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Drayton was born at Hartshill in Warwickshire and as a youth he became page to Sir Henry Goodere of Polesworth. He fell in love with Sir Henry's daughter, Anne, and worshipped her as 'Idea' in his poetry. Even after her marriage to Sir Henry Rainford he continued to celebrate her charms in verse, an .. .. more >>

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1		Agincourt
2		Endimion and Phoebe (excerpts)
3		How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things
4		Idea LI: Calling to mind since first my love begun
5		Idea LIII: To the River Ancor
6		Idea XX: An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still
7		Idea XXXVII: Dear, why should you command me to my rest
8		Noah's Flood (excerpts)
9		Nymphidia, The Court Of Fairy (excerpts)
10		Ode to the Cambro-Britons and their Harp, His Ballad of Agi
11		Roc
12		Sirena
13		Sonnet I: Like an Advent'rous Seafarer
14		Sonnet II: My Heart Was Slain
15		Sonnet III: Taking My Pen
16		Sonnet IV: Bright Star of Beauty
17		Sonnet IX: As Other Men
18		Sonnet L: As in Some Countries
19		Sonnet LI: Calling to Mind
20		Sonnet LII: What? Dost Thou Mean

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"Fair stood the wind for France,
When we our sails advance,
Nor now to prove our chance
Longer will tarry;"
Michael Drayton (1563-1631), British poet. Agincourt (l. 1-4). . . Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.

"Upon Saint Crispin's day
Fought was this noble fray,
Which fame did not delay
To England to carry.
On when shall Englishmen
With such acts fill a pen,
Or England breed again
Such a King Harry?"
Michael Drayton (1563-1631), British poet. Agincourt (l. 113-120). . . Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.

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Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
Michael Drayton, Renaissance English poet and playwright. Life, works, resources.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Michael Drayton: English poet, the first to write odes in English in the manner of Horace.
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