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Henry King was an English poet who served as Bishop of Chichester.

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Upon a Table-Book presented to a Lady 403 ViewsRate it
SONNET. Dry those fair, those chrystal eyes
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SONNET. I prethee turn that face away
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Sic Vita
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To a Friend upon Overbury's wife given to her
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SONNET. VVere thy heart soft as thou art faire
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To the same Lady upon Mr. Burtons Melancholy
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AN ELEGY Upon my Best Friend L. K. C.
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AN ELEGY Upon the immature loss of the most vertuous Lady Anne Rich
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SONNET. The Double Rock
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The Exequy
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A Renunciation
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The Vow-Breaker
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To his unconstant Friend
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To One demanding why Wine sparkles
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St. Valentines day
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The Farewell
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AN ELEGY Upon the L. Bishop of London John King
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The Acquittance 106 ViewsRate it
An Essay on Death and a Prison
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PARADOX. That Fruition destroyes Love
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The Labyrinth
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To my Sister Anne King, who chid me in verse for being angry
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AThe Anniverse. AN ELEGY.
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A Penitential Hymne
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Exequy on his Wife
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Tell Me No More How Fair She Is
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PARADOX. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man
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An Acknowledgment
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My Midnight Meditation
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Psalm CXVII.
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A Contemplation upon Flowers
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Another of the same, paraphrased for an Antheme
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Upon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H.
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Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice
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The Dirge
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The Forfeiture
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AN ELEGY Upon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames
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The Pink
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AN ELEGY Occasioned by the losse of the most incomparable Lady Stanhope, daughter to the Earl of Northumberland
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The Surrender
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SONNET. Tell me you stars that our affections move
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Psalm CL.
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An Epitaph on Niobe turned to Stone
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The Boyes answer to the Blackmoor
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AN ELEGY Upon S. W. R.
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AN ELEGY Upon the most Incomparable K. Charles the First
 55 ViewsRate it
The Departure. AN ELEGY.
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To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed
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Upon the Kings happy return from Scotland
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A salutation of his Majesties Ship the Soveraign
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On two Children dying of one Disease, and buried in one Grave
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The Forlorn Hope
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SONNET. Go thou that vainly do'st mine eyes invite
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To his Friends of Christ-Church upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Arts acted at Woodstock
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The Change
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Loves Harvest
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SONNET. When I entreat, either thou wilt not hear
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The Legacy
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By occasion of the Young Prince his happy birth
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To my dead friend Ben Johnson
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The short Wooing
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The Retreat
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Being waked out of my sleep by a snuff of Candle which offended me, I thus thought
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To the Queen at Oxford
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AN ELEGY Upon the death of Mr. Edward Holt
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AN ELEGY Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus
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Psalm I.
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Silence. A Sonnet
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SONNET. To Patience
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AN EPITAPH On his most honoured Friend Richard Earl of Dorset
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To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys
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Upon the death of my ever desired friend Doctor Donne Dean of Pauls
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On the Earl of Essex
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To A. R. vpon the same 20 ViewsRate it
The Defence
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