An Anthology of Renaissance Lyrics

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare has his own page.

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Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Sir Philip Sidney is included in Luminarium

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John Skelton, 1460?-1529

John Skelton is included in Luminarium

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William Smith (?-?)

• from Chloris (1596)  (Sonnet Central)
  • Colin, my dear and most entire beloved
  • Feed, silly sheep, although your keeper pineth
  • Whole showers of tears to Chloris I will pour
  • When I more large thy praises forth shall show

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Edward Somerset

Experience now doth shew  (from Tottel's Miscellany)  (U. of Michigan)

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Robert Southwell, SJ (1561?-1595)

Robert Southwell, S. J. is included in Luminarium

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Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Edmund Spenser has his own page.

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William Stevenson (1530?-1575)

• Back and Side go Bare  (U. of Toronto)
• Jolly Good Ale and Old  (from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1919)  (Project Bartleby)

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Joshua Sylvester (c. 1563-1618)

• Ubique  (from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1919)  (Project Bartleby)
• They say that shadows of deceased ghosts  (Sonnet Central)
• Du Bartas, His Divine Weeks and Works  (excerpts)  (U. of Toronto)

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Chidiock Tichborne (ca. 1558-86)

• My Prime of Youth is but a Frost of Cares  (U. of Toronto)

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Tottel's Miscellany (1557) 

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Thomas Tusser  (1524?-1580)

• For background, see the article on Thomas Tusser, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. III.  (Project Bartleby)
• from An Hundreth Good Points of Husbandry [1557]:
      March (Poets' Corner)
      September (Poets' Corner)
      The End of Harvest (Poets' Corner)
      Christmas Cheer (Poets' Corner)
• from Five Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry [1573]:
      Upon The Author's First Seven Years' Service (Poets' Corner)
• from Five Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry [1580]:
      A Description Of The Properties Of The Winds All The Times Of The Year (Poets' Corner)