Principal Works
*Epigrammes and Elegies (poetry) 1595?
Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing (poetry) 1596
Hymnes of Astraea, in Acrosticke Verse (poetry) 1599
Nosce Teipsum. This Oracle Expounded in Two Elegies (poetry) 1599
A Discoverie of the True Causes Why Ireland Was Never Entirely Subdued, nor Brought under Obedience of the Crown of England untill the Beginning of His Maiesties Happie Raigne. (nonfiction) 1612
Le Primer Report des Cases et Matters Resolves en les Courts del Roy en Ireland (nonfiction) 1615
Nosce teipsum. … Hymnes of Astraea. Orchestra. Not Finished (poetry) 1622
The Works in Verse and Prose of Sir John Davies. 3 vols. [edited by Alexander B. Grosart] (poetry) 1869-76
The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. 2 vols. [edited by Alexander B. Grosart] (poetry) 1876
The Poems of Sir John Davies [edited by Clare Howard] (poetry) 1941
The Poems of Sir John Davies [edited by Robert Krueger] (poetry) 1975
*This work also contains elegies by Christopher Marlowe.
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