And coward Love then to the heart apace
Taketh his flight, where he doth lurk and plain
His purpose lost, and dare not show his face.
        (Love that doth Reign and Live within my Thought, 9-11)

1. The Ages of Man
2. Alas! so all Things now do Hold their Peace
3. Certain Books of Virgil's {AE}neis: Book II (excerpt)
4. The Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty
5. From Tuscan Came my Lady's Worthy Race
6. The Golden Gift that Nature did thee Give
7. Lady Surrey's Lament for her Absent Lord
8. London, hast thou Accused me
9. Love that doth Reign and Live within my Thought
10. Of the Death of Sir T. W. The Elder
11. A Praise of His Love
12. So Cruel Prison
13. The Soote Season, that Bud and Bloom forth Brings
14. The Things That Cause a Quiet Life

Notes on Life and Works

Like Wyatt's poems, Surrey's were circulated in manuscript during his lifetime. A number of them were first printed in Tottel's Miscellany of 1557 (cf. introductory note to Wyatt above). The text in Representative Poetry is based on the manuscript versions of the poems, which were first edited by Nott in 1815-16, and more recently in the scholarly edition of The Poems of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey by F. M. Padelford (Seattle, 1920 and 1928). The sonnets were first printed by Tottell in 1557.

• Brigden, Susan. "Howard, Henry, earl of Surrey (1516/17–1547)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008.

Biographical information

Given name: Henry Howard, earl of
Family name: Surrey
Birth date: ca. 1517
Death date: 19 January 1547
Pseudonym: Henry Howard
Nationality: English
Languages
          French
          Latin
Literary period: Tudor
Occupation: Soldier
Residences
          Framlingham, Suffolk
          Hunsdon, Hertfordshire
          Lambeth, near London
          Tendring Hall, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk
Cause of death: Beheading
Buried at: All Hallows Barking, then St Michael's Church, Framlingham, Suffolk (1614)