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Tudor & Elizabethan

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

1517–1547

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was an English nobleman and poet who, alongside his friend Sir Thomas Wyatt, helped pioneer the English sonnet and was the first to write English verse in blank verse.

He was executed for treason in the last weeks of Henry VIII’s reign, at the age of twenty-nine.

Poems (56)

  1. Description of Spring
  2. Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover being upon the Sea
  3. The Means to attain Happy Life
  4. A Nocturnal Lament
  5. The Cruelty of Hidden Charms
  6. A Lovers Loyalty to Love
  7. Loves Extremes
  8. A Lovers Vow
  9. The Frailty of Beauty
  10. A Plea for Constancy
  11. In Absentia
  12. The Twofold Power of Love
  13. A Plea for Mercy
  14. A Game of Chess
  15. A Goodly Ensample
  16. The Trammels of Love
  17. A Lesson in Love
  18. Rueful Associations
  19. An Unchanging Lover
  20. A Mistress Nonpareil
  21. From a Loyal Lover Overseas
  22. A Modern Ulysses
  23. A Sophisticated Lover
  24. Strive Not With Love
  25. A Stricken Shepherd
  26. A Friendly Warning
  27. The Fickleness of Woman
  28. Modern Saws and Ancient Instance
  29. Calm After Storm
  30. The Lady Geraldine
  31. Windsor Memories
  32. The Poets Lament for His Lost Boyhood
  33. A Satire on London, The Modern Babylon
  34. Lady Surreys Lament for Her Absent Lord
  35. An Irate Host
  36. Prolog to Psalm 88
  37. Prolog to Psalm 73
  38. Reflections From the Tower
  39. A Tribute to Wyatts Psalms
  40. Epigram to Radcliffe
  41. Sardanapalus
  42. The Golden Mean
  43. The Ages of Man
  44. A Tribute to Wyatt
  45. A Second Tribute to Wyatt
  46. A Third Tribute to Wyatt
  47. A Tribute to Thomas Clere
  48. Ecclesiastes 1
  49. Ecclesiastes 2
  50. Ecclesiastes 3
  51. Ecclesiastes 4
  52. Ecclesiastes 5
  53. Psalm 8
  54. Psalm 55
  55. Psalm 88
  56. Psalm 73

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