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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

In Obitum Honoratissimi Viri, Rogeri Manwood, Militis, Quaestorii Reginalis Capitalis Bareonis

NOCTIVAGI terror, ganeonis triste flagellum,
Et Jovis Alcides, rigido vulturque latroni,
Urna subtegitur. Scelerum, gaudete, nepotes!
Insons, luctifica sparsis cervice capillis,
Plange! fori lumen, venerandae gloria legis,
Occidit: heu, secum effoetas Acherontis ad oras
Multa abiit virtus. Pro tot virtutibus uni,
Livor, parce viro; non audacissimus esto
Illius in cineres, cujus tot millia vultus
Mortalium attonuit: sic cum te nuntia Ditis
Vulneret exsanguis, feliciter ossa quiescant,
Famaque marmorei superet monumenta sepulcri.

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Accurs’D Be He That First Invented War

Accurs’d be he that first invented… They knew not, ah, they knew not,… How those were hit by pelting cann… Stand staggering like a quivering… Fearing the force of Boreas’ bois…
Ignoto

I love thee not for sacred chastit… Who loves for that? nor for thy sp… I love thee not for thy sweet mode… Which makes thee in perfection’s t… I love thee not for thy enchanting…
Lament for Zenocrate

Black is the beauty of the brighte… The golden belle of heaven’s etern… That danced with glory on the silv… Now wants the fuel that inflamed h… And all with faintness and for fou…
Who Ever Loved That Loved Not at First Sight?

It lies not in our power to love o… For will in us is overruled by fat… When two are stripped, long ere th… We wish that one should love, the… And one especially do we affect
I Must Have Wanton Poets

MUST have wanton poets, pleasant… Musicians, that with touching of a… May draw the pliant king which way… Music and poetry is his delight; Therefore I’ll have Italian masks…
Hero and Leander

(excerpt) On Hellespont, guilty of true lov… In view and opposite two cities st… Sea-borderers, disjoin’d by Neptu… The one Abydos, the other Sestos…
Hero and Leander: The Second Sestiad

By this, sad Hero, with love unac… Viewing Leander’s face, fell down… He kissed her and breathed life in… Wherewith as one displeased away s… Yet, as she went, full often looke…
Hero and Leander: The First Sestiad

On Hellespont, guilty of true-lov… In view and opposite two cities st… Sea-borderers, disjoined by Neptu… The one Abydos, the other Sestos… At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the f…
“Either she was foul, or her attire was bad”

Either she was foul, or her attire… Or she was not the wench I wished… Idly I lay with her, as if I love… And like a burden grieved the bed… Yet though both of us performed ou…
The Face That Launch’D a Thousand Ships

Was this the face that launch’d a… And burnt the topless towers of I… Sweet Helen, make me immortal wit… Her lips suck forth my soul: see w… Come, Helen, come, give me my sou…
Elegies, Book One, 5

after Ovid In summer’s heat and mid-time of t… To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay… One window shut, the other open st… Which gave such light as twinkles…
Dialogue in Verse

_Jack._ Seest thou not yon farmer… He hath stoln my love from me, ala… What shall I do? I am undone; My heart will ne’er be as it was. O, but he gives her gay gold rings…
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prov… That valleys, groves, hills, and f… Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks,
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I WALK’D along a stream, for pu… Brighter than sun-shine; for it di… The dullest sight with all the glo… That in the pebble-paved channel l… No molten crystal, but a richer mi…
Our Conquering Swords

Our conquering swords shall marsha… We use to march upon the slaughter… Trampling their bowels with our ho… Brave horses bred on the white Ta… My camp is like to Julius Caesar’…



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