CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS
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Sir Edward Dyer. (Born 1550—Died 1607.) To Phyllis, the Fair Shepherdess
Sir Philip Sidney. (Born 1554—Died 1586.) A Ditty
John Lyly. (Born 1554—Died 1606.) Appelles' Song
Thomas Lodge. (Born 1556—Died 1625.) Love's Wantonness
Thomas Campion. (Born (unknown)—Died 1619.) Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air Come, O come, my life's delight
Robert Green. (Born 1560—Died 1592.) Content
Christopher Marlowe. (Born 1562—Died 1593.) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare. (Born 1564—Died 1616.) O Mistress Mine, Where are you Roaming
Ben Jonson. (Born 1573—Died 1637.) To Celia
John Donne. (Born 1573—Died 1631.) Song
Francis Beaumont. (Born 1584—Died 1610.) Fie on Love
George Wither. (Born 1588—Died 1667.) The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet
Thomas Carew. (Born 1589—Died 1639.) Song A Fragment Truce in Love Entreated Phillida Flouts Me
Robert Herrick. (Born 1591—Died 1674.) A Hymn to Love To Anthea To Daffodils To Electra To his Mistress To his Mistress, Objecting to his Neither Toying nor Talking To the Virgins, to make much of Time
Henry King. (Born 1592—Died 1669.) On the Life of Man
Thomas Bateson. (Born 1600—Died (no record).) Her hair the net of golden wire
Sir William D'Avenant. (Born 1605—Died 1668.) The Lark now Leaves his Watr'y Nest
Edmund Waller. (Born 1605—Died 1687.) Song: Go Lovely Rose Song to Flavia
Sir John Suckling. (Born 1609—Died 1641.) Why so pale and wan, fond lover Song: O pr'y thee send me back my heart The Constant Lover
Richard Lovelace. (Born 1618—Died 1658.) Stone walls do not a prison make To Althea, from Prison To Lucasta, on going to the wars
Thomas Stanley. (Born 1625—Died 1678.) Speaking and Kissing
Walter Porter. (Born (no record)—Died 1649.) Love in thy youth, fair maid, be wise
George Granville (Lord Lansdowne). (Born 1668—Died 1735.) Adieu L'Amour
William Congreve. (Born 1672—Died 1728.) Song: Though she be false to me and love
John Oldmixon. (Born 1673—Died 1742.) Song: I lately vowed but 'twas in haste
Dr. Isaac Watts. (Born 1674—Died 1748.) Few Happy Matches
Aaron Hill. (Born 1684—Died 1749.) Song: Gentle love, this hour befriend me
William Somerville. (Born 1692—Died 1742.) Cupid Mistaken Song: Hard is the fate of him who loves To a discarded toast
Thomas Walker. (Born 1698—Died 1743.) Sweet love, I will no more abuse thee
James Thomson. (Born 1700—Died 1748.) Unless with my Amanda blest
George Lyttleton. (Born 1709—Died 1773.) Song: When Delia on the plain appear
Edward Moore. (Born 1711—Died 1757.) Song: How blest has my time been
John Wilke. (Born 1727—Died 1797.) Love not me for comely grace
Robert Burns. (Born 1759—Died 1796.) Delia My Jean Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw The Bonnie Wee Thing
Sir Walter Scott. (Born 1771—Died 1832.) The Truth of Woman
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (Born 1772—Died 1834.) Names
Walter Savage Landor. (Born 1775—Died 1864.) The Maid I love ne'er thought of me
William Stanley Roscoe. (Born 1782—Died 1841.) To Spring: On the Banks of the Cam
Leigh Hunt. (Born 1784—Died 1859.) Jenny Kissed Me The Nun
Bryan Waller Proctor. (Born 1787—Died 1874.) Hermione
George Gordon (Lord Byron). (Born 1788—Died 1824.) There be none of Beauty's daughters
William Cullen-Bryant. (Born 1794—Died 1878.) The Forest Maid
George Darley. (Born 1795—Died 1846.) Love's Likeness
Hartley Coleridge. (Born 1796—Died 1849.) Song: She is not fair to outward view To a lofty beauty, from her poor kinsman
Thomas Hood. (Born 1798—Died 1845.) Time of Roses
Sir Henry Taylor. (Born 1800—Died 1886.) Song: The bee to the heather
Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Born 1803—Died 1882.) Days
James Clarence Mangan. (Born 1803—Died 1849.) Advice against travel
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (Born 1806—Died 1861.) My Kate Grief
John Greenleaf Whittier. (Born 1807—Died 1892.) Memories All's Well
Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Born 1809—Died 1894.) There is no friend like an old friend
Robert Jones. (Born 1809—Died 1879.) Once did my thoughts both ebb and flow
Alfred Tennyson. (Born 1809—Died 1892.) Song from 'The Princess'
Edgar Allan Poe. (Born 1809—Died 1849.) To Helen
Frances Anne Kemble. (Born 1809—Died 1893.) Faith
John Stuart Blackie. (Born 1809—Died 1895.) My Loves
Robert Browning. (Born 1812—Died 1889.) Home-Thoughts from Abroad
Philip James Bailey. (Born 1816—Died 1902.) My Lady
Henry David Thoreau. (Born 1817—Died 1862.) Love
John Ruskin. (Born 1819—Died 1900.) Trust thou thy love
Francis Turner Palgrave. (Born 1823—Died 1897.) Eutopia
William Caldwell Roscoe. (Born 1823—Died 1859.) Spiritual Love
George Meredith. (Born 1828—Died 1909.) Lucifer in Starlight Woman Love in the Valley
Richard Garnett. (Born 1835—Died 1906.) The Fair Circassian
Matilda Betham Edwards. (Born 1836.) A Valentine
Christina Georgina Rossetti. (Born 1839—Died 1894.) A Birthday Remember
John Addington Symonds. (Born 1840—Died 1893.) Farewell
Austin Dobson. (Born 1840.) On a fan that belonged to the Marquis de Pompadour A Rondeau to Ethel
Thomas Hardy. (Born 1840.) The Darkling Thrush
Frederic William Henry Myers. (Born 1843—Died 1901.) Evanescence
Robert Louis Stevenson. (Born 1850—Died 1894.) Wishes Romance
Francis William Bourdillon. (Born 1852.) A Violinist
Edward Cracroft Lefroy. (Born 1855—Died 1891.) Ageanax A Summer in Old Sicily
Douglas Brook Wheelton Sladen. (Born 1856.) Under the Wattle
William Sharp. (Born 1856—Died 1902.) On a nightingale in April
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux. (Born 1857.) Then, when all the feasting's done
Arthur Symons. (Born 1865.) Rain on the Down
William Butler Yeats. (Born 1865.) Down by the Sally Gardens When you are Old
Richard LeGallienne. (Born 1866.) Song: She's somewhere in the sunlight strong
Alfred Noyes. (Born 1880.) A Japanese Love Song