Elizabeth of Bohemia

You meaner beauties of the night,
That poorly satisfy our eyes
More by your number than your light,
You common people of the skies;
What are you when the moon shall rise?

You curious chanters of the wood,
That warble forth Dame Nature's...

Poet: Sir Henry Wotton
Compliment to Queen Elizabeth

From “a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act II. Sc. 1.

  OBERON.—My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou remember’st
Since once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin’s back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil...

Poet: William Shakespeare
Elizabeth told Essex

Elizabeth told Essex

That she could not forgive

The clemency of Deity

However — might survive —

That secondary succor

We trust that she partook

When suing — like her Essex

For a reprieving Look...

Poet:
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old

Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content,

Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye,

Farewell fair flower that for a space was lent,

Then ta'en away unto eternity.

Blest babe why should I once bewail thy fate,
...

Poet:
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning

       I have not met thee in this outward world,

        Bounded by time and space; but in that realm,

        O'er which imagination holds her reign,

        There have I seen thy spirit face to face,

        Majestic, and yet...

Poet:
The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler/A True Ballad
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