The Works of Michael Drayton


	Complete - Google Books The Song of Jonah in the Whales Bellie Idea, The Shepherd's Garland (1593) Excerpt from Eclogue 9 Idea's Mirror (1594) Amour. 7. Peirs Gaveston (1593 or 1594) Excerpts: Lines 211-270 and 469-515. Excerpt. Edward II's Lament. [O break my heart] Matilda (1594) Excerpt: Lines 1-70. Endimion and Phoebe: Idea's Latmus (1595) Complete - Renascence Editions Excerpt: Lines 1-100 - UToronto The Tragical Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy (1596) Excerpt: Verses 10-18. Mortimeriados (1596) Excerpt: Lines 421-448. England's Heroicall Epistles (1597) 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 - 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 Several Occasions (1627) Of his Lady's not Coming to London To Master George Sandys To My Most Dearly Loved Friend, Henry Reynolds, Esq.; Of Poets Nymphidia, the Court of Fairy (1627) Complete - Luminarium Editions The Shepherd's Sirena (1627) 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	by William Hole for the 1622 edition of Poly-Olbion.

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