ries 'fore the Shrines like Statues show, ...
A Farewel (To Worldly Joys.)
... And though your Witchcrafts strike my Ear, ...
THE Complaint of a Lover
... The Springs from whence my Griefs do flow ...
Love, the Soul of Poetry
... But Love these Thoughts, like Mists, did soon disperse, ...
To my Lady Berkeley, Afflicted upon her Son, My Lord BERKELEY's Early Engaging in the Sea-Service
... Bright Thoughts would then have dispossess't her Pain ...
St. John Baptist Painted by her self in the Wilderness, with Angels appearing to him, and with a Lamb by him
... The neighbouring Herds my Garments send, ...
HERODIAS Daughter presenting to her Mother St. JOHN's Head in a Charger, also Painted by her self
... Where Fierceness reign'd, there Calmness triumphs now ...
On a Picture Painted by her self, representing two Nimphs of DIANA's, one in a posture to Hunt, the other Batheing
... We bathe in Springs, to cleanse the Soil, ...
