Author:Edward de Vere

Works

 * The Poems of Edward de Vere (1921, J. Thomas Looney, ed.)

Individual poems
Numbered according to May.


 * 1) Labour and its Reward ("The labouring man that tills the fertile soil")
 * 2) Care and Disappointment ("Even as the wax doth melt")
 * 3) The Forsaken Man ("A crown of bays shall that man wear")
 * 4) Loss of Good Name ("Fram'd in the front of forlorn hope")
 * 5) Not Attaining to his Desire he complaineth ("I am not as I seem to be")
 * 6) Reason and Affection ("If care or skill could conquer vain desire")
 * 7) Love and Wit ("My meaning is to work what wonders love hath wrought")
 * 8) The Lively Lark
 * 9) Love and Antagonism ("The trickling tears that fall along my cheeks")
 * 10) Revenge of Wrong ("Fain would I sing, but fury makes me fret")
 * 11) Come Hither Shepherd Swain (some versions begin "When wert thou born, Desire?")
 * 12) Winged with Desire
 * 13) Love compared to a tennis-play ("Whenas the heart at tennis plays")
 * 14) What Cunning can Express
 * 15) Love thy Choice ("Who taught thee first to sigh")
 * 16) Were I a King

Attributed

 * 1) Anne Vavasour's Echo ("Sitting alone upon my thought")
 * 2) My Mind to me a Kingdom is
 * 3) Woman's Changeableness ("If women could be fair")
 * 4) I do increase their wand'ring wits