Category: 17th Century

Shakespeare: 3 Sonnets on Love, Lust, and Exhaustion

17 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: “I stay too long by thee; I weary thee” (from Henry IV pt. 2)

16 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: King Lear Out in the Elements

15 Jan 2025
Ben Jonson, from “The Triumph of Charis”

9 Jan 2025
John Donne, “Death be not proud”

8 Jan 2025
Henry King, “The Exequy”

6 Jan 2025
George Herbert, “The Flower”

30 Dec 2024
John Milton: Eve and the Serpent from “Paradise Lost”

26 Dec 2024
Henry Vaughan, “The Book”

25 Dec 2024
Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”

23 Dec 2024
Thomas Campion, “Never weather-beaten Saile”

27 Jun 2024
Ben Jonson, “On My First Sonne”

26 Jun 2024
John Donne, “Elegy: To his Mistress Going to Bed”

24 Jun 2024
Katharine, Lady Dyer, “My dearest dust could not thy hasty day”

23 Jun 2024
Henry King, “A Contemplation upon Flowers”

21 Jun 2024
George Herbert, “The Pearl”

20 Jun 2024
William Cartwright, “No Platonique Love”

18 Jun 2024
Ralph Knevet, “The Vote”

17 Jun 2024
2 Anonymous Poems from 1600

16 Jun 2024
Thomas Randolph, “Upon His Picture”

14 Jun 2024
John Milton, from “Paradise Lost”

13 Jun 2024
Richard Crashaw, from “The Flaming Heart. Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphicall Saint Teresa”

11 Jun 2024
Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book”

10 Jun 2024
John Bunyan, “Valiant-for-Truth’s Song”

9 Jun 2024
Henry Vaughan, “The Retreat”

8 Jun 2024
Andrew Marvell, “The Garden”

6 Jun 2024
Katharine Philips, “To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship. 17th. July 1651”

5 Jun 2024
Thomas Traherne, “The Preparative”

4 Jun 2024
Richard Leigh, “Greatness in Little”

31 May 2024

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