A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources. It brings into the public domain over 350 poems, many of which have never before been published.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. The Execution of Ralegh (1618)

I1. Raleigh in this thy selfe thy selfe transcends  (html),   (pdf)

I2. Young witts are soone seduced and alwaies apt  (html),   (pdf)

I3. Even such is tyme, which takes in trust  (html),   (pdf)

I4. Essex thy death’s reveng’d, Lo here I lie  (html),   (pdf)

I5. Heere lyes the man whose death and life  (html),   (pdf)

I6. Heare heddlesse heedlesse matchlesse Rawly lies  (html),   (pdf)

I7. Of Raleighes life and death the sum of all to tell  (html),   (pdf)

I8. Who best did Calculate the life of man  (html),   (pdf)

I9. Hope flattered thee though lawes did life convince  (html),   (pdf)

I10. Heere lyes a treasure in this pitte  (html),   (pdf)

I11. O had thy name bene causer of thy death  (html),   (pdf)

I12. What Worlds of people hath death conquered  (html),   (pdf)

I13. Beholde Brave Raleigh here interr’d  (html),   (pdf)

I14. The Divell longe deceaved hath, Watt Raleighs wit with evell  (html),   (pdf)

I15. This stone can not inclose thy fame  (html),   (pdf)

I16. Thou seest my tombe, Grey haires lye in this grave  (html),   (pdf)

I17. Great heart, who taught thee so to dye  (html),   (pdf)

I18. Two kinsmen wrastlinge, who shold have the fall  (html),   (pdf)

I19. Fly Fame, report, that all the world may knowe  (html),   (pdf)

I20. I will not weepe for twere as great a sin  (html),   (pdf)

I21. Cease booteless teares, weepe not for him whose Death  (html),   (pdf)

I22. If spite be pleasd, when that her object dead  (html),   (pdf)

I23. Once he was Grace it selfe  (html),   (pdf)

I24. I knew thee but by fame and thy brave deeds  (html),   (pdf)

I25. All earthlie things by Water knowe  (html),   (pdf)