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Tudor & Elizabethan

Nicholas Breton

c. 1545–1626

Nicholas Breton was a prolific English poet and prose writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, admired for pastoral lyrics such as ‘Phillida and Coridon.’

He wrote across a remarkable range of genres, from devotional verse to satire, over a career of some fifty years.

Poems (46)

  1. Phillida and Coridon
  2. A Cradle Song
  3. A Sweet Pastoral
  4. Aglaia: a Pastoral
  5. Astrophel's Song of Phyllida and Corydon
  6. A Pastoral of Phyllis and Corydon
  7. Corydon's Supplication to Phyllis
  8. A Report Song in a Dream, between a Shepherd and his Nymph
  9. A Shepherd's Dream
  10. A Quarrel with Love
  11. A Sweet Contention between Love, his Mistress, and Beauty
  12. Love
  13. The Passionate Shepherd
  14. The worldly prince doth in his sceptre hold
  15. Another of the Same: "Say that I should say I love ye"
  16. What is hell?
  17. Mal content
  18. A dole full passion
  19. A Testament vpon the passion
  20. A fantasticke solemne humour
  21. A briefe of sorrowe
  22. Sorrow in my heart breedeth
  23. A solemne sonnet
  24. An extreame Passion
  25. A solemne farewell to the world
  26. A solemne conceipt
  27. A straunge A, B, C
  28. Fie on pride
  29. A farewell to loue
  30. A ieasting curse
  31. A solemne toie
  32. A displeasure against loue
  33. A farewell to conceipt
  34. An vnhappy, solemne, ieasting curse
  35. A wish in vaine
  36. A conceipt vpon an Eagle, and a Phoenix
  37. A conceited fancy
  38. A smile misconstrued
  39. An odde humour
  40. Awaggery
  41. An odde conceipt
  42. A dolefull fancy
  43. An Epitaph vpon Poet Spencer
  44. A Conceit
  45. Worldly Paradise
  46. Olden Love-Making

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