Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. 1880. The Poetical Works

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Deem ye the Greeks our enemies to be gone?/ Or any Greekish gifts can you suppose / Devoid of guile? Is so Ulysses known?

—The Second Book of Virgil’s Æneid, ll. 58–60

Henry Howard,
Earl of Surrey

The Poetical Works

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Sixty selections from the Tudor poet who was the first practitioner of blank verse in English.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record

BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND Co., 1880
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011

Songs and Sonnets
		Description of the restless State of a Lover, with Suit to his Lady, to rue on his dying Heart
		Description of Spring, wherein every thing renews, save only the Lover
		Description of the restless State of a Lover
		Description of the fickle Affections, Pangs, and Slights of Love
		Complaint of a Lover that defied Love, and was by Love after the more tormented
		Complaint of a Lover rebuked
		Complaint of the Lover disdained
		Description and Praise of his Love Geraldine
		The Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty
		A Complaint by Night of the Lover not beloved
		How each thing, save the Lover in Spring, reviveth to Pleasure
		A Vow to love faithfully, howsoever he be rewarded
		Complaint that his Lady, after she knew his Love, kept her Face always hidden from him
		Request to his Love to join Bounty with Beauty
		Prisoned in Windsor, he recounteth his Pleasure there passed
		The Lover comforteth himself with the Worthiness of his Love
		Complaint of the Absence of her Lover being upon the Sea
		Complaint of a dying Lover refused upon his Lady’s unjust mistaking of his Writing
		Complaint of the Absence of her Lover, being upon the Sea
		A Praise of his Love, wherein he reproveth them that compare their Ladies with his
		To his Mistress
		To the Lady that scorned her Lover
		A Warning to the Lover, how he is abused by his Love
		The forsaken Lover describeth and forsaketh Love
		The Lover describeth his restless State
		The Lover excuseth himself of suspected Change
		A careless Man scorning and describing the subtle Usage of Women toward their Lovers
		An Answer in the behalf of a Woman. Of an uncertain Author
		The constant Lover lamenteth
		A Song written by the Earl of Surrey of a Lady that refused to dance with him
		The faithful Lover declareth his Pains and his uncertain Joys, and with only Hope recomforteth somewhat his woful Heart
		The Means to attain happy Life
		Praise of mean and constant Estate
		Praise of certain Psalms of David. Translated by Sir Thomas [Wyatt] the elder
		Of the Death of Sir Thomas Wyatt
		Of the Same
		Of the Same
		An Epitaph on Clere, Surrey’s faithful Friend and Follower
		On Sardanapalus’s dishonourable Life and miserable Death
		How no Age is content with his own Estate, and how the Age of Children is the happiest if they had Skill to understand it
		Bonum est mihi quod humiliasti me
		Exhortation to learn by others’ Trouble
		The Fancy of a wearier Lover
		A Satire against the Citizens of London
		A description of the restless State of the Lover when absent from the Mistress of his Heart

Ecclesiastes
		Chapter I
		Chapter II
		Chapter III
		Chapter IV
		Chapter V

A Paraphrase of Some of the Psalms of David
		Proem
		Psalm LXXXVIII
		Psalm LXXIII
		“Though, Lord, to Israel”
		Psalm LV
		Psalm VIII

The Second Book of Virgil’s Æneid
The Fourth Book of Virgil’s Æneid

Primus: “My fearful hope from me is fled”
Secundus: “Your fearful hope cannot prevail”

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