Poetry Codex

Metaphysical & Cavalier

Michael Drayton

1563–1631

Michael Drayton (1563–1631) was an English poet whose vast body of work spans the sonnet sequence Idea, historical verse, and the topographical epic Poly-Olbion.

His Barons' Wars retells the civil strife of Edward II's reign in stately ottava rima.

Major Works (2)

  1. The Barons' Wars — Historical epic, 1603–19
  2. Poly-Olbion — Topographical epic, 1612–1622

Poems (177)

  1. (untitled) (Sonnet 1)
  2. Sonnet. 2 (Sonnet 2)
  3. Sonnet 3 (Sonnet 3)
  4. An allusion to Narcissus. Sonnet. 4 (Sonnet 4)
  5. Sonnet. 5 (Sonnet 5)
  6. To Harmonie. Sonnet. 6 (Sonnet 6)
  7. Sonnet 7 (Sonnet 7)
  8. To the Moone (Sonnet 8)
  9. To Lunacie. Sonnet. 9 (Sonnet 9)
  10. Sonnet. 10 (Sonnet 10)
  11. Sonnet. 11 (Sonnet 11)
  12. To the Soule. Sonnet. 12 (Sonnet 12)
  13. To the Shaddow. Sonnet. 13 (Sonnet 13)
  14. Sonnet. 14 (Sonnet 14)
  15. Sonnet. 15 (Sonnet 15)
  16. To the Phoeniae. Sonnet 16 (Sonnet 16)
  17. To Time. Sonnet. 17 (Sonnet 17)
  18. To the Celestiall numbers. Sonnet. 18 (Sonnet 18)
  19. To Humour. Sonnet. 19 (Sonnet 19)
  20. Sonnet. 20 (Sonnet 20)
  21. To the Spheares. Sonnet. 21 (Sonnet 21)
  22. To Folly. Sonnet. 22 (Sonnet 22)
  23. Sonnet. 23 (Sonnet 23)
  24. Sonnet 24 (Sonnet 24)
  25. Sonnet 25 (Sonnet 25)
  26. To Despaire. Sonnet 26 (Sonnet 26)
  27. To Fantasie. Sonnet 27 (Sonnet 27)
  28. Sonnet 28 (Sonnet 28)
  29. To the Sences. Sonnet 29 (Sonnet 29)
  30. To the Vestalls. Sonnet 30 (Sonnet 30)
  31. Sonnet 31 (Sonnet 31)
  32. To the riuer Ankor. Sonnet 32 (Sonnet 32)
  33. To Imagination. Sonnet 33 (Sonnet 33)
  34. To Admiration. Sonnet 34 (Sonnet 34)
  35. To Miracle. Sonnet 35 (Sonnet 35)
  36. To Wonder. Sonnet 36 (Sonnet 36)
  37. Sonnet 37 (Sonnet 37)
  38. Sonnet 38 (Sonnet 38)
  39. Sonnet 39 (Sonnet 39)
  40. Sonnet. 40 (Sonnet 40)
  41. Sonnet. 41 (Sonnet 41)
  42. Sonnet. 42 (Sonnet 42)
  43. Sonnet. 43 (Sonnet 43)
  44. Sonnet. 44 (Sonnet 44)
  45. Sonnet. 45 (Sonnet 45)
  46. Sonnet. 46 (Sonnet 46)
  47. Sonnet. 47 (Sonnet 47)
  48. Sonnet. 48 (Sonnet 48)
  49. Sonnet. 49 (Sonnet 49)
  50. Sonnet. 50 (Sonnet 50)
  51. Sonnet. 51 (Sonnet 51)
  52. An alusion to Dedalus and Icarus. Sonnet 52 (Sonnet 52)
  53. Another to the Riuer Ankor. Sonnet 53 (Sonnet 53)
  54. Sonnet. 54 (Sonnet 54)
  55. Sonnet 55 (Sonnet 55)
  56. An allusion to the Aegl…ts. Sonnet 56 (Sonnet 56)
  57. Sonnet 57 (Sonnet 57)
  58. Sonnet 58 (Sonnet 58)
  59. To Prouerb. Sonnet 59 (Sonnet 59)
  60. Sonnet 60 (Sonnet 60)
  61. Sonnet 61 (Sonnet 61)
  62. Sonnet 62 (Sonnet 62)
  63. To the Lady Anne Harington. Sonnet. 62 (Sonnet 63)
  64. To the Lady L. S (Sonnet 64)
  65. To sir Anthonie Cooke (Sonnet 65)
  66. The Legend of Robert Duke of Normandie.
  67. The Legend of Matilda
  68. The Legend of Pierce Gaueston.
  69. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 1
  70. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 4
  71. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 5
  72. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 6
  73. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 11
  74. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 12
  75. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 15
  76. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 16
  77. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 17
  78. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 19
  79. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 23
  80. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 25
  81. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 27
  82. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 29
  83. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 30
  84. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 32
  85. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 34
  86. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 35
  87. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 36
  88. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 38
  89. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 39
  90. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 40
  91. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 41
  92. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 42
  93. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 45
  94. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 46
  95. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 47
  96. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 48
  97. Ideas Mirrour, Amour 51
  98. Idea (1599), Sonnet 2 (To the Reader of his Poems)
  99. Idea (1599), Sonnet 3
  100. Idea (1599), Sonnet 56 (A Consonet)
  101. Idea (1599), Sonnet 57 (To Lucie Countesse of Bedford)
  102. Idea (1602), Sonnet 63 (To the high and mighty Prince, James, King of Scots)
  103. Idea (1619), Sonnet 1
  104. Idea (1619), Sonnet 6
  105. Idea (1619), Sonnet 8
  106. Idea (1619), Sonnet 15 (His Remedie for Loue)
  107. Idea (1619), Sonnet 21
  108. Idea (1619), Sonnet 27
  109. Idea (1619), Sonnet 36 (Cupid coniured)
  110. Idea (1619), Sonnet 48
  111. Idea (1619), Sonnet 52
  112. Idea (1619), Sonnet 61
  113. Idea (1605), To Sir Walter Aston
  114. To Himselfe and the Harpe
  115. To the New Yeere
  116. To His Valentine
  117. The Heart
  118. The Sacrifice to Apollo
  119. To Cupid
  120. An Amouret Anacreontick
  121. Loves Conquest
  122. To the Virginian Voyage
  123. An Ode Written in the Peake
  124. His Defence Against the Idle Critick
  125. To His Rivall
  126. A Skeltoniad
  127. The Cryer
  128. To His Coy Love: A Canzonet
  129. A Hymne to His Ladies Birth-Place
  130. To the Cambro-Britans and Their Harpe, His Ballad of Agincourt
  131. Ode 4 (1606): To My Worthy Frend, Master John Sauage of the Inner Temple
  132. Ode 8 (1606): Singe Wee the Rose
  133. Of His Ladies Not Comming to London
  134. To Master George Sandys, Treasurer for the English Colony in Virginia
  135. To My Noble Friend Master William Browne, of the Euill Time
  136. Vpon the Three Sonnes of the Lord Sheffield, Drowned in Humber
  137. To the Noble Lady, the Lady I.S., of Worldly Crosses
  138. An Elegie vpon the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton
  139. Vpon the Noble Lady Astons Departure for Spaine
  140. To My Most Dearely-Loued Friend Henery Reynolds Esquire, of Poets and Poesie
  141. Vpon the Death of His Incomparable Friend Sir Henry Raynsford of Clifford
  142. Vpon the Death of the Lady Olive Stanhope
  143. To Master William Ieffreys, Chaplaine to the Lord Ambassadour in Spaine
  144. Vpon the Death of Mistris Elianor Fallowfield
  145. Nimphidia, the Court of Fayrie
  146. The Quest of Cynthia
  147. The Shepheards Sirena
  148. The Muses Elizium: The Description of Elizium
  149. The Muses Elizium: The First Nimphall
  150. The Muses Elizium: The Second Nimphall
  151. The Muses Elizium: The Third Nimphall
  152. The Muses Elizium: The Fourth Nimphall
  153. The Muses Elizium: The Fift Nimphall
  154. The Muses Elizium: The Sixt Nimphall
  155. The Muses Elizium: The Seuenth Nimphall
  156. The Muses Elizium: The Eight Nimphall
  157. The Muses Elizium: The Ninth Nimphall
  158. The Muses Elizium: The Tenth Nimphall
  159. The Shepheards Garland (1593): Song
  160. The Shepheards Garland (1593): Eglog 2, Song
  161. The Shepheards Garland (1593): Eglog 3, Song
  162. The Shepheards Garland (1593): Eglog 4, Song
  163. The Shepheards Garland (1593): Eglog 7, Song
  164. The Shepheards Garland (1593): Eglog 8, Song
  165. The Shepheards Garland (1605): Eglog 2, Song 1
  166. The Shepheards Garland (1605): Eglog 2, Song 2
  167. The Shepheards Garland (1606): Eglog 7, Song
  168. The Shepheards Garland (1606): Eglog 9, Song 1
  169. The Shepheards Garland (1606): Eglog 9, Song 2
  170. The Shepheards Garland (1606): Eglog 9, Song 3
  171. The Fall of Lord Cromwell, Brought to an Untimely End by the Envy of the Bishop of Winchester
  172. Vpon the Frontispice.
  173. The Shepherd's Daffodil
  174. Rowland's Song in praise of the fairest Beta
  175. A Roundelay between two Shepherds
  176. Rowland's Madrigal
  177. The Shepherd's Anthem

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