RPO -- Selected Poetry of Henry King (1592-1669)

Selected Poetry of Henry King (1592-1669)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2011, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

Meantime, thou hast her, earth; much good
May my harm do thee. Since it stood
With heaven's will I might not call
Her longer mine, I give thee all
My short-liv'd right and interest
In her whom living I lov'd best;
With a most free and bounteous grief,
I give thee what I could not keep.
(The Exequy, 61-68)

The Exequy

Biographical information

Given name: Henry
Family name: King
Birth date: 1592
Death date: 30 September 1669
Nationality: English
Education
Lord Williams's School
Westminster School
Christ Church, Oxford (B.A.): 1609 to 1611
Christ Church, Oxford (M.A.) to 1614
Religion: Church of England
Literary period: Caroline
Buried at: Chichester Cathedral