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Author: sylvester, joshua
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Sylvester, Joshua    Poet's Biography
13 poems available by this author


A CONTENTED MIND    Poem Text    
First Line: I weigh not fortune's frown or smile
Last Line: A mind content, a conscience clear.
Variant Title(s): Contentment
Subject(s): Contentment


AUTUMNUS       
First Line: When the leaves in autumn wither
Subject(s): Love; Old Age


BROKEN CHARM       
First Line: Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air


CEASE NOT TO LEARN       


CONSTANCY    Poem Text    
First Line: Were I as base as is the lowly plain
Last Line: Whereso'er you are, my heart shall truly love you.
Variant Title(s): Love's Omnipresence
Subject(s): Love


DU BARTAS HIS WEEK; OR BIRTH OF THE WORLD, THE FIRST DAY...       
First Line: God's aid implored: the sum of all proposed
Last Line: Pure, wise, just, good, god reigned alone (at rest) %himselfalone, self's palace, host and guest


FATHER       
First Line: Alpha and omega, god alone


FRUITS OF A CLEAR CONSCIENCE       
First Line: To shine in silk, and glister all in gold


GLORIOUS STARS OF HEAVEN       
First Line: I'll never believe that the arch-architect


OMNIA SOMNIA    Poem Text    
First Line: Go, silly worm, drudge, trudge, and travell
Last Line: To prove thy days but dream and slumber.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


SONNET       
First Line: They say that shadowes of deceased ghosts


SOUL'S ERRAND       
First Line: Go, soul, the body's guest


SWEET MOUTH, THAT SEND'ST A MUSKY-ROSED BREATH