The complaynt of a sinner (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Like as the theefe in prison cast, With wofull wayling mones,When hope of pardon cleane is past, And sighes with dolefull grones:So ...
Poems about woulde (21 Poems)
A Newyeeres gift to Maister G. R. (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
The curtesies yee haue to me profest,The bounty great that doth from you proceed,Woulde make me deeme that day to ...
Of John And Jone. (Nicholas Bacon Poems)
Of a smale cause grewe noe smale stryfe Twene John and Jone then manne and wyfe. John called Jone nyse because that ...
Perilles Followeinge Fortune By Enuye And Malice (Nicholas Bacon Poems)
Like as the tree of frute moste puer To save from spoyle requires moste cuer, And as the grape of sweteste taste The ...
Reliques Of Auncient Poetrie. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Judge Jefferies.JUDGE JEFFERIES was as juste a judge,As anie judge could be,Who hanged two hundred honeste men,On Tyburne's fatall tree.He ...
Agaynste Inconstancye (Nicholas Bacon Poems)
The marchantes wishe the Lawyers trayne For hasarde smale and certeine gayne. The Lawyer dulled with sute and strife Wisshethe to lyue the ...
Agaynste Ambityon (Nicholas Bacon Poems)
Whie woulde the Knighte a Barron bee? Whie woulde the Barron an Earles degree? Whie woulde the Earle a Duke become? Whie woulde ...
Of A Snowe Balle. (Nicholas Bacon Poems)
A wanton wenche vppon a colde daye With Snowe balles prouoked me to playe: But theis snowe balles soe hette my desyer That ...
Of A Louer (Nicholas Bacon Poems)
Beholde myne eyes as fountaynes springeinge, Beholde my harte as brymstone burninge: Myne eyes to water my corps woulde turne, My harte to ...
Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Part the FirstMery it was in the grene forestAmonge the leves grene,Wheras men hunt east and west,Wyth bowes and arrowes ...
The Shepheardes Calender: Februarie (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Februarie: ?gloga Secunda. CVDDIE & THENOT.CVDDIE.AH for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage, These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage? The keene ...
The Shepheardes Calender: May (Edmund Spenser Poems)
May: AEgloga Quinta. Palinode & Piers. Palinode.IS not thilke the mery moneth of May, When loue lads masken in fresh ...
King Edward IV. And The Tanner of Tamworth (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
In summer time, when leaves grow greene,And blossoms bedecke the tree,King Edward wolde a hunting ryde,Some pastime for to see.With ...
Love-Despondency (Edward Dyer Poems)
Devyde my tymes and rate my wretched howresFrom days to months, fro months to many yeers,And than compare my sweetest ...
I would and I would not (Edward Dyer Poems)
I woulde it were not as it isOr that I cared not yea or no;I woulde I thoughte it not ...
Lines from Love Letters (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
(i)De Amico ad AmicamA Celuy que pluys eyme en mounde,Of alle tho that I have foundeCarissima,Saluz od treye amour,With grace ...
Eclogues (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Eclogue the First. Whanne Englonde, smeethynge from her lethal wounde, From her galled necke dyd twytte the chayne awaie, Kennynge ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...