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Born in 1563 / Died in December 23, 1631 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Michael Drayton

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Idea LXI: Since there 's no help

...   -Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, ...

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Ballad of Agincourt

... When down their bows they threw, ...

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Endimion and Phoebe

... in crossing o'er the plains,Imagined, Apollo from abovePut on this shape, to win some maiden's love ...

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Idea LI

... turn her giddy wheel:Though heaven and earth prove both to me untrue,Yet am I still inviolate to you ...

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Idea VI

... story,That they shall grieve they liv'd not in these timesTo have seen thee, their sex's only glory ...

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Noah's Flood

... l my numbers flow,Telling the state wherein the earth then stood,The giant race, the universal flood ...

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Ode to the Cambro-Britons and their Harp, His Ballad of Agincourt

... other!Warwick in blood did wade,Oxford the foe invade,And cruel slaughter made, Still as they ran up ...

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Ode to the Virginian Voyage

... dustrious Hakluyt,Whose reading shall enflameMen to seek fame,And much commendTo after-times thy wit ...

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Idea XX: An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still

... By this good-wicked spirit, sweet angel-devil ...

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Idea XXXVII: Dear, why should you command me to my rest

... Which, though the day disjoin by sev'ral flight, ...