Author Facts
The first and the greatest of the metaphysical poets.
John Donne
Paradise Lost
John Milton
The Collar
George Herbert
Hope for God's healing.
To God on His Sickness
Reflections on friends who have died and gone to heaven.
Friends Departed
"Though all by me is lost, Such favor I unworthy am voutsafed, By me the Promised Seed shall all restore."
Eve, Paradise Lost
Next to Shakespeare, ranks as the greatest English poet.
John Milton
To Althea, from Prison
Richard Lovelace
The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet
Freedom of the Press
In Defense of Books
The author's love for adventure and his devotion to duty.
To Lucas, Going to the Wars
"They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thought doth clear."
Friends Departed by Henry Vaughan
Wrote nearly 1,300 poems which show the most variety and greatest lyrical quality of all the Cavalier writings.
Robert Herrick
To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Robert Herrick
Wonder
Thomas Traherne
Desiring forgiveness from sins.
A Hymn to God the Father
Awareness of one's own mortality.
Meditation XVII
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Old time is still a flying."
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
One of the most important Metaphysical poets known for his saintly life and intense devotion to God.
George Herbert
Peace
Henry Vaughan
Go, Lovely Rose
Edmund Waller
The incoherent, rebellious anger of the speaker.
The Collar
The lady possess beauty, kindness, and goodness.
The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet
"Shall I wasting in despair Die because a woman's fair? For if she be not for me What care I for whom she be?"
The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet by George Wither
Wrote a Correlative Study of Emotional Intelligence and Servant Leadership among Ministry Leaders
Dr. Skiebe
The Bait
John Donne
The Constant Lover
Sir John Suckling
The importance of Christ
No Coming to God Without Christ
A plea for God's blessing on his work.
His Prayer for Absolution
"Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage."
To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace