John Suckling
1609 - 1642
Sir John Suckling was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit – the accomplishments of a cavalier poet. He also invented the card game cribbage. He is best known for his poem "Ballade upon a Wedding".Poems
- The Constant Lover
- Why so Pale and Wan? - Song from Aglaura
- Love Turned to Hatred
- The Lover's Clock
- A Soldier
- A Ballad upon a Wedding
- Sonnet II - Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white,
- A Supplement of an Imperfect Copy of Verses of Mr William Shakespeare
- Sonnet III - A Doubt of Martyrdom
- A Doubt of Martyrdom
- Song - No, no, fair heretic - from Aglaura
- If you refuse me once, and think again