1300-1350
(Rawlinson Lyrics)
Anonymous 'Ich am of Irlande'
Anonymous 'Maiden in the morë lay'
Anonymous 'Al night by the rosë, rosë'
(Harley Lyrics)
Anonymous 'Bitwenë March and Avëril'
Anonymous 'Erthë tok of erthe'

1350-1400
(Grimestone Lyrics)
Anonymous 'Gold and al this worldës wyn'
Anonymous 'Gloria mundi est'
Anonymous 'Love me broughte'
Anonymous (The Dragon Speaks)
Geoffrey Chaucer from The Parliament of Fowls
(Catalogue of the Birds)
(Roundel)
Geoffrey Chaucer from The Boke of Troilus
(Envoi)
Anonymous 'When Adam dalf and Eve span'
William Langland from The Vision of Piers Plowman
(Prologue)
(Gluttony in the Ale-house)
Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales
from The General Prologue 'Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote'
from The General Prologue (The Prioress)
from The Knight's Tale (The Temple of Mars)
from The Knight's Tale (Saturn)
from The Milleres Tale (Alysoun)
from The Wife of Bath's Prologue 'My fourthe housbonde was a revelour'
from The Pardoner's Tale 'Thise riotoures thre of whiche I telle'
Anonymous from Patience
(Jonah and the Whale)
Anonymous from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Gawain Journeys North)
Geoffrey Chaucer Envoy to Scogan
John Gower from Confessio Amantis
(Pygmaleon)
(The Rape of Lucrece)

1430
Thomas Hoccleve from The Complaint of Hoccleve
'Aftir that hervest inned had hise sheves'

1440
Charles of Orleans (Ballade) ('In the forest of Noyous Hevynes')
Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Take, take this cosse, attonys, atonys, my hert!')
Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Go forth myn hert wyth my lady')

1450
(Sloane Lyrics)
Anonymous 'Adam lay y-bownden'
Anonymous 'I syng of a mayden'
Anonymous 'The merthe of alle this londe'
Anonymous (Christ Triumphant)
Anonymous (Holly against Ivy)
Anonymous 'Ther is no rose of swych vertu'

1500
John Skelton from Phyllyp Sparowe
'Whan I remembre agayn'
Robert Henryson from The Testament of Cresseid
'O ladyis fair of Troy and Greece, attend'
William Dunbar Lament, When He Wes Seik

1510
William Dunbar 'Done is a battell on the dragon blak'
William Dunbar 'In to thir dirk and drublie dayis'

1515
Gavin Douglas/Virgil from The Aeneid
from Book I (Aeolus Looses the Winds)
from The Proloug of the Sevynt Buik of Eneados
Anonymous (the Corupus Christi Carol)
Anonymous 'Farewell, this world! I take my leve for evere'
Anonymous 'Draw me nere, draw me nere'

1520
Anonymous 'Westron wynde when wyll thow blow'

1523
John Skelton from A Goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell
(The Garden of the Muses: Iopas' Song)
To Maystres Isabell Pennell
John Skelton from Speke Parott
(Parrot's Complaint)

1530
William Cornish 'Pleasure it is'

1535
Myles Coverdale from The Bible
Psalm 137: Super flumina

1540
Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar'
Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde'
Sir Thomas Wyatt 'They fle from me that sometyme did me seke'
Sir Thomas Wyatt 'My lute awake! Perfourme the last'
Sir Thomas Wyatt 'Forget not yet the tryde entent'
Sir Thomas Wyatt/Alamanni 'Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know'

1542
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey An Excellent Epitaffe of Syr Thomas Wyat

1547
Anne Askew The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate

1557
from Tottel's Songes and Sonettes
Sir Thomas Wyatt/Seneca (Chorus from Thyestes) ('Stond who so list upon the Slipper toppe')
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'O happy dames, that may embrace'
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace'
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey/Virgil from Certayn bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis
(Aeneas searches for his wife)

1560
from The Geneva Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ('To all things there is an appointed time')
Robert Weever 'Of Youth He Singeth'

1563
Barnabe Googe Commynge Home-warde out of Spayne
Barnabe Googe An Epytaphe of the Death of Nicolas Grimoald

1565
Arthur Golding/Ovid from The First Four Books of Ovid
(Proserpine and Dis)
(Daphne and Apollo)

1567
Arthur Golding/Ovid from The Fifteen Books of Ovid
(Medea's Incantation)

1568
Alexander Scott 'To luve unluvit it is ane pane'
Anonymous 'Christ was the word that spake it'

1579
Edmund Spenser from The Shepheardes Calender (Roundelay)

1580
Edmund Spenser Iambicum Trimetrum

1581
Jasper Heywood/Seneca (Chorus from Hercules Furens)

1582
Thomas Watson My Love is Past

1584
Anonymous A New Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves

1586
Chidiock Tichborne 'My prime of youth is but a froste of cares'

1588
Anonymous 'Constant Penelope, sends to thee carelesse Ulisses'
Anonymous/Theocritus from Sixe Idillia . . . chosen out of . . . Theocritus
(Adonis)

1589
Sir Philip Sidney 'My true love hath my hart, and I have his'

1590
Sir Walter Raleigh 'As you came from the holy land'
Mark Alexander Boyd Sonet ('Fra banc to banc fra wod to wod I rin')
Sir Henry Lee 'His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd'
Edmund Spenser from The Faerie Queene
from Book II, Canto XII (The Bower of Blisse Destroyed)
from Book III, Canto VI (The Gardin of Adonis)
from Book III, Canto XI (Britomart in the House of the Enchanter Busyrane)

1591
Sir Philip Sidney from Astrophil and Stella
1. 'Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show'
31. 'With how sad steps, ô Moone, thou climb'st the skies'
33. 'I might, unhappie word, ô me, I might'
Thomas Campion 'Harke, al you ladies that do sleep'
Sir John Harrington/Ariosto from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Astolfo flies by Chariot to the Moon)

1592
John Lyly from Midas
'Pan's Syrinx was a Girle indeed'
Samuel Daniel from Delia
45. 'Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night'
Henry Constable 'Deere to my soule, then leave me not forsaken'
Sir Walter Raleigh The Lie

1593
from The Phoenix Nest
Anonymous 'Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light'
Thomas Lodge The Sheepheards Sorrow, Being Disdained in Love
Barnabe Barnes from Parthenophil and Parthenophe (Sestina)
('Then, first with lockes disheveled, and bare')
Sir Philip Sidney from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
'Yee Gote-heard Gods, that love the grassie mountaines'

1594
William Shakespeare from Love's Labours Lost
'When Dasies pied, and Violets blew'
Anonymous 'Weare I a Kinge I coude commande content'

1595
Edmund Spenser from Amoretti
Sonnet LXVII. ('Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace')
Sonnet LXVIII. ('Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day')
Robert Southwell S. J. Decease Release
Robert Southwell S.J. New Heaven, New Warre
Robert Southwell S.J. The Burning Babe
George Peele from The Old Wives Tale
'When as the Rie reach to the chin'
'Gently dip: but not too deepe'

1596
Edmund Spenser Prothalamion
Sir John Davies In Cosmum
Sir John Davies from Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing
('The speach of Love persuading men to learn Dancing')

1597
Anonymous 'Since Bonny-boots was dead, that so divinely'
William Alabaster Of the Reed That the Jews Set in Our Saviour's Hand
William Alabaster Of His Conversion
Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester 'Forsaken woods, trees with sharpe storms opprest'

1598
Sir Philip Sidney 'When to my deadlie pleasure'
Sir Philip Sidney 'Leave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust'
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Psalm 58 ('And call yee this to utter what is just')
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke from Psalm 139 ('Each inmost peece in me is thine')
Christopher Marlowe from Hero and Leander
'His bodie was as straight as Circes wand'
Anonymous 'Hark, all ye lovely saints above'
Christopher Marlowe/Ovid from All Ovids Elegies
Book I, Elegia 5 ('In summers heat and mid-time of the day')
Book III, Elegia 13 ('Seeing thou art faire, I barre not thy false playing')
John Donne On His Mistris

1599
Michael Drayton from Idea
5. 'Nothing but No and I, and I and No'
Alexander Hume from Of the Day Estivall
'O perfite light, quhik schaid away'
George Peele from David and Fair Bethsabe
'Hot sunne, coole fire, tempered with sweet aire'
Samuel Daniel from Musophilus
(Stonehenge)

1600
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke from Caelica
Sonnet XLV. ('Absence, the noble truce')
Sonnet LXXXIV. ('Farewell sweet boy, complaine not of my truth')
Sonnet LXXXV. ('Love is the Peace, whereto all thoughts doe strive')
Sonnet XCIX. ('Downe in the depth of mine iniquity')
Sonnet C. ('In Night when colours all to blacke are cast')
from Englands Helicon
Anonymous The Sheepheeards Description of Love
Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Sheepheard to his Love
Sir Walter Ralegh The Nimphs Reply to the Sheepheard
Thomas Nashe from Summers Last Will and Testament
'Fayre Summer droops, droope men and beasts therefore'
'Adieu, farewell earths blisse'
Anonymous (A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham)
Anonymous 'Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new'
Anonymous 'Thule, the period of cosmography'

1601
John Holmes 'Thus Bonny-boots the birthday celebrated'
William Shakespeare from Twelfth Night
'When that I was and a little tiny boy'
William Shakespeare (The Phoenix and Turtle)
Thomas Campion/Catulus 'My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love'
Thomas Campion 'Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe'
Thomas Campion/Propertius 'When thou must home to shades of under ground'

1602
Anonymous 'The lowest trees have tops, the Ant her gall'
Thomas Campion 'Rose-cheekt Lawra come'

1603
Anonymous 'Weepe you no more sad fountaines'

1604
Anonymous The Passionate Mans Pilgrimage
Nicholas Breton from A Solemne Long Enduring Passion
'Wearie thoughts doe waite upon me'

1607
Ben Jonson/Catullus from Volpone
'Come my Celia, let us prove'

1608
Anonymous 'Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho!'

1609
Ben Jonson from Epicoene
'Still to be neat, still to be dresst'
Edmund Spenser from Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
(Nature's Reply to Mutabilitie)
William Shakespeare from...