Item genre: Sonnet

The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 21 (Verse, Sonnet), fol. 9v


Arthur Gorges (Author)

Sonnet

Like to a lamp wherein the light is dead

...

When bitter absence reaves thy self from me

[The heading appears in the left hand margin. This is a version of Sir Arthur Gorges's poem, following a popular formula, ""Like to a/the..."" .]


Folger Library: MS V.a.89
Leaves from a verse miscellany of court poetry (c. 1580-c. 1595)
Anne Cornwallis (owner)

Item 6 (Verse, Sonnet), p. 4


John Bentley (Author (attrib.))

Poem attributed to John Bentley

The pelican of nature nothing kind

...

To wound to death or work my life unrest


Huntington Library: Huntington MS HM 904
Poetical Miscellany (before 1656)
Constance Aston Fowler (scribe)

Item 38 (Verse, Sonnet), fols 52v-135v


(scribe)Constance Aston Fowler

To weep were poor, thy most unhappy fate

...

In whom consisted all thy joys alone

14 lines

[Fols 53r-135v are blank.]


Huntington Library: Huntington MS HM 904
Poetical Miscellany (before 1656)
Constance Aston Fowler (scribe)

Item 58 (Verse, Sonnet), fol.185v - fol.186r


(author)Richard Fanshawe

[Attributed to "Mr RF".]


(scribe)Constance Aston Fowler

A dream

I saw two swans come proudly down the stream

...

Leave to be swans; grow salamanders too

14 lines
Huntington Library: Huntington MS HM 904
Poetical Miscellany (before 1656)
Constance Aston Fowler (scribe)

Item 61 (Verse, Translation, Sonnet), fol.188r


(translator)Walter Aston

[Attributed to "LWA".]


(scribe)Constance Aston Fowler

A translation

[The title of the poem actually reads "A stranslation".]

Sometimes by April arrogantly decked

...

And but exterior accidents the rest

14 lines
Huntington Library: Huntington MS HM 904
Poetical Miscellany (before 1656)
Constance Aston Fowler (scribe)

Item 63 (Verse, Translation, Sonnet), fol.188v - fol.189r


(author)Richard Fanshawe

[Attributed to "Mr. RF".]

[This is Richard Fanshawe's translation of Luis de Gongora's sonnet, according to Aldrich-Watson p.148.]


(scribe)Constance Aston Fowler

The nightingale

With such variety and dainty skill

...

That he might neither change, nor make his moan

14 lines
Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu1
Lucy Hutchinson's Commonplace Book ()
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 14 (Verse, Sonnet), p. 242


Theophile de Viau (Author)

"Chere Isis tes beautes"

French sonnet

Theophile

Chere Isis tes beautes ont troublé la nature

...

S'estimercient heureux de te faire pecher

14 lines.

[The hand that transcribes this is a sharp italic hand.]