THE OXFORD BOOK OF
Sonnets
EDITED BY
JOHN FULLER
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
CONTENTS
Introduction
SIR THOMAS WYATT (?15O3-1542)
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1. 'Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind' 2. 'Farewell, love, and all thy laws for ever' 3. 'Unstable dream, according to the place'
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (?1517-1547)
4. 'Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green' 5. 'Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead'
GILES FLETCHER (?1549"l6ll)
6. 'Isaw, sweet Licia, when the spider ran'
EDMUND SPENSER (?1552-1599)
7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
'More than mostfair, full of the living fire' 'Sweet warrior, when shall I have peace with you?' 'Coming to kiss her lips, such grace Ifound' 'One day I wrote her name upon the strand' "Was it a dream, or did I see it plain
SIR WALTER RALEGH (?1552-l6l8)
a2. Sir Walter Ralegh to his son
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554-1628)
13. 'Satan, no woman, yet a wandering spirit'
CONTENTS SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)
14. 'Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show' 15. 'In truth, O Love, with what a boyish kind' 16. 'With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies' 17. 'Come, sleep, O sleep, the certain knot ofpeace' 18. 'O kiss, which dost those ruddy gems impart'
SIR ARTHUR GORGES (1557-1625)
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 32 33 34 35 36 38 39 40 41
19. 'Yourself the sun, and I the meltingfrost'
GEORGE CHAPMAN (?1559~l634)
20-9. A Coronet for his Mistress Philosophy
HENRY CONSTABLE (1562-1613)
30. 'Uncivil sickness, hast thou no regard'
SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619)
31. 'Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night'
MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)
32. 'You not alone, when you are still alone' 33. 'Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part'
JOSHUA SYLVESTER (1563-1618)
34-5. Acrostiteliostichon
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
36. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' 37. 'Not marble, nor the gilded monuments' 38. 'Like as the waves...