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• Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596 -- Poetry

• Elizabethan sea-dogs [electronic resource] : a chronicle of Drake and his companions / (New Haven : Yale University Press ; Toronto : Glasgow, Brook, 1918), by William Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Admirals of the Caribbean, (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922), by Francis Russell Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life, voyages, and exploits of Admiral Sir Francis Drake, KT. / (London : J. Murray, 1843), by John Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drie voornaame zee-togten van Franciscus Draak na America, door de Suyd-zee en vervolgens rond-om den geheelen Aard-kloot gedaan, in't jaar 1592 en vervolgens : behelfende een naauwkeurige beschrijving der kusten van die gewesten, veele bysondere voor-vallen, en aanmerkelijke saaken / (Te Leyden : By Pieter vander Aa ..., [between 1706 and 1727]), by Jan Goeree, Pieter van der Aa, and Ellis Hixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poems of the Rev. Charles Fitzgeoffrey: (1593-1636). ([Blackburn, End. : Printed for the subscribers by C.E. Simms, Manchester], 1881), by Charles Fitz-Geffry and Alexander Balloch Grosart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drake dans la poésie espagnole (1570-1732)... (Paris, [s.n.], 1906), by John Arthur Ray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Papers relating to the Navy during the Spanish War, 1585-1587 / ([London] : Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1898), by Julian Stafford Corbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Francis Drake / (London : Macmillan and co., 1901), by Julian Stafford Corbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under Drake's flag : a tale of the Spanish Main / (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under Drake's flag : A tale of the Spanish Main / (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drake : an English epic / (Edinburgh : W. Blackwood, 1906-), by Alfred Noyes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Identification of Francis Drake's anchorage on the coast of California in the year, 1579. (San Francisco, Bacon, 1890), by George Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discurso de el capitán Francisco Draque (Madrid, Institvto de Valencia de D. Jvan, 1921), by Juan de Castellanos and Angel Gonzáles Palencia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the Spanish main, (Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill company, [1907]), by Herbert Strang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Question: Did Sir Francis Drake land on any part of the Oregon coast? (Portland, Or. : The J.K. Gill Company, [1907?]), by Robert Maitland Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newes ovt of the coast of Spaine. The true report of the honourable seruice for England, perfourmed by Sir Fravncis Drake in the moneths of Aprill and May last past, 1587. vpon Cales, and also since that in the Cape S. Vincent and Cape Saker: discoursed at large with euerie seuerall exploit of their fortunate successe, according to their owne letters, which likewise is confirmed by those that came from thence. (London : Imprinted by W. How for H. Haslop, [1587]), by Henry Haslop (page images at HathiTrust)
• English seamen: Howard, Clifford, Hawkins, Drake, Cavendish / (London : Methuen, 1897), by Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Francis Drake, description of his landing at Drake's Bay, Marin County, California, June 17, 1579. Being an exact copy of parts of the original report of this voyage, in his caravel the "Golden Hind," including a description of the first religious service in English ever held in America, and also the date of his departure for England, July 25, 1579. ([San Francisco, 1915?]), by Francis Drake, E. F. Green, and Archibald L. Hettrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world encompassed. Offered now at last to publick view, both for the honour of the actor, but especially for the stirring up of heroick spirits, to benefit their country, and eternize their names by like noble attempts. Collected out of the notes of Mr. Francis Fletcher, preacher of this employment and compared with divers other notes that went in the same voyage. ([London, 1745]), by Francis Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Francis Drake. ([n.p.] Printed by Harrison & Co., 1794), by Harrison and Co. Book producer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and death of Sir Francis Drake. (Kent, Printed at the private press of Lee Priory, by J. Warwick, 1819), by Charles Fitz-Geffry, Egerton Brydges, and Private Press of Lee Priory. Book producer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nova Albion--1579, (Worcester, Mass., 1918), by Alexander McAdie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and death of the valiant and renowned Sir Francis Drake ... (London, Printed for Simon Miller ..., 1671), by Samuel Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Admirals of the Caribbean / (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1923, c1922), by Francis Russell Hart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios. (New York, Burt Franklin, [196-?]), by Francis Drake and Francis Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Under Drake's flag; a tale of the Spanish Main. (New York, The Mershon Company, [189-?]), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage autour du monde : pendant les années 1790,1791 et 1792 par Étienne Marchand : précédé d'une introduction historique, auquel on a joint des recherches sur les terres australes de Drake et un examen critique du voyage de Roggtween, avec cartes et figures / (A Paris : De l'Imprimerie de la République, An VI-VIII [i.e. 1797-1800]), by C. P. Claret Fleurieu and Prosper Chanal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life, voyages, and exploits of Admiral Sir Francis Drake, Knt. : with numerous original letters from him and the Lord High Admiral to the Queen and Great Officers of State / (London : J. Murray, 1843), by John Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan sea-dogs : a chronicle of Drake and his companions / (Toronto : Glasgow, Brook & Co. New York : United States Publishers Assoc., [c1918]), by William Charles Henry Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Francis Drake on the northwest coast of America in the year 1579 : the Golden Hinde did not anchor in the bay of San Francisco / ([San Francisco : F.F. Partridge], 1908), by George Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dois. Collated with an unpublished manuscript of Francis Fletcher, chaplain to the expedition. (London, Printd for the Hakluyt society, 1854), by Francis Drake, William Sandys Wright Vaux, Lapo Vaz, John Cooke, Edward Cliffe, Nuno da Silva, Francis Pretty, and Francis Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Francis Drake / (London : Macmillan, 1911), by Julian Stafford Corbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Francis Drake, and other fugitive poems, (Richmond, Va., Whittet & Shepperson, general printers, 1895), by Thomas J. Evans and Louisa ed Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noticias históricas de la Nueva España. Pub. con la proteccion del ministerio de fomento; (Madrid, Impr. de M.G. Hernandez, 1878), by Juan Suárez de Peralta and Justo Zaragoza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives and voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier; including an introductory view of the earlier discoveries in the South Sea, and the history of the Bucaniers. (New York, 1836), by C. I. Johnstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives and voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier: (Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd; London, Simpkin, Marshall & co. , 1837), by C. I. Johnstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drake and his yeomen : a true accounting of the character and adventures of Sir Francis Drake as told by Sir Matthew Maunsell, his friend and follower / (New York : Macmillan; London : Macmillan, 1899), by James Barnes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of Sir Francis Drake, (London, T.C. & E.C. Jack; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., [1906]), by Letitia MacColl Elton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Drake and the Tudor navy, with a history of the rise of England as a maritime power, (London New York Bombay, Longmans, Green, and co., 1899), by Julian Stafford Corbett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Howard to Nelson : twelve sailors / (London : Heinemann, c1907), by John Knox Laughton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Drake, the sea-king of Devon, (Boston : Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham, 1883), by George M. Towle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drake, Nelson and Napoleon; (New York, Knickerbocker, 1920), by Walter Runciman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early English voyagers : or, The adventures and discoveries of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier. (London : Nelson, 1892), by C. I. Johnstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drake, Nelson and Napoleon; (New York, G. P. Putnam, [1920]), by Walter Runciman Runciman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan sea-dogs; a chronicle of Drake and his companions, (New Haven, Yale University, 1921), by William Charles Henry Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir Francis Drake / (London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; New York : MacMillan Co., 1920), by Walter J. Harte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Drake, an English epic, books I-XII, (New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, [c1909]), by Alfred Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drake and the Tudor navy; with a history of the rise of England as a maritime power; (London, New York, Longmans, Green, 1898), by Julian Stafford Corbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drake : the sea-king of Devon / (Boston : Lee and Shepard, 1882), by George M. Towle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579, (Berkeley Los Angeles, University of California press, 1947), by Robert F. Heizer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyages of Drake & Gilbert: select narratives from the "Principal navigations" of Hakluyt / (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), by Richard Hakluyt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Francis Drake, a tragedy of the sea, (Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), by S. Weir Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Francis Drake, (London, New York, Macmillan and Co., 1890), by Julian Stafford Corbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The family and heirs of Sir Francis Drake, (London : Smith, Elder, 1911), by Elizabeth Douglas Fuller-Eliott-Drake (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In the days of Drake [a novel] (Chicago, New York : Rand, McNally & Company, 1897), by J. S. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Admirals of the Caribbean, (Boston, Houghton Mifflin co., 1922), by Francis Russell Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Francis Drake his voyage, 1595. (London, Printed for the Hakluyt society, 1849), by Thomas Maynarde and William Desborough Cooley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A most friendly farewell giuen by a welwiller to the right worshipful Sir Frauncis Drake Knight, Generall of her Maiesties nauy, which he appointed for this his honorable voiage, and the rest of the fleete bound to the southward, and to all the gentlemen his followers, and captaines in this exploite, who set sale from Wolwich the xv. day of Iuly, 1585. Wherin is briefely touched his perils passed in his last daungerous voiage, with an incouragement to all his saylers and souldiers, to be forward in this honourable exploite. Published by Henry Robarts of London citizin. (Imprinted at London : By [T. East for] Walter Mantell and Thomas Lawe, [1585]), by fl. 1585-1616 H. R. (Henry Roberts) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• In memoriam celeberrimi viri Domini Francisci Drake militis, qui nuper in nauali expeditione contra hostes patriæ suæ, ex dysenteria laborans obijt. viz. 28 die Ianuarij Anno Dominj 1595. ([S.l. : J. Windet, 1596]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A libell of Spanish lies found at the sacke of Cales, discoursing the fight in the West Indies, twixt the English nauie being fourteene ships and pinasses, and a fleete of twentie saile of the king of Spaines, and of the death of Sir Francis Drake. With an answere briefely confuting the Spanish lies, and a short relation of the fight according to truth, written by Henrie Sauile Esquire, employed captaine in one of her Maiesties shippes, in the same seruice against the Spaniard. And also an approbation of this discourse, by Sir Thomas Baskeruile, then generall of the English fleete in that seruice: auowing the maintenance thereof, personally in armes against Don Bernaldino ... (London : Printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling by Paules Wharfe at the signe of the Crosse Keyes, and are there to be solde, 1596), by Henry Savile and Bernaldino Delgadillo de Avellaneda (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The life & death of the valiant and renowned Sir Francis Drake his voyages and discoveries in the West-Indies, and about the world, with his noble and heroick acts / by Samuel Clark ... (London : Printed for Samuel Miller ..., 1671), by Samuel Clarke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sir Francis Drake revived who is or may be a pattern to stirre up all heroicke and active spirits of these times to benefit their countrey and eternize their names by like noble attempts : being a summary and true relation of foure severall voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies ... / collected out of the notes of the said Sir Francis Drake, Mastet [sic] Philip Nichols, Master Francis Fletcher, preachers, and notes of divers other gentlemen (who went on the said voyages) carefully compared together. (Printed at London : For Nicholas Bourne ..., 1653), by Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Fletcher, Walter Bigges, and R. D. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Voyages of the ever renowned Sr. Francis Drake into the West Indies viz., his great adventures for gold and silver, with the gaining thereof, and an account of his surprising of Nombre de Dios : a large account of that voyage wherein he encompassed the world : his voyage made with Francis Knollis, and others, their taking the towns of St. Jago, Sancto Domingo, Carthageno, and Saint Augustin : his last voyage (in which he died) being accompanied with several valiant commanders, and the manner of his burial : collected out of the notes of the most approved authors, to which is added an account of his valorous exploits in the Spanish invasion. (London : Printed for Thomas Malthus ..., 1683), by Francis Drake and Walter Bigges (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A summarie and true discourse of Sir Francis Drakes VVest Indian voyage wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine : with geographicall mappes exactly describing each of the townes with their scituations, and the manner of the armies approching to the winning of them. (Imprinted at London : By Richard Field, dwelling in the Blacke-Friars by Ludgate, 1589), by Walter Bigges, Lieutenant Croftes, Thomas Gates, and Baptista. Famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes wherin weare gotten the townes of St· Iago: :Sto: Domingo Boazio (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage (Imprinted at London : By Richard Field, dwelling in the Blacke-Friars by Ludgate, 1589), by Walter Bigges, Lieutenant Croftes, Thomas Gates, and Baptista. Famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes wherin weare gotten the townes of St· Iago: :Sto: Domingo Boazio (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sir Francis Drake reuiued calling vpon this dull or effeminate age, to folowe his noble steps for golde & siluer, by this memorable relation, of the rare occurrances (neuer yet declared to the world) in a third voyage, made by him into the West-Indies, in the yeares 72. & 73. when Nombre de Dios was by him and 52. others only in his company, surprised. Faithfully taken out of the reporte of M· Christofer Ceely, Ellis Hixon, and others, who were in the same voyage with him. By Philip Nichols, preacher. Reviewed also by Sr. Francis Drake himselfe before his death, & much holpen and enlarged, by diuers notes, with his owne hand here and there inserted. Set forth by Sr Francis Drake Baronet (his nephew) now liuing. (London : Printed by E[dward] A[llde] for Nicholas Bourne dwelling at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1626), by Philip Nichols and Francis Drake (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The English heroe, or, Sir Francis Drake revived being a full account of the dangerous voyages, admirable adventures, notable discoveries, and magnanimous atchievements of that valiant and renowned commander ... / by R.B. (London : Printed for Nath. Crouch ..., 1687), by 1632?-1725? R. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Voyages & travels of that renowned captain, Sir Francis Drake, into the West-Indies, and round the world giving a perfect relation of his strange adventures, and many wonderful discoveries, his fight with the Spaniard, and many barbarous nations : his taking St. Jago, St. Domingo, Carthagena, St. Augusta and many other places in the golden country of America, and other parts of the world : his description of monsters and monstrous people : with other other remarkable passages not before extant : containted in the history of his life and death, both pleasant and profitable to the reader. ([London] : Printed by C.B. for J.F., and sold by E. Tracy ..., [1652]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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