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THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD JOHN SKELTON*** The Bowge of Courte*** PERSPECTIVES: THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY SONNET*** Sir Thomas Wyatt The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor Companion Reading Petrarch: Sonnet 140 Whoso List to Hunt Companion Reading Petrarch: Sonnet 190 My Galley Some Time I Fled the Fire Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Love That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought Th'Assyrians' King, in Peace with Foul Desire Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green The Soote Season Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace Companion Reading Petrarch: Sonnet 164 George Gascoigne Seven Sonnets to Alexander Neville Edmund Spenser Amoretti 1 (Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands) 4 (New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate) 13 (In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth) 22 (This holy season fit to fast and pray) 62 (The weary yeare his race now having run) 65 (The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine) 66 (To all those happy blessings which ye have) 68 (Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day) 75 (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) Sir Philip Sidney Astrophil and Stella 1 (Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show) 3 (Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine) 7 (When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes) 9 (Queen Virtue's court, which some call Stella's face) 10 (Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still) 14 (Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend) 15 (You that do search for every purling spring) 23 (The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness) 24 (Rich fool there be whose base and filthy heart) 31 (With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies) 37 (My mouth doth water and my breast doth swell) 39 (Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace) 45 (Stella oft sees the very face of woe) 47 (What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?) 52 (A strife is grown between Virtue and Love) 60 (When my good Angel guides me to the place) 63 (O grammar-rules, O now your virtues show) 64 (No more, my dear, no more these counsels try) 68 (Stella, the only planet of my light) 71 (Who will in fairest book of Nature know) Second song (Have I caught my heavenly jewel) 74 (I never drank of Aganippe well) Fourth song (Only joy, now here you are) 86 (Alas, whence came this change of looks? If I...) Eighth song (In a grove most rich of shade) Ninth song (Go, my flock, go get you hence) 89 (Now that, of absence, the most irksome night) 90 (Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame) 91 (Stella, while now by honor's cruel might) 97 (Dian, that fain would cheer her friend the Night) 104 (Envious wits, what hath been mine offense) 106 (O absent presence, Stella is not here) 107 (Stella, since thou so right a princess art) 108 (When sorrow (using mine own fire's might)) Richard Barnfield Sonnets from Cynthia 1 (Sporting at fancy, setting light by love) 5 (It is reported of fair Thetis' son) 9 (Diana (on a time) walking the wood) 11 (Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love) 13 (Speak, Echo, tell; how may I call my love?) 19 (Ah no; nor I myself: though my pure love) Michael Drayton Sonnet 12 (To nothing fitter can I thee compare) Sonnet 61 (Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part) SIR THOMAS WYATT They Flee from Me My Lute, Awake! Tagus, Farewell Forget Not Yet Blame Not My Lute Lucks, My Fair Falcon, and Your Fellows All Stand Whoso List Mine Own John Poyns HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY So Cruel Prison London, Hast Thou Accused Me Wyatt Resteth Here My Radcliffe, When Thy Reckless Youth Offends SIR THOMAS MORE Utopia Response*** Sir Francis Bacon: from New Atlantis*** WILLIAM BALDWIN*** Beware the Cat *** EDMUND SPENSER*** The Faerie Queene *** The Sixthe Booke of the Faerie Queene *** The Two Cantos of Mutabilitie*** SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The Apology for Poetry ISABELLA WHITNEY The Admonition by the Author A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author The Manner of Her Will MARY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE Psalm 71: In Te Domini Speravi (On thee my trust is grounded) Psalm 121: Levavi Oculos (Unto the hills, I now will bend) The Doleful Lay of Clorinda PERSPECTIVES: EARLY MODERN BOOKS*** Ranulf Higden from Polychronicon John Foxe*** from Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days*** The Geneva Bible Thomas Hariot*** from The True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Part of America Now Called Virginia** John Gerard from The Herball or Generall historie of plantes Geoffrey Whitney The Phoenix Robert Fludd from Utriusque cosmic, maioris scilicet et minoris, metaphysica atque technica historia Francis Bacon from Advancement of Learning English Handwriting Samples** Frontispiece to A Certain Relation of the Hog-faced Gentlewoman ELIZABETH I Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock Written on a Wall at Woodstock The Doubt of Future Foes On Monsieur's Departure Speeches On Marriage On Mary, Queen of Scots On Mary's Execution To the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish Armada The Golden Speech AEMILIA LANYER The Description of Cookham CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Hero and Leander The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Response C.S. Lewis: from The Screwtape Letters SIR WALTER RALEIGH Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk To the Queen On the Life of Man The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself As You Came from the Holy Land from The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia PERSPECTIVES: ENGLAND, BRITAIN, AND THE WORLD*** Fynes Moryson*** from An Itenerary, Obseravations on the Ottomon Empire*** Fynes Moryson*** from An Itenerary, Obeservations of Italy and Ireland*** Edmund Spenser*** from A View of the State of Ireland*** Thomas Hariot from A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia John Smith from General History of Virginia and the Summer Isles WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnets 1 (From fairest creatures we desire increase) 12 (When I do count the clock that tells the time) 15 (When I consider every thing that grows) 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day) 20 (A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted) 29 (When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes) 30 (When to the sessions of sweet silent thought) 31 (Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts) 33 (Full many a glorious morning have I seen) 35 (No more be grieved at that which thou hast done) 55 (Not marble nor the gilded monuments) 60 (Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore) 71 (No longer mourn for me when I am dead) 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold) 80 (O, how I faint when I of you do write) 86 (Was it the proud full sail of his great verse) 87 (Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing) 93 (So shall I live, supposing thou art true) 94 (They that have pow'r to hurt, and will do none) 104 (To me, fair friend, you never can be old) 106 (When in the chronicle of wasted time) 107 (Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul) 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds) 123 (No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change) 124 (If my dear love were but the child of state) 126 (O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power) 128 (How oft, when thou my music play'st) 129 (The expense of spirit in a waste of shame) 130 (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun) 138 (When my love swears that she is made of truth) 144 (Two loves I have, of comfort and despair) 152 (In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn) Twelfth Night; or, What You Will Othello*** King Lear*** PERSPECTIVES: TRACTS ON WOMEN AND GENDER Joseph Swetnam from The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women Rachel Speght from A Muzzle for Melastomus Ester Sowernam from Ester Hath Hanged Haman Hic Mulier and Haec-Vir from Hic Mulier; or, The Man-Woman from Haec-Vir; or, The Womanish-Man BEN JONSON The Alchemist On Something, That Walks Somewhere On My First Daughter To John Donne On My First Son Inviting a Friend to Supper To Penshurst Song to Celia Queen and Huntress To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us To the Immortal Memory, and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue JOHN DONNE The Good Morrow Song (Go, and catch a falling star) The Undertaking The Sun Rising The Indifferent The Canonization Air and Angels Break of Day A Valediction: of Weeping Love's Alchemy The Flea The Bait The Apparition A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning The Ecstasy The Funeral The Relic Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed Holy Sonnets 1 (As due by many titles I resign) 2 (Oh my black soul! Now thou art summoned) 3 (This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint) 4 (At the round earth's imagined corners, blow) 5 (If poisonous minerals, and if that tree) 6 (Death be not proud, though some have called thee) 7 (Spit in my face ye Jews, and pierce my side) 8 (Why are we by all creatures waited on?) 9 (What if this present were the world's last night?) 10 (Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you) 11 (Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest) 12 (Father, part of his double interest) Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions [For whom the bell tolls] LADY MARY WROTH Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 1 (When night's black mantle could most darkness prove) 5 (Can pleasing sight misfortune ever bring?) 16 (Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers) 17 (Truly poor Night thou welcome art to me) 25 (Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun) 26 (When everyone to pleasing pastime hies) 28 Song (Sweetest love, return again) 39 (Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast) 40 (False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill) 48 (If ever Love had force in human breast?) 55 (How like a fire does love increase in me) 68 (My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast) 74 Song (Love a child is ever crying) A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love 77 (In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?) 82 (He may our profit and our tutor prove) 83 (How blessed be they then, who his favors prove) 84 ( He that shuns love does love himself the less) 103 (My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest) ROBERT HERRICK Hesperides The Argument of His Book To His Book Another (To read my book the virgin shy) Another (Who with thy leaves shall wipe at need) To the Sour Reader When He Would Have His Verses Read Delight in Disorder Corinna's Going A-Maying To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home His Prayer to Ben Jonson Upon Julia's Clothes Upon His Spaniel Tracie The Dream (Me thought (last night) Love in an anger came) The Dream (By dream I saw one of the three) The Vine The Vision Discontents in Devon To Dean-Bourn, a Rude River in Devon Upon Scobble: Epigram The Christian Militant To His Tomb-Maker Upon Himself Being Buried His Last Request to Julia The Pillar of Fame His Noble Numbers His Prayer for Absolution To His Sweet Saviour To God, on His Sickness GEORGE HERBERT The Altar Redemption Easter Easter Wings Affliction (1) Prayer (1) Jordan (1) Church Monuments The Windows Denial Virtue Man Jordan (2) Time The Collar The Pulley The Forerunners Love (3) RICHARD LOVELACE To Lucasta, Going to the Wars The Grasshopper To Althea, from Prison Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris HENRY VAUGHAN Regeneration The Retreat Silence, and Stealth of Days The World They Are All Gone into the World of Light! The Night ANDREW MARVELL The Coronet Bermudas The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn To His Coy Mistress The Definition of Love The Mower Against Gardens The Mower's Song The Garden An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland KATHERINE PHILIPS Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal Upon the Double Murder of King Charles On the Third of September, 1651 To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne Owen To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at Parting To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship The World PERSPECTIVES: THE CIVIL WAR, OR THE WARS OF THREE KINGDOMS John Gauden from Eikon Basilike John Milton from Eikonoklastes Oliver Cromwell from Letters from Ireland John O'Dwyer of the Glenn The Story of Alexander Agnew; or, Jock of Broad Scotland JOHN MILTON L'Allegro Il Penseroso Lycidas How Soon Hath Time On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament To the Lord General Cromwell On the Late Massacre in Piedmont When I Consider How My Light Is Spent Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint from Areopagitica Paradise Lost Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 Book 6 Book 7 Book 8 Book 9 Book 10 Book 11 Book 12 Responses Mary Wollstonecraft: from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman William Blake: A Poison Tree
