William Browne, of Tavistock

Poems (6)

• A Welcome

  Welcome, welcome! do I sing, / Far more welcome than the spring; …

• In Obitum M.S. Xo Maij, 1614

  May! Be thou never graced with birds that sing, / Nor Flora's pride! …

• Memory

  So shuts the marigold her leaves / At the departure of the sun; …

• On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke

  Underneath this sable herse / Lies the subject of all verse: …

• The Rose

  A ROSE, as fair as ever saw the North, / Grew in a little garden all alone; …

• The Sirens' Song

  Steer, hither steer your wingèd pines, / All beaten mariners! …