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The Poems of Henry Howard

Earl of Surrey: Frederick Morgan Padelford: Revised Edition
Surrey, Henry Howard (1517?-1547)

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LOVE POEMS
 1. 
1 A NOCTURNAL LAMENT
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2 A SPRING LAMENT
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3 THE CRUELTY OF HIDDEN CHARMS
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4 A LOVERS LOYALTY TO LOVE
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5 LOVES EXTREMES
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6 A LOVERS VOW
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7 THE FRAILTY OF BEAUTY
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8 A PLEA FOR CONSTANCY
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9 IN ABSENTIA
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10 THE TWOFOLD POWER OF LOVE
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11 A PLEA FOR MERCY
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12 A GAME OF CHESS
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13 A GOODLY ENSAMPLE
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14 THE TRAMMELS OF LOVE
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15 A LESSON IN LOVE
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16 RUEFUL ASSOCIATIONS
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17 AN UNCHANGING LOVER
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18 A MISTRESS NONPAREIL
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19 FROM A LOYAL LOVER OVERSEAS
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20 A MODERN ULYSSES
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21 A LADYS LAMENT FOR HER LOVER OVERSEAS
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22 A SOPHISTICATED LOVER
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23 STRIVE NOT WITH LOVE
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24 A STRICKEN SHEPHERD
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25 A FRIENDLY WARNING
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26 THE FICKLENESS OF WOMAN
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27 MODERN SAWS AND ANCIENT INSTANCE
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28 CALM AFTER STORM
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POEMS
 29. 
29 THE LADY GERALDINE
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30 WINDSOR MEMORIES
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31 THE POETS LAMENT FOR HIS LOST BOYHOOD
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32 A SATIRE ON LONDON, THE MODERN BABYLON
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33 LADY SURREYS LAMENT FOR HER ABSENT LORD
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34 AN IRATE HOST
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35 PROLOG TO PSALM 88
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36 PROLOG TO PSALM 73
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37 REFLECTIONS FROM THE TOWER
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MORAL AND DIDACTIC POEMS
 38. 
38 A TRIBUTE TO WYATTS PSALMS
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39 AN EPIGRAM TO RADCLIFFE
 40. 
40 SARDANAPALUS
 41. 
41 THE HAPPY LIFE
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42 THE GOLDEN MEAN
 43. 
43 THE AGES OF MAN
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ELEGIAC POEMS
 44. 
44 A TRIBUTE TO WYATT
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45 A SECOND TRIBUTE TO WYATT
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46 A THIRD TRIBUTE TO WYATT
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47 A TRIBUTE TO THOMAS CLERE
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TRANSLATIONS FROM THE BIBLE
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48 ECCLESIASTES 1.
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49 ECCLESIASTES 2.
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50 ECCLESIASTES 3.
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51 ECCLESIASTES 4.
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52 ECCLESIASTES 5.
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53 PSALM 8.
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54 PSALM 55.
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55 PSALM 88.
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56 PSALM 73.
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TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ÆNEID
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57 BOOK 2.
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58 BOOK 4.

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40 SARDANAPALUS

Th' Assyryans king—in peas, with fowle desyre
And filthye lustes that staynd his regall harte—
In warr, that should sett prycelye hertes a fyre,
Vanquyshd, dyd yelde for want of martyall arte.
The dent of swordes from kysses semed straunge,
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And harder then hys ladyes syde his targe;
From glotton feastes to sowldyers fare a chaunge;
His helmet, far aboue a garlandes charge.
Who scace the name of manhode dyd retayne,
Ffeble of sprete, vnpacyent of payne,
When he hadd lost his honour and hys right,—
Prowde, tyme of welthe, in stormes appawld with drede—,
Murdred hymself to shew some manfull dede,
Drenched in slouthe & womanishe delight.
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