Poems from the period: 16th century

A Beauty of Fifteen, Childlike by Pierre De Ronsard
A Clairvoyant Falcon Flying Along the River by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
A Thousand Lost Kisses, a Thousand and a Thousand Favors by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
After the Winds, After the Sad Storm by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Against Denise the Sorceress by Pierre De Ronsard
Against the Real Presence by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Ah, Long Winter Nights, Tormentors of My Life by Pierre De Ronsard
Ah! What Hatred and Envy I Bear by Pierre De Ronsard
Alas, If You See Me Constant in Inconstancy by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
All That Which Smells of Man to Death Invites Me by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Amourette by Pierre De Ronsard
An Amorous Ardor by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
April by Rémy Belleau
At the Violent Lightning Flash of Your Divine Face by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
At Twenty Years, Pure of Offense and Vice by Pierre De Ronsard
Aubade for May by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Awakening by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Ballad of Certain Bad Customs That Reign Now by Eustorg De Beaulieu
Before Your Time Your Temples Will Bloom by Pierre De Ronsard
But What! Already the Heavens Agree to Weep by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
But What! It Is Too Much Sung… by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
By a destiny within my heart remains by Pierre De Ronsard
By Love, by Love I Was, I Was Wounded by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Chatterbox, Who Always Come by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Come here, come, little gourmet by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Come, Death, to My Aid Come by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Complaint to His Lady by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Desire by Rémy Belleau
Diana, Your Custom Is to Tear Everything Apart by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Divine Angel, Who Balms My Wounds by Pierre De Ronsard
Driven by Despair, My Flaming Eyes I Raise by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
During the Summer, Through the Parched Orchard by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Ecstasy by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Elegy to Janet, Painter to the King by Pierre De Ronsard
Epitaph by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Evening Prayer by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
For His Tomb by Pierre De Ronsard
Francine Has Such Good Grace by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Give Me Your Gifts in These Days When the Mist by Pierre De Ronsard
Good Morning My Heart, Good Morning My Sweet Life by Pierre De Ronsard
Ha, how cruel you are to me by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Has Love Then Not Been Able with a Dainty Rage by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
He Who Drinks … by Pierre De Ronsard
Heaven Will Not Let Me, Lady, Take My Pleasure by Pierre De Ronsard
Here Is the Death of the Sky… by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
High Beauty in a Humble Maid by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
How You Are a Cicero by Pierre De Ronsard
I Burn with My Soul and My Reddening Blood by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
I Feel My Fear Banished and the Pain I Endure by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
I Have as My Mistress… by Pierre De Ronsard
I Have Nothing Left but Bones… by Pierre De Ronsard
I Open My Stomach, a Bleeding Tomb by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
I Plant in Your Favor This Tree of Cybèle by Pierre De Ronsard
I Send You a Bouquet That My Hand by Pierre De Ronsard
I Want to Die for Your Beauties, Mistress by Pierre De Ronsard
I Want to Read Homer’s Iliad in Three Days by Pierre De Ronsard
I Would Be Ixion and Tantalus by Pierre De Ronsard
I Would Gladly, Richly Yellowing by Pierre De Ronsard
If a Thousand Carnations, If a Thousand Lilies I Embrace by Pierre De Ronsard
If I Die Between Your Arms, Madame by Pierre De Ronsard
If Only the Image of the Thing by Pierre De Ronsard
If You Saw My Heart as You See My Face by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
If You Would Have Me Die by Rémy Belleau
Il faut laisser maisons et vergers et jardins by Pierre De Ronsard
In Better Manner He Will Turn the Use of the Five Senses by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
In Praise of the Forest by Eustorg De Beaulieu
In the Park of Thalcy, I Planted Two Young Shoots by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
In the Serenity of Its Twin Flame by Pierre De Ronsard
Is It Then True That My Enchanted Sight by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Judgment (1) by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Judgment (2) by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Kiss Me, My Heart… by Rémy Belleau
Let Us Pour These Roses Beside This Wine by Pierre De Ronsard
Let Us Use Here the Gall of Our Wretched Lives by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Like a Roe Deer, When Spring Destroys by Pierre De Ronsard
Like as one sees the rose on the branch in the month of May by Pierre De Ronsard
Little Navel, That My Thought Adores by Pierre De Ronsard
Little Ode to a Young Mistress by Pierre De Ronsard
Love Kills Me, and Yet I Will Not Tell by Pierre De Ronsard
Love, You Seem Like the Scorpion That Stings by Pierre De Ronsard
Madrigal by Pierre De Ronsard
Marie, arise, my young lazy one by Pierre De Ronsard
Marie, Kiss Me; No, Do Not Kiss Me by Pierre De Ronsard
Marie, Who Would Turn Your Beautiful Name by Pierre De Ronsard
Marie, Whom I Serve with Too Cruel a Fate by Pierre De Ronsard
Marie, You Have Cheeks as Vermeil by Pierre De Ronsard
Marie, you never fail to take me to task by Pierre De Ronsard
Marie, you surpass in stature, and in face by Pierre De Ronsard
Mignonne, allons voir si la rose by Pierre De Ronsard
Miseries by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Mistress, Embrace Me, Kiss Me, Hold Me Tight by Pierre De Ronsard
More Than a Thousand Times Than Any Earthly Gold by Pierre De Ronsard
Morning Prayer by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
My God, How I Love to Kiss Those Beautiful Eyes by Pierre De Ronsard
My Mind Is All Weary by Pierre De Ronsard
My Mistress Is All Angel-Like by Pierre De Ronsard
Nor Her Curly Treasure by Pierre De Ronsard
Now Fear and Now Hope by Pierre De Ronsard
Now I see well that one must live in servitude by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
O Bellerie Fountain by Pierre De Ronsard
O Divine Inconstancy, Have Pity on Me by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
O My Beautiful Rebel by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
O Sweet Pleasure Full of Sweet Thought by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
O Sweet Speech, Whose Honeyed Bait by Pierre De Ronsard
O You for Whom by Day and Night I Sigh by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Ode in Dialogue of the Eyes and His Heart by Pierre De Ronsard
Ode in Dialogue, Hope and Ronsard by Pierre De Ronsard
Ode to Cassandra by Pierre De Ronsard
Ode to Fever by Pierre De Ronsard
Ode to the Lark by Pierre De Ronsard
Odelet to Her Bouquet by Pierre De Ronsard
Odelette by Pierre De Ronsard
Odelette to His Mistress by Pierre De Ronsard
Odelette to the Swallow by Pierre De Ronsard
Of a Glutton, Drunkard and Lazybones by Eustorg De Beaulieu
Of a Hat That Blossoms by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Of Arrogance and Gravity by Eustorg De Beaulieu
Of the Rose by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
On a Tiny Skiff, Lost and Wretched by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
On Spring by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
One Day, When Winter’s Wearisome Cold by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Our Desires Are Love’s Devouring Ember by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Pavane – Belle qui tiens ma vie by Thoinot Arbeau
Place Me Above the Sea Where the Sun Rises by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Psalm CXXI by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Psalm V by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Psalm VI by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Put Me on the Shore Where the Sun Rises by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Ronsard, if you knew how to spread throughout the world by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Royal Chant of the Most Beautiful That Ever Was in the World by Catherine D'Amboise
Scattered Sighs, Sobs Lost in the Air by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Since Love Rekindles My Breast by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Since the Day My Soul Was Taken by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Since the wounded body, softly stretched out by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Since You Are Whiter by Pierre De Ronsard
Sky, Air, and Winds, Plains and Open Mountains by Pierre De Ronsard
So Many Times Making Up, So Many Times Quarreling by Pierre De Ronsard
Song by Pierre De Ronsard
Song in the Form of a Dialogue by Eustorg De Beaulieu
Song on the Present Time by Eustorg De Beaulieu
Stances by Pierre De Ronsard
Strike Me Down with Grace by Pierre De Ronsard
Sweet and beautiful little mouth by Rémy Belleau
Sweet Mistress by Pierre De Ronsard
Take This Rose, Lovely as You by Pierre De Ronsard
The Cicada by Rémy Belleau
The Evening Love Made You Descend into the Hall by Pierre De Ronsard
The Gilded Chamber by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
The Lame Husband of Venus by Pierre De Ronsard
The Lilies Seem to Me Black, the Honey Bitter Beyond Measure by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
The Love That Torments Me by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
The Rooster’s Stone by Rémy Belleau
The Rose by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
The Shade of the Trellis by Eustorg De Beaulieu
The Twentieth of April, Lying on the Grass by Pierre De Ronsard
The Watery Stone by Rémy Belleau
The Winter of Sieur d’Aubigné by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
The Year Was Growing Young Again in Its Green Youth by Pierre De Ronsard
These Eyes, These Eyes, Sweet Thieves of My Soul by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
These Golden Tresses, This Vermilion Mouth by Pierre De Ronsard
Third Psalm by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
This Fair Coral, This Marble That Sighs by Pierre De Ronsard
This Gentle Winter That Matches Its Days by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
This May Day with Its Painted Head by Pierre De Ronsard
Though Fields, and Rivers, and the Places by Pierre De Ronsard
Though War Be Harsh, Proud, and Cruel by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
To Cupid by Pierre De Ronsard
To His Lyre by Pierre De Ronsard
To His Soul by Pierre De Ronsard
To Méline by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
To See the Roses Flaming at Daybreak by Pierre De Ronsard
To the Forest of Gastine by Pierre De Ronsard
Under a Languid Eye Half Weeping by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Under the Trembling Curtain by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Unjust and Cruel Fate! The Sad Plowman by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Up! Let my soul then go serve its soul by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Watching You Seated Beside Your Cousin by Pierre De Ronsard
We Will Make, My Diana, a Fruitful Garden by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Well, I Have Said It, I Confess It by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
What, my soul, do you sleep benumbed in your mass by Pierre De Ronsard
When I am all bowed down before your beautiful face by Pierre De Ronsard
When I Have Been Twenty or Thirty Months by Pierre De Ronsard
When I Saw You Among a Thousand Ladies by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
When I See You Sitting Alone Apart by Pierre De Ronsard
When I think of that day when I saw her so beautiful by Pierre De Ronsard
When My Spirit, Once Subject to Your Wrath by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
When the Inhuman Fate’s Flaming Pincers by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
When the Pilot Sees the North Star Gleam in the Skies by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
When We Are in the Temple by Pierre De Ronsard
When You Are Very Old, at Evening, by Candlelight by Pierre De Ronsard
Whether Her Gold Curls Slowly Crinkle by Pierre De Ronsard
While your learned hand… by Rémy Belleau
Whoever Made a Portrait of Love by Jean-Antoine De Baïf
Whoever on the Bones of Dreadful Tombs by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Whoever Would See How a God Overcomes Me by Pierre De Ronsard
With Long Streams of Blood This Lamentable Body by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné
Within the Meadows I Saw a Dryad by Pierre De Ronsard
Would to God I Had Never Touched by Pierre De Ronsard
Wretched Winter Nights by Pierre De Ronsard
Yes, but as in civil war we see by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné