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    The Elizabethan Poets
    The Elizabethan Poets
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    The Elizabethan Poets

    By John Donne

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    Queen Elizabeth the First reigned from 1558 until 1603 and this first Elizabethan age is seen as a golden age not only of commerce, ambitions of empire but also of culture. Of poetry, painting and drama. In this volume of poetry we have collected together some of the finest examples from its illustrious creators spanning this important time in British history. From Shakespeare and Marlowe to Donne, Jonson and Spenser our wordsmiths muse and clarify their thoughts into beautiful, evocative verse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateJan 27, 2014
    ISBN9781783947843

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      The Elizabethan Poets - John Donne

      The Elizabethan Poets

      Queen Elizabeth the First reigned from 1558 until 1603 and this first Elizabethan age is seen as a golden age not only of commerce, ambitions of empire but also of culture. Of poetry, painting and drama.

      In this volume of poetry we have collected together some of the finest examples from its illustrious creators spanning this important time in British history. 

      From Shakespeare and Marlowe to Donne, Jonson and Spenser our wordsmiths muse and clarify their thoughts into beautiful, evocative verse.

      Index Of Poems

      The Life of Man by Sir Francis Bacon

      Sing a New Song by Sir Francis Bacon

      Guiltless Heart by Sir Francis Bacon

      On The Tombs In Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont

      Lay A Garland On My Hearse by Francis Beaumont

      The Author To The Reader by Francis Beaumont

      Pretty Twinkling Starry Eyes by Nicholas Breton 

      A Sweet Lullaby by Nicholas Breton

      Humility by Richard Brome

      The Merry Beggars by Richard Brome

      Follow Thy Fair Sun by Thomas Campion

      Amaryllis  by Thomas Campion

      Opinion by George Chapman

      Courage by George Chapman

      Beauty, Time, and Love. Sonnets by Samuel Daniel.

      Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning

      by Samuel Daniel

      The Dignity of Man by Sir John Davies

      Patience by Thomas Dekker

      Art Thou Poor by Thomas Dekker

      The Noble Spanish Soldier by Thomas Dekker

      A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

      The Flea by John Dunne

      Go and Catch a Falling Star by John Donne

      The Sun Rising by John Donne

      The Primrose by John Donne

      Good Morrow by John Donne

      The Expiration by John Donne

      Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud by John Donne

      Nativity by John Donne

      The Storme by John Donne

      The Relic by John Donne

      Witchcraft By A Picture by John Donne

      That Time And Absence Proves Rather Helps Than Hurts To Loves

      by John Donne

      The Ballad Of Agincourt by Michael Drayton

      How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things by Michael Drayton

      Sonnet III: Taking My Pen by Michael Drayton

      To A Lady Asking Him How Long He Would Love her by George Etherege

      Heaven by Edward Fairfax

      Orpheus I Am, Come From The Deeps Below by John Fletcher

      Care-charming Sleep by John Fletcher

      Love's Emblems by John Fletcher

      A Bridal Song by John Ford

      Dawn by John Ford

      And If I Did, What Then? By George Gascoigne

      At Beauty's Bar As I Did Stand by George Gascoigne

      Fawnia by Robert Greene

      Samela by Robert Greene

      The World That All Contains by Fulke Greville

      Mustapha by Fulke Greville

      Caelica: Sonnet 22 by Fulke Greville

      Beauty by Sir John Harrington

      Slander by Sir John Harrington

      Ingratitude by Sir John Harrington

      Epigrams: On My First Son by Ben Jonson

      Song To Celia by Ben Jonson

      A Farewell To The World by Ben Jonson

      Of Life And Death by Ben Jonson

      Queen And Huntress by Ben Jonson

      Yet Might She Love Me by Thomas Kyd

      Vulcan’s Song by John Lyly

      Cards And Kisses by John Lyly

      The Face That Launch'd A Thousand Ships by Christopher Marlowe

      The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe

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

      I Must Have Wanton Poets by Christopher Marlowe

      Accurs'd Be He That First Invented War by Christopher Marlowe

      Death Invoked by Philip Massinger

      The Forest’s Queen by Philip Massinger

      How Near Am I To Happiness by Thomas Middleton

      A Litany in Time of Plague by Thomas Nashe

      Spring, The Sweet Spring by Thomas Nashe

      Adieu, Farewell Earth’s Bliss by Thomas Nashe

      Bethsabe Bathing by George Peele

      Oenone’s Complaint by George Peele

      Ah, Silly Pug, Wert Thou So Sore Afraid by Queen Elizabeth I

      In Defiance of Fortune by Queen Elizabeth I

      Oh, Fortune! by Queen Elizabeth I

      On Monsieur's Departure by Queen Elizabeth I

      The Doubt Of Future Foes by Queen Elizabeth I

      When I Was Fair And Young by Queen Elizabeth I

      Written In Her French Psalter by Queen Elizabeth I

      Written On A Wall At Woodstock by Queen Elizabeth I

      Written With A Diamond On Her Window At Woodstock by Queen Elizabeth I

      Life by Sir Walter Raleigh

      Farewell To The Court by Sir Walter Raleigh

      The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage by Sir Walter Raleigh

      Full Fathom Five by William Shakespeare

      Carpe Diem by Willaim Shakespeare

      A Lover's Complaint by Willaim Shakespeare

      Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare

      Sonnet 123: No, Time, Thou Shalt Not Boast That I do Change by William Shakespeare

      Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth by William Shakespeare

      Death’s Subtle Ways by James Shirley

      The Fair Felon by James Shirley

      Come Sleep, O Sleep! The Certain Knot Of Peace by Sir Philip Sidney

      Leave Me, O Love Which Reachest But To Dust by Sir Philip Sidney

      Sonnet 35: What May Words Say by Sir Philip Sidney

      Sonnet 100: Oh Tears, No Tears by Sir Philip Sidney

      Ice and Fire by Edmund Spenser

      So Let Us Love by Edmund Spenser

      Visions Of The Worlds Vanitie by Edmund Spenser

      A Dirge by John Webster

      The Madman's Song by John Webster

      Honourable Employment by John Webster

      The Life of Man by Sir Francis Bacon

      The world's a bubble; and the life of man less than a span.

      In his conception wretched; from the womb so to the tomb:

      Curst from the cradle, and brought up to years, with cares and fears.

      Who then to frail mortality shall trust,

      But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

      Yet, since with sorrow here we live oppress'd, what life is best?

      Courts are but only superficial schools to dandle fools:

      The rural parts are turn'd into a den of savage men:

      And where's a city from all vice so free,

      But may be term'd the worst of all the three?

      Domestic cares afflict the husband's bed, or pains his head:

      Those that live single, take it for a curse, or do things worse:

      Some would have children; those that have them none; or wish them gone.

      What is it then to have no wife, but single thralldom or

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