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The poems of Queen Elizabeth I

Edited by Leicester Bradner

(1533-1603)

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Poems of Undoubted Authorship

WRITTEN WITH A DIAMOND ON HER WINDOW AT WOODSTOCK

WRITTEN ON A WALL AT WOODSTOCK

WRITTEN IN HER FRENCH PSALTER

THE DOUBT OF FUTURE FOES

ON FORTUNE

ON MONSIEUR'S DEPARTURE

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Poems of Doubtful Authorship

CHRIST WAS THE WORD

FOUR KNIGHTS OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

REBUS ON NOEL'S NAME

REPLY TO RALEIGH

AN ENGLISH HEXAMETER

WHEN I WAS FAIR AND YOUNG

EPITAPH MADE BY THE QUEEN'S MAJESTY AT THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS OF ESPINOYE

NOW LEAVE AND LET ME REST

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VERSE TRANSLATIONS

THE THIRTEENTH PSALM OF DAVID

PETRARCH'S TRIUMPH OF ETERNITY

THE SECOND CHORUS FROM SENECA'S HERCULES OETAEUS

THE METRES OF BOETHIUS' CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY

HORACE'S ART OF POETRY

PLUTARCH'S ON CURIOSITY

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5

ON FORTUNE

Never think you fortune can bear the sway
Where virtue's force can cause her to obey.