An Anthology of Renaissance Lyrics

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John Skelton, 1460?-1529

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Stephen Hawes, ca. 1475-1511

• For background, see the article on Stephen Hawes, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. III.  (Project Bartleby)
• The Passetyme of Pleasure, Chapter XLII (1506; excerpt)   (U. of Toronto)
• The Knighthood  (Poets' Corner)
• Epitaph  (Poets' Corner)

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King Henry VIII  (1491-1547)

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Tottel's Miscellany , 1557 (U. of Michigan)

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John Heywood  (1497?-1580?)

• For background, see the article on John Heywood, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. V.  (Project Bartleby)
• A Rose and A Nettle (Poets' Corner)
• The Woodcock and The Daw (Poets' Corner)
• Of Books And Cheese  (Poets' Corner)
• A Ballad of the Green Willow (Poets' Corner)
• From Tottel's Miscellany (1557)
  • Shall I thus euer long  (attributed to Heywood)  (U. of Michigan)
  • Geue place you Ladies  (attributed to Heywood)  (U. of Michigan)

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Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1503-1542

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Edward Somerset

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

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Thomas, Lord Vaux (1509-1556)

• For background, see the article on Thomas, Lord Vaux, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. III.  (Project Bartleby)
• The Aged Lover Renounceth Love  (U. of Toronto)
• When Cupide scaled first the fort  (U. of Michigan)

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William Gray of Reading (?-1557)

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

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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547)

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Nicholas Grimald  (1519-1563)

• For background, see the article on Nicholas Grimald, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. III.  (Project Bartleby)
• From Tottel's Miscellany, 1557:  Songes written by Nicolas Grimald  (U. of Michigan)
  • What sweet releef
  • Phebe twise took her horns
  • Louers men warn the corps
  • Sythe, Blackwood
  • Sythe, Vincent
  • Imps of king Ioue
  • In workyng well
  • Who wold beleeue mans life
  • One is my sire
  • By heauens hye gift
  • A heauy hart
  • Charis the fourth
  • What cause, what reaso[n]
  • Deserts of Nymphs
  • Now flaming Phebus
  • So happy bee
  • To you, madame, I wish
  • As this first daye of Ianus
  • Gorgeous attire
  • To you this present yere
  • No image carued
  • What one art thou
  • The auncient time commended
  • What path list you to tred?
  • What race of life ronne you?
  • When princes lawes
  • Of all the heauenly gifts
  • The issue of great Ioue
  • The worthy Wilfords body
  • For Wilford wept first men
  • Man, by a woman lern
  • Myrrour of matrones
  • Now, blythe Thaley
  • Why, Nicolas
  • Yea, and a good cause
  • The noble Henry
  • Mee thought, of late
  • Now clattering arms
  • Therfore, when restlesse rage
  • For Tullie

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Robert Wever (fl. ca. 1549-1553)

• In a Herber Green Asleep Whereas I Lay   (U. of Toronto)

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Anonymous  (1555?)

• Spare Your Good  (Renascence Editions)

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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)

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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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Queen Elizabeth I  (1533-1603)

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George Gascoigne (1539?-1578)

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William Hunnis (?-1597)

• For background, see the article on The Children of the Chapel Royal and their Masters, Part 4, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. III.  (Project Bartleby)
• A Nosegay Always Sweet  (Poets' Corner)

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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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Edward Dyer (1543?-1607)

• My mind to me a kingdom is  (U. of Toronto)

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Alexander Montgomerie (1545?-1597?)

• For background, see the article on Alexander Montgomerie, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. III.  (Project Bartleby)
• Sonnets  (68 sonnets)  (U. of Glasgow)

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Nicholas Breton (1545-1626?)

• For background, see the articles on The Phoenix Nest and on England's Helicon in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. IV.  (Project Bartleby)
• A Sweet Lullaby   (Poets' Corner)
• Phillida and Coridon   (Poets' Corner)
• An Assurance  (Poets' Corner)
• A Pastoral  (Poets' Corner)
• Pretty Twinkling Starry Eyes   (Poets' Corner)
• An Odd Conceit   (Poets' Corner)
• Who Can Live In Heart So Glad   (Poets' Corner)
• A Pastoral   (Poets' Corner)

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Giles Fletcher (1549-1611)

• For biographical background, see Martha Crowe Foote's article on Giles Fletcher, LL.D. (Sonnet Central).
• Licia (1593)  (Sonnet Central)
  • To the Reader
  • I. "Bright matchless star, the honour of the sky"
  • "Sad, all alone, not long I musing sat"
  • II. "Weary was love and sought to take his rest"
  • III. "The heavens beheld the beauty of my queen"
  • IV. "Love and my love did range the forest wild"
  • V. "Love with her hair my love by force hath tied"
  • VI. "My love amazed did blush herself to see"
  • VII. "Death in a rage assaulted once my heart"
  • VIII. "Hard are the rocks, the marble, and the steel"
  • IX. "Love was laid down, all weary fast asleep"
  • X. "A painter drew the image of the boy"
  • XI. "In Ida vale three queens the shepherd saw"
  • XII. "I wish sometimes, although a worthless thing"
  • XIII. "Enamored Jove commanding did entreat"
  • XIV. "My love lay sleeping, where birds music made"
  • XV. "I stood amazed, and saw my Licia shine"
  • XVI. "Grant, fairest kind, a kiss unto thy friend"
  • XVII. "As are the sands, fair Licia, on the shore"
  • XVIII. "I swear, fair Licia, still for to be thine"
  • XIX. "That time, fair Licia, when I stole a kiss"
  • XX. "First did I fear, when first my love began"
  • XXI. "Licia my love was sitting in a grove"
  • XXII. "I might have died before my life begun"
  • XXIII. "My love was masked, and arméd with a fan"
  • XXIV. "Whenas my love lay sickly in her bed"
  • XXV. "Seven are the lights that wander in the skies"
  • XXVI. "I live, sweet love, whereas the gentle wind"
  • XXVII. "The crystal stream wherein my love did swim"
  • XXVIII. "In time the strong and stately turrets fall"
  • XXIX. "Why died I not whenas I last did sleep?"
  • XXX. "Whenas my Licia sailéd in the seas"
  • XXXI. "Whenas her lute is tunéd to her voice"
  • XXXII. "Years, months, days, hours, in sighs I sadly spend"
  • XXXIII. "I wrote my sighs, and sent them to my love"
  • XXXIV. "Pale are my looks, forsaken of my life"
  • XXXV. "Whenas I wish, fair Licia, for a kiss"
  • XXXVI. "Hear how my sighs are echoed of the wind"
  • XXXVII. "I speak, fair Licia, what my torments be"
  • XXXVIII. "Sweet, I protest, and seal it with an oath"
  • XXXIX. "Fair matchless nymph, respect but what I crave"
  • XL. "My grief begun, fair saint, when first I saw"
  • Sonnet Made upon the Two Twins, Daughters of the Lady Mollineux, Both Passing Like, and Exceeding Fair
  • XLI. "If, aged Charon, when my life shall end"
  • XLII. "For if alone thou think to waft my love"
  • XLIII. "Are those two stars, her eyes, my life's light gone"
  • XLIV. "Cruel fair love, I justly do complain"
  • XLV. "There shone a comet, and it was full west"
  • XLVI. "If he be dead, in whom no heart remains"
  • XLVII. "Like Memnon's rock, touched with the rising sun"
  • XLVIII. "I saw, sweet Licia, when the spider ran"
  • XLIX. "If that I die, fair Licia, with disdain"
  • L. "Ah Licia, sigh and say thou art my own"
  • LI. "When first the sun whom all my senses serve"
  • LII. "O sugared talk, wherewith my thoughts do live"

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Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604)

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Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

• For biographical, bibliographical, and other information, see the Edmund Spenser Home Page  (U. of Cambridge)
• Amoretti and Epithalamion  (Renascence Editions)
• Astrophel and Stella   (Renascence Editions)
• Colin Clouts come home againe   (Renascence Editions)
• Complaints  (Renascence Editions)
• Daphnaida   (Renascence Editions)
• The Faerie Queene  (Renascence Editions)
• The Fowre Hymnes  (Renascence Editions)
• Prothalamion   (Renascence Editions)
• The Shepheardes Calender  (Renascence Editions)
• Sonnets by Spenser from Various Sources   (Renascence Editions)

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Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552-1618)

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Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

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Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke (1554-1628)

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John Lyly (1554-1606)

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George Peele (1556-1596)

• For background, see the articles on George Peele and on Peele's Poetry, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. V.  (Project Bartleby)
• His Golden Locks Time hath to Silver Turn'd  (U. of Toronto)
• from King David and Fair Bethsabe:  Bathsheba's Song (Poets' Corner)
• from The Araygnement of Paris
  • Fair and Fair  (from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1919)  (Project Bartleby)
  • Not iris in her pride (Poets' Corner)

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Thomas Watson (c. 1557-1592)

• For background, see the article on Thomas Watson, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. V.  (Project Bartleby)
• "I saw the object of my pining thought"  (Sonnet Central)
• "Each tree did boast the wished spring-time's pride"  (Sonnet Central)
• "In clouds she shines, and so obscurely shineth"  (Sonnet Central)

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Thomas Morley (1557/58-1602)

• On a Fair Morning as I Came by the Way  (U. of Toronto)
• See, See, Mine Own Sweet Jewel  (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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William Warner (ca. 1558-1609)

• For background, see the article on Warner's Albion's England, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. IV.  (Project Bartleby)
• Albion's England (excerpt)  (U. of Toronto)

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Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)

• For background, see the articles on Thomas Lodge, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. V, and on Thomas Lodge in the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition (2000).  (Project Bartleby)
• The Earth, Late Chok'd with Showers  (Poets' Corner)
• from Rosalynde
  • Like to the Clear in Highest Sphere  (U. of Toronto)
  • Rosalind's Madrigal  (U. of Toronto)
• from Phyllis
  • To Phyllis  (Poets' Corner)
  • Phyllis 1  (from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1919)  (Project Bartleby)
  • Phyllis 2  (from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1919)  (Project Bartleby)

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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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Sir John Harrington  (1560-1612)

• An elegy of a pointed diamond given by the author to his wife at the birth of his eldest son (Poets' Corner)
• Of an accident of saying grace at the Lady Rogers who used to dine exceeding late. Written to his wife from Bath (Poets' Corner)

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William Fowler (1560-1612)

• Sonnets
  • Sonnets 1 - 40  (U. of Glasgow)
  • Sonnets 41 - 75  (U. of Glasgow)
  • Sonnets 76 - 121  (U. of Glasgow)

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Anthony Munday (1560-1633)

• For background, see the articles on Anthony Munday, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. V, and on Anthony Munday in the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition (2000).  (Project Bartleby)
• I Serve a Mistress  (Poets' Corner)
• Beauty Sat Bathing by a Spring  (attributed to Munday)  (U. of Toronto)

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Robert Southwell, SJ (1561?-1595)

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Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621)

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Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

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Henry Constable (1562-1613)

• For two different views of Constable, see the article on Constable's Diana, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21), Vol. III, and the section on Henry Constable in William Minto's "Elizabethan Sonneteers" (1885).  (Project Bartleby & Sonnet Central)
• Diana (sonnets):  1594 "enlarged" edition; contains sonnets probably not by Constable.  (complete)  (Renascence Editions)
• Spiritual Sonnets (1594)  (Sonnet Central)
  • To God the Father
  • To God the Son
  • To God the Holy Ghost
  • To the Blessed Sacrament
  • To Our Blessed Lady
  • To St. Michael the Archangel
  • To St. John Baptist
  • To St. Peter and St. Paul
  • To St. Mary Magdalen [1]
  • To St. Katherine
  • To St. Margaret
  • To Our Blessed Lady [1]
  • To Our Blessed Lady [2]
  • To Our Blessed Lady [3]
  • To St. Mary Magdalen [2]
  • To St. Mary Magdalen [3]
  • To St. Mary Magdalen [4]
• Damelus' Song to Diaphenia (Poets' Corner)
• The Shepherd's Venus and Adonis (Poets' Corner)

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Michael Drayton (1562-1631)

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Charles Best (?-?)

• A Sonnet of the Moon  (Poets' Corner)

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E. C. (?-?)

• from Emaricdulfe (1595)  (Sonnet Central)
  • Within her hair Venus and Cupid sport them
  • I am enchanted with thy snow-white hands
  • My heart is like a ship on Neptune's back

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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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Richard Lynche (?-?)

• from Diella (1596)  (Sonnet Central)
  • Soon as the azure-colored gates of th'east
  • What sugared terms, what all-persuading art
  • Weary with serving where I nought could get
  • End this enchantment, love, of my desires

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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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Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

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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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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• For biographical background and other resources, see Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet  (Terry Gray, Palomar C.)
• Sonnets  (complete)  (M.I.T.)
  • I. FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,
  • II. When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,
  • III. Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
  • IV. Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
  • V. Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
  • VI. Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
  • VII. Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
  • VIII. Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
  • IX. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
  • X. For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any,
  • XI. As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest
  • XII. When I do count the clock that tells the time,
  • XIII. O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
  • XIV. Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
  • XV. When I consider every thing that grows
  • XVI. But wherefore do not you a mightier way
  • XVII. Who will believe my verse in time to come,
  • XVIII. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  • XIX. Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
  • XX. A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
  • XXI. So is it not with me as with that Muse
  • XXII. My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
  • XXIII. As an unperfect actor on the stage
  • XXIV. Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
  • XXV. Let those who are in favour with their stars
  • XXVI. Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
  • XXVII. Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
  • XXVIII. How can I then return in happy plight,
  • XXIX. When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
  • XXX. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
  • XXXI. Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
  • XXXII. If thou survive my well-contented day,
  • XXXIII. Full many a glorious morning have I seen
  • XXXIV. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
  • XXXV. No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
  • XXXVI. Let me confess that we two must be twain,
  • XXXVII. As a decrepit father takes delight
  • XXXVIII. How can my Muse want subject to invent,
  • XXXIX. O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,
  • XL. Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
  • XLI. Those petty wrongs that liberty commits,
  • XLII. That thou hast her, it is not all my grief,
  • XLIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
  • XLIV. If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
  • XLV. The other two, slight air and purging fire,
  • XLVI. Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
  • XLVII. Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
  • XLVIII. How careful was I, when I took my way,
  • XLIX. Against that time, if ever that time come,
  • L. How heavy do I journey on the way,
  • LI. Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
  • LII. So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
  • LIII. What is your substance, whereof are you made,
  • LIV. O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
  • LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
  • LVI. Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
  • LVII. Being your slave, what should I do but tend
  • LVIII. That god forbid that made me first your slave,
  • LIX. If there be nothing new, but that which is
  • LX. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
  • LXI. Is it thy will thy image should keep open
  • LXII. Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
  • LXIII. Against my love shall be, as I am now,
  • LXIV. When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
  • LXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
  • LXVI. Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
  • LXVII. Ah! wherefore with infection should he live,
  • LXVIII. Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
  • LXIX. Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
  • LXX. That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
  • LXXI. No longer mourn for me when I am dead
  • LXXII. O, lest the world should task you to recite
  • LXXIII. That time of year thou mayst in me behold
  • LXXIV. But be contented: when that fell arrest
  • LXXV. So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
  • LXXVI. Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
  • LXXVII. Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
  • LXXVIII. So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse
  • LXXIX. Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
  • LXXX. O, how I faint when I of you do write,
  • LXXXI. Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
  • LXXXII. I grant thou wert not married to my Muse
  • LXXXIII. I never saw that you did painting need
  • LXXXIV. Who is it that says most? which can say more
  • LXXXV. My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
  • LXXXVI. Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
  • LXXXVII. Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
  • LXXXVIII. When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,
  • LXXXIX. Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
  • XC. Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
  • XCI. Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
  • XCII. But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
  • XCIII. So shall I live, supposing thou art true,
  • XCIV. They that have power to hurt and will do none,
  • XCV. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
  • XCVI. Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;
  • XCVII. How like a winter hath my absence been
  • XCVIII. From you have I been absent in the spring,
  • XCIX. The forward violet thus did I chide:
  • C. Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
  • CI. O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
  • CII. My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
  • CIII. Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth,
  • CIV. To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
  • CV. Let not my love be call'd idolatry,
  • CVI. When in the chronicle of wasted time
  • CVII. Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
  • CVIII. What's in the brain that ink may character
  • CIX. O, never say that I was false of heart,
  • CX. Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there
  • CXI. O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
  • CXII. Your love and pity doth the impression fill
  • CXIII. Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
  • CXIV. Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
  • CXV. Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
  • CXVI. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  • CXVII. Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all
  • CXVIII. Like as, to make our appetites more keen,
  • CXIX. What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
  • CXX. That you were once unkind befriends me now,
  • CXXI. 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,
  • CXXII. Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
  • CXXIII. No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
  • CXXIV. If my dear love were but the child of state,
  • CXXV. Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy,
  • CXXVI. O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
  • CXXVII. In the old age black was not counted fair,
  • CXXVIII. How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st,
  • CXXIX. The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
  • CXXX. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
  • CXXXI. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,
  • CXXXII. Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
  • CXXXIII. Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
  • CXXXIV. So, now I have confess'd that he is thine,
  • CXXXV. Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'
  • CXXXVI. If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near,
  • CXXXVII. Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,
  • CXXXVIII. When my love swears that she is made of truth
  • CXXXIX. O, call not me to justify the wrong
  • CXL. Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
  • CXLI. In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
  • CXLII. Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,
  • CXLIII. Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch
  • CXLIV. Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
  • CXLV. Those lips that Love's own hand did make
  • CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
  • CXLVII. My love is as a fever, longing still
  • CXLVIII. O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
  • CXLIX. Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,
  • CL. O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
  • CLI. Love is too young to know what conscience is;
  • CLII. In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,
  • CLIII. Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:
  • CLIV. The little Love-god lying once asleep
• A Lover's Complaint  (M.I.T.)
• The Rape of Lucrece  (M.I.T.)
• Venus and Adonis  (M.I.T.)
• A Funeral Elegy by W. S.  (M.I.T.)
• The Passionate Pilgrim  (Matty Farrow)
• The Phoenix and the Turtle  (Matty Farrow)
• Songs from plays
  • Winter, from Love's Labours Lost  (Poets' Corner)
  • Spring from Love's Labours Lost  (Poets' Corner)
  • Sigh no More, from Much Ado About Nothing  (Poets' Corner)
  • O mistress mine, where are you roaming?, from Twelfth Night  (Writer's Almanac)
  • Under the Greenwood Tree, from As You Like It  (Poets' Corner)
  • Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind, from As You Like It  (Poets' Corner)
  • Carpe Diem  (Poets' Corner)
  • Fear No More from Cymbeline  (Poets' Corner)
  • Hark! Hark! the Lark, from Cymbeline  (Poets' Corner)
  • Full Fathom Five, from The Tempest  (Poets' Corner)
  • Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I, from The Tempest  (Poets' Corner)

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John Davies of Hereford (c.1565-1618)

• From The Holy Rood  (Sonnet Central)
  • "Although we do not all the good we love"
• From Wit's Pilgrimage  (Sonnet Central)
  • "Some blaze the precious beauties of their loves"

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Richard Devereux, Earl of Essex (1566 -1601)

• To plead my faith . . .  (Poets' Corner)

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King James I  (1566-1625)

King James I is included in Luminarium

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John Hoskins  (1566-1638)

• Ode (Absence)  (Poets' Corner)

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