Poetry
Found in 181 Collections and/or Records:
Plays and odes, Seventeenth century
Poems, 1620 (Circa)
Manuscript poems in English, c. 1620, with an index. The poems were possibly written by the amanuensis of Henry Percy, 9th Duke of Northumberland (1564-1632), Donne's friend and probably the former owner of the volume.
Poems, 1632 (Circa)
Manuscript poems in English with the signature on the flyleaf, 'Nar. Luttrell His Book 1680'. The volume includes Donne's epitaph, a poem addressed to him by his son, and other pieces. It is accompanied by related letters addressed to Geoffrey Keynes, c. 1950-1970.
Poems, Late sixteenth century
English and Latin verses. The manuscript contains translations from Ovid, several Latin epitaphs on the Lady Catherine ‘nuper Duraventani comitis filiæ’, and other miscellaneous pieces, one of which is dated 1568. On the first page of the manuscript the following note occurs: ‘Anno ante nativitatem Christi quadringentisimo octogesimo septimo editum fuit castrum Norwici per regem Gurguntum [Caer-Gunt], ut patet in record’.
Poems, Early seventeenth century
Twenty-one short poems on subjects chiefly connected with the life of Christ. On a flyleaf at the end is written 'Lent to Sir Henry Sidney 100£ the 11 of May, 1612'. Also Ἰωάννης Κνύεττος [i.e. Knyvett] τὁν βίβλον κρατεῖ.
Poems, Early seventeenth century
Short poems on various subjects. On f. 16 occurs the signature 'By me, A. Henley'. At the end of the volume are six pages of prose, with the title 'Notæ selectæ ex epistolis monsieur de Balzac quibusdam amicis'. See also MSS Dd.14.07 and Dd.14.17.
Poems and correspondence of Peter Robinson relating to his publications with the Many Press
Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
Poems by Thom Gunn
Poems, chiefly on Philip O'Reilly
Some notes are in the hand of W. B. Kane of Edmund House, Cambridge.
Poems of John Donne
A collection of poems of John Donne. Also includes other poems by Francis Bacon, Thomas Carew, Francis Beaumont and Sir Henry Wotton transcribed at a similar date. The manuscript is sometimes referred to as the 'Cambridge Balam' manuscript.
Poems on Several Occasions
106 folios. The volume is probably the verse commonplace book of a Cambridge student. The authorship of the poems is not stated. Pages 2-6 and 118-206 are blank. There is a list of contents at pp. 207-209.
Poems on the parables
Poems (Phillips MS 9325)
Seventy-eight poems by Henry King, written in a contemporary hand. The volume was probably compiled under the author's supervision. It includes the bookplate of Sir J.A. Brooke. There is an accompanying letter from Margaret Crum, 27 March 1953, describing the collection.
Poetical scrapbook, Early seventeenth century
Records of the Marlowe Dramatic Society, 1907 - 1954
The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.
'Rewards and Fairies'
Richard Farmer: Poetry
'Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy', with various poems and other juvenilia.
Robert Brinsley Sheridan: Poetry
Two stanzas of ten lines each by Richard Sheridan, beginning 'When tis night and the midwatch is set', copied in the hand of William Blake on the back of part of the title-page of William Hayley's Ballads (1802). The lines are accompanied by a letter from P.J. Dobell to Geoffrey Keynes, 6 September 1938, and part of a letter to Keynes from an unknown correspondent, 28 January 1965. There is also an extract from a sale catalogue relating to the stanzas.
Robert Hugh Benson: Poems
Robert Potter: commonplace book
Includes poetry, prose extracts and literary ephemera.
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus: a Poem, by Francis Beaumont, c. 1600
Samuel Colvil: Mock Poem or Whiggs Supplication
Copy. 48 folios. On fo. 1: 'I pray do me the favir of sending this book home if you dont like it for if you dont you most not fale reding it for it will plese you'.
Siegfried Sassoon: Letters to Glen Byam Shaw.
Solstice Archive
Papers relating to the magazine Solstice, comprising work submitted and correspondence addressed to various editors.