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Metaphysical & Cavalier

Henry King

1592–1669

Henry King (1592–1669) was an English poet and Bishop of Chichester.

He is remembered above all for ‘The Exequy,’ his elegy for his young wife — one of the great grief poems of the century.

Poems (76)

  1. The Vow-Breaker.
  2. Vpon a Table-Book presented to a Lady.
  3. To the same Lady upon Mrs Burtons M…lancholy.
  4. The Farewell.
  5. A Black-moor Maid wooing a fair Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds.
  6. The Boyes answer to the Blackmoor.
  7. To a Friend upon Overbury's wife given to her.
  8. Vpon the same.
  9. To A. R. upon the same.
  10. An Epitaph on Niobe turned to Stone.
  11. Vpon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H.
  12. SONNET.
  13. SONNET.
  14. SONNET.
  15. SONNET.
  16. Silence.
  17. Loves Harvest.
  18. The Forlorn Hope.
  19. The Retreat.
  20. SONNET.
  21. SONNET.
  22. SONNET.
  23. SONNET.
  24. To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed.
  25. The Pink.
  26. To his Friends of Christ-Church upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Arts acted at Woodstock.
  27. The Surrender.
  28. The Legacy.
  29. The short Wooing.
  30. St. Valentines day.
  31. To his unconstant Friend.
  32. Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice.
  33. The Defence.
  34. To One demanding why Wine sparkles.
  35. By occasion of the Young Prince his happy birth.
  36. Vpon the Kings happy return from Scotland.
  37. To the Queen at Oxford.
  38. A salutation of his Majesties Ship the Soveraign.
  39. AN EPITAPH On his most honoured Friend Richard Earl of Dorset.
  40. The Exequy.
  41. The Anniverse.
  42. On two Children dying of one Disease, and buried in one Grave.
  43. A Letter.
  44. An Acknowledgment.
  45. The Acquittance.
  46. The Forfeiture.
  47. The Departure.
  48. PARADOX.
  49. PARADOX.
  50. The Change
  51. To my Sister Anne King, who chid me in verse for being angry.
  52. AN ELEGY
  53. AN ELEGY
  54. AN ELEGY
  55. To my dead friend Ben: Iohnson.
  56. AN ELEGY
  57. AN ELEGY
  58. AN ELEGY
  59. Vpon the death of my ever desired friend Doctor Donne Dean of Pauls.
  60. AN ELEGY
  61. To my Noble and Iudicious Friend Sir Henry Blount upon his Voyage.
  62. To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys.
  63. The Woes of Esay.
  64. An Essay on Death and a Prison.
  65. The Labyrinth.
  66. Being waked out of my sleep by a snuff of Candle which offended me, I thus thought.
  67. Sic Vita.
  68. My Midnight Meditation.
  69. A Penitential Hymne.
  70. AN ELEGY
  71. The Dirge.
  72. AN ELEGY
  73. On the Earl of Essex.
  74. An Elegy on Sir Charls Lucas, and Sir George Lisle.
  75. An Elegy upon the most Incomparable King Charls the First.
  76. A Contemplation upon flowers

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