| Geoffrey Chaucer. |
1. |
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales |
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Lines 1–200 |
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Lines 201–400 |
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Lines 401–600 |
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Lines 601–800 |
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Lines 801–858 |
| 2. |
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale |
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Lines 1–200 |
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Lines 201–400 |
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Lines 401–637 |
| Traditional Ballads. |
3. |
The Douglas Tragedy |
| 4. |
The Twa Sisters |
| 5. |
Edward |
| 6. |
Babylon; or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie |
| 7. |
Hind Horn |
| 8. |
Lord Thomas and Fair Annet |
| 9. |
Love Gregor |
| 10. |
Bonny Barbara Allan |
| 11. |
The Gay Goss-Hawk |
| 12. |
The Three Ravens |
| 13. |
The Twa Corbies |
| 14. |
Sir Patrick Spence |
| 15. |
Thomas Rymer and the Queen of Elfland |
| 16. |
Sweet William’s Ghost |
| 17. |
The Wife of Usher’s Well |
| 18. |
Hugh of Lincoln |
| 19. |
Young Bicham |
| 20. |
Get Up and Bar the Door |
| 21. |
The Battle of Otterburn |
| 22. |
Chevy Chase |
| 23. |
Johnie Armstrong |
| 24. |
Captain Car |
| 25. |
The Bonny Earl of Murray |
| 26. |
Kinmont Willie |
| 27. |
Bonnie George Campbell |
| 28. |
The Dowy Houms o Yarrow |
| 29. |
Mary Hamilton |
| 30. |
The Baron of Brackley |
| 31. |
Bewick and Grahame |
| 32. |
A Gest of Robyn Hode |
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The First Fytte |
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The Second Fytte |
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The Thirde Fytte |
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The Fourth Fytte |
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The Fyfth Fytte |
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The Sixth Fytte |
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The Seventh Fytte |
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The Eighth Fytte |
| Anonymous. |
33. |
Balow |
| 34. |
The Old Cloak |
| 35. |
Jolly Good Ale and Old |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt. |
36. |
A Supplication |
| 37. |
The Lover’s Appeal |
| Henry Howard,
Earl of Surrey. |
38. |
Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover |
| 39. |
The Means to Attain Happy Life |
| George Gascoigne. |
40. |
A Lover’s Lullaby |
| Nicholas Breton. |
41. |
Phillida and Coridon |
| Anonymous. |
42. |
A Sweet Lullaby |
| 43. |
Preparations |
| 44. |
The Unfaithful Shepherdess |
| Anthony Munday. |
45. |
Beauty Bathing |
| Richard Edwardes. |
46. |
Amantium Irae |
| Sir Walter Raleigh. |
47. |
His Pilgrimage |
| 48. |
The Lie |
| 49. |
Verses |
| 50. |
What Is Our Life |
| Sir Edward Dyer. |
51. |
My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is |
| John Lyly. |
52. |
Cupid and Campaspe |
| 53. |
Spring’s Welcome |
| Sir Philip Sidney. |
54. |
Song |
| 55. |
A Dirge |
| 56. |
A Ditty |
| 57. |
Loving in Truth |
| 58. |
Be Your Words Made, Good Sir, of Indian Ware |
| 59. |
To Sleep |
| 60. |
To the Moon |
| Thomas Lodge. |
61. |
Rosalind’s Madrigal |
| 62. |
Rosaline |
| 63. |
Phillis |
| George Peele. |
64. |
Paris and none |
| Robert Southwell. |
65. |
The Burning Babe |
| Samuel Daniel. |
66. |
Beauty, Time, and Love Sonnets |
| 67. |
To Sleep |
| Michael Drayton. |
68. |
Agincourt |
| 69. |
To the Virginian Voyage |
| 70. |
Love’s Farewell |
| Henry Constable. |
71. |
Diaphenia |
| Edmund Spenser. |
72. |
Prothalamion |
| 73. |
Epithalamion |
| 74. |
A Ditty |
| 75. |
Perigot and Willie’s Roundelay |
| 76. |
Easter |
| 77. |
What Guile Is This? |
| 78. |
Fair Is My Love |
| 79. |
So Oft as I Her Beauty do Behold |
| 80. |
Rudely Thou Wrongest My Dear Heart’s Desire |
| 81. |
One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand |
| 82. |
Like as the Culver, on the Bared Bough |
| William Habington. |
83. |
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara |
| 84. |
Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam |
| Christopher Marlowe. |
85. |
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
| 86. |
Her Reply |
| Richard Rowlands. |
87. |
Our Blessed Lady’s Lullaby |
| Thomas Nashe. |
88. |
In Time of Pestilence |
| 89. |
Spring |
| William Shakespeare. |
90. |
Winter |
| 91. |
O Mistress Mine |
| 92. |
Fancy |
| 93. |
Under the Greenwood Tree |
| 94. |
A Lover and His Lass |
| 95. |
Silvia |
| 96. |
Spring |
| 97. |
Lullaby |
| 98. |
Ophelia’s Song |
| 99. |
Where the Bee Sucks |
| 100. |
Love’s Perjuries |
| 101. |
Take, O Take |
| 102. |
A Madrigal |
| 103. |
Amiens’ Song |
| 104. |
Dawn Song |
| 105. |
Dirge of Love |
| 106. |
Fidele’s Dirge |
| 107. |
A Sea Dirge |
| 108. |
Eighteenth Sonnet |
| 109. |
Twenty-ninth Sonnet |
| 110. |
Thirtieth Sonnet |
| 111. |
Thirty-first Sonnet |
| 112. |
Thirty-second Sonnet |
| 113. |
Thirty-third Sonnet |
| 114. |
Fifty-fourth Sonnet |
| 115. |
Fifty-fifth Sonnet |
| 116. |
Fifty-seventh Sonnet |
| 117. |
Sixtieth Sonnet |
| 118. |
Sixty-fourth Sonnet |
| 119. |
Sixty-fifth Sonnet |
| 120. |
Sixty-sixth Sonnet |
| 121. |
Seventy-first Sonnet |
| 122. |
Seventy-third Sonnet |
| 123. |
Eighty-seventh Sonnet |
| 124. |
Ninetieth Sonnet |
| 125. |
Ninety-fourth Sonnet |
| 126. |
Ninety-seventh Sonnet |
| 127. |
Ninety-eighth Sonnet |
| 128. |
One Hundred and Fourth Sonnet |
| 129. |
One Hundred and Sixth Sonnet |
| 130. |
One Hundred and Seventh Sonnet |
| 131. |
One Hundred and Ninth Sonnet |
| 132. |
One Hundred and Tenth Sonnet |
| 133. |
One Hundred and Eleventh Sonnet |
| 134. |
One Hundred and Sixteenth Sonnet |
| 135. |
One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Sonnet |
| 136. |
One Hundred and Forty-sixth Sonnet |
| 137. |
One Hundred and Forty-eighth Sonnet |
| Robert Greene. |
138. |
Connent |
| Richard Barnfield. |
139. |
The Nightingale |
| Thomas Campion. |
140. |
Cherry-ripe |
| 141. |
Follow your Saint |
| 142. |
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings |
| 143. |
Follow thy Fair Sun |
| 144. |
Turn All thy Thoughts to Eyes |
| 145. |
Integer Vitae |
| Robert Devereux,
Earl of Essex. |
146. |
A Passion of my Lord of Essex |
| Sir Henry Wotton. |
147. |
Elizabeth of Bohemia |
| 148. |
Character of a Happy Life |
| Edward de Vere,
Earl of Oxford. |
149. |
A Renunciation |
| Ben Jonson. |
150. |
Simplex Munditiis |
| 151. |
The Triumph |
| 152. |
The Noble Nature |
| 153. |
To Celia |
| 154. |
A Farewell to the World |
| 155. |
A Nymph’s Passion |
| 156. |
Epode |
| 157. |
Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H. |
| 158. |
On Lucy, Countess of Bedford |
| 159. |
An Ode to Himself |
| 160. |
Hymn to Diana |
| 161. |
On Salathiel Pavy |
| 162. |
His Supposed Mistress |
| 163. |
To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us |
| John Donne. |
164. |
The Funeral |
| 165. |
A Hymn to God the Father |
| 166. |
Valediction, Forbidding Mourning |
| 167. |
Death |
| 168. |
The Dream |
| 169. |
Song |
| 170. |
Sweetest Love, I do not Go |
| 171. |
Lover’s Infiniteness |
| 172. |
Love’s Deity |
| 173. |
Stay, O Sweet |
| 174. |
The Blossom |
| 175. |
The Good Morrow |
| 176. |
Present in Absence |
| Joshua Sylvester. |
177. |
Love’s Omnipresence |
| William Alexander,
Earl of Stirling. |
178. |
To Aurora |
| Richard Corbet. |
179. |
Farewell, Rewards and Fairies |
| Thomas Heywood. |
180. |
Pack, Clouds, Away |
| Thomas Dekker. |
181. |
Country Glee |
| 182. |
Cold’s the Wind |
| 183. |
O Sweet Content |
| Francis Beaumont. |
184. |
On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey |
| 185. |
Master Francis Beaumont’s Letter to Ben Jonson |
| John Fletcher. |
186. |
Aspatia’s Song |
| 187. |
Melancholy |
| John Webster. |
188. |
Call for the Robin-Redbreast |
| Anonymous. |
189. |
O Waly, Waly |
| 190. |
Helen of Kirconnell |
| 191. |
My Love in Her Attire |
| 192. |
Love Not Me |
| William Drummond. |
193. |
Saint John Baptist |
| 194. |
Madrigal |
| 195. |
Life |
| 196. |
Human Folly |
| 197. |
The Problem |
| 198. |
To His Lute |
| 199. |
For the Magdalene |
| 200. |
Content and Resolute |
| 201. |
Alexis, Here She Stayed; Among These Pines |
| 202. |
Summons to Love |
| George Wither. |
203. |
I Loved a Lass |
| 204. |
The Lover’s Resolution |
| William Browne (?). |
205. |
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke |
| Robert Herrick. |
206. |
Cherry-Ripe |
| 207. |
A Child’s Grace |
| 208. |
The Mad Maid’s Song |
| 209. |
To the Virgins |
| 210. |
To Dianeme |
| 211. |
A Sweet Disorder |
| 212. |
Whenas in Silks |
| 213. |
To Anthea who may Command Him Any Thing |
| 214. |
To Daffodils |
| 215. |
To Blossoms |
| 216. |
Corinna’s Maying |
| Francis Quarles. |
217. |
An Ecstasy |
| George Herbert. |
218. |
Love |
| 219. |
Virtue |
| 220. |
The Elixir |
| 221. |
The Collar |
| 222. |
The Flower |
| 223. |
Easter Song |
| 224. |
The Pulley |
| Henry Vaughan. |
225. |
Beyond the Veil |
| 226. |
The Retreat |
| Francis Bacon,
Viscount St. Alban. |
227. |
Life |
| James Shirley. |
228. |
The Glories of our Blood and State |
| 229. |
The Last Conqueror |
| Thomas Carew. |
230. |
The True Beauty |
| 231. |
Ask Me No More |
| 232. |
Know, Celia |
| 233. |
Give Me More Love |
| Sir John Suckling. |
234. |
The Constant Lover |
| 235. |
Why So Pale and Wan |
| Sir William D’Avenant. |
236. |
Dawn Song |
| Richard Lovelace. |
237. |
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars |
| 238. |
To Althea from Prison |
| 239. |
To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas |
| Edmund Waller. |
240. |
On a Girdle |
| 241. |
Go, Lovely Rose! |
| William Cartwright. |
242. |
On the Queen’s Return from the Low Countries |
| James Graham,
Marquis of Montrose. |
243. |
My Dear and Only Love |
| Richard Crashaw. |
244. |
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress |
| 245. |
Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa |
| Thomas Jordan. |
246. |
Let Us Drink and Be Merry |
| Abraham Cowley. |
247. |
A Supplication |
| 248. |
Cheer Up, My Mates |
| 249. |
Drinking |
| 250. |
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey |
| Alexander Brome. |
251. |
The Resolve |
| Andrew Marvell. |
252. |
A Garden |
| 253. |
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers |
| 254. |
Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland |
| 255. |
Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda |
| 256. |
Thoughts in a Garden |
| 257. |
Love Will Find Out the Way |
| 258. |
Phillada Flouts Me |
| Earl of Rochester. |
259. |
Epitaph on Charles II |
| Sir Charles Sedley. |
260. |
Chloris |
| 261. |
Celia |
| John Dryden. |
262. |
Ode |
| 263. |
Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going Out of the Town in the Spring |
| 264. |
Song for St. Cecilia’s Day |
| 265. |
Alexander’s Feast |
| 266. |
On Milton |
| Matthew Prior. |
267. |
To a Child of Quality |
| 268. |
Cloe |
| 269. |
The Dying Adrian to His Soul |
| 270. |
Epigram |
| Isaac Watts. |
271. |
True Greatness |
| Lady Grisel Baillie. |
272. |
Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee |
| Joseph Addison. |
273. |
Hymn |
| Allan Ramsay. |
274. |
Peggy |
| John Gay. |
275. |
Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing |
| 276. |
Black-Eyed Susan |
| Henry Carey. |
277. |
Sally in our Alley |
| Alexander Pope. |
278. |
Solitude |
| 279. |
On a Certain Lady at Court |
| 280. |
An Essay on Man: The Design |
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Epistle I |
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Epistle II |
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Epistle III |
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Epistle IV |
| Ambrose Philips. |
281. |
To Charlotte Pulteney |
| Colley Cibber. |
282. |
The Blind Boy |
| James Thomson. |
283. |
Rule, Britannia |
| 284. |
To Fortune |
| Thomas Gray. |
285. |
Elegy |
| 286. |
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College |
| 287. |
Hymn to Adversity |
| 288. |
Ode on the Spring |
| 289. |
The Progress of Poesy |
| 290. |
The Bard |
| 291. |
Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude |
| 292. |
On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes |
| George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe. |
293. |
Shorten Sail |
