Over the centuries there have been a number of poems written about Lady Jane.
‘Child-Life and Girlhood of Remarkable Women’by W H D Adams quotes from or refers to the following:
Queen Mary by Tennyson.
‘The Nine Days’ Queen: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times’ by Richard Davey quotes from or refers to the following:
This was thy home then gentle Jane – 18th century
William Hone (1780-1842) wrote a sonnet about Lady Jane Grey. This sonnet can be found at Sonnet Central.
‘Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery’ by Eric Ives quotes from or refers to the following:
By George Cavendish – within months of Jane’s death
The lamentacion that Ladie Jane made, saiying for my father’s proclamacion now must I lese my head – 1562
A lament on the death of that most eminent heroine, Lady Jane Grey, daughter of Henry duke of Suffolk who was smitten with the axe and died in most stellar spirit by Thomas Chaloner – 1579
An imaginary letter from Jane to Guildford & his reply from England’s Heroicall Epistles by Michael Drayton – 1597
The Force of Religion or Vanquished Love by Edward Young – 1714
An Epistle from Jane to Guildford – 1753
Epistle from Lady Jane Grey to Lord Guildford Dudley – 1757
‘The Many Faces of Lady Jane Grey’ by Frank Prochaska quotes from or refers to the following:
Elegy by Thomas Chaloner- 1579
The Force of Religion or Vanquish’d Love by Edward Young – 1714
‘Lives of the Tudor Princesses’ by Agnes Strickland quotes from or refers to the following:
This was thy home then gentle Jane – 18th century.
‘Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey’ by Nicola Tallis quotes from or refers to the following:
By George Cavendish – 1562
A lament on the death of that most eminent heroine, Lady Jane Grey, daughter of Henry, Duke of Suffolk who was smitten with the axe and died in most steadfast spirit by Thomas Chaloner – 1579
An Epistle from Lady Jane Grey to Lord Guilford Dudley by George Keate – 1762
