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Occasional and Devotional Poems

The Eclips

 

The invitation into the Countrey to my D:[ear] D:[aughters] M[argaret] P:[ulter] P[enelope] P[ulter] 164[7] when his sacred Majestie was at unhappy home

 

The complaint of Thames 1647 when the best of Kings was imprisoned by the worst of Rebels at Holmbie

 

On those two unparraleld friends, Sir G Lisle and Sir C Lucas

 

On that Unparraleld Prince Charles the first. his Horrid Murther

 

On the Same [1] [this title refers back to the previous poem in the manuscript entitled 'Upon the Death of my deare and lovely Daughter J.[ane] P.[ulter]']

 

On the Same [2] [this title refers back to the previous poem in the manuscript entitled 'On the Horrid Murther of that incomparable Prince, King Charles the First']

 

The Revolution

 

The Circle

 

To Aurora

 

On the Kinge most excelent magisty

 

The Center

 

Alitheas Pearl

 

The Pismire

 

To my Deare, J.[ane] P.[ulter], M.[argaret] P.[ulter], P.[enelope] P.[ulter] they beeing at London, I at Bradfield

 

The Perfection of Patience and Knowledg

 

Of a Young lady at Oxford 1646

 

This was written 1648, when I Lay Inn, with my Son John, beeing my 15 Child, I beeing soe weak, that in Ten dayes and Nights I never moved my Head one jot from my Pillow, out of which great weaknes, my gracious God restored me, that I still live to magnifie his Mercie. 1665.

 

The Larke

 

Why art thou sad at the aproach of Night

 

Made when I was not well, April 20, 1655

 

A Solitary Complainte

 

Why must I thus forever bee confin'd

 

A Dialogue between two sisters Virgins bewailing their solitary life P.[enelope] P.[ulter]

 

My Love is Fair

 

To Sir William D.[avenant] Upon the unspeakable Loss of the most conspicuous and chief Ornament of his Frontispiece

 

The Weepeing Wishe January 1665

 

On the Fall of that grand Rebel the Earl of Essex his Effigies in Henry 7th's Chappel in Westminster Abby