| Thou farest as fruit that with the frost is taken; / To-day ready ripe, to-morrow all to shaken. |
| —The Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty. |
| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
Title: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Author: Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey
The Poetical Works
Sixty selections from the Tudor poet who was the first practitioner of blank verse in English.
Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover; Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover; Description of Spring; The Means to attain Happy Life; The Means to Attain Happy Life
“Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey”
Chapter sections by Harold H. Child with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
