| 1 | 0–60 | 473 | unassigned | | Lo, how the stormy world doth worldlings toss, Twixt sandy pleasures, and a rocky will, Whilst them that Court… |
| 2 | 61–119 | 469 | T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions | 0.76 | To found their trust on trustless grounds whilst made: We may be robbed from them, they robbed from us, Grieve… |
| 3 | 120–181 | 472 | unassigned | | And (whilst distracted with a dangerous storm,) All joined to place the Rudder in my hand; I reunited that div… |
| 4 | 182–253 | 515 | unassigned | | What wonder though the soul of man, (A spark of heaven that shines below) Doth labour by all means it can, Lik… |
| 5 | 254–313 | 498 | unassigned | | In all the parts where he hath chanced to be, In foreign bounds, or where he first saw light, He never did suc… |
| 6 | 314–377 | 515 | unassigned | | Those be but dreams of bliss which fortune brings, To break (by bending) foolish mortals minds, I saw but sens… |
| 7 | 378–441 | 510 | unassigned | | Let not your judgement thus from reason shrink, To gloze on that which simply comes from me; They who do freel… |
| 8 | 442–504 | 507 | T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi | 0.78 | Thus worms of th'earth (whilst low-placed thoughts prevail) Love melting things, whose show the body fits, Whe… |
| 9 | 505–568 | 509 | unassigned | | An honest man will tell them what he thinks. So should you lose yourself, and them not save. But for their fol… |
| 10 | 569–633 | 507 | unassigned | | Or may pretend an interest in their praise: This self-conceit is a most dangerous shelf, Where many have made … |
| 11 | 634–705 | 502 | unassigned | | If you at Court to credit would arise, You must not seek by truth to gain renown, But sometime must applaud wh… |
| 12 | 706–781 | 538 | T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi | 0.86 | It may be feared our King at last, Whilst he for nothing is afraid, Be by prosperity betrayed: For, growing th… |
| 13 | 782–849 | 539 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.73 | No doubt, it must disburden much the mind, A Secretary in distress to have; Who by his own, another's grief ca… |
| 14 | 850–911 | 501 | unassigned | | In what strange form could this disaster fall, From which there flow salt floods of just distress? Tell on at … |
| 15 | 912–972 | 500 | unassigned | | Yet forced to fear the frailty of her kind, A hearing woman may in time be moved; Thus tossed with doubts amid… |
| 16 | 973–1037 | 503 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.78 | When great winds blow the fire, the smoke worst vents; Whilst generous fury did disguise my grief, I ran trans… |
| 17 | 1038–1101 | 510 | unassigned | | LEnd (Sir) a willing ear to humble words, Let not our baseness bar us from your grace, Which still itself alik… |
| 18 | 1102–1166 | 515 | unassigned | | That to repress oppression you take care, Though we were dumb, the public rest may speak: Your Laws, like Spid… |
| 19 | 1167–1224 | 474 | unassigned | | I see what brave desires boil in thy soul, And make thee thus magnanimous to be, This high-bent courage nothin… |
| 20 | 1225–1284 | 482 | unassigned | | Thou foundst me friendly, and my Court thy rest, A Sanctuary which thy life did save; And dangers 'scaped (whe… |
| 21 | 1285–1374 | 522 | unassigned | | Life of my soul, how do such broken speeches, From troubled passions thus abruptly rise? I know (my love) thy … |
| 22 | 1375–1446 | 553 | T36 Hell, Furies and the language of punishm | 0.83 | CAN Heaven behold one stand to stain these times, Yet to the Stygian streams not headlong hurled? And can th'a… |
| 23 | 1447–1511 | 522 | unassigned | | He would say the reward. I grant what you allege and more is true; I have unto the height of hatred run: A blo… |
| 24 | 1512–1577 | 548 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.80 | O rigorous judgement! O outrageous fate! Must I suruive the funerals of my fame? All things which I behold, up… |
| 25 | 1578–1633 | 457 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.87 | Cursed eyes, what sudden change hath drowned your lights, And made your mirthful objects mournful now? Ye that… |
| 26 | 1634–1696 | 491 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.72 | I will not here rehearse, enlarging woes, On what just reasons now my grief I ground, But still will entertain… |
| 27 | 1697–1760 | 478 | unassigned | | Since that it hath not pleased the heavenly powers, That of my offspring I might comfort claim, Yet lest the r… |
| 28 | 1761–1822 | 492 | unassigned | | He, since his father's age-worn course expired, Hath ruled his people free from blood or strife, Till now a Vi… |
| 29 | 1823–1884 | 489 | T17 Eastern conquest: Persians, Turks and so | 0.80 | The most imperious of the powers above, Who vows and offerings of the world exacts; He all his time in state d… |
| 30 | 1885–1945 | 490 | unassigned | | Those flames, which burn my breast, must once burst out, Your counsel for more quiet minds I leave, And be you… |
| 31 | 1946–2004 | 488 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.73 | Whilst th'ominous Owls no crosses did devote; The blessing that this marriage did procure, It was too great to… |
| 32 | 2005–2070 | 489 | unassigned | | For my chaste flames, which quenched were with thy breath, Can kindle now no more but in thy grave. By night I… |
| 33 | 2071–2150 | 552 | unassigned | | Yet how comes this? and O how can Clear knowledge thus (the soul's chief treasure) Because of such a cross to … |
| 34 | 2151–2214 | 498 | unassigned | | Though all who partners are of th' earth and air, Still whilst tapestried with this azure pale, If for nought … |
| 35 | 2215–2277 | 497 | unassigned | | Did (long ere wounded, making him to smart) Involve him in a maze of sad annoys; And to prevent what did him f… |
| 36 | 2278–2340 | 500 | unassigned | | Since our own child shall get a stately tomb, And we a Princely brood, which may remain, Still nursed with us … |
| 37 | 2341–2397 | 458 | T17 Eastern conquest: Persians, Turks and so | 0.82 | Some of the wisemen than I heard remained, Who from their former sentence did recoil, And said▪ no danger was,… |
| 38 | 2398–2457 | 479 | T22 Shepherds, flocks and Pan | 0.69 | And have you then not heard, his death but proved The black beginning of a bloody Scene? His wife Panthea at t… |
| 39 | 2458–2521 | 493 | T17 Eastern conquest: Persians, Turks and so | 0.82 | I'll raise a Pyramid of Croesus' spoils, Where of their worth each part shall be comprised, But how to do in t… |
| 40 | 2522–2583 | 491 | T17 Eastern conquest: Persians, Turks and so | 0.66 | With what in Persia horsemen use to wear; To them th'infantry did follow next, A solid squadron like a brazen … |
| 41 | 2584–2646 | 495 | unassigned | | All Lydia's o'erthrow did with speed procure: As one of ours (unhappily it chanced) To reach his helmet, that … |
| 42 | 2647–2708 | 499 | unassigned | | I cannot tell you well, nor in what form, If that the destinies had so ordained, Or if of passions an impetuou… |
| 43 | 2709–2770 | 493 | unassigned | | As thinking that himself might once be such, Since thralled to Fortune's throne, like other Kings; Then such a… |
| 44 | 2771–2834 | 507 | T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi | 0.83 | Lo! I who late did thunder from a Throne, Am now a wretch whom every one disdains; My treasure, honour, state,… |
| 45 | 2835–2900 | 513 | unassigned | | Then weary to be well, and tired of rest, To waken trouble, I th'occasion sought; And yet to cloak the passion… |
| 46 | 2901–2970 | 462 | unassigned | | When first we fill with fruitful seed, The apt conceiving womb of th' earth, And seem to banish fear of dearth… |