The Passionate Pilgrim (Audio)

It was first published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare’s First Folio.

The first edition survives only in a single fragmentary copy; its date cannot be fixed with certainty since its title page is missing, though many scholars judge it likely to be from 1599, the year the second edition appeared with the attribution to Shakespeare.

This version of The Passionate Pilgrim contains 15 romantic sonnets and short poems. The works contained are widely considered to be among the best.

Poems included are:

When My Love Swears
Two Loves I Have
Did Not the Heavenly Rhetoric of Thine Eye
Sweet Cytheria Sitting By a Brook
If Love Make me Foresworn
Scarce Had the Sun Dried Up the Dewy Morn
Fair is My Love
If Music and Sweet Poetry
Fair Was the Morn
Sweet Rose Fair Flower
Venus With Young Adonis
Crabbed Age and Youth
Beauty is but a Vain and Doubtful Good
Good Night Good Rest
Lord How Mine Eyes Throw Gazes to the East