The King James Bible
The Book of Genesis (search in COVE Texts)
The Book of Judges (search in COVE Texts)
The Revelation of Saint John the Divine (search in COVE Texts)
The Gospel According to Saint Mark (search in COVE Texts)
The Gospel According to Saint Luke (search in COVE Texts)
Drama
by Elizabeth Carye
The Tragedie of Mariam (search in COVE Texts)
by Thomas Kyd
The Spanish Tragedy (search in COVE Texts)
by Christopher Marlow
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (search in COVE Texts)
by William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Folio 1 (search in COVE Texts)
Henry V (search in COVE Texts)
Macbeth (search in COVE Texts)
The Merchant of Venice (search in COVE Texts)
Much Ado about Nothing (search in COVE Texts)
Othello (search in COVE Texts)
The Tempest (search in COVE Texts)
The Two Noble Kinsmen (search in COVE Texts)
by John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi (search in COVE Texts)
Poetry
by Anonymous
"Barbara Allen" (folk song) (search in COVE Texts)
Beowulf, trans. A. S. Kline (search in COVE Texts)
Cleanness (wr. circa 1400) (search in COVE Texts)
"The Dream of the Rood" (search in COVE Texts)
Everyman (search in COVE Texts)
Pearl (wr. circa 1400) (search in COVE Texts)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (search in COVE Texts)
"The Wanderer" (search in COVE Texts)
by Margaret Cavendish
"The Hunting of the Hare" (search in COVE Texts)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue (wr. circa 1387-1400) (search in COVE Texts)
The Canterbury Tales: The Cook's Prologue and Tale (wr. circa 1387-1400) (search in COVE Texts)
The Canterbury Tales: The Knight's Tale (wr. circa 1387-1400) (search in COVE Texts)
The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Prologue and Tale (wr. circa 1387-1400) (search in COVE Texts)
The Canterbury Tales: The Nun's Priest's Tale and The Epilogue of the Nun's Priest's Tale (wr. circa 1387-1400) (search in COVE Texts)
The Canterbury Tales: The Reeve's Prologue and Tale (wr. circa 1387-1400) (search in COVE Texts)
The Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (wr. circa 1387-1400) (search in COVE Texts)
The Legend of Good Women (wr. circa 1386) (search in COVE Texts)
Romaunt of the Rose (trans. from the French circa 1360s) (search in COVE Texts)
by John Donne
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (Modern Translation)" (search in COVE Texts)
[Batter My Heart, three person'd God] (search in COVE Texts)
"Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed" (search in COVE Texts)
"Holy Sonnet 1" (Modern Translation; "Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?") (search in COVE Texts)
"Holy Sonnet 5" (Modern Translation; "I am a little world made cunningly") (search in COVE Texts)
"Holy Sonnet 10" (Modern Translation; "Death, be not proud, though some have callèd thee") (3) (search in COVE Texts)
"Holy Sonnet 13" (Modern Translation; "What if this present were the world's last night?") (search in COVE Texts)
"Holy Sonnet 18" (Modern Translation; "Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear") (search in COVE Texts)
"Song ["Go and catch a falling star"] (search in COVE Texts)
"The Flea" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Sunne Rising" (search in COVE Texts)
by John Gower
Confessio Amantis, Prologue (wr. circa 1390) (search in COVE Texts)
Confessio Amantis, Book 7 (wr. circa 1390) (search in COVE Texts)
by George Herbert
"Affliction (1)" (search in COVE Texts)
"Death" (search in COVE Texts)
"Denial" (search in COVE Texts)
"Discipline" (search in COVE Texts)
"Easter Wings" (search in COVE Texts)
"Love (3)" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Altar" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Collar" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Windows" (search in COVE Texts)
by Robert Herrick
"Delight in Disorder" (search in COVE Texts)
"To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (search in COVE Texts)
by Thomas Hoccleve
The Regiment of Princes (wr. circa 1411-20) (search in COVE Texts)
by William Langland
Piers the Plowman, Prologue (wr. circa 1377) (search in COVE Texts)
Piers the Plowman, Passus 1 (wr. circa 1377) (search in COVE Texts)
by John Lydgate
A Complaynt of a Lovers Life (wr. circa 1400-1429) (search in COVE Texts)
by Christopher Marlow
"The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" (search in COVE Texts)
by Andrew Marvell
"The Definition of Love" (search in COVE Texts)
"To His Coy Mistress" (search in COVE Texts)
by John Milton
Paradise Lost (1, 2, 9) (search in COVE Texts)
Paradise Lost, Book 3 (search in COVE Texts)
Paradise Lost, Book 4 (search in COVE Texts)
Paradise Lost, Book 5 (search in COVE Texts)
Paradise Lost, Book 6 (search in COVE Texts)
Paradise Lost, Book 7 (search in COVE Texts)
Paradise Lost, Book 8 (search in COVE Texts)
Paradise Lost, Book 9 (search in COVE Texts)
Paradise Lost, Book 10 (search in COVE Texts)
Paradise Lost, Book 11 (search in COVE Texts)
Paradise Lost, Book 12 (search in COVE Texts)
"Sonnet 19: When I Consider How My Light Is Spent," 1673 (search in COVE Texts)
by Francesco Petrarca
Rima 61, [Benedetto sia 'l giorno] (search in COVE Texts)
Rima 140 [Love, who lives and reigns] (search in COVE Texts)
Rima 190 [A white doe on the green grass] (search in COVE Texts)
by Katherine Philips
"A Married State" (search in COVE Texts)
"On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips" (search in COVE Texts)
by William Shakespeare
The Rpe of Lucrece (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 2 [When forty winters shall besiege thy brow] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 3 [Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 4 [Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 5 [Those hours that with gentle work did frame] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 18 [Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 19 [Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 20 [A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 25 [Let those who are in favor with their stars] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 26 [Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 29 [When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 36 [Let me confess that we two must be twain] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 43 [When most I wink then do mine eyes best see] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 57 [Being your slave what should I do but tend] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 93 [So shall I live supposing thou art true] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 98 [From you have I been absent in the spring] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 116 [Let me not to the marriage of true minds] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 130 [My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 142 [Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 143 [Lo, as a careful huswife runs to catch] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 144 [Two loves I have of comfort and despair] (search in COVE Texts)
Sonnet 152 [In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn] (search in COVE Texts)
by Thomas Wyatt
"Stand whoso list" (search in COVE Texts)
"The long love that in my thought doth harbor" (search in COVE Texts)
"They flee from me" (search in COVE Texts)
"Whoso list to hunt" (search in COVE Texts)
Prose
by Bede
"The Story of Cædmon and Cædmon's Hymn" (search in COVE Texts)
by Margaret Cavendish
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World, excerpts (search in COVE Texts)
by Margery Kempe
The Book of Margery Kempe, excerpts (search in COVE Texts)
by Richard Ligon
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (search in COVE Texts)
by Sir Philip Sidney
"The Defense of Poetry," excerpts (search in COVE Texts)