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Musicalized poems placed on 50-year eras by their poet’s approximate writing years. Bar length is poem count; color leans dark or bright with average emotional tone.
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Poems in 1600s · 178
Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone
John Farmer
Tender longing
Oft thou hast with greedy ear
John Cooper
Bittersweet lament
The Cherry
Richard Allison
Sensual longing
To His Forsaken Mistress
Sir Robert Ayton
Bittersweet reflection
Come, sable night
John Ward
Melancholic reflection
The spring of joy is dry
Martin Peerson
Bittersweet longing
Upon a bank
John Ward
Tender sorrow
A Feaver
John Donne
Intense longing
A Hymn to God the Father
John Donne
Spiritual introspection
A Hymne to God the Father
Ben Jonson
Spiritual struggle
A Jet Ring Sent
John Donne
Bittersweet reflection
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne
Tender farewell
A Valediction: of weeping
John Donne
Profound sorrow
Aire and Angels
John Donne
Introspective yearning
Batter my heart, three-person'd God
John Donne
Intense spiritual struggle
Begging Another
Ben Jonson
Tender longing
Breake of Day
John Donne
Yearning intimacy
Confined Love
John Donne
Frustrated longing
Holy Sonnet 10: Death, Be Not Proud
John Donne
Defiant tranquility
Love's Diet
John Donne
Bittersweet reflection
Love's Growth
John Donne
Reflective tenderness
Love's Usury
John Donne
Bittersweet resignation
Loves Exchange
John Donne
Tortured longing
Negative love
John Donne
Bittersweet introspection
No Man Is an Island
John Donne
Contemplative connection
Sweetest love, I do not goe
John Donne
Tender melancholy
That Women Are but Mens Shaddowes
Ben Jonson
Reflective irony
The Apparition
John Donne
Haunting regret
The Baite
John Donne
Sensual longing
The Blossome
John Donne
Bittersweet reflection
The Broken Heart
John Donne
Profound sorrow
The Canonization
John Donne
Passionate reverence
The Computation
John Donne
Melancholic reflection
The Curse
John Donne
Bitter lamentation
The Damp
John Donne
Dark contemplation
The Dissolution
John Donne
Profound sorrow and yearning
The Dreame
John Donne
Tender longing
The Dreame
Ben Jonson
Haunting longing
The Expiration
John Donne
Profound sorrow
The Flea
John Donne
Playful seduction
The Indifferent
John Donne
Cynical reflection
The Message
John Donne
Bittersweet reflection
The Noble Spanish Soldier
Thomas Dekker
Profound sorrow
The Paradox
John Donne
Melancholic reflection
The Prohibition
John Donne
Turbulent affection
The Relique
John Donne
Melancholic reverie
The Sun Rising
John Donne
Playful intimacy
The Token
John Donne
Yearning intimacy
The Triple Foole
John Donne
Reflective irony
The Undertaking
John Donne
Contemplative bravery
The Will
John Donne
Bittersweet resignation
To Celia
Ben Jonson
Tender longing
Too much I once lamented
Thomas Tomkins
Bittersweet reflection
Weep no more, thou sorry boy
Thomas Tomkins
Bittersweet acceptance
Woman's Constancy
John Donne
Contemplative uncertainty
Matin Song
Thomas Heywood
Joyful celebration
She that denies me
Thomas Heywood
Tantalizing desire
Sonnet 17
Richard Barnefield
Sensual admiration
Weep, weep, mine eyes
John Wilbye
Profound sorrow
I heard a noise
Thomas Bateson
Melancholic wonder
Sweet Suffolk owl
Thomas Vautor
Melancholic reflection
Sweet, if you like and love me still
Francis Davison
Turbulent devotion
Weep, O mine eyes
John Bennet
Profound sorrow
What is beauty
Thomas Greaves
Contemplative beauty
The gods have heard my vows
Thomas Weelkes
Bittersweet reflection
Farewell, dear love
Robert Jones
Bittersweet farewell
Love is a babble
Robert Jones
Ironic confusion
Melancholy
John Fletcher
Sombre reflection
Tobacco Is Like Love
Tobias Hume
Playful irony
Weep no more
John Fletcher
Reflective solace
Shall a frown
William Corkine
Tender longing
There is a lady sweet and kind
Thomas Ford
Romantic devotion
Vanitas Vanitatum
John Webster
Somber reflection
What then is love
Thomas Ford
Bittersweet reflection
A vow
Phineas Fletcher
Profound despair
Against a Rich Man Despising Povertie
Phineas Fletcher
Reflective humility
Of My Deare Sonne, Geruase Beaumont
Sir John Beaumont
Profound sorrow and hope
The silver swan
Orlando Gibbons
Melancholic reflection
To His Watch, When He Could Not Sleep
Edward Herbert
Contemplative melancholy
Now fie on foolish love
Francis Beaumont
Cynical reflection
The Court of True Honour
William Drummond
Reflective contemplation
This Life which seemes so faire
William Drummond
Reflective melancholy
When from my love I looked for love
John Bartlet
Bitter resignation
Whither runeth my sweethart
John Bartlet
Playful longing
Beauty's Beauty
John Ford
Contemplative awe
Fond ladds that spend so fast your poasting time
Giles Fletcher
Reflective admiration
Oh, no more, no more
John Ford
Profound sorrow
A Nosegay
John Reynolds
Romantic admiration
I Loved a Lass
George Wither
Bittersweet nostalgia
The Sirens' Song
William Browne, of Tavistock
Sensual longing
A Thankful Heart
Robert Herrick
Grateful reflection
Along the dark and silent night
Robert Herrick
Somber reflection
Anacreontic
Robert Herrick
Reflective acceptance
Cherry Ripe
Robert Herrick
Sensual delight
Eternity
Robert Herrick
Spiritual reflection
Fly to my mistress
Robert Herrick
Sensual longing
How Love came in, I do not know
Robert Herrick
Contemplative longing
I could but see thee yesterday
Robert Herrick
Bittersweet longing
Kissing Usury
Robert Herrick
Playful longing
Love Dislikes Nothing
Robert Herrick
Playful acceptance
The Beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen
Robert Herrick
Whimsical desperation
The Changes: to Corinna
Robert Herrick
Reflective melancholy
The Cruel Maid
Robert Herrick
Tragic resignation
The Hag
Robert Herrick
Dark enchantment
The Invitation
Robert Herrick
Bitter irony
The Mad Maid's Song
Robert Herrick
Melancholic longing
The Maypole
Robert Herrick
Joyful celebration
The Old Wives' Prayer
Robert Herrick
Spiritual protection
The Primrose
Robert Herrick
Tender melancholy
The Successon of the Four Sweet Months
Robert Herrick
Joyful celebration
The Wounded Heart
Robert Herrick
Bittersweet reflection
To Anthea, who may command him anything
Robert Herrick
Devoted longing
To Blossoms
Robert Herrick
Melancholic reflection
To Laurels
Robert Herrick
Reflective yearning
To Live Merrily
Robert Herrick
Joyful celebration
To Music, to Becalm His Fever
Robert Herrick
Tender resignation
To Violets
Robert Herrick
Bittersweet reflection
To the Rose
Robert Herrick
Tender longing
To the Virgins, to make much of Time
Robert Herrick
Urgent reflection
To the Water-Nymphs Drinking at the Fountain
Robert Herrick
Sensual longing
To the Willow-Tree
Robert Herrick
Melancholic reflection
The Shortness of Life
Francis Quarles
Reflective melancholy
Were thy heart soft, as Thou art faire
Henry King
Melancholic wonder
Love (III)
George Herbert
Tender reconciliation
The Church-Floore
George Herbert
Spiritual reflection
Virtue
George Herbert
Reflective acceptance
Mediocrity in Love Rejected
Thomas Carew
Intense yearning
Secrecy in Love Pledged
Thomas Carew
Secretive tenderness
To My Inconstant Mistris
Thomas Carew
Bittersweet resignation
To My Mistress Sitting by a River’s Side
Thomas Carew
Tender longing
Song from 'Ajax and Ulysses.'
James Shirley
Somber reflection
Sweet was the song the Virgin sung
John Attey
Tender spirituality
On a Gentlewoman Walking in the Snowe
William Strode
Tender melancholy
Time
Jasper Mayne
Bittersweet reflection
From witty men and mad
Thomas Randolph
Witty introspection
To Roses in the Bosome of Castara
William Habington
Tender reflection
Fade, Flow'rs!
Edmund Waller
Reflective melancholy
Go, Lovely Rose
Edmund Waller
Tender longing
On Tea
Edmund Waller
Celebratory reverence
On a Girdle
Edmund Waller
Tender longing
The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest
Sir William Davenant
Awakening desire
A Rose
Sir Richard Fanshawe
Melancholic reflection
On His Blindness
John Milton
Reflective resignation
Song of May Morning
John Milton
Joyful celebration
The Ruby
Sir Richard Fanshawe
Sensual admiration
Why so pale and wan, fond lover
Sir John Suckling
Frustrated longing
1 Corinthians 13
King James Bible
Spiritual reflection
Ecclesiastes 1
King James Bible
Melancholic reflection
Falsehood
William Cartwright
Bitter disillusionment
Psalm 1
King James Bible
Spiritual assurance
Psalm 23
King James Bible
Serene assurance
Psalm 34
King James Bible
Spiritual reassurance
Psalm 91
King James Bible
Spiritual reassurance
Revelation Ch.6
King James Bible
Apocalyptic dread
Seal up her Eyes, O sleep
William Cartwright
Tender tranquility
The Gnat
William Cartwright
Bittersweet reflection
A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment
Anne Bradstreet
Longing tenderness
Before the Birth of one of her Children
Anne Bradstreet
Somber reflection
Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant
Thomas Jordan
Carpe Diem Revelry
His Metrical Prayer: before Execution
James Graham
Somber resignation
In my Solitary houres in my dear husband his Absence
Anne Bradstreet
Spiritual yearning
On the Faithlessness and Venality of his Times
James Graham
Melancholic reflection
Upon my Son Samuel his goeing for England
Anne Bradstreet
Spiritual resignation
What God is like to him I serve
Anne Bradstreet
Spiritual devotion
Loves Horoscope
Richard Crashaw
Tender longing
A Black Patch on Lucasta's Face
Richard Lovelace
Sensual admiration
A Fly Caught in a Cobweb
Richard Lovelace
Tragic irony
A Lady with a Falcon on Her Fist
Richard Lovelace
Tragic reflection
Ellinda's Glove
Richard Lovelace
Tender longing
Her Muffe
Richard Lovelace
Sensual irony
Lucasta's World
Richard Lovelace
Turbulent desire
To Amarantha: That She Would Dishevell Her Haire
Richard Lovelace
Sensual longing
To Ellinda, Upon His Late Recovery
Richard Lovelace
Bittersweet longing
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Richard Lovelace
Noble sacrifice
Valiant Love
Richard Lovelace
Tragic defiance
My Picture
Abraham Cowley
Bittersweet reflection
The Grasshopper
Abraham Cowley
Joyful celebration
The Heart Breaking
Abraham Cowley
Profound sorrow