An ABC (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
Incipit carmen secundum ordinem litterarum alphabeti.Almighty and al merciable queene,To whom that al this world fleeth for socour,To have relees ...
Poems about heere (21 Poems)
The Heir of Linne (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Part the FirstLithe and listen, gentlemen,To sing a song I will beginne:It is of a lord of faire Scotland,Which was ...
A Fancy (Edward Dyer Poems)
Hee that his mirth hath loste, Whose comfort is dismaid,Whose hope is vaine, whose faith is scorned, Whose trust is ...
The Sheepheard Arsileus Replie to Syrenus Song (Bartholomew Young Poems)
Let that time a thousand moneths endure,Which brings from heaven the sweet and silver showers,And joys the earth (of comfort ...
To The Lady Katherine (Aemilia Lanyer Poems)
Although great Lady. it may seeme right strangeThat I a stranger should presume thus farre,To write to you: yet as ...
The Legend of Sir Guy (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
A pleasant song of the valiant deeds of chivalry atchieved by that noble knight Sir Guy of Warwick, who, for ...
The Boy and the Mantle, from King Arthur (Anonymous British Poems)
In the third day of May,To Carleile did comeA kind curteous child, That cold much of wisdome.A kirtle and a ...
Satyre Preludium (Edward Guilpin Poems)
Fie on these Lydian tunes which blunt our sprightsAnd turne our gallants to Hermaphrodites:Giue me a Doricke touch, whose Semphony,And ...
The Canterbury Tales; THE PERSOUNS TALE (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
Part 30 PROLOGUE TO THE PERSOUNS TALE Heere folweth the Prologe of ...
King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
I read that once in AffricaA princely wight did raine,Who had to name Cophetua, As poets they did faine.From natures ...
Old Robin of Portingale (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Let the mayors daughter of Lin, God wott,He chose her to his wife,And thought with her to have lived in ...
The Canterbury Tales; THE SHIPMANNES TALE (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
Part 8 PROLOGUE TO THE SHIPMANNES TALE Here endith the man of ...
The Sheepheard Arsilius, His Song to His Rebeck (Bartholomew Young Poems)
Now Love and Fortune turne to me againe, And now each one enforceth and assures ...
Another of the Same, by Firmius the Sheepheard (Bartholomew Young Poems)
If that the gentle winde dooth moove the leaves with pleasant sound,If that the ...
His Last Replie (Bartholomew Young Poems)
Since thou to me wert so unkinde, My selfe I never loved, for I could not love him in ...
Eclogues (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Eclogue the First. Whanne Englonde, smeethynge from her lethal wounde, From her galled necke dyd twytte the chayne awaie, Kennynge ...
On The Death Of Mrs. Mary Neudham (William Strode Poems)
As sinn makes gross the soule and thickens it To fleshy dulness, so the spotless white Of virgin pureness made ...
On The Death Of Sir Tho: Peltham (William Strode Poems)
Meerly for man's death to mourne Were to repine that man was borne. When weake old age doth fall asleepe ...
Remembrances Of The Renowned Knight, Sir Rowland Cotton, Of Bellaport In Shropshire, Concerning (William Strode Poems)
Renowned Champion full of wrestling Art, And made for victory in every part, Whose active Limbes, oyl'd Tongue, and vertuous ...
Epithalamion (Edmund Spenser Poems)
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
Poem 4 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
YE Nymphes of Mulla which with carefull heed, The siluer scaly trouts doe tend full well, and greedy pikes which ...