An Anthology of Renaissance Lyrics

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Giles Fletcher (1549-1611)

Giles Fletcher has his own page.

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William Fowler (1560-1612)

• Sonnets
  • Sonnets 1 - 40
  • Sonnets 41 - 75
  • Sonnets 76 - 121

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George Gascoigne (1539?-1578)

George Gascoigne is included in Luminarium

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Barnabe Googe  (1540-1594)

• For background, see the article on Barnabe Googe, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. III.  (Project Bartleby)
• Five poems  (Dead Poets Society)
  • Coming Homeward Out of Spain
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind
  • Once Musing as I Sat
  • To Doctor Bale
  • An Epitaph on the Death Of Nicholas Grimald

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William Gray of Reading (?-1557)

• The King's Hunt Is Up  (U. of Toronto)

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Robert Greene (1560-1592)

• For background, see the articles on Robert Greene, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. V, and on Robert Greene in the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition (2000).  (Project Bartleby)
• Farewell to Folly  (U. of Toronto)
• Menaphon: Doron's Eclogue  (U. of Toronto)
• Menaphon: Sephesta's Song to her Child  (U. of Toronto)
• Maesia's Song  (Poets' Corner)
• The Shepherd's Wife's Song (Poets' Corner)
• Cupid Abroad was Lated (Poets' Corner)
• Weep Not, My Wanton  (Poets' Corner)
• The Description of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer  (Poets' Corner)
• Samela  (from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1919)  (Project Bartleby)
• Fawnia  (from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1919)  (Project Bartleby)

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Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke (1554-1628)

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke is included in Luminarium

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Bartholomew Griffin (?-?)

• from Fidessa, More Chaste than Kind (1596)  (Sonnet Central)
  • Arraigned, poor captive at the bar I stand
  • Compare me to the child that plays with fire
  • Care-charmer sleep, sweet ease in restless misery
  • Fly to her heart, hover about her heart
  • I have not spent the April of my time
  • Fair is my love that feeds among the lilies
  • Tell me of love, sweet Love, who is thy sire?
  • Work, work apace, you blessed sisters three
  • If great Apollo offered as a dower

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Nicholas Grimald  (1519-1563)

Nicholas Grimald has his own page.