Poetry Readings Late 16th to Early 18th Century

First Poetry Readings

Barbara Allen by Anonymous

The Soote Season by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

On Monsieur’s Departure by Queen Elizabeth I

Sonnet 64 by Edmund Spenser

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

Death, be not proud by John Donne

On My First Son by Ben Jonson

Am I Thus Conquer’d by Lady Mary Wroth

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick

Easter-wings by George Herbert

When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton

Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper by Anne Bradstreet

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia by Katherine Philips