1. essex

  • Lady Essex

    [209]      Lady Essex.

                   (Fragment.)

                        1.

    In England wüthen zwei Thyrannen:
    Der König Jacob[1] und die Pest,
    Und Jener immer raft von dannen,
    Was...

    Theodor Fontane

  • 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 —