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    The Renaissance Poets
    The Renaissance Poets
    The Renaissance Poets
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    The Renaissance Poets

    By Abraham Cowley

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    For our Renaissance Poets we start with the coming to the throne of Henry 8th in 1519. From then until its end, with the crumbling of the English Republic under Cromwell, in 1659 these poets capture a time when the World as they knew it then underwent tumultuous change. Within their ranks were Spenser, Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson, Marvell, Drayton. It is a list rich and sumptuous, long and gloried. In this volume we bring all these poets and others together to illustrate this poetical canon

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateJan 27, 2014
    ISBN9781783947829
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      The Renaissance Poets - Abraham Cowley

      The Renaissance Poets – Volume 2

      For our Renaissance Poets we start with the coming to the throne of Henry 8th in 1519.  From then until its end, with the crumbling of the English Republic under Cromwell, in 1659 these poets capture a time when the World as they knew it then underwent tumultuous change.  Within their ranks were such luminaries as Spenser, Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson, Marvell, Drayton.  It is a list rich and sumptuous, long and gloried.  In these volumes we bring all these poets and others together to illustrate this poetical canon.

      Index Of Poems

      Henry VIII - Wherto Shuld I Expresse

      John Milton - When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

      Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury - Sonnet of Black Beauty

      Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury - Another Sonnet To Black Itself

      John Donne - The Storm

      Sir Thomas Wyatt - My Lute Awake

      George Chapman – Courage

      George Chapman - The Shadow Of Night

      Richard Lovelace – Depose Your Finger Of That Ring

      Richard Lovelace – To Althea

      John Donne – Love’s Diet

      Michael Drayton - Sonnet II - My Heart Was Slain

      Michael Drayton - Sonnet LXI - Since There's No Help

      Katherine Phillips - A Retir'd Friendship

      George Herbert – Faith

      Henry Vaughan - Friends Departed

      Robert Herrick - An Ode Of The Birth Of Our Saviour

      Thomas Nashe - A Litany In Time Of Plague

      Edmund Spenser - The Visions Of Petrarch

      William Davenant - Praise And Prayer

      William Davenant - Ladies In Arms

      William Shakespeare – Sonnet 8 - Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly?

      William Shakespeare - Sonnet 12 - When I Do Count The Clock That Tells The Time,

      William Shakespeare - Sonnet 66 - Tired With All These, For Restful Death I Cry,

      William Shakespeare - Sonnet 97 - How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been

      Abraham Cowley - A Supplication

      Ben Jonson - His Excuse For Loving

      John Skelton - A Prayer To The Father Of Heaven

      Mary Wroth - Sonnet VI

      Mary Wroth - Sonnet XII

      Thomas Wyatt – The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbour

      Thomas Wyatt - They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek

      Mary Herbert - The Dolefull Lay of Clorinda

      Edward De Vere – Echo Verses

      Thomas Lodge - Love Is a Sickness

      Anthony Munday – I Serve A Misstress

      Sir John Davies – A Lover Out Of Fashion

      Henry Howard – The Forsaken Lover Describeth And Forsaketh Love

      Isabella Whitney - To Her Unconstant Lover

      Richard Lovelace - Female Glory

      Richard Barnfield - Cherry-lipped Adonis...

      Margaret Cavendish - Of Aire.

      Margaret Cavendish - The Infinites of Matter

      Thomas Lodge - Rosaline

      Richard Crashaw – Satan

      George Herbert - The Elixir

      Amelia Lanyer - To The Queenes Most Excellent Majestie

      John Lyly - Cupid and My Campaspe

      Ben Jonson - Begging Another

      Ben Jonson - In The Ember Days Of My Last Free Summer

      Christopher Marlowe - Who Ever Loved That Loved Not at First Sight?

      Christopher Marlowe - Lament for Zenocrate

      Fulke Greville - Absence, The Noble Truce

      George Herbert - The Thanksgiving

      Abraham Cowley - The Wish

      Richard Barnfield - An Ode

      Ben Jonson - That Women Are But Men's Shadows

      Andrew Marvell - A Dialogue Between The Soul and Body

      Robert Southwell - The Burning Babe

      Sidney Godolphin - No More Unto My Thoughts Appear

      Sir Phillip Sidney - Sonnet 53 - In Martial Sports

      Sir Thomas Wyatt - How By A Kiss He Found By Both His Life And Death

      Sir Walter Raleigh - Farewell To The Court

      Thomas Campion - Follow Thy Fair Sun

      Samuel Daniel - Sonnet LIX: Unhappy Pen

      Thomas Carew - Ask Me No More

      John Milton - On Time

      Queen Elizabeth I - The Doubt of Future Foes

      Henry VIII - Wherto Shuld I Expresse

      Wherto shuld I expresse

      My inward hevynes?

      No myrth can make me fayn

      Tyl that we mete agayne.

      Do way, dere hart, not so.

      Let no thought yow dysmaye!

      Thow ye now parte me fro,

      We shall mete when we may.

      When I remembyr me

      Of your most gentyll mynde,

      It may in no wyse agre

      That I shuld be unkynde.

      The daise delectable,

      The violett wan and blo;

      Ye ar not varyable;

      I love you and no mo.

      I make you fast and sure;

      It ys to me gret payne

      Thus longe to endure,

      Tyll that we mete agayne.

      John Milton - When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

      When I consider how my light is spent,

      Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,

      And that one Talent

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