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- Close sectionPlays
- Frontispiece
- THE EPISTLE DEDICATORIE
- NOTE ON THE TREATMENT ADOPTED IN THE TEXT OF THE PLAYS
- Close sectionENDIMION
- Close sectionMIDAS
- Close sectionMOTHER BOMBIE
- Close sectionTHE WOMAN IN THE MOONE
- Close sectionLOVES METAMORPHOSIS
- Close sectionTHE MAYDES METAMORPHOSIS
- Close sectionAnti-Martinist work
- Close sectionPoems (Doubtful)
- POEMS (DOUBTFUL)
- LIST OF SOURCES WHENCE THE POEMS ARE TAKEN.
- INTRODUCTION.
- Close sectionI. Early Autobiographical
- 1 When I behold the trees in the earths fair livery clothed
- 2 No place commends the man unworthy praise.
- 3 How can he rule well in a commonwealth
- 4 What liquor first the earthen pot does take
- 5 O loath that Love whose final aim is Lust
- 6 The brainsick race that wanton youth ensues
- 7 I fear not death, fear is more pain
- 8 I will not soar aloft the sky
- 9 Counsel which afterward is sought
- 10 Soar I will not, in flight the ground I'll see
- 11 If all the Earth were paper white
- 12 The lofty trees whose branches make sweet shade
- 13 A Ditty, wherein is contained diverse good and necessary documents
- 14 A Ditty, wherein the brevity of man's life is described, how soon his
- 15 A Glass for all Men to behold themselves in; especially such proud
- Close sectionII. Early Love-Poems
- Close sectionIII. Four Songs
- Close sectionIV. Later Love-Poems
- 25 (From William Byrd's Psalmes, Sonnets, & songs, 1588: No. 25.)
- 26 When younglings first on Cupid fix their sight,
- 27 When I was otherwise then now I am,
- 28 A Gentlewoman yt married a young Gent who after
- 29 Feed still thy self, thou fondling with belief,
- 30 Those eyes which set my fancy on a fire,
- 31 Those eyes that holds the hand of every hart,
- 32 By wrack late driven on shore, from Cupids Care,
- 33 A Counterlove.
- 34 The Description of Jealousy
- 35 Short is my rest whose toil is overlong,
- 36 Praised be Dianas fair and harmless light,
- 37 My thoughts are winged with hopes, my hopes with love,
- 38 A Nymphs disdain of Love.
- 39 The Nymphs reply to the Shepherd
- 40 Another of the same nature, made since.
- 411 Natural comparisons with perfect love
- 412 Compare the Bramble with the Cedar tree,
- 42 Praise blindness eyes, for seeing is deceit,
- 43 If floods of tears could cleanse my follies past,
- 44 Farewell too fair, too chaste but too too cruel,
- 45 A Womans looks
- 46 Fond wanton youths make love a God
- 47 Once I did love and yet I live,
- 48 Where lingering fear did once possess the heart,
- 49 Hero care not though they pry,
- 50 When love on time and measure make his ground,
- 51 Women, what are they, changing weather-cocks,
- 52 If fathers knew but how to leave
- 53 The fountains smoke, and yet no flames they show
- Close sectionV. Later Autobiographical
- 54 Where wards are weak, and foes encountering strong:
- 55 All you who love or fortune hath betrayed,
- 56 Come heavy sleep, you Image of true death:
- 57 Concerning his suit & attendance at the Court.
- 58 The thundering God whose all-embracing power
- 59 <The Bee.>
- 60 In Thesaly, there Asses fine are kept,
- 61 As oft we see before a sudden shower,
- 62 Princes be fortunes children, & with them
- 63 Over this brooks, trusting to ease mine eyes,
- 64 Why <the rest of the line wanting in MS.>
- 65 Sine m? will say there is a kind of muse
- 66 Lie down poor heart and die a while for grief,
- 67 Life is a Poets fable,
- VI Epigrams
- Close section End Matter
