2019-
I from the influence of thy looks receive
Access in every Virtue, in thy sight
More wise, more watchful, stronger, if need were
Of outward strength; while shame, thou looking on,
Milton Book 9
Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn,
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth: at last
Words interwove with sighs found out their way.
Milton Book 1
Some secret truths from learned pride conceal'd,
To maids alone and children are reveal'd:
What tho' no credit doubting wits may give?
The fair and innocent shall still believe.
Rape Of The Lock
Than by her shadow what she wears.
O perverse sex, where none is true but she,
Who's therefore true, because her truth kills me.
Twickenham Garden - John Donne
Stand whoso list upon the slipper top
Of court’s estates, and let me here rejoice;
And use me quiet without let or stop,
Stand Whoso List - Sir Thomas Wyatt
2018- S
So cruel prison how could betide, alas,
As proud Windsor? Where I in lust and joy
With a king's son my childish years did pass
In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy;
So Cruel Prison – Earl Of Surrey
Is it possible
That so high debate,
So sharp, so sore, and of such rate,
Should end so soon and was begun so late?
Is it possible?
Is It Possible - Wyatt
But by this lock, this sacred lock I swear,
Which never more shall join its parted hair;
Rape Of The Lock
And in adversitee ful pacient;
And swich he was y-preved ofte sythes.
Ful looth were him to cursen for his tythes,
But rather wolde he yeven, out of doute,
Chaucer -The Canterbury Tales
No, no; but as in my idolatry
I said to all my profane mistresses,
Beauty, of pity, foulness only is
A sign of rigour: so I say to thee,
Holy Sonnet Xiii: What If This Present Were The World's Last Night? - John Donne
2018 –
The long love that in my thought I harbour,
And in mine heart doth keep his residence,
Into my face presseth with bold pretence,
The Long Love That In My Thought Doth Harbour – Wyatt
Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest;
Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain,
Wyatt Resteth Here - Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey
A cook they hadde with hem for the nones
To boille the chiknes with the marybones,
And poudre-marchant tart and galyngale.
Chaucer – The Canterbury Tale
If such affront I labor to avert
From thee alone, which on us both at once
The Enemy, though bold, will hardly dare,
Or daring, first on me the assault shall light.
Milton Book IX
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Milton Book I
2017
And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Canterbury they wende,
They hooly blissful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan what they
Were seeke.
Chaucer – The Canterbury Tale
Where, like a pillow on a bed
A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest
The violet's reclining head,
Sat we two, one another's best,
The Ecstasy – John Donne
ever blind to fate,
Too soon dejected, and too soon elate!
Sudden, these honours shall be snatch'd away,
And curs'd for ever this victorious day.
The Rape Of The Lock – Pope
What should I say,
Since faith is dead,
And truth away
From you is fled?
Should I be led
With doubleness?
What Should I Say – Wyatt
Long after known in Palestine, and nam'd
Beelzebub. To whom th' Arch-Enemy,
And thence in Heav'n call'd Satan, with bold words
Breaking the horrid silence thus began.
Milton Book 1
2016
For bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss,
Tedious, unshar’d with thee, and odious soon.
Thou therefore also taste, that equal Lot
May joyne us, equal Joy, as equal Love;
Least thou not tasting, different degree
Milton Book IX
Say, why are beauties prais'd and honour'd most,
The wise man's passion, and the vain man's toast?
Why deck'd with all that land and sea afford,
Why angels call'd, and angel-like ador'd?
Rape Of The Lock
Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes,
And for to drynken strong wyn, reed as blood;
Chaucer -The Canterbury Tales
If thou findst one, let mee know,
Such a Pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet doe not, I would not go,
Though at next doore wee might meet,
Song: Go And Catch A Falling Star - John Donne
The secret groves which oft we made resound
Of pleasant plaint and of our ladies' praise,
Recording oft what grace each one had found,
What hope of speed, what dread of long delays;
So Cruel Prison – Earl Of Surrey
2015 –
And yet he was but easy of dispense:
He kept that he won in the pestilence.
For gold in physic is a cordial;
Therefore he loved gold in special.
Chaucer -The Canterbury Tales
He spoke; the spirits from the sails descend;
Some, orb in orb, around the nymph extend,
Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair,
Some hang upon the pendants of her ear;
With beating hearts the dire event they wait,
Anxious, and trembling for the birth of fate.
Rape Of The Lock
In Battels feign'd; the better fortitude
Of Patience and Heroic Martyrdom
Unsung; or to describe Races and Games
Milton Book VIII
More subtle than the parent is
Love must not be, but take a body too;
And therefore what thou wert, and who,
I bid Love ask, and now
Air And Angels – Donne
But she that taught me love and suffer pain,
My doubtful hope and eke my hot desire
With shamefaced look to shadow and refrain,
Love that doth reign and live within my thought – Earl of Surrey
2014 –
Is it possible
That so high debate,
So sharp, so sore, and of such rate,
Should end so soon and was begun so late?
Is it possible?
Is It Possible - Wyatt
The mean diet, no dainty fare;
Wisdom joined with simpleness;
The night discharged of all care,
Where wine the wit may not oppress:
My Friend, The Things That Do Attain – Earl Of Surrey
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Song: Go And Catch A Falling Star - John Donne
All these and more came flocking; but with looks
Down cast and damp, yet such wherein appear'd
Obscure some glimps of joy, to have found thir chief
Not in despair, to have found themselves not lost
Milton Book 1
Some secret truths from learned pride conceal'd,
To maids alone and children are reveal'd:
What tho' no credit doubting wits may give?
The fair and innocent shall still believe.
Rape Of The Lock – Pope
2013 –
The Wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
Safest and seemliest by her Husband staies,
Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
Milton Book 9
His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the Mast
Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand,
Milton Book 1
Who, in her smiling, modest was and coy;
Her greatest oath was but "By Saint Eloy!"
And she was known as Madam Eglantine.
Full well she sang the services divine,
Chaucer – The Canterbury Tale
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Song: Go And Catch A Falling Star - John Donne
For, that sad moment, when the Sylphs withdrew,
And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew,
Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite,
As ever sullied the fair face of light,
Down to the central earth, his proper scene,
Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Rape of the Lock – Pope
The longë love that in my thought doth harbour
And in mine hert doth keep his residence,
Into my face presseth with bold pretence
The Longë Love That In My Thought Doth Harbour – Wyatt
Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest;
Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain,
Wyatt Resteth Here - Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey
2012 –
A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot;
No berd hadde he, ne nevere sholde have,
As smothe it was as it were late shave;
Chaucer – The General Prolong
To fifty chosen Sylphs, of special note,
We trust th' important charge, the petticoat:
Oft have we known that sev'n-fold fence to fail,
Though stiff with hoops, and arm'd with ribs of whale.
Form a strong line about the silver bound,
Rape of the Lock – Pope
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
Milton Book 1
It was no dream; for I lay broad awakening:
But all is turn'd now through my gentleness,
Into a bitter fashion of forsaking.
Remembrance – Wyatt
With eyes cast up unto the maidens' tower
And easy sighs, such as folk drawn in love;
The stately sallies, the ladies bright of hue,
The dances short, long tales of great delight.
Lines Written in Imprisonment in Windsor – Earl Of Surrey
Than by her shadow, what she wears
O perverse sex, shere none is true,
Because her truth kills me.
Twickenham Garden - John Donne
Hast thou not wonderd, Adam, at my stay
Thee I have misst, and thought it long, depriv'd
Thy presence, agonie of love till now.
Milton Book 9
2011 –
As virtuous me passe mildly away,
And whisper to their soules, to goe,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
The breath goes now, and some, say no.
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning – Donne
And use my life in quietness eacy dele,
Unknown in court that hath the wonton toys;
Stand Whoso Lost – Wyatt
The faithful wife, without debate:
Such slees as may beguile the night:
Content thyself with thine estate,
Neither wish death, nor fear his might.
The Things That Cause a Quiet Life – Earl Of Surrey
Great chiere made oure fear us everichon,
And the soper sette he us anon,
And serve us with vitalle at the beste:
Strong was thy wyn and wel to drynke us leste.
Chaucer – The Canterbury Tale
Oft, when the world imagine women stray,
The sylphs through mystic mazes guide their way,
Through all the giddy circle they pursue,
And old impertinence expel by new.
Rape of The Lock – Pope
All is not lost: the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit to yield;
Milton Book 1
Ye Eate thereof, your Eyes that seem to cleere,
Yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then
Op'nd and cleerd, and ye shall be as Gods,
Knowing both Good and Evil as they know.
Milton Book 9
