Poetry Codex

Tudor & Elizabethan

Thomas Watson

c. 1555–1592

Thomas Watson was an Elizabethan poet and translator, a friend of Christopher Marlowe, who published the sonnet sequence Hekatompathia (1582) and the madrigals of The First Set of Italian Madrigals Englished (1590). Gilfillan gives his dates as 1560 to about 1592.

Gilfillan prints a short song, The Nymphs to Their May-Queen, and a sonnet.

Poems (17)

  1. The Nymphs to their May-Queen
  2. Sonnet: Actaeon lost, in middle of his sport
  3. The Shepherd's Solace
  4. The Shepherd's Resolution in Love
  5. Amyntas for his Phyllis
  6. A Dialogue between the Lover and His Heart
  7. A Dialogue between a Lover, Death, and Love
  8. That Time Hath No Power to End or Diminish His Love
  9. Love's Hyperboles
  10. An Invective against Love
  11. Petrarch's Sonnet, "Pace non trovo," Translated
  12. He Proves Himself to Endure the Hellish Torments of Tantalus, Ixion, Titius, Sisyphus, and the Belides
  13. Love's Discommodities
  14. Allegory of His Love to a Ship
  15. Execration of His Passed Love
  16. Passion II
  17. My Love Is Past

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