| Epigram: “Out of the conquered Past” by Arthur Upson |
| Epigram: The Doubt by Queen Elizabeth |
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| Aubade by Sir William Davenant |
| Dawn by John Ford |
| Matin-Song by John Heywood |
| Song to Apollo by John Lyly |
| Hark, Hark! the Lark by William Shakespeare |
| The Love Call—Anonymous |
| Summons to Love by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| On a Fair Morning—Anonymous |
| Stay, O Sweet by John Donne |
| The Night Is near Gone by Alexander Montgomerie |
| Spring’s Welcome by John Lyly |
| Spring by Thomas Nashe |
| Whilst It Is Prime by Edmund Spenser |
| Description of the Spring by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
| Short Sunshine by William Shakespeare |
| Beauty, Sweet Love, Is Like the Morning Dew by Samuel Daniel |
| When Daffodils Begin to Peer by William Shakespeare |
| Fair Is My Love for April’s in Her Face by Robert Greene |
| To Aurora by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling |
| Aurora by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling |
| To Meadows by Robert Herrick |
| The Primrose by Thomas Carew or Robert Herrick |
| To Violets by Robert Herrick |
| Perigot and Willie’s Roundelay by Edmund Spenser |
| The Blossom by William Shakespeare |
| To Blossoms by Robert Herrick |
| The Blossom by John Donne |
| Corinna’s Maying by Robert Herrick |
| On a Bank as I Sat A-fishing by Sir Henry Wotton |
| Phyllida and Corydon by Nicholas Breton |
| Song of the May—Anonymous |
| My Fair A-field—Anonymous |
| The Merry Month of May by Edmund Spenser |
| May-song by Thomas Dekker |
| Love’s Emblems by John Fletcher |
| A Round by William Browne |
| Ralph, the May-lord by Francis Beaumont |
| An Ode by Samuel Daniel |
| Under the Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare |
| Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May by Robert Herrick |
| Philomela by Richard Barnfield |
| A Nosegay by John Reynolds |
| The Shepherd’s Holyday by Ben Jonson |
| To Phyllis, the Fair Shepherdess by Thomas Lodge |
| The Beggars’ Holiday by John Fletcher |
| Young Love by William Shakespeare |
| God Lyæus, Ever Young by John Fletcher |
| What Is Love? by John Fletcher |
| Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion |
| Madrigal—Anonymous |
| Cherry-ripe by Thomas Campion |
| The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe |
| The Nymph’s Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| The Message by Thomas Heywood |
| Corydon’s Song by Thomas Lodge |
| A Ditty by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Wooing Stuff by Sir Philip Sidney |
| The Lover’s Theme by Thomas Lodge |
| Olden Love-making by Nicholas Breton |
| True Love by Thomas Campion |
| The Complete Lover by William Browne |
| His Supposed Mistress by Ben Jonson |
| A Lover’s Question—Anonymous |
| Rosalind’s Madrigal by Thomas Lodge |
| What Wight He Loved by William Browne |
| It Was a Lover and His Lass by William Shakespeare |
| A Roundelay by Michael Drayton |
| Hey, Down a Down—Anonymous |
| Carpe Diem by William Shakespeare |
| Madrigal—Anonymous |
| Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud by Thomas Carew |
| The Kiss by Ben Jonson |
| Gratiana Dancing by Richard Lovelace |
| In Praise of Two—Anonymous |
| Fair and Fair by George Peele |
| A Pastoral of Phyllis and Corydon by Nicholas Breton |
| Radagon in Dianam by Robert Greene |
| Philomela’s Ode That She Sung in Her Arbour by Robert Greene |
| The Nightingale by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Love’s Witchery by Thomas Lodge |
| Now What Is Love? by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| My Lady’s Hand by Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| Cherry-ripe by Robert Herrick |
| A Double Doubting—Anonymous |
| Love Guards the Roses of Thy Lips by Thomas Lodge |
| Lips and Eyes by Thomas Middleton |
| Passions of Desire—Anonymous |
| Song: ‘Who hath his fancy pleasèd’ by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Her Eyes by Nicholas Breton |
| To Dianeme by Robert Herrick |
| Then Love Be Judge—Anonymous |
| To Celia by Ben Jonson |
| A Miracle—Anonymous |
| On the Excellence of His Mistress by Nicholas Breton |
| For Pity, Pretty Eyes, Surcease by Thomas Lodge |
| Bright Star of Beauty by Michael Drayton |
| What Poor Astronomers Are They—Anonymous |
| Willing Bondage—Anonymous |
| What Guile Is This? by Edmund Spenser |
| Upon Julia’s Hair Filled with Dew by Robert Herrick |
| Daphne by John Lyly |
| The Glove by Ben Jonson |
| In Tears Her Triumph by William Shakespeare |
| Simplex Munditiis by Ben Jonson |
| Upon Julia’s Clothes by Robert Herrick |
| Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick |
| On a Girdle by Edmund Waller |
| To the Western Wind by Robert Herrick |
| Phyllis by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| A Dialogue by Christ Church MS. |
| Rosalind by William Shakespeare |
| Promised Weal by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Presents—Anonymous |
| Myra by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke |
| Sweet Robbery by William Shakespeare |
| Doron’s Description of Samela by Robert Greene |
| There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind—Anonymous |
| Heart’s Hiding by A. W. |
| Sirena by Michael Drayton |
| Elizabeth of Bohemia by Sir Henry Wotton |
| A Praise of His Lady by John Heywood |
| Fair Is My Love by Edmund Spenser |
| A Ditty by Edmund Spenser |
| Wishes to His Supposed Mistress by Richard Crashaw |
| Rosaline by Thomas Lodge |
| Damelus’ Song of His Diaphenia by Henry Constable |
| Ubique by Joshua Sylvester |
| Flos Florum by George Wither |
| Fawnia by Robert Greene |
| Since First I Saw Your Face—Anonymous |
| Beauty and Rhyme by William Shakespeare |
| Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? by William Shakespeare |
| Mark When She Smiles by Edmund Spenser |
| Beauty Clear and Fair by John Fletcher |
| Beauty’s Triumph—Anonymous |
| The Unfading Beauty by Thomas Carew |
| Perfect Beauty by Ben Jonson |
| Beauty’s Epitome by William Shakespeare |
| The Awakening—Anonymous |
| Vivamus Mea Lesbia, Atque Amemus by Thomas Campion |
| Vivamus by Ben Jonson |
| Love by George Herbert |
| Mullidor’s Madrigal by Robert Greene |
| A Hymn in Praise of Neptune by Thomas Campion |
| On Spenser’s “Faerie Queene” by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| If All the Pens That Ever Poets Held by Christopher Marlowe |
| Lusty May—Anonymous |
| When Flora Had O’erfret the Firth—Anonymous |
| In Youth Is Pleasure by Robert Wever |
| Come Hither, You That Love by John Fletcher |
| A Nymph’s Passion by Ben Jonson |
| A Madrigal by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling |
| A Welcome by William Browne |
| Phillis and Corydon by Robert Greene |
| The Triumph of Charis by Ben Jonson |
| My Heart Is High Above—Anonymous |
| Cards and Kisses by John Lyly |
| A Conspiracy—Anonymous |
| What the Mighty Love Has Done by John Fletcher |
| Menaphon’s Song by Robert Greene |
| Love’s Keys—Anonymous |
| Love’s Harvesters by George Peele |
| The Doubt Which Ye Misdeem by Edmund Spenser |
| Via Amoris by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Orpheus I Am, Come from the Deeps below by John Fletcher |
| I’ll Never Love Thee More by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose |
| Love’s College by John Lyly |
| Wily Cupid by Henry Chettle |
| Madrigal by Francis Davison |
| “Beware of Love” by Anonymous |
| Uncertainty—Anonymous |
| Dispraise of Love and Lover’s Follies by Francis Davison |
| If Women Could Be Fair and Yet Not Fond by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford |
| Not Mine Own Fears by William Shakespeare |
| Whoever Thinks or Hopes of Love for Love—Anonymous |
| Why Canst Thou Not by John Danyel |
| The Impatient Maid by George Peele |
| The Excuse by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| To Electra by Robert Herrick |
| To Œnone by Robert Herrick |
| The Satyr’s Leave-taking by John Fletcher |
| The Satyr and Clorin by John Fletcher |
| Song: ‘Doubt you to whom my Muse these notes intendeth’ by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Basia by Thomas Campion |
| A Canzon Pastoral in Honour of Her Majesty by Edmund Bolton |
| Phœbe’s Sonnet by Thomas Lodge |
| Love’s Deity by John Donne |
| A True Love by Nicholas Grimald |
| A Rondel of Love by Alexander Scott |
| Love’s Immortality—Anonymous |
| Comfort by William Shakespeare |
| As Ye Came from the Holy Land by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| We Saw and Woo’d Each Other’s Eyes by William Habington |
| Love Omnipresent by Thomas Lodge |
| Lover’s Infiniteness by John Donne |
| The Full Love Is Hushed by William Shakespeare |
| Love Me or Not by Thomas Campion |
| The Love-Letter by William Shakespeare |
| The Silent Lover by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Silence in Love by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| A Devout Lover by Thomas Randolph |
| Devotion—Anonymous |
| Being Your Slave by William Shakespeare |
| Were My Heart As Some Men’s Are by Thomas Campion |
| Love’s Casuistry by William Shakespeare |
| A Lover’s Lullaby by George Gascoigne |
| The Great Adventure by William Browne |
| Silvia by William Shakespeare |
| To Chloe by William Cartwright |
| To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington |
| To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything by Robert Herrick |
| To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace |
| Cupid’s Hiding-place by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Fancy and Desire by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford |
| Corydon’s Supplication by Nicholas Breton |
| My Lady Greensleeves—Anonymous |
| Ulysses and the Siren by Samuel Daniel |
| On the Queen’s Return from the Low Countries by William Cartwright |
| Madrigal: “My love in her attire doth show her wit” by Anonymous |
| Art above Nature: To Julia by Robert Herrick |
| The Stately Dames of Rome Their Pearls Did Wear by George Gascoigne |
| The Bracelet: To Julia by Robert Herrick |
| Upon Julia’s Recovery by Robert Herrick |
| Upon Combing Her Hair by Lord Herbert of Cherbury |
| So Oft As I Her Beauty Do Behold by Edmund Spenser |
| Hey Nonny No!—Anonymous |
| Passions by Thomas Watson |
| A Praise of His Love by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
| Song: ‘Ask me no more where Jove bestows’ by Thomas Carew |
| Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller |
| My Lady’s Presence Makes the Roses Red by Henry Constable |
| On Quicksedge, Wrought with Lovely Eglantine by Robert Tofte |
| My Spotless Love Hovers with Purest Wings by Samuel Daniel |
| Fairest, When by the Rules of Palmistry by William Browne |
| Speak, Thou Fairest Fair by John Fletcher |
| Restore Thy Tresses by Samuel Daniel |
| Do Me Right and Do Me Reason by Thomas Lodge |
| Love Winged My Hopes—Anonymous |
| The Mad Maid’s Song by Robert Herrick |
| Toss Not My Soul, O Love—Anonymous |
| If the Quick Spirits in Your Eye by Thomas Carew |
| To the Blest Evanthe by John Fletcher |
| Brunet and Phyllis by Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| The Invitation by Thomas Dekker |
| Piping Peace by James Shirley |
| The Solitary Shepherd’s Song by Thomas Lodge |
| How Can the Heart Forget Her? by Francis Davison |
| Chloris in the Snow—Anonymous |
| Camella—Anonymous |
| What Delight Can They Enjoy by John Danyel |
| Doron’s Jig by Robert Greene |
| When, Dearest, I but Think of Thee by Sir John Suckling |
| Beauty Bathing by Anthony Munday |
| Song: ‘Follow a shadow, it still flies you’ by Ben Jonson |
| The Shepherd’s Sun by Anthony Munday |
| Against Them Who Lay Unchastity to the Sex of Women by William Habington |
| My Hope a Counsel—Anonymous |
| Faith Everlasting—Anonymous |
| A Doubt of Martyrdom by Sir John Suckling |
| The Crier by Michael Drayton |
| The Constant Lover by Sir John Suckling |
| Sigh No More, Ladies by William Shakespeare |
| Hymn to Venus by John Fletcher |
| Time and Love by William Shakespeare |
| Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover Being upon the Sea by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
| To Lucasta, Going beyond the Seas by Richard Lovelace |
| To Her Sea-faring Lover—Anonymous |
| Song of the Siren by William Browne |
| Wounded I Am—Anonymous |
| The Ways on Earth by Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex |
| Cassandra—Anonymous |
| Love’s Sacrifice by John Fletcher |
| Sonet: ‘Fra bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin’ by Mark Alexander Boyd |
| Waly, Waly, Love Be Bonny—Anonymous |
| The Lover’s Appeal by Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| In Imagine Pertransit Homo by Thomas Campion |
| Thou May’st Repent by Samuel Daniel |
| A Supplication by Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus by Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| The Indifferent by Francis Beaumont |
| The Faithless Shepherdess—Anonymous |
| Madrigal—Anonymous |
| Think’st Thou to Seduce Me Then by Thomas Campion |
| The Message by John Donne |
| My Heart by Oxford Music School MS. |
| To His Forsaken Mistress by Sir Robert Ayton |
| I Loved a Lass by George Wither |
| Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt by William Shakespeare |
| Disdain Me Still—Anonymous |
| Away, Delights! by John Fletcher |
| To His Inconstant Mistress by Thomas Carew |
| To an Inconstant One by Sir Robert Ayton |
| Falsehood by William Cartwright |
| Accurst Be Love by Thomas Lodge |
| The Lover Curseth the Time When First He Fell in Love by Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| O Crudelis Amor by George Peele |
| To His Lute by Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| The Scorner Scorned by George Wither |
| Hence Away, You Sirens by George Wither |
| A Revocation by Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| A Renunciation by Thomas Campion |
| A Renunciation by Henry King |
| O Cruel Love by John Lyly |
| False Love—Anonymous |
| ’Twas I That Paid for All Things—Anonymous |
| The Recall of Love by William Shakespeare |
| Take, O Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare |
| A Recantation—Anonymous |
| The Parting by Michael Drayton |
| Love and Death by Ben Jonson |
| A Dirge: Love Is Dead by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Resolved to Dust by Thomas Watson |
| The Ballad of Dowsabel by Michael Drayton |
| Song: ‘Love is a sickness full of woes’ by Samuel Daniel |
| Song: ‘Go and catch a falling star’ by John Donne |
| Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling |
| Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force by William Shakespeare |
| Doralicia’s Ditty by Robert Greene |
| Familia’s Song by Robert Greene |
| Muses That Sing by George Chapman |
| I Saw the Object by Thomas Watson |
| Yea or Nay by Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| Upon Her Protesting, That Now Having Tried His Sincere Affection, She Loved Him by Francis Davison |
| The Lowest Trees Have Tops by Sir Edward Dyer |
| The Chase by William Rowley |
| No Minute Good to Love—Anonymous |
| Did Not the Heavenly Rhetoric of Thine Eye by William Shakespeare |
| Song: ‘Sweetest love, I do not go’ by John Donne |
| The Strange Passion of a Lover by George Gascoigne |
| A Bequest of His Heart by Alexander Scott |
| Shall I Come, Sweet Love to Thee by Thomas Campion |
| Discreet—Anonymous |
| Song: ‘Only joy! now here you are’ by Sir Philip Sidney |
| The Dream by John Donne |
| Song: ‘O dear life, when shall it be’ by Sir Philip Sidney |
| N’oserez Vous, Mon Bel Ami? by Robert Greene |
| Panglory’s Wooing Song by Giles Fletcher |
| Ode: ‘My only star’ by Francis Davison |
| The One I Would Love by Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| There Is None, O None but You by Thomas Campion |
| Montana the Shepherd, His Love to Aminta by Anthony Munday |
| Canzonet: ‘I pray thee, leave, love me no more’ by Michael Drayton |
| To a Gentlewoman by George Turberville |
| The Gift—Anonymous |
| Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Montanus’ Vow by Thomas Lodge |
| Since Brass, nor Stone by William Shakespeare |
| Stella, Think Not by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Love Unalterable by William Shakespeare |
| Syrinx by John Lyly |
| The Merry Cuckoo, Messenger of Spring by Edmund Spenser |
| To His Book by Edmund Spenser |
| Laura by Thomas Campion |
| Let Others Sing of Knights and Paladines by Samuel Daniel |
| Fair Hebe—Anonymous |
| On Lucy, Countess of Bedford by Ben Jonson |
| Clear Anker, on Whose Silver-sanded Shore by Michael Drayton |
| I Must Not Grieve My Love, Whose Eyes Would Read by Samuel Daniel |
| Down in a Valley, by a Forest’s Side by William Browne |
| Rudely Thou Wrongest My Dear Heart’s Desire by Edmund Spenser |
| Small Comfort Might My Banish’d Hopes Recall by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling |
| And Yet I Cannot Reprehend the Flight by Samuel Daniel |
| Zephyrus Brings the Time That Sweetly Scenteth—Anonymous |
| Here Lies the Blithe Spring by Thomas Dekker |
| Look, Delia, How We Esteem the Half-blown Rose by Samuel Daniel |
| The Rose by William Browne |
| A Rose by Sir Richard Fanshawe |
| Fair Is the Rose—Anonymous |
| Sweet Rose, Whence Is This Hue? by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| The Blushing Rose and Purple Flower by Philip Massinger |
| The Funeral Rites of the Rose by Robert Herrick |
| A Summer’s Day by Michael Drayton |
| The Grasshopper by Richard Lovelace |
| A Summer Day by Alexander Hume |
| Where the Bee Sucks by William Shakespeare |
| The Stream by Christopher Marlowe |
| The Dancing of the Sea by Sir John Davies |
| As When the Time Hath Been by Richard Corbet |
| A Sweet Pastoral by Nicholas Breton |
| The Country’s Recreations—Anonymous |
| Fortunati Nimium by Thomas Campion |
| The Happy Countryman by Nicholas Breton |
| Come, Follow Me, Ye Country Lasses by John Fletcher or William Rowley |
| Country Glee by Thomas Dekker |
| What Pleasure Have Great Princes—Anonymous |
| The Shepherd’s Wife’s Song by Robert Greene |
| An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford to Hasten Him into the Country by Thomas Randolph |
| Epithalamium by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Bridal Song by John Fletcher |
| The Bridal Song by Francis Beaumont |
| A Bridal Song by William Shakespeare or John Fletcher |
| Epithalamium by Edmund Spenser |
| Epithalamion Teratos by George Chapman |
| Epithalamium by Ben Jonson |
| Prothalamion by Edmund Spenser |
| Helen’s Epithalamium by Sir Edward Dyer |
| The Fay’s Marriage by Michael Drayton |
| A Ballad upon a Wedding by Sir John Suckling |
| Sephestia’s Song to Her Child by Robert Greene |
| A Sweet Lullaby by Nicholas Breton |
| A Child’s Grace by Robert Herrick |
| When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy by William Shakespeare |
| Music by William Strode |
| Music to Hear, Why Hear’st Thou Music Sadly? by William Shakespeare |
| Orpheus by William Shakespeare or John Fletcher |
| To Music, to Becalm His Fever by Robert Herrick |
| Let Rhymes No More Disgrace—Anonymous |
| If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree by Richard Barnfield |
| The Bower of Bliss by Edmund Spenser |
| Church Music by George Herbert |
| To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses by Robert Herrick |
| Master Francis Beaumont’s Letter to Ben Jonson by Francis Beaumont |
| His Prayer to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick |
| London Taverns by Thomas Heywood |
| Let the Bells Ring, and Let the Boys Sing by John Fletcher |
| Jolly Good Ale and Old by John Still |
| Pedlar’s Song—Anonymous |
| Come Buy, Come Buy by William Shakespeare |
| Come to the Pedlar by William Shakespeare |
| Phœbus, Farewell! by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Constancy by William Shakespeare |
| Absence by William Shakespeare |
| How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been by William Shakespeare |
| Ode by John Donne |
| Be Your Words Made, Good Sir, of Indian Ware by Sir Philip Sidney |
| To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace |
| Love and Debt by Sir John Suckling |
| Jealousy—Anonymous |
| The Wanton Shepherdess by John Fletcher |
| A Woman Will Have Her Will by John Fletcher |
| Three Poor Mariners by Thomas Ravenscroft |
| To the Virginian Voyage by Michael Drayton |
| For Soldiers by Humphrey Gifford |
| Agincourt by Michael Drayton |
| A Farewell to Arms by George Peele |
| The Soldier Going to the Field by Sir William Davenant |
| The Fairy Life by William Shakespeare |
| Charms by Thomas Campion |
| The Charm by William Browne |
| Cuckoo by William Shakespeare |
| The Ousel-Cock, So Black of Hue by William Shakespeare |
| You Spotted Snakes by William Shakespeare |
| The Holy Well by John Fletcher |
| Nymphidia by Michael Drayton |
| Hymn to Pan by John Fletcher |
| Hymn to Pan by Ben Jonson |
| An Ode to Himself by Ben Jonson |
| Who Grace for Zenith Had by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke |
| Song: ‘Virtue’s branches wither, Virtue pines’ by Thomas Dekker |
| Pari Jugo Dulcis Tractus—Anonymous |
| Man by Sir John Davies |
| The Life of Man by Henry King |
| The Pulley by George Herbert |
| Integer Vitae by Thomas Campion |
| A Fancy by Sir Edward Dyer |
| Epode by Ben Jonson |
| Man’s Medley by George Herbert |
| Scorn Not the Least by Robert Southwell |
| Self-Trial—Anonymous |
| Amantium Irae by Richard Edwardes |
| O Sweet Woods by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Man’s Civil War by Robert Southwell |
| The World by Francis Bacon |
| Go, Nightly Cares—Anonymous |
| Epistle to the Countess of Cumberland by Samuel Daniel |
| Change and Fate by Thomas Campion |
| A Farewell to the Vanities of the World by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| A Farewell to the World by Ben Jonson |
| Care for Thyself—Anonymous |
| Madrigal by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| My Mind a Kingdom by Sir Edward Dyer |
| The Noble Balm by Ben Jonson |
| Wishes for Vin by Richard Corbet |
| The Means to Attain Happy Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
| The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton |
| Risposta—Anonymous |
| Content by Robert Greene |
| Sweet Content by Thomas Dekker |
| Thrice Happy He Who by Some Shady Grove by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Ah, Sweet Content, Where Is Thy Mild Abode? by Barnabe Barnes |
| A Passion of My Lord of Essex by Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex |
| Truth Doth Truth Deserve by Sir Philip Sidney |
| A Song for Priests by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke |
| Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant by Thomas Jordan |
| Crabbèd Age and Youth by William Shakespeare |
| Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell |
| Even Such Is Time by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Time by Jasper Mayne |
| The Merry Heart by William Shakespeare |
| Old Age by Edmund Waller |
| Questions and Answers by Thomas, Lord Vaux |
| No Medicine to Mirth by Francis Beaumont |
| To Be Merry by Robert Herrick |
| Virtue Triumphant by Ben Jonson |
| A Madrigal by Thomas Lodge |
| Whilst Youthful Sports Are Lasting by Thomas Lodge |
| Content and Resolute by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| They That Have Power to Hurt and Will Do None by William Shakespeare |
| The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame by William Shakespeare |
| Loss in Delay by Robert Southwell |
| Lines Written on a Garden Seat by George Gascoigne |
| To Daffodils by Robert Herrick |
| Vanitas Vanitatum by John Webster |
| Whether Men Do Laugh or Weep by Thomas Campion |
| Life, a Bubble by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| O Fly, My Soul by James Shirley |
| All Is Naught—Anonymous |
| Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful Earth by William Shakespeare |
| Happy He—Anonymous |
| Concerning the Honour of Books by John Florio |
| The Book of the World by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| The World, a Hunting by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Virtue by George Herbert |
| A Contrast by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke |
| Eidola by Samuel Daniel |
| A Palinode by Edmund Bolton |
| Sic Transit by Thomas Campion |
| Amiens’ Song by William Shakespeare |
| Embers by William Shakespeare |
| Fidele by William Shakespeare |
| Sad Memorials by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| A Religious Use of Taking Tobacco by Robert Wisdome |
| If Thou Survive by William Shakespeare |
| On Sardanapalus’ Dishonourable Life and Miserable Death by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
| I Fear Not Henceforth Death by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Good Night by Thomas Armstrong |
| Chidiock Tichborne’s Lament by Chidiock Tichborne |
| His Winding-Sheet by Robert Herrick |
| Miserrimus by Robert Greene |
| To a Mistress Dying by Sir William Davenant |
| Thy Bosom Is Endearèd with All Hearts by William Shakespeare |
| When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought by William Shakespeare |
| To His Lute by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Alexis, Here She Stayed, among These Pines by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Sweet Soul, Which in the April of Thy Years by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Forget by William Shakespeare |
| One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser |
| I Know That All beneath the Moon Decays by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Thou Window, Once Which Servèd for a Sphere by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Æglamour’s Lament by Ben Jonson |
| O Crudelis Amor by Thomas Campion |
| Her Autumn by William Shakespeare |
| Like As the Culver, on the Barèd Bough by Edmund Spenser |
| To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old by William Shakespeare |
| Bright Soul of the Sad Year by Thomas Nashe |
| Praise of Ceres by Thomas Heywood |
| Winter by William Shakespeare |
| Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion |
| A Round by Francis Beaumont |
| Come, Sorrow, Come—Anonymous |
| Come, Ye Heavy States of Night—Anonymous |
| O, Sorrow, Sorrow by Thomas Dekker |
| Urns and Odours Bring Away by William Shakespeare or John Fletcher |
| Melancholy by John Fletcher |
| Disconsolate—Anonymous |
| Of Misery by Thomas Howell |
| The Weeper by Richard Crashaw |
| Idle Tears by John Fletcher |
| I Saw My Lady Weep—Anonymous |
| Weep You No More, Sad Fountains—Anonymous |
| To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon by Robert Herrick |
| The Evening Knell by John Fletcher |
| Pan’s Sentinel by John Fletcher |
| Song of Woe by William Shakespeare |
| Country Nights by Richard Corbet |
| Sweet Suffolk Owl by Thomas Vautor |
| Love Hath Eyes by Night—Anonymous |
| The Night-Piece: To Julia by Robert Herrick |
| Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam by William Habington |
| Song: ‘Who is it that, this dark night’ by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Now the Hungry Lion Roars by William Shakespeare |
| To a Nightingale by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| To the Nightingale by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Hymn to Diana by Ben Jonson |
| To Cynthia by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke |
| The Moon by Sir Philip Sidney |
| To Cynthia by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke |
| The Moon by Charles Best |
| Lullaby by Thomas Dekker |
| Come, Sleep by John Fletcher |
| Invocation to Sleep by John Fletcher |
| Care-Charmer Sleep, Son of the Sable Night by Samuel Daniel |
| Hark, All You Ladies by Thomas Campion |
| Sleep, Angry Beauty, Sleep by Thomas Campion |
| To Sleep by Sir Philip Sidney |
| Sleep by Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
| Two Carols. I. Bringing in the Boar’s Head—Anonymous |
| Two Carols. II. In Die Nativitatis—Anonymous |
| A Christmas Carol by Robert Herrick |
| Ceremonies for Christmas by Robert Herrick |
| Our Blessed Lady’s Lullaby by Richard Rowlands |
| To His Saviour, a Child: A Present by a Child by Robert Herrick |
| The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell |
| Verses from the Shepherds’ Hymn by Richard Crashaw |
| The New Year’s Gift by Robert Herrick |
| Saint John Baptist by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa by Richard Crashaw |
| To Saint Katherine by Henry Constable |
| For the Magdalene by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa by Richard Crashaw |
| The Talent by Barnabe Barnes |
| To His Ever-loving God by Robert Herrick |
| A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne |
| The Soul’s Haven by Nicholas Breton |
| A Litany by Phineas Fletcher |
| His Pilgrimage by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Litany to the Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick |
| Forsake Thyself, to Heaven Turn Thee by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke |
| To Music Bent Is My Retired Mind by Thomas Campion |
| A Dialogue by George Herbert |
| Discipline by George Herbert |
| An Ecstasy by Francis Quarles |
| O Come Quickly by Thomas Campion |
| The White Island by Robert Herrick |
| If I Could Shut the Gate against My Thoughts by John Danyel |
| Praise and Prayer by Sir William Davenant |
| The Collar by George Herbert |
| The Flower by George Herbert |
| Guests by Christ Church MS. |
| In Time of Plague by Thomas Nashe |
| Most Glorious Lord of Life, That on This Day by Edmund Spenser |
| Christ Crucified by Richard Crashaw |
| Easter Song by George Herbert |
| Beyond by Lord Herbert of Cherbury |
| The New Jerusalem—Anonymous |
| Epigram by Francis Quarles |
| What Doth It Serve to See Sun’s Burning Face by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| Aspatia’s Song by John Fletcher |
| Ophelia’s Song by William Shakespeare |
| Valediction, Forbidding Mourning by John Donne |
| Death’s Emissaries by James Shirley |
| Death the Leveller by James Shirley |
| Death, Be Not Proud by John Donne |
| Echo’s Dirge for Narcissus by Ben Jonson |
| A Lover’s Dirge by William Shakespeare |
| Robin Hood’s Dirge by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle |
| A Land Dirge by John Webster |
| A Sea Dirge by William Shakespeare |
| The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi by John Webster |
| The Funeral by John Donne |
| On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont |
| The Phœnix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare |
| On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney by Henry Constable |
| From ‘Daphnaïda’ by Edmund Spenser |
| To His Paternal Country by Robert Herrick |
| Three Epitaphs upon the Death of a Rare Child of Six Years Old by Francis Davison |
| Upon a Child That Died by Robert Herrick |
| Another Elegy upon a Child That Died by Robert Herrick |
| Exequy on His Wife by Henry King |
| On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman That Died Suddenly by William Cartwright |
| Of His Dear Son, Gervase by Sir John Beaumont |
| A Part of an Ode by Ben Jonson |
| On the Lady Mary Villiers by Thomas Carew |
| Hero’s Epitaph by William Shakespeare |
| Epitaph on the Countess Dowager of Pembroke by William Browne 1590–c. 1645) or Ben Jonson |
| Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H. by Ben Jonson |
| An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy by Ben Jonson |
| Upon the Death of Sir Albertus Morton’s Wife by Sir Henry Wotton |
| In Obitum M S, X. Maij, 1614 by William Browne |
| The Widow by George Wither |
| An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife by Richard Crashaw |
| Troll the Bowl by Thomas Dekker |
| The Bonny Earl of Murray—Anonymous |
| An Elegy of a Woman’s Heart by Sir Henry Wotton |
| Comfort to a Youth That Had Lost His Love by Robert Herrick |
| Let No Bird Sing by William Browne |
| Calantha’s Dirge by John Ford |
| Luce’s Dirge by Francis Beaumont |
| Penthea’s Dying Song by John Ford |
| An Elegy upon the Death of Doctor Donne by Thomas Carew |
| The Soul’s Errand by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| No Trust in Time by William Drummond of Hawthornden |
| To Time by A. W. |
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| Postscript: Sonnet Prefixed to His Majesty’s Instructions to His Dearest Son, Henry the Prince by King James I. |
