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Also available is A Lover's Complaint, which was printed with the Sonnets in 1609.
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JANUARY 2004
The book version (of all the text and commentaries) is currently out of print. 

England's Helicon,   a miscellany of poems published in 1600.  A small part of this work is available.
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FEBRUARY 2009:     Some Introductory Notes to the Sonnets

POEMS ANCIENT AND MODERN. A SELECTION OF POEMS FOR ST. VALENTINE'S DAY.
A selection of love poems provided originally for St. Valentine's day, some previously unpublished. Additions are made from time to time.
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This page last updated   17 December 2009.     

 Views of Cheapside, London, from a print of 1639.

Marlowe in Henry V.     

  A work by Dr. T. Merriam which examines the Marlovian content in Shakespeare's Henry V.   Published by Oxquarry Books Ltd.

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,

So do our minutes hasten to their end,

Each changing place with that which goes before

In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

Nativity, once in the main of light,

Crawls to maturity, wherewith, being crowned,

Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight

And Time that gave, doth now his gift confound.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth,

And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,

Feeds on the rarities of natures truth,

And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow;

    And yet, to times, in hope, my verse shall stand,

    Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.

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