| Anonymous. XIII–XIV Century | 1. | Cuckoo Song |
| 2. | Alison |
| 3. | Spring-tide |
| 4. | Blow, Northern Wind |
| 5. | This World’s Joy |
| 6. | A Hymn to the Virgin |
| 7. | Of a rose, a lovely rose |
| Robert Mannyng of Brunne. 1269–1340 | 8. | Praise of Women |
| John Barbour. d. 1395 | 9. | Freedom |
| Geoffrey Chaucer. 1340?–1400 | 10. | The Love Unfeigned |
| 11. | Balade |
| 12. | Merciles Beaute |
| Thomas Hoccleve. 1368–9?–1450? | 13. | Lament for Chaucer |
| John Lydgate. 1370?–1450? | 14. | Vox ultima Crucis |
| King James I of Scotland. 1394–1437 | 15. | Spring Song of the Birds |
| Robert Henryson. 1425–1500 | 16. | Robin and Makyne |
| 17. | The Bludy Serk |
| William Dunbar. 1465–1520? | 18. | To a Lady |
| 19. | In Honour of the City of London |
| 20. | On the Nativity of Christ |
| 21. | Lament for the Makers |
| Anonymous. XV–XVI Century | 22. | May in the Green-Wood |
| 23. | Carol |
| 24. | Quia Amore Langueo |
| 25. | The Nut-Brown Maid |
| 26. | As ye came from the Holy Land |
| 27. | The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring |
| 28. | Balow |
| 29. | The Old Cloak |
| John Skelton. 1460?–1529 | 30. | To Mistress Margery Wentworth |
| 31. | To Mistress Margaret Hussey |
| Stephen Hawes. d. 1523 | 32. | The True Knight |
| 33. | An Epitaph |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt. 1503–1542 | 34. | Forget not yet |
| 35. | The Appeal |
| 36. | A Revocation |
| 37. | Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus… |
| 38. | To His Lute |
| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. 1516–47 | 39. | Description of Spring |
| 40. | Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover being upon the Sea |
| 41. | The Means to attain Happy Life |
| Nicholas Grimald. 1519–62 | 42. | A True Love |
| Alexander Scott. 1520?–158– | 43. | A Bequest of His Heart |
| 44. | A Rondel of Love |
| Robert Wever. c. 1550 | 45. | In Youth is Pleasure |
| Richard Edwardes. 1523–66 | 46. | Amantium Irae |
| George Gascoigne. 1525?–77 | 47. | A Lover’s Lullaby |
| Alexander Montgomerie. 1540?–1610? | 48. | The Night is Near Gone |
| William Stevenson. 1530?–1575 | 49. | Jolly Good Ale and Old |
| Anonymous. XVI–XVII Century | 50. | When Flora had O’erfret the Firth |
| 51. | Lusty May |
| 52. | My Heart is High Above |
| 53. | A Praise of His Lady |
| 54. | To Her Sea-faring Lover |
| 55. | The Faithless Shepherdess |
| 56. | Crabbed Age and Youth |
| 57. | Phyllida’s Love-Call |
| 58. | A Pedlar |
| 59. | Hey nonny no! |
| 60. | Preparations |
| 61. | The New Jerusalem |
| 62. | Icarus |
| 63. | Madrigal |
| 64. | How can the Heart forget her? |
| 65. | Tears |
| 66. | My Lady’s Tears |
| 67. | Sister, Awake! |
| 68. | Devotion |
| 69. | Since First I saw your Face |
| 70. | There is a Lady sweet and kind |
| 71. | Love not me for comely grace |
| 72. | The Wakening |
| Nicholas Breton. 1542–1626 | 73. | Phillida and Coridon |
| 74. | A Cradle Song |
| Sir Walter Raleigh. 1552–1618 | 75. | The Silent Lover i |
| 76. | The Silent Lover ii |
| 77. | His Pilgrimage |
| 78. | The Conclusion |
| Edmund Spenser. 1552–1599 | 79. | Whilst it is prime |
| 80. | A Ditty |
| 81. | Prothalamion |
| 82. | Epithalamion |
| 83. | From ‘Daphnaïda‘ |
| 84. | Easter |
| John Lyly. 1553–1606 | 85. | Cards and Kisses |
| 86. | Spring’s Welcome |
| Anthony Munday. 1553–1633 | 87. | Beauty Bathing |
| Sir Philip Sidney. 1554–86 | 88. | The Bargain |
| 89. | Song |
| 90. | Voices at the Window |
| 91. | Philomela |
| 92. | The Highway |
| 93. | This Lady’s Cruelty |
| 94. | Sleep |
| 95. | Splendidis longum valedico Nugis |
| Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke. 1554–1628 | 96. | Myra |
| Thomas Lodge. 1556?–1625 | 97. | Rosalind’s Madrigal |
| 98. | Phillis 1 |
| 99. | Phillis 2 |
| 100. | Rosaline |
| George Peele. 1558?–97 | 101. | Fair and Fair |
| 102. | A Farewell to Arms |
| Robert Greene. 1560–92 | 103. | Samela |
| 104. | Fawnia |
| 105. | Sephestia’s Lullaby |
| Alexander Hume. 1560–1609 | 106. | A Summer Day |
| George Chapman. 1560–1634 | 107. | Bridal Song |
| Robert Southwell. 1561–95 | 108. | Times go by Turns |
| 109. | The Burning Babe |
| Henry Constable. 1562?–1613? | 110. | On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney |
| Samuel Daniel. 1562–1619 | 111. | Love is a Sickness |
| 112. | Ulysses and the Siren |
| 113. | Beauty, Time, and Love |
| Mark Alexander Boyd. 1563–1601 | 114. | Sonet |
| Joshua Sylvester. 1563–1618 | 115. | Ubique |
| Michael Drayton. 1563–1631 | 116. | To His Coy Love |
| 117. | The Parting |
| 118. | Sirena |
| 119. | Agincourt |
| 120. | To the Virginian Voyage |
| Christopher Marlowe. 1564–93 | 121. | The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
| 122. | Her Reply |
