TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS

Classic love poetry from various writers.

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542).
The lost heart 1
The lover's appeal 2

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547).
A sonnet--"Love that liveth," etc. 3
A vow to love faithfully 4

Anon., _circa_ 1530.
My sweet sweeting 5

George Turberville (1540?-1610?).
The lover to his lady 6
Master George: his sonnet 7
Turberville's answer and distich 8

Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550-1604).
The shepherd's commendation of his nymph 9
A renunciation 11

Barnaby Googe (?) (1535?-1594).
The complaint of Harpalus 12

George Gascoigne (1525-1577).
A strange passion of a lover 14

Sir Edward Dyer ( -1607).
To Phyllis, the fair shepherdess 16

George Peele (1558?-1596-1597?).
The enamoured shepherd 17

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618).
His love admits no rival 18
The shepherd's description of love 20
The shepherdess' reply 22

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628).
Love for love 24

John Lyly (1554?-1606).
Cupid and Campaspe: Apelles' song 26

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586).
A ditty--"My true love," etc. 27
Love is dead 28
He that loves 30

Thomas Lodge (1558?-1625).
Love's wantonness 31
Rosaline 32

Thomas Watson (1557?-1592?).
The May Queen 34

Nicholas Breton (1545?-1626?).
Phillida and Corydon 35

Thomas Campion (_circa_ 1619).
Shall I come, sweet love, to thee? 37
Cherry-ripe 38

Robert Greene (1560?-1592).
Fair Samela 39
Kinds of love 41
Love and beauty 42

Robert Southwell (1561?-1595).
Love's servile lot 43

Sir John Harrington (1561-1612).
The heart of stone 45

Henry Constable (1561-1613).
A shepherd's song to his love 46

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619).
Love now, for roses fade 47
Early love 48
Love is a sickness 49

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).
The passionate shepherd to his love 50

Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618).
Love's omnipresence 52

Michael Drayton (1563-1631).
A parting, or Love's last chance 53

William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
Who is Silvia? 54
Sigh no more, ladies 55
A morning song for Imogen 56

Anon. (_circa_ 1564).
The unfaithful shepherdess 57

Anon.
True loveliness 59
A woman's reason 61
Love will find out the way 62
Phillida flouts me 64
In praise of two 66

Sir Robert Aytoun (1570-1638).
To his forsaken mistress 67
On women's inconstancy 69

Thomas Middleton (1570?-1627).
The three states of women 71
My love and I must part 72

Ben Jonson (1573?-1637).
Perfect beauty 73
To Celia 74

Dr. John Donne (1573-1631).
A woman's constancy 75
Sweetest love 76

William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (1567?-1640).
To Aurora 77

William Drummond (1585-1649).
Phillis 78

Beaumont and Fletcher (1584-1616; 1579-1625).
Take those lips away 79

Francis Beaumont (1584-1616).
Tell me what is love

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TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS