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The Harmonie of the Church (1591)
 Complete - Google Books
 The Song of Jonah in the Whales Bellie ["In grief and anguish"]
Idea, The Shepherd's Garland (1593)
Excerpt from Eclogue 9 ["Gorbo, as thou cam'st this way"]
Idea's Mirror (1594)
Complete facsimile - Google Books
Amour. 7. ["Stay, stay, sweet Time"]
Peirs Gaveston (1593 or 1594)
Complete - EEBO
Excerpt: Lines 211-270
Excerpt: Lines 469-515. Edward's Lament. ["O break my heart"]
Matilda (1594)
Complete - EEBO
Excerpt: Lines 1-70. ["If to this time"]
Endimion and Phoebe: Idea's Latmus (1595)
Complete - Renascence Editions
Excerpt: Lines 1-100 - UToronto
The Tragical Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy (1596)
Complete - EEBO
Excerpt: Verses 10-18. ["Betwixt two Ladies"]
Mortimeriados (1596)
Complete - EEBO
Excerpt: Lines 421-448 ["Heer lyes a heap"]
England's Heroicall Epistles (1597)
Complete - EEBO
Complete - Google Books
Excerpts - Google Books
The First Part of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle (1600)
[with Munday, Hathway and Wilson; this play has
also been included in the Shakespeare Apocrypha]
Complete - Google Books
The Barons' Wars in the Reign of Edward II (1603)
Complete - EEBO
Complete - Google Books
[Tower of Mortimer] - Google Books
The Owl (1604)
Complete - Google Books
The Man in the Moon (1606)
Complete - Google Books
The Legend of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (1607)
Complete - Google Books
Poly-Olbion (1612 & 1622)
Complete - Google Books
The Ninth Song - Google Books
Excerpt from the 27th Song
[Milford Haven] - Google Books
[Guy of Warwick] - Google Books
[on Robin Hood]
The Second Part; or, Continuance from the Eighteenth Song - GB
Idea. Complete Sonnet Sequence -
Luminarium Editions
To the Reader of These Sonnets
I. Like an adventurous seafarer am I
2. My heart was slain, and none but you and I
3. Taking my pen, with words to cast my woe
4. Bright star of beauty, on whose eyelids sit
5. Nothing but No, and Aye, and Aye, and No ?
6. How many paltry, foolish, painted things
7. Love in a humor played the prodigal
8. There's nothing grieves me, but that Age should haste
9. As other men, so I myself do muse
10. To nothing fitter can I thee compare
11. You not alone, when you are still alone
12. That learned Father, who so firmly proves
13. Letters and lines we see are soon defaced
14. If he from Heaven that filched that living fire
15. Since to obtain thee nothing will me stead
16. 'Mongst all the creatures in this spacious round
17. Stay, speedy Time, behold, before thou pass
18. To this our world, to Learning, and to Heaven
19. You cannot love, my pretty heart, and why ?
20. An evil spirit, your beauty haunts me still
21. A witless gallant, a young wench that wooed
22. With fools and children good discretion bears
23. Love, banished Heaven, on Earth was held in scorn
24. I hear some say, “This man is not in love.”
25. O why should Nature niggardly restrain
26. I ever love where never hope appears
27. Is not Love here as 'tis in other climes
28. To such as say thy love I overprize
29. When conquering Love did first my heart assail
30. Those priests which first the Vestal fire begun
31. Methinks I see some crooked mimic jeer
32. Our flood's-queen Thames for ships and swans is crown'd
33. Whilst yet mine eyes do surfeit with delight
34. Marvel not, Love, though I thy power admire
35. Some, misbelieving and profane in love
36. Thou purblind boy, since thou hast been so slack
37. Dear, why should you command me to my rest
38. Sitting alone, Love bids me go and write
39. Some, when in rhyme they of their loves do tell
40. My heart the anvil where my thoughts do beat
41. Why do I speak of joy, or write of love
42. Some men there be which like my method well
43. Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace
44. Whilst thus my pen strives to eternize thee
45. Muses, which sadly sit about my chair
46. Plain-pathed Experience, the unlearned's guide
47. In pride of wit when high desire of fame
48. Cupid, I hate thee, which I'd have thee know
49. Thou leaden brain, which censur'st what I write
50. As in some countries far remote from hence
51. Calling to mind since first my love begun
52. What? Dost thou mean to cheat me of my heart?
53. Clear Anker, on whose silver-sanded shore
54. Yet read at last the story of my woe
55. My fair, if thou wilt register my love
56. When like an eaglet I first found my Love
57. You best discerned of my mind's inward eyes
58. In former times such as had store of coin
59. As Love and I, late harboured in one inn
60. Define my weal, and tell the joys of Heaven
61. Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part
62. When first I ended, then I first began
63. Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave
64. Thine eyes taught me the alphabet of Love
65. Reading sometime, my sorrows to beguile
66. Since holy Vestal laws have been neglected
67. My fair, look from those turrets of thine eyes
68. If chaste and pure devotion of my youth
69. Die, die, my soul, and never taste of joy
70. Black pitchy night, companion of my woe
71. Who list to praise the day's delicious light
72. Go you, my lines, ambassadors of love
73. Many there be excelling in this kind
A Cansonet
Pastorals: Containing Eclogues (1619)
Complete - Google Books
Odes (1619)
An Amouret Anacreontic
To the Virginian Voyage
To His Rival [Her loved I most]
To His Coy Love [I pray thee leave, love me no more]
To the New Year
To his Valentine
The Heart
To my Worthy Friend, Master John Savage
The Crier
An Ode Written in the Peak
To the Cambro-Britons and their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt
The Battle of Agicourt (pub. 1627)
Complete - Google Books
The Quest of Cynthia (pub. 1627)
Complete - Google Books
Complete - Project Gutenberg
Excerpts
Elegies Upon Sundry Occasions (1627)
Of his Lady's not Coming to London
To Master George Sandys
An Elegy upon the death of the Lady Penelope Clifton
To ... Henry Reynolds, Esq.; Of Poets and Poesie
To Master William Jeffreys
Nymphidia, the Court of Fairy (1627)
Complete - Luminarium Editions
The Shepherd's Sirena (1627)
Complete - Google Books
Complete - Google Books
Excerpt
Muses' Elysium (1630)
[The Muses Elizium]
Complete - Project Gutenberg
[Florimel's Ditty]
[Description of Elysium]
[Noah's
Flood] - UToronto
[The Second Nymphal]
[The Sixth Nymphal]
Moses' Birth and Miracles (1630)
[rev. of Moyses in a Map of his Miracles, 1604]
Complete - Google Books
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