Aphra Behn

The Dream.

To the Fair Clarinda. Both from Isle of Lesbos.

The Disappointment.

Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child.

Song. Love Arm‘d. All from Representative Poetry.

Anne Bradstreet

The Author to Her Book.

The Prologue

Selected poetry
("The Author To Her Book", "By Night when Others Soundly Slept"; "Contemplations"; "A Dialogue between Old England and New"; "The Flesh and the Spirit"; "The Four Ages of Man"; "In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH"; "In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659"; "Prologue"; "To my Dear and Loving Husband"; "Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 18th, 1666)" from Representative Poetry.

Margaret Cavendish (Duchess of Newcastle)

Atomic Poems from her volume Poems, and Fancies (1653). Edited by the Emory Women Writers Resource Project.

Anne Killigrew

Poems. A complete online-version of the 1686 edition of Killigrew’s Poems. From A Celebration of Women Writers.

On Death.

The Discontent.

First Epigramm: Upon being contented with a little.

The Miseries of Man. All from Representative Poetry

Aemilia Lanyer

Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. This is a complete transcription of the eleven prefatory poems of the Huntington Library copy of Lanyer’s volume of religious of poetry. Also incl udes the country house poem "The Description of Cooke-ham". From Kari Boyd McBride’s Lanyer Home Page.

A complete searchable version of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum is available from Renaissan ce Women Online. Also at this source: Contextual Material collected by Susan Woods.

Eve’s Apologie. Arguably the most famous verses from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. (University of Toronto, Representative Poetry).

Elizabeth Major

The Author’s Prayer.

Katherine Philips

To My Excellent Lucasia. From Isle of Lesbos.

Friendship’s Mystery, to my dearest Lucasia.

To Mrs. M. A. at parting.

Orinda Upon Little Hector Philips.

Epitaph on Her Son H.P.. All from Representative Poetry.

Rachel Speght

from: "The Dreame"

Lady Mary Wroth

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. A complete HTML-version of Wroth’s sonnet sequence (Large file: 140K). Edited by Richard Bear.

Four Poems from Wroth’s Urania: Adieu sweet Sun, Unseen, Unknown, Here All Alone In Silence, and Love What Art Thou?, all from Anniina Jokinen’s Luminarium.