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• Rosalind's Madrigal

  Love in my bosom like a bee
  Doth suck his sweet:
  Now with his wings he plays with me, …

  Thomas Lodge

• Phillis 1

  My Phillis hath the morning sun
  At first to look upon her;
  And Phillis hath morn-waking birds …

  Thomas Lodge

• Phillis 2

  Love guards the roses of thy lips
  And flies about them like a bee;
  If I approach he forward skips, …

  Thomas Lodge

• Rosaline

  Like to the clear in highest sphere
  Where all imperial glory shines,
  Of selfsame colour is her hair …

  Thomas Lodge

• Fair and Fair

  Oenone.fair and fair, and twice so fair,
  As fair as any may be;
  The fairest shepherd on our green, …

  George Peele

• A Farewell to Arms

  His golden locks Time hath to silver turn'd;
  O Time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing!
  His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurn'd, …

  George Peele

• Samela

  Like to Diana in her summer weed,
  Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye,
  Goes fair Samela. …

  Robert Greene

• Fawnia

  Ah! were she pitiful as she is fair,
  Or but as mild as she is seeming so,
  Then were my hopes greater than my despair, …

  Robert Greene

• Sephestia's Lullaby

  Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
  When thou art old there 's grief enough for thee.
  Mother's wag, pretty boy, …

  Robert Greene

• A Summer Day

  O PERFECT Light, which shaid away
  The darkness from the light,
  And set a ruler o'er the day, …

  Alexander Hume

• Bridal Song

  O COME, soft rest of cares! come, Night!
  Come, naked Virtue's only tire,
  The reapèd harvest of the light …

  George Chapman

• Times go by Turns

  The loppèd tree in time may grow again,
  Most naked plants renew both fruit and flower;
  The sorest wight may find release of pain, …

  Robert Southwell

• The Burning Babe

  As I in hoary winter's night
  Stood shivering in the snow,
  Surprised I was with sudden heat …

  Robert Southwell

• On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney

  Give pardon, blessèd soul, to my bold cries,
  If they, importune, interrupt thy song,
  Which now with joyful notes thou sing'st among …

  Henry Constable

• Ulysses and the Siren

  Siren.come, worthy Greek! Ulysses, come,
  Possess these shores with me:
  The winds and seas are troublesome, …

  Samuel Daniel

• Beauty, Time, and Love

  I
  FAIR is my Love and cruel as she 's fair;
  Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes are sunny. …

  Samuel Daniel

• Sonet

  Fra bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin,
  Ourhailit with my feeble fantasie;
  Like til a leaf that fallis from a tree, …

  Mark Alexander Boyd

• Ubique

  Were I as base as is the lowly plain,
  And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,
  Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain, …

  Joshua Sylvester

• The Parting

  Since there 's no help, come let us kiss and part—
  Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;
  And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, …

  Michael Drayton

• Sirena

  Near to the silver Trent
  SIRENA dwelleth;
  She to whom Nature lent …

  Michael Drayton

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