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MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)
From the sonnet-sequence Idea:
Love's Farewell .
Ballad of Agincourt
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love .
From Hero and Leander:
Description of Hero
RICHARD BARNFIELD (1574-1627)
An Ode
WILLIAM SHAKSPERE [1564-1616)
From Venus and Adonis:
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Where the Bee Sucks
A Sea Dirge
Sonnets:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless
sea,
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
How like a winter hath my absence been
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
THOMAS NASHE (1567-1601)
SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568-1639)
The Character of a Happy Life
SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)
From Nosce Teipsum:
True Knowledge of the Soul
Echo's Lament of Narcissus
Song
FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1584-1616)
Lines on the Tombs in Westminster
GILES FLETCHER (1585?-1623)
From Christ's Triumph After Death:
Nature Awaiteth the Triumph of Christ
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JOHN WEBSTER (1580?-1625?)
Dirge.
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THREE ANONYMOUS LYRICS
I. O waly, waly up the bank,
II. My Love in her attire doth shew her wit,
III. Lady, when I behold the roses sprouting
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1585-1649)
Summons to Love
Human Folly
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Saint John Baptist
GEORGE WITHER (1588-1667)
The Lover's Resolution.
WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)
Man
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke
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On a Rope-Maker Hanged
A Thanksgiving to God for His House
Corinna's Going A-Maying
Upon Prew His Maid
FRANCIS QUARLES (1592-1644)
An Ecstasy.
GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)
Virtue
The Collar
The Quip
The Pulley
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Divine Love
Love's Answer
JAMES SHIRLEY (1596-1666)
The Glories of Our Blood and State
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THOMAS CAREW (1598?-1639?)
Song.
Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
An Epitaph
WILLIAM HABINGTON (1605-1654)
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1606-1668)
ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667)
Drinking
The Wish
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey
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The Flaming Heart upon the Book and Picture of the
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Seraphical Saint Teresa .
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)
To Lucasta on Going to the Wars
To Lucasta on Going Beyond Seas
To Althea from Prison
HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695)
The Retreat
Departed Friends