John Hall (poet)

thumb| John Hall (August 1627 – 1 August 1656), also known as John Hall of Durham, was an English poet, essayist and pamphleteer of the Commonwealth period. Quotes Poems (1646) Romira, stay,And run not thus like a young Roe away,No enemiePursues thee (foolish girle) tis onely I;I’le keep off harms,If thou’l be pleas’d to garrison mine arms. The Call, l. 1 See see the SunneDoes slowly to his azure Lodging run,Come sit but hereAnd presently hee’l quit our Hemisphere,So still amongLovers, time is too short or else too long. The Call, l. 13 Great Lord, from whom each Tree receaves,Then pays againe as rent, his leaves. A Pastorall Hymne, l. 13 External links