Elizabethan Poems - Poems about Elizabethan

The quick fix had worked so She slipped the needle away, Her little liquid friend that helped Through each long working day. A toot of the horn told her He’s out there with her lift For her to work the punters From the pub leaving shift. Only a whore they said When the body was found, A battered shop mannequin Lying on waste ground. With...

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Oh but to rest this mad toiling mind! Sleep? Nay, to sleep perchance to dream Dreams. Ay, there lay the problem How, then, to find solace Can it be achieved... true peace of mind? Not in life but in death...

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Simple question was asked but they fumble; What are you going to do with your life? Most of them babble, to speak they struggle; Appears they don't know how to handle strife. Don't have idea for their future day lost their direction that shows confusion. Answer to question is simple if they apply their minds, there can't be illusion. It's to...

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ELIZABETHAN LOVE PASTICHE I will pluck Parmenter from your orchard bower And taste it’s Ambrose and the scented flower There we shall pass a brief but blessed hour While I sup your essence sweet piquant and sour Lest passing time should look on us to glower And curse us so no more we may have power To circumvent the fates and...

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Linen ruffs and lacy cuffs And farthingales and tassels; Petticoats and hose and cloaks Like those once worn in castles. Fastenings of hooks and eyes And buttons, strings and laces Used instead of zippers to Keep closed important places. Milliners and stocking knitters, Shoemakers and such Pushed for authenticity In looks and wear and touch. Seeing Shakespeare on the stage The way that he intended Must have had a...

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I would return to Shakespeare’s time and see Him live upon the stage; to hear him say The lines he wrote would mean the world to me. His theatre, with the acts performed at day, The place he’d muse,’ To be or not to be.’ (And ALL would call him author of the play). I’d stand amongst the crowd and...

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by Elizabethan poetic verse in life's race of biblical grace God hath surely dispersed… assuring all that will… of heavenly grace ========================= “Behold, all things become new.” As carnal minds are also renewed. (II Corinthians 5:17) ...

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