Katherine Philips

1631-1647 / English

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6th April 1651 L'Amitie: To Mrs. M. AwbreySoule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend! / A name which all the rest doth comprehend; / How happy are we now, whose sols are grown,

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Against LoveHence Cupid! with your cheating toys, / Your real griefs, and painted joys, / Your pleasure which itself destroys.

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A Retir'd FriendshipCome, my Ardelia, to this bowre, / Where kindly mingling Souls a while, / Let's innocently spend an houre,

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Arion to a Dolphin, On His Majesty's passage into England.Whom does this stately Navy bring? / O! ‘tis Great Britain's Glorious King, / Convey him then, ye Winds and Seas,

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Content, To My Dearest LucasiaContent, the false World's best disguise, / The search and faction of the Wise, / Is so abstruse and hid in night,

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Epitaph on her Son H. P.What on Earth deserves our trust ? / Youth and Beauty both are dust. / Long we gathering are with pain,

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Friendships Mystery, To My Dearest LucasiaCome, my Lucasia, since we see / That miracles Men's Faith do move, / By wonder and by prodigy

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Orinda To Lucasia Parting October 1661 At LondonAdieu dear object of my Love's excess, / And with thee all my hopes of happiness, / With the same fervent and unchanged heart

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The WorldWee falsely think it due unto our friends, / That we should grieve for their too early ends: / He that surveys the world with serious eys,

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To Mr. Vaughan, Silurist on His PoemsHad I ador'd the multitude, and thence / Got an antipathy to wit and sence, / And hug'd that fate, in hope the world would grant

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