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Born in 1602, the only son of Philip Strode, who belonged to an old Devonshire family, he was born at Plympton, Devonshire. From an early age he showed studious tendencies and was sent to Westminster School and Oxford. While at the University he began to manifest his poetic talents,and generally d .. .. more >>

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1		A Girdle
2		A Lover To His Mistress
3		A Necklace
4		A New Year's Gift
5		A Paralell Between Bowling And Preferment
6		A Purse-String
7		A Riddle: On A Kiss
8		A Song On A Sigh
9		A Song On The Baths
10		A Strange Gentlewoman Passing By His Window
11		A Superscription On Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Sent For A Token
12		A Translation Of The Nightingale Out Of Strada
13		A Watch Sent Home To Mrs. Eliz: King, Wrapt In Theis Verses
14		A Watch-String
15		An Antheme
16		An Eare-Stringe
17		An Epitaph On Mr. Fishborne The Great London Benefactor, And His Executor
18		An Epitaph On Sr John Walter, Lord Cheife Baron
19		Anthem For Good Fryday
20		Chloris in the Snow

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"The wanton snow flew to her breast,
Like pretty birds into their nest,
But, overcome with whiteness there,
For grief it thaw'd into a tear:
Thence falling on her garments' hem,
To deck her, froze into a gem."
William Strode (1602?-1645), British poet, clergyman. On Chloris Walking in the Snow (l. 5-10). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.

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