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Introduction: On Poetry | |
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A Brief History Anonymous (eighth century) | |
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The Seafarer (modern version by Ezra Pound, 1912) Anonymous (eighth century) | |
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From Beowulf (translation by C.W. Kennedy) Anonymous--Middle English Lyrics (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) | |
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Summer Is Icumen In. Alysoun | |
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All Night by the Rose | |
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Western Wind | |
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The Lady Fortune Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 13431400) | |
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From The Legend of Good Women Anonymous--the Popular Ballads (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) | |
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Get Up and Bar the Door | |
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Lord Randal | |
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The Three Ravens | |
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The Cherry-Tree Carol | |
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The Unquiet Grave | |
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Bonny Barbara Allan Sir Thomas Wyatt (15031542) | |
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They Flee from Me Sir Walter Raleigh (15521618) | |
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Edmund Spenser (1552?1599) | |
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From Amoretti | |
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Sonnet 15 (Ye tradefull Merchants, that with weary toyle) | |
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Sonnet 67 (Lyke as a huntsman, after weary chace) | |
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Sonnet 75 (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) | |
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Sonnet 82 (Joy of my life, full oft of loving you) Sir Philip Sidney (15541586) | |
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Thou Blind Man's Mark | |
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Leave Me, O Love Chidiock Tichborne (1558?1586) | |
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Tichborne's Elegy Robert Southwell (1561?1595) | |
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The Burning Babe Michael Drayton (15631631) | |
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From Idea: Sonnet 6 (How many paltry, foolish, painted things), Sonnet 7 (Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part) | |
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Christopher Marlowe (15641593) | |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love William Shakespeare (15641616) | |
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From The Sonnets: Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) | |
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Sonnet 20 (A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted) | |
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Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,) | |
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Sonnet 30, (When to the sessions of sweet silent thought) | |
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Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold) | |
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Sonnet 97 (How like a winter hath my absence been) | |
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Sonnet 104 (To me, fair friend, you never can be old) | |
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Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds) | |
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Sonnet 129 (Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame) | |
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Sonnet 130 (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;) | |
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Sonnet 144 (Two loves I have, of comfort and despair) | |
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Sonnet 151 (Love is too young to know what conscience is,--) | |
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Anonymous--Elizabethan Lyrics (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) | |
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Back and Side Go Bare | |
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April Is in My Mistress' Face | |
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My Love in Her Attire | |
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There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind | |
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The Silver Swan Thomas Nashe (15671601) | |
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Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss Thomas Campion 915671620) | |
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My Sweetest Lesbia | |
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There Is a Garden in Her Face | |
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A Brief History John Donne (15721631) | |
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Song (Go and catch a falling star,) | |
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The Sun Rising. A Valediction: Of Weeping | |
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A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning | |
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The Funeral | |
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From Holy Sonnets | |
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Sonnet 7 (At the round earth's imagined corners, blow) | |
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Sonnet 10 (Death, be not proud, though some have called thee) | |
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Sonnet 14 (Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you) | |
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Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness Robert Herrick (15911674) | |
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Delight in Disorder | |
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Upon Julia's Clothes | |
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time George Herbert (15931633) | |
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The Pulley | |
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The Collar | |
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Easter Wings | |
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Virtue | |
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Love (III) John Milton (16081674) | |
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Jow Soon Hath Time | |
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On His Blindness | |
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At a Solemn Music | |
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On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | |
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From Paradise Lost, Book 12 Anne Bradstreet (1612?1672) | |
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To My Dear and Loving Husband | |
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A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Publick Employment Andrew Marvell (16211678) | |
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To His Coy Mistress | |
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The Garden John Dryde | |