Songs and Sonnets of the Earl of Surrey

by Henry Howard

Excerpt from Songs and Sonnets of the Earl of Surrey

With much rejoicing to their Lord, thus ?ew they all about. Which when I gan resolve, and in my head conceive, What pleasant life, what heaps of joy, these little birds receive; And saw in what estate I, weary man, was brought, By want of that, they had at will, and I reject at nought; Lord! How I gan in wrath unwisely me demean! I cursed Love, and him defied I thought to turn the stream. But when I well beheld, he had me under awe.

469 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2007

About the author

earl of Surrey, knight of the Garter, an English aristocrat, and one of the founders of Renaissance poetry in England

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