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Michael Drayton

1563 – December 23, 1631


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: Letters and lines we see are soon defaced 14361
2: A Hymne To His Ladies Birth-Place Couentry, that do'st adorne 68499
3: A Skeltoniad The Muse should be sprightly, 36488
4: Among the Panegyrical Verses before Coryat's Crudities (1611). Deare Tom, thy booke was like to come to light, 40411
5: Amour 1 Reade heere (sweet Mayd) the story of my wo, 14418
6: Amour 10 Oft taking pen in hand, with words to cast my woes, 14417
7: Amour 11 Thine eyes taught mee the Alphabet of loue, 14397
8: Amour 12 Some Atheist or vile Infidell in loue, 14432
9: Amour 13 Cleere Ankor, on whose siluer-sanded shore 14415
10: Amour 14 Looking into the glasse of my youths miseries, 14441
11: Amour 15 Now, Loue, if thou wilt proue a Conqueror, 18399
12: Amour 16 Vertues Idea in virginitie, 18434
13: Amour 17 If euer wonder could report a wonder, 14412
14: Amour 18 Some, when in ryme they of their Loues doe tell, 14456
15: Amour 19 If those ten Regions, registred by Fame, 14409
16: Amour 2 My fayre, if thou wilt register my loue, 14432
17: Amour 20 Reading sometyme, my sorrowes to beguile, 14428
18: Amour 21 Letters and lynes, we see, are soone defaced, 14405
19: Amour 22 My hart, imprisoned in a hopeless Ile, 14427
20: Amour 23 Wonder of Heauen, glasse of diuinitie, 14465
21: Amour 24 Our floods-Queene, Thames, for shyps and Swans is crowned, 14412
22: Amour 25 The glorious sunne went blushing to his bed, 14416
23: Amour 26 Cupid, dumbe-Idoll, peeuish Saint of loue, 14430
24: Amour 27 My Loue makes hote the fire whose heat is spent, 14418
25: Amour 28 Some wits there be which lyke my method well, 14439
26: Amour 29 O eyes! behold your happy Hesperus, 14435
27: Amour 3 My thoughts bred vp with Eagle-birds of loue, 14418
28: Amour 30 Three sorts of serpents doe resemble thee; 14419
29: Amour 31 Sitting alone, loue bids me goe and write; 14427
30: Amour 32 Those teares, which quench my hope, still kindle my desire, 14457
31: Amour 33 Whilst thus mine eyes doe surfet with delight, 14384
32: Amour 34 My fayre, looke from those turrets of thine eyes, 14434
33: Amour 35 See, chaste Diana, where my harmles hart, 14435
34: Amour 36 Sweete, sleepe so arm'd with Beauties arrowes darting, 14428
35: Amour 37 I euer loue where neuer hope appeares, 14399
36: Amour 38 If chaste and pure deuotion of my youth, 14427
37: Amour 39 Die, die, my soule, and neuer taste of ioy, 14430
38: Amour 4 My faire, had I not erst adorned my Lute 14409
39: Amour 40 O thou vnkindest fayre! most fayrest shee, 14426
40: Amour 41 Rare of-spring of my thoughts, my dearest Loue, 14453
41: Amour 42 Plac'd in the forlorne hope of all dispayre 14424
42: Amour 43 Why doe I speake of ioy, or write of loue, 14491
43: Amour 44 My hart the Anuile where my thoughts doe beate, 14511
44: Amour 45 Blacke pytchy Night, companyon of my woe, 14462
45: Amour 46 Sweete secrecie, what tongue can tell thy worth? 14482
46: Amour 47 The golden Sunne vpon his fiery wheeles 14524
47: Amour 48 Who list to praise the dayes delicious lyght, 14487
48: Amour 49 Define my loue, and tell the ioyes of heauen, 14487
49: Amour 5 Since holy Vestall lawes haue been neglected, 14447
50: Amour 50 When I first ended, then I first began; 14459
51: Amour 51 Goe you, my lynes, Embassadours of loue, 14517
52: Amour 6 In one whole world is but one Phoenix found, 14423
53: Amour 7 Stay, stay, sweet Time; behold, or ere thou passe 14462
54: Amour 8 Vnto the World, to Learning, and to Heauen, 14400
55: Amour 9 Beauty sometime, in all her glory crowned, 14432
56: An Amovret Anacreontick Most good, most faire, Or Thing as rare, 44479
57: An Elegie Vpon The Death Of The Lady Penelope Clifton Must I needes write, who's hee that can refuse, 126503
58: An Ode Written In The Peake This while we are abroad, 42504
59: From Annalia Dubrensia (1636). - TO MY NOBLE Friend Mr. ROBERT DOVER, on his braue annuall Assemblies vpon Cotswold. Douer, to doe thee Right, who will not striue, 32465
60: From Eclogue iij O thou fayre siluer Thames: O cleerest chrystall flood, 72460
61: From Eclogue ij Tell me fayre flocke, (if so you can conceaue) 24433
62: From Eclogue ij Then this great Vniuerse no lesse, 20433
63: From Eclogue ij Vppon a bank with roses set about, 24423
64: From Eclogue iv Melpomine put on thy mourning Gaberdine, 54428
65: From Eclogue ix Gorbo, as thou cam'st this waye 48467
66: From Eclogue ix Tell me thou skilfull shepheards swayne, 28421
67: From Eclogue ix Of her pure eyes (that now is seen) 48413
68: From Eclogue viij Farre in the countrey of Arden 120412
69: From Eclogue vij Oh spightfull wayward wretched loue, 52400
70: From Eclogue vij Now fye vpon thee wayward loue, 61430
71: From England's Helicon Faire Loue rest thee heere, 60404
72: From T. Morley's First Book of Ballets (1595). - Mr. M.D. to the Author. Such was old Orpheus cunning, 9390
73: His Defence Against The Idle Critick The Ryme nor marres, nor makes, 48458
74: Loves Conqvest Wer't granted me to choose, 36444
75: Nimphidia - The Covrt Of Fayrie Olde CHAVCER doth of Topas tell, 705435
76: Ode 8 Singe wee the Rose Then which no flower there growes 54447
77: Of His Ladies Not Comming To London That ten-yeares-trauell'd Greeke return'd from Sea 104478
78: Prefixed to Book ij. of Primaleon, &c. Translated by Anthony Munday (1619). - OF THE WORKE and Translation. If in opinion of iudiciall wit, 10392
79: Prefixed to Chapman's Translation of Hesiod's Georgics (1618). - To my worthy friend Mr. George Chapman, and his translated Hesiod. Chapman; We finde by thy past-prized fraught, 34425
80: Prefixed to Christopher Middleton's Legend of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester (1600). - To his friend, Master Chr. M. his Booke. Like as a man, on some aduenture bound 14362
81: Prefixed to John Davies of Hereford; Holy Roode (1609). - To M. IOHN DAVIES, my good friend. Such men as hold intelligence with Letters, 14394
82: Prefixed to Sir David Murray's Sophonisba &c. (1611). - To my kinde friend Da: Murray. In new attire (and put most neatly on) 14373
83: Prefixed to William Browne's Britannia's Pastorals (1613). - To his Friend the AVTHOR. Driue forth thy Flocke, young Pastor, to that Plaine, 20384
84: Sonet 1 The worlds faire Rose, and Henries frosty fire, 14470
85: Sonet 10 Loue in an humor played the prodigall, 14451
86: Sonet 11 To The Moone Phæbe looke downe, and here behold in mee, 14416
87: Sonet 12 To nothing fitter can I thee compare, 14413
88: Sonet 13 You not alone, when you are still alone, 14511
89: Sonet 14 To The Soule That learned Father which so firmly proues 14424
90: Sonet 2 To the Reader of his Poems Into these loues who but for passion lookes, 14429
91: Sonet 21 You cannot loue my pretty hart, and why? 14389
92: Sonet 22 An euill spirit your beauty haunts me still, 14453
93: Sonet 23 To The Spheares Thou which do'st guide this little world of loue, 14416
94: Sonet 24 Love banish'd heauen, in earth was held in scorne, 14423
95: Sonet 25 O why should nature nigardly restraine, 14447
96: Sonet 27 I gaue my faith to Loue, Loue his to mee, 14443
97: Sonet 29 To The Sences When conquering loue did first my hart assaile, 14410
98: Sonet 3 Many there be excelling in this kind, 14471
99: Sonet 30 To The Vestalls Those Priests, which first the Vestall fire begun, 14435
100: Sonet 31 Me thinks I see some crooked Mimick ieere 14440
101: Sonet 34 To Admiration Maruaile not Loue, though I thy power admire, 14423
102: Sonet 43 Whilst thus my pen striues to eternize thee, 14395
103: Sonet 44 Muses which sadly sit about my chayre, 14451
104: Sonet 45 Thou leaden braine, which censur'st what I write, 14444
105: Sonet 5 My hart was slaine, and none but you and I, 14459
106: Sonet 55 Truce gentle loue, a parly now I craue, 14442
107: Sonet 56 A Consonet Eyes with your teares, blind if you bee, 14412
108: Sonet 57 To Lucie Countesse of Bedford Great Lady, essence of my chiefest good, 14388
109: Sonet 58 To the Lady Anne Harington Madam, my words cannot expresse my mind, 14473
110: Sonet 8 Nothing but no and I, and I and no, 14540
111: Sonet 9 Loue once would daunce within my Mistres eye, 14397
112: Songs From The 'Shepherd's Garland' The Gods delight, the heauens hie spectacle, 12413
113: Sonnet 1 Like an aduenturous Sea-farer am I, 14421
114: Sonnet 12 To Lunacie As other men, so I my selfe doe muse, 14420
115: Sonnet 15 His Remedie for Loue Since to obtaine thee, nothing me will sted, 14428
116: Sonnet 17 If hee from heauen that filch'd that liuing fire, 14384
117: Sonnet 21 A witlesse Gallant, a young Wench that woo'd, 14570
118: Sonnet 25 To Folly With fooles and children good discretion beares, 14388
119: Sonnet 27 I heare some say, this man is not in loue, 14384
120: Sonnet 27 Is not Loue here, as 'tis in other Clymes, 14428
121: Sonnet 31 To such as say thy loue I ouer-prize, 14396
122: Sonnet 36 Cupid coniured Thou purblind Boy, since thou hast been so slacke 14418
123: Sonnet 41 Deare, why should you commaund me to my rest 14417
124: Sonnet 43 Why should your faire eyes with such soueraine grace, 14352
125: Sonnet 46 Plain-path'd Experience the vnlearneds guide, 14397
126: Sonnet 47 In pride of wit, when high desire of fame 14405
127: Sonnet 48 Cupid, I hate thee, which I'de haue thee know, 14476
128: Sonnet 50 As in some Countries far remote from hence, 14383
129: Sonnet 51 Calling to minde since first my loue begunne, 14459
130: Sonnet 52 What dost thou meane to Cheate me of my Heart, 14395
131: Sonnet 57 You best discern'd of my interior eies, 14393
132: Sonnet 58 In former times, such as had store of coyne, 14387
133: Sonnet 58 To Prouerbe As Loue and I, late harbour'd in one Inne, 14323
134: Sonnet 6 How many paltry, foolish, painted things, 14430
135: Sonnet 61 Since there 's no helpe, Come let vs kisse and part, 14445
136: Sonnet 63 To the high and mighty Prince, James, King of Scots Not thy graue Counsells, nor thy Subiects loue, 14370
137: Sonnet 66 To the Lady L.S. Bright starre of Beauty, on whose eyelids sit, 14387
138: Sonnet 8 There's nothing grieues me, but that Age should haste, 14389
139: Sonnets: Idea I Like an adventurous sea-farer am I, 14402
140: Sonnets: Idea II My heart was slain, and none but you and I; 14403
141: Sonnets: Idea III Taking my pen, with words to cast my woe, 14411
142: Sonnets: Idea IV Bright star of beauty, on whose eyelids sit 14415
143: Sonnets: Idea IX As other men, so I myself do muse 14482
144: Sonnets: Idea L As in some countries far remote from hence, 14410
145: Sonnets: Idea LI Calling to mind since first my love begun, 14418
146: Sonnets: Idea LII What dost thou mean to cheat me of my heart, 14462
147: Sonnets: Idea LIII Another To The River Ankor Clear Ankor, on whose silver-sanded shore, 14410
148: Sonnets: Idea LIV Yet read at last the story of my woe, 14439
149: Sonnets: Idea LIX To Proverbs As Love and I late harboured in one inn, 14395
150: Sonnets: Idea LV My fair, if thou wilt register my love, 14380
151: Sonnets: Idea LVI An Allusion To The Eaglets When like an eaglet I first found my love, 14405
152: Sonnets: Idea LVII You best discerned of my mind's inward eyes, 14361
153: Sonnets: Idea LVIII In former times, such as had store of coin, 14397
154: Sonnets: Idea LX Define my weal, and tell the joys of heaven; 14378
155: Sonnets: Idea LXI Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part, 14427
156: Sonnets: Idea LXII When first I ended, then I first began; 14397
157: Sonnets: Idea LXIII Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave, 14393
158: Sonnets: Idea V Nothing but "No!" and "I!"[A] and "I!" and "No!" 14387
159: Sonnets: Idea VI How many paltry, foolish, painted things, 14449
160: Sonnets: Idea VII Love, in a humour, played the prodigal, 14416
161: Sonnets: Idea VIII There's nothing grieves me but that age should haste, 14399
162: Sonnets: Idea X To nothing fitter can I thee compare 14421
163: Sonnets: Idea XI You're not alone when you are still alone; 14401
164: Sonnets: Idea XII To The Soul That learned Father which so firmly proves 14378
165: Sonnets: Idea XIV If he, from heaven that filched that living fire, 14400
166: Sonnets: Idea XIX To Humour You cannot love, my pretty heart, and why? 14382
167: Sonnets: Idea XL My heart the anvil where my thoughts do beat, 14397
168: Sonnets: Idea XLI Love's Lunacy Why do I speak of joy or write of love, 14400
169: Sonnets: Idea XLII Some men there be which like my method well, 14385
170: Sonnets: Idea XLIII Why should your fair eyes with such sov'reign grace 14392
171: Sonnets: Idea XLIV Whilst thus my pen strives to eternise thee, 14397
172: Sonnets: Idea XLIX Thou leaden brain, which censur'st what I write, 14379
173: Sonnets: Idea XLV Muses which sadly sit about my chair, 14398
174: Sonnets: Idea XLVI Plain-pathed experience, the unlearnèd's guide, 14453
175: Sonnets: Idea XLVII In pride of wit, when high desire of fame 14417
176: Sonnets: Idea XLVIII Cupid, I hate thee, which I'd have thee know; 14405
177: Sonnets: Idea XV His Remedy For Love Since to obtain thee nothing me will stead, 14393
178: Sonnets: Idea XVI An Allusion To The Phoenix Mongst all the creatures in this spacious round 14404
179: Sonnets: Idea XVII To Time Stay, speedy time! Behold, before thou pass 14365
180: Sonnets: Idea XVIII To The Celestial Numbers To this our world, to learning, and to heaven, 14384
181: Sonnets: Idea XX An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still, 14396
182: Sonnets: Idea XXI A witless gallant a young wench that wooed 14407
183: Sonnets: Idea XXII To Folly With fools and children good discretion bears; 14384
184: Sonnets: Idea XXIII Love, banished heaven, in earth was held in scorn, 14371
185: Sonnets: Idea XXIV I hear some say, "This man is not in love!" 14368
186: Sonnets: Idea XXIX To The Senses When conquering love did first my heart assail, 14354
187: Sonnets: Idea XXV O, why should nature niggardly restrain 14389
188: Sonnets: Idea XXVI To Despair I ever love where never hope appears, 14322
189: Sonnets: Idea XXVII Is not love here as 'tis in other climes, 14380
190: Sonnets: Idea XXVIII To such as say thy love I overprize, 14394
191: Sonnets: Idea XXX To The Vestals Those priests which first the vestal fire begun, 14389
192: Sonnets: Idea XXXI To The Critics Methinks I see some crooked mimic jeer, 14403
193: Sonnets: Idea XXXII To The River Ankor Our floods' queen, Thames, for ships and swans is crowned, 14407
194: Sonnets: Idea XXXIII To Imagination Whilst yet mine eyes do surfeit with delight, 14400
195: Sonnets: Idea XXXIV To Admiration Marvel not, love, though I thy power admire, 14404
196: Sonnets: Idea XXXIX Some, when in rhyme they of their loves do tell, 14380
197: Sonnets: Idea XXXV To Miracle Some misbelieving and profane in love, 14395
198: Sonnets: Idea XXXVI Cupid Conjured Thou purblind boy, since thou hast been so slack 14426
199: Sonnets: Idea XXXVII Dear, why should you command me to my rest, 14425
200: Sonnets: Idea XXXVIII Sitting alone, love bids me go and write; 14394
201: The Cryer Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre, 23378
202: The Heart If thus we needs must goe, 48396
203: The Mvses Elizivm A Paradice on earth is found, 2625405
204: The Qvest Of Cynthia What time the groues were clad in greene, 232349
205: The Sacrifice To Apollo Priests of APOLLO, sacred be the Roome, 64423
206: The Shepheards Sirena DORILVS in sorrowes deepe, 383383
207: To Cvpid Maydens, why spare ye? 54469
208: To Himselfe And The Harpe And why not I, as hee That's greatest, if as free, 95448
209: To His Coy Love I pray thee leaue, loue me no more, 24376
210: To His Rivall Her lou'd I most, By thee that 's lost, 54369
211: To His Valentine Muse, bid the Morne awake, 72344
212: To Master George Sandys Treasurer For The English Colony In Virginia Friend, if you thinke my Papers may supplie 108418
213: To Master William Ieffreys, Chaplaine To The Lord Ambassadour In Spaine My noble friend, you challenge me to write 118356
214: To My Most Dearely-Loued Friend Henery Reynolds Esquire, Of Poets & Poesie My dearely loued friend how oft haue we, 202375
215: To My Noble Friend Master William Browne, Of The Euill Time Deare friend, be silent and with patience see, 137413
216: To My Worthy Frend, Master John Sauage Of The Inner Temple Vppon this sinfull earth 44378
217: To Sir Walter Aston, Knight Of The Honourable Order Of The Bath, And My Most Worthy Patron I will not striue m' inuention to inforce, 14429
218: To The Cambro-Britans And Their Harpe, His Ballad Of Agincovrt Faire stood the Wind for France, 120423
219: To The Deere Chyld Of The Muses, And His Euer Kind MecæNas, Ma. Anthony Cooke, Esquire Vovchsafe to grace these rude vnpolish'd rymes, 14362
220: To The New Yeere Rich Statue, double-faced, 84392
221: To The Noble Lady, The Lady I.S. Of Worldly Crosses Madame, to shew the smoothnesse of my vaine, 94413
222: To The Reader Of These Sonnets Into these loves who but for passion looks, 14438
223: To The Viriginian Voyage You braue Heroique minds, 72428
224: Vpon The Death Of His Incomparable Friend Sir Henry Raynsford Of Clifford Could there be words found to expresse my losse, 128369
225: Vpon The Death Of Mistris Elianor Fallowfield Accursed Death, what neede was there at all 62396
226: Vpon The Death Of The Lady Olive Stanhope Canst thou depart and be forgotten so, 72380
227: Vpon The Noble Lady Astons Departure For Spaine I many a time haue greatly marueil'd, why 102392
228: Vpon The Three Sonnes Of The Lord Sheffield, Drowned In Hvmber Light Sonnets hence, and to loose Louers flie, 86398




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Michael Drayton was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era.


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