Henry King (poet)

thumb| Henry King (1592 – 30 September 1669) was an English poet and clergyman who served as Bishop of Chichester from 1642 till death. Quotes Sleep on (my Love!) in thy cold bedNever to be disquieted.My last Good-night! Thou wilt not wakeTill I thy fate shall overtake:Till age, or grief, or sickness mustMarry my body to that dustIt so much loves; and fill the roomMy heart keeps empty in thy tomb.Stay for me there: I will not failTo meet thee in that hollow vale.And think not much of my delay;I am already on the way,And follow thee with all the speedDesire can make, or sorrows breed. "An Exequy", l. 81, in Poems, p. 57 But hark! My pulse, like a soft drumBeats my approach, tells thee I come;And, slow howe’er my marches be,I shall at last sit down by thee.The thought of this bids me go on,And wait my dissolutionWith hope and comfort. Dear! (forgiveThe crime) I am content to liveDivided, with but half a heart,Till we shall meet and never part. "An Exequy", l. 111 We that did nothing study but the wayTo love each other, with which thoughts the dayRose with delight to us, and with them set,Must learn the hateful art, how to forget. "The Surrender", l. 5, in Poems, p. 24 Formerly attributed to Thomas Carew. See: William Hazlitt (ed.) The Poems of Thomas Carew (1870), p. 68 Prodigious might that union prove,Where Night and Day together move,And the conjunction of our lipsNot kisses make but an eclipse;In which the mixed black and whitePortends more terrour than delight. "The Boy's answer" to "A Blackamore Maid to a fair Boy", printed, from MS., in The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 12 (July 1742), p. 384, col. 2. See: Kim F. Hall, Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England (Cornell University Press, 1995), pp. 275–6, and Laurence Mason, English Poems of Henry King (New Haven, 1914), pp. 16–17 External links Jean Klene (ed.) The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS. V.b.198 (Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997), p. 30 Category:Anglicans from the United Kingdom Category:Clergy from England Category:Poets from England Category:1592 births Category:1669 deaths Category:Anglican bishops