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    The Renaissance Poets
    The Renaissance Poets
    The Renaissance Poets
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    The Renaissance Poets

    By Abraham Cowley

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    For our Renaissance Poets we start with the coming to the throne of Henry 8th in 1519. From then until its end, with the crumbling of the English Republic under Cromwell, in 1659 these poets capture a time when the World as they knew it then underwent tumultuous change. Within their ranks were Spenser, Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson, Marvell, Drayton. It is a list rich and sumptuous, long and gloried. In this volume we bring all these poets and others together to illustrate this poetical canon

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    Release dateJan 27, 2014
    ISBN9781783947812
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      The Renaissance Poets - Abraham Cowley

      The Renaissance Poets – Volume 1

      For our Renaissance Poets we start with the coming to the throne of Henry 8th in 1519.  From then until its end, with the crumbling of the English Republic under Cromwell, in 1659 these poets capture a time when the World as they knew it then underwent tumultuous change.  Within their ranks were such luminaries as Spenser, Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson, Marvell, Drayton.  It is a list rich and sumptuous, long and gloried.  In these volumes we bring all these poets and others together to illustrate this poetical canon.

      Index Of Poems

      Henry VIII, King of England - Passtime With Good Company

      John Donne - No Man Is An Island

      John Milton - On Shakespeare

      William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day

      Christopher Marlowe - The Passionate Shepherd To His Love

      Samuel Daniel - Beauty, Time And Love

      Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress

      Sidney Godolphin – Noe more Unto My Thoughts Appeare

      Thomas Campion - Amaryllis (I Care Not For These Ladies)

      Thomas Carew - Lips And Eyes

      William Shakespeare - Sonnet 128

      Katherine Phillips - To One Persuading A Lady To Marriage

      Edmund Spenser - One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand

      John Skelton - My Darling Dear, My Daisy Flower

      Edmund Waller - Go Lovely Rose

      Abraham Cowley - The Given Heart

      Sir Phillip Sidney - My True Love Hath My Heart

      Henry King - Renunciation

      William Davenant - To A Mistress Dying

      Ben Jonson - On My First Son

      Sir John Suckling – Why So Pale And Wan Fond Lover

      Robert Southwell - New Prince New Pomp

      Alexander Brome - The Royalist

      Michael Drayton - The Ballad Of Agincourt

      Fulke Greville - Mustapha

      John Cleveland - The Rebel Scot

      George Chapman - Opinion

      Thomas Carew - Celia Singing

      F Quarles – A Divine Rapture

      William Drummond – Kisses Desired

      Henry Vaughan - The Waterfall

      Thomas Nashe - Fair Summer Drops From Summer's Last Will And Testament

      John Milton - How Soon Hath Time

      William Shakespeare - Sonnet 5 - Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame

      George Herbert - Virtue

      John Donne - For Whom the Bell Tolls

      Sir Walter Raleigh – Farewell To False Love

      George Herbert - Church Monuments

      Edward Fairfax - Heaven

      Ben Jonson - To Heaven

      Robert Herrick - To Death

      Henry Vaughan – Peace

      Mary Wroth - Sonnet I

      Mary Wroth - Sonnet II

      Thomas Wyatt - Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever

      Thomas Wyatt - The Heart and Service

      Mary Herbert - O Lord! In Me There Lieth Naught

      Edward De Vere - Fancy And Desire

      Thomas Lodge - Like To The Clear In Highest Sphere

      John Heywood - A Praise of His Lady

      Sir John Denham - Cooper's Hill (Excerpts)

      Isabella Whitney - To Her Brother G. W.

      Richard Lovelace - The Duell

      Richard Barnfield - Against the Dispraisers of Poetry

      Margaret Cavendish - Motion Is The Life Of All things.

      Margaret Cavendish - Of Earth.

      Thomas Lodge - The Earth, Late Chok'd with Showers

      Richard Crashaw - Euthanasia

      George Herbert - Clasping of Hands

      David Lindsay - Satire On The Syde Taillis

      Henry Howard - How No Age Is Content

      Aemilia Lanyer - To The Doubtfull Reader

      John Lyly - Cards and Kisses

      Ben Jonson – A Farewell To the World

      Robert Southwell - Upon The Image Of Death

      William Shakespeare - O Never Say That I Was False of Heart

      Thomas Kyd - Yet She might Love Me

      George Peele - A Farewell to Arms

      John Donne - An Anatomy Of The World...

      Queen Elizabeth I - When I Was Fair And Young

      Henry VIII, King of England - Passtime With Good Company

      Pastime with good company

      I love and shall unto I die.

      Grudge whoso will, but none deny,

      So God be pleased, this live will I.

      For my pastance

      Hunt, sing, and dance.

      My heart is set

      All godely sport

      To my comfort.

      Who shall me let?

      Youth will have needs daliance,

      Of good or ill some pastance.

      Company me thinketh then best

      All thoftes and fantasies to digest.

      For idleness

      Is chief mistress

      Of vices all.

      Than who can say

      But pass the day

      Is best of all?

      Company with honesty

      Is virtue, and vice to flee.

      Company is good or ill

      But every man hath his free will.

      The best ensue,

      The worst eschew,

      My mind shall be.

      Virtue to use,

      Vice to refuse,

      I shall use me.

      John Donne - No Man Is An Island

      No man is an island,

      Entire of itself,

      Every man is a piece of the continent,

      A part of the main.

      If

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