| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–47). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | Description of Spring, wherein every thing renews, save only the Lover |
| | | THE SOOTE 1 season, that bud and bloom forth brings | |
| With green hath clad the hill, and eke the vale. | |
| The nightingale with feathers new she sings; | |
| The turtle to her make 2 hath told her tale. | |
| Summer is come, for every spray now springs, | 5 |
| The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; | |
| The buck in brake his winter coat he slings; | |
| The fishes flete with new repaired scale; | |
| The adder all her slough away she slings; | |
| The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; 3 | 10 |
| The busy bee her honey now she mings; 4 | |
| Winter is worn that was the flowers’ bale. 5 | |
| And thus I see among these pleasant things | |
| Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs! | |
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