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Metaphysical & Cavalier

Sir John Suckling

1609–1641

Sir John Suckling (1609–1641) was an English Cavalier poet and courtier, famed for his wit and his invention of the card game cribbage.

His collected verse, Fragmenta Aurea (1646), mixes light, conversational love lyrics with plays and prose.

Poems (83)

  1. On New-years day 1640. To the KING.
  2. Loving and Beloved.
  3. A Sessions of the Poets.
  4. Loves World.
  5. Song.
  6. Sonnet. I.
  7. Sonnet. II.
  8. Sonnet III.
  9. To his much honoured, the Lord Lepinton, upon his Translation of Malvezzi his Romulus and Tarquin.
  10. Against Fruition.
  11. Song.
  12. To my Friend Will. Davenant; upon his Poem of Madagascar.
  13. To my Friend Will. Davenant on his other Poems.
  14. Song.
  15. Ʋpon my Lady Carliles walking in Hampton-Court garden.
  16. To Mr. Davenant for Absence.
  17. Against Absence.
  18. A Supplement of an imperfect Copy of Verses of Mr. Wil. Shakespears, By the Author.
  19. (untitled)
  20. Ʋpon my Lord Brohalls Wedding.
  21. (untitled)
  22. Against Fruition.
  23. A Ballade.
  24. (untitled)
  25. Song.
  26. Ʋpon two Sisters.
  27. To his Rival.
  28. Farewel to Love.
  29. A disswasion from Love.
  30. Epitaph.
  31. PROLOGVE.
  32. To the King.
  33. If when Don Cupid's dart
  34. Prologue to the Court
  35. SONG.
  36. Epilogue
  37. Prologue
  38. Song: I pray thee send me back my heart
  39. The Careless Lover
  40. The Siege
  41. Out upon it, I have loved
  42. The Advantage of Foreknowledge
  43. There never yet was woman made
  44. Love, Reason, Hate, did once bespeak
  45. The Invocation
  46. Love Turned to Hatred
  47. Love and Debt Alike Troublesome
  48. To a Lady that Forbade to Love before Company
  49. The Guiltless Inconstant
  50. Love's Representation
  51. Song (The crafty boy)
  52. Upon the Black Spots Worn by My Lady D. E.
  53. Song (If you refuse me once)
  54. Proffered Love Rejected
  55. Desdain
  56. Lutea Allison
  57. Perjury Excused
  58. Upon T. C. Having the Pox
  59. Upon the First Sight of My Lady Seymour
  60. Upon L. M. Weeping
  61. The Deformed Mistress
  62. Non Est Mortale Quod Opto
  63. His Dream
  64. Upon A. M.
  65. A Candle
  66. The Metamorphosis
  67. To B. C.
  68. Upon Sir John Laurence's Bringing Water over the Hills to My L. Middlesex His House at Witten
  69. A Barber
  70. A Soldier
  71. To My Lady E. C. at Her Going out of England
  72. A Pedlar of Small-Wares
  73. An Answer to Some Verses Made in His Praise
  74. Love's Burning-Glass
  75. The Miracle
  76. Song (When, dearest, I but think of thee)
  77. The Expostulation
  78. Detraction Execrated
  79. Song (Unjust decrees)
  80. A Prologue of the Author's to a Masque at Witten
  81. Cantilena Politica-Jocunda Facta post Principis Discessum in Hispaniam, 1623
  82. Verses
  83. Sir John Suckling's Answer

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