Poetry Codex

Tudor & Elizabethan

George Gascoigne

c. 1535–1577

George Gascoigne was an English soldier, courtier and poet whose ‘A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres’ (1573) is considered one of the first substantial collections of original English verse and prose.

He also wrote what is often called the first original prose comedy in English and an early treatise on the art of English versification.

Poems (7)

  1. A Lover’s Lullaby
  2. Good-Morrow
  3. Good-Night
  4. The Arraignment of a Lover
  5. A Strange Passion of a Lover
  6. If any floure that here is growne
  7. And if I did what then?

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