J. P. B.

CONTENTS.

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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[80]
Pining for love[81]
Fie on love[82]
John Wootton (circa 1600).
Damœtas' praise of his Daphnis[83]
George Wither (1588-1667).
Shall I, wasting in despair[85]
Thomas Carew (1598?-1639?).
To one who, when I praised my mistress' beauty, said I was blind[87]
He that loves a rosy cheek[88]
Nathaniel Field (1587- ).
Matin song[89]
Robert Herrick (1591-1674).
Cherry ripe[90]
Julia[91]
To the virgins[92]
To Electra[93]
Bp. Henry King (1592-1669).
Dry those eyes[94]
John Dowland (ed.) (1563?-1626?).
True till death[95]
Thomas Weelkes (ed.) (1597- ?).
Farewell, my joy[96]
Sir William Davenant (1605-1606-1668).
The lark now leaves[97]
Edmund Waller (1606-1687).
Go, lovely rose![98]
Thomas Randolph (1605-1635).
His mistress[99]
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695).
Chloris[100]
Anon. (circa 1610).
Love me little, love me long[101]
Capt. Tobias Hume (musical composer).
Fain would I change that note[102]
William Habington.
To roses in Castara's breast[103]
John Danyel (1604?-1625?).
Thou pretty bird[104]
Anon. (temp. James I.).
Once I lov'd a maiden fair[105]
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642).
I pr'ythee send me back my heart[106]
Orsame's song—"Why so pale," etc.[107]
Thomas Ford, composer (1607?-1648).
Since first I saw your face[108]
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667).
The given heart[110]
Sir Edward Sherburne (1618-1702).
Ice and fire[111]
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658).
Amarantha[112]
To Althea, from prison[113]
Alexander Brome (1620-1666).
A mock song[114]
Thomas Stanley (1625-1678).
Speaking and kissing[115]
Sir George Etherege (1635?-1691).
Ladies' conquering eyes[116]
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706).
Dorinda[117]
Robert Gould ( -1709?).
Celia and Sylvia[118]
Sir Charles Sedley (1639?-1701).
True love[119]
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680).
Too late![120]
My mistress' heart[121]
Constancy[122]
Peter Anthony Motteux (1660-1718).
Man and woman[123]
Matthew Prior (1664-1721).
Accept my heart[124]
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726).
An angelic woman[125]
I smile at love[126]
George Granville (1667-1735).
Adieu l'amour[127]
William Congreve (1670-1729).
Sabina wakes[128]
Inconstancy[129]
Ambrose Philips (1675?-1709).
Love and hate[130]
John Oldmixon (1673-1742).
I lately vowed[131]
Dr. Isaac Watts (1674-1748).
Few happy matches[132]
John Hughes (1677-1720).
Dorinda's conquest[133]
George Farquhar (1678-1707).
Lovers in disguise[134]
Thomas Parnell (1679-1718).
When thy beauty appears[135]

LOVE VERSES OF THE TUDOR & STUART PERIODS.

THE LOST HEART.