Book First |
Song on May Morning by John Milton |
Hymn: To Light by Abraham Cowley |
On a Drop of Dew by Andrew Marvell |
The Swallow by Abraham Cowley |
Song: ‘Look Nymphs, and Shepherds look’ by John Milton |
Song: ‘O’er the smooth enameld green’ by John Milton |
Song: ‘Nymphs and Shepherds dance no more’ by John Milton |
The Merry Beggars by Richard Brome |
The Garden by Andrew Marvell |
The Mower against Gardens by Andrew Marvell |
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers by Andrew Marvell |
The Pastime of the Queen of Fairies by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
The Fountain by Sir Edward Sherburne |
To the Nightingale by John Milton |
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn by Andrew Marvell |
What Is Love by Robert Heath |
The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell |
Love in Thy Youth by Walter Porter |
Expectation by Thomas Stanley |
Young Love by Andrew Marvell |
The Spring by Abraham Cowley |
We Must Not Part As Others Do—Anonymous |
The Magnet by Thomas Stanley |
The Surprise by Sir Edward Sherburne |
Husbandry by William Hammond |
The Fair Singer by Andrew Marvell |
To the Lady May by Aurelian Townsend |
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell |
See’st Not, My Love, with What a Grace by William Bosworth |
Song: ‘Come, come, thou glorious object of my sight’ by William Killigrew |
Mounting Hyperboles by Richard Brathwaite |
No More unto My Thoughts Appear by Sidney Godolphin |
David’s Song by Abraham Cowley |
Celia, Sleeping or Singing by Thomas Stanley |
To His Mistress by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham |
Phillis Inamorata by Lancelot Andrewes |
The Mower to the Glow-worms by Andrew Marvell |
A Mock Song by Alexander Brome |
The Kiss by Thomas Stanley |
Weeping and Kissing by Sir Edward Sherburne |
The Mower’s Song by Andrew Marvell |
The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley |
Fuscara, or the Bee Errant by John Cleveland |
Greedy Lover Pause Awhile by John Wilson |
To Julia to Expedite Her Promise by John Cleveland |
Upon Black Eyes and Becoming Frowns by James Howell |
When on Mine Eyes Her Eyes First Shone by John Wilson |
To Cynthia by Sir Francis Kynaston |
Novo Inamoramento by Sir Edward Sherburne |
Mercury Complaining by Aurelian Townsend |
The Resolve by Alexander Brome |
The Vow by Sir Edward Sherburne |
The Relapse by Thomas Stanley |
The Sweetmeat by Sir Edward Sherburne |
The Forsaken Maid by William Hammond |
The Disposition by Thomas Stanley |
Humility by Richard Brome |
Change Defended by Sir Edward Sherburne |
The Exequies by Thomas Stanley |
The Parting by Thomas Stanley |
The Tomb by Thomas Stanley |
To the State of Love; Or the Senses’ Festival by John Cleveland |
Friendship and Single Life, against Love and Marriage by Sir John Denham |
Epithalamium by Samuel Sheppard |
Childhood by Henry Vaughan |
The Burial of an Infant by Henry Vaughan |
Song: ‘See, O see!’ by George Digby, Earl of Bristol |
Eyes and Tears by Andrew Marvell |
The Rainbow by Henry Vaughan |
For Hope by Abraham Cowley |
A Wish by Abraham Cowley |
The Wish by Abraham Cowley |
To a Virtuous Young Lady by John Milton |
On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-three by John Milton |
To the Royal Society by Abraham Cowley |
Ode of Wit by Abraham Cowley |
To the Lord General Cromwell by John Milton |
An Horatian Ode by Andrew Marvell |
Brutus by Abraham Cowley |
On Shakespear 1630 by John Milton |
On Paradise Lost by Andrew Marvell |
To the Lady Margaret Ley by John Milton |
To Mr. Lawrence by John Milton |
To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton |
To Mr. Hobbes by Abraham Cowley |
Upon Tom of Christ Church, Oxford by John Cleveland |
When the Assault Was Intended to the City by John Milton |
On the Late Massacher in Piemont by John Milton |
Abel’s Blood by Henry Vaughan |
The Rebel Scot by John Cleveland |
Sailors for My Money by Martin Parker |
Song by Lady Happy, as a Sea-Goddess by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
The Star That Bids the Shepherd Fold by John Milton |
Song: ‘Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv’st unseen’ by John Milton |
Song: ‘Sabrina fair’ by John Milton |
To the Ocean Now I Fly by John Milton |
Themista’s Reproof by Richard Brathwaite |
Poets and Their Theft by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
The Author’s Apology for His Book by John Bunyan |
An Epilogue by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
Drinking by Abraham Cowley |
The Epicure by Abraham Cowley |
Another by Abraham Cowley |
The Excellency of Wine by Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery |
The Healths by Patrick Cary |
Loyalty Confined by Sir Roger L’Estrange |
Lord Stafford’s Meditations in the Tower—Anonymous |
A Royal Lamentation by King Charles I. |
L’Allegro by John Milton |
Il Penseroso by John Milton |
A Poetic Descant upon a Private Music-Meeting by Edward Benlowes |
At a Solemn Musick by John Milton |
Man by Henry Vaughan |
Upon the Weakness and Misery of Man by Samuel Butler |
On Time by John Milton |
The Retreat by Henry Vaughan |
Corruption by Henry Vaughan |
Affliction by Henry Vaughan |
On His Blindness by John Milton |
The Pilgrim by John Bunyan |
The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation by John Bunyan |
The World by Henry Vaughan |
The Philosopher’s Devotion by Henry More |
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity: First Part by John Milton |
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity: The Hymn by John Milton |
Hymn: ‘Lord, when the wise men came from far’ by Sidney Godolphin |
Crucifixus Pro Nobis by Patrick Cary |
The Favour by Henry Vaughan |
The Eclipse by Henry Vaughan |
Whilst I Beheld the Neck o’ th’ Dove by Patrick Cary |
The Coronet by Andrew Marvell |
Come, Come! What Do I Here? by Henry Vaughan |
The Morning-Watch by Henry Vaughan |
The Dawning by Henry Vaughan |
And Do They So? Have They a Sense by Henry Vaughan |
The Rock by Thomas Washbourne |
I Walk’d the Other Day to Spend My Hour by Henry Vaughan |
Bermudas by Andrew Marvell |
Peace by Henry Vaughan |
Evening Hymn by Sir Thomas Browne |
The Night by Henry Vaughan |
Song: ‘Morpheus, the humble god, that dwells’ by Sir John Denham |
They Are All Gone into the World of Light by Henry Vaughan |
On His Deceased Wife by John Milton |
To Cynthia by Sir Francis Kynaston |
Lycidas by John Milton |
On the Death of Mr. Crashaw by Abraham Cowley |
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey by Abraham Cowley |
An Epitaph on Thomas, Third Lord Fairfax by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham |
On Mr. Abraham Cowley’s Death and Burial among the Ancient Poets by Sir John Denham |
Epitaph: ‘He whom Heaven did call away’—Anonymous |
An Epitaph upon— by Andrew Marvell |
A Pagan Epitaph—Anonymous |
Epitaph: ‘In this marble casket lies’—Anonymous |
Epitaph: ‘She on this clayen pillow layed her head’—Anonymous |
Epitaph: ‘Here lies a piece of Christ’ by Robert Wild |
The Valediction by Richard Baxter |
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Book Second |
Robin Hood and Little John—Anonymous |
Robin Hood and the King—Anonymous |
Robin Hood and Allin a Dale—Anonymous |
Robin Hood Rescuing the Widow’s Three Sons—Anonymous |
Robin Hood and the Monk—Anonymous |
Robin Hood and the Butcher—Anonymous |
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne—Anonymous |
Robin Hood’s Death and Burial—Anonymous |
Sir Patrick Spens—Anonymous |
The Battle of Otterbourne—Anonymous |
The Hunting of the Cheviot—Anonymous |
Kinmont Willie—Anonymous |
Captain Care or Edom o Gordon—Anonymous |
The Bonnie House o’ Airly—Anonymous |
Mary Ambree—Anonymous |
Bonnie George Campbell—Anonymous |
Earl Brand—Anonymous |
Johney Scot—Anonymous |
The Dowy Houms of Yarrow—Anonymous |
The Twa Sisters—Anonymous |
Clerk Saunders—Anonymous |
Love Gregor; or, the Lass of Lochroyan—Anonymous |
Child Waters—Anonymous |
Fair Annie—Anonymous |
Lord Thomas and Fair Annet—Anonymous |
Bonny Barbara Allan—Anonymous |
The Queen’s Marie—Anonymous |
Lord Donald—Anonymous |
Edward—Anonymous |
Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard—Anonymous |
Thomas the Rhymer—Anonymous |
Tam Lin—Anonymous |
Clerk Colvill—Anonymous |
The Wife of Usher’s Well—Anonymous |
Fine Flowers in the Valley—Anonymous |
The Daemon Lover—Anonymous |
The Three Ravens—Anonymous |
The Twa Corbies—Anonymous |
A Lyke-Wake Dirge—Anonymous |
Bessie Bell and Mary Gray—Anonymous |
Burd Helen—Anonymous |
Annan Water—Anonymous |
Willie Drowned in Yarrow—Anonymous |
There Was a Maid Came out of Kent—Anonymous |
The Gay Goshawk—Anonymous |
Hind Horn—Anonymous |
The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington—Anonymous |
St. Stephen and Herod—Anonymous |
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Book Third |
The Salutation by Thomas Traherne |
A Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going out of the Town in the Spring by John Dryden |
Come, Sweet Lass by Thomas D’Urfey |
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
To Mrs. M. A. at Parting by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
The Enquiry by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
On an Hour-Glass by John Hall |
Dumbness by Thomas Traherne |
Hunting-Song by John Dryden |
Harvest Home by John Dryden |
Incantation by John Dryden |
Incantation by John Dryden |
Song: ‘Hear, ye sullen powers below!’ by John Dryden |
Thamesis’ Song by John Dryden |
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day by John Dryden |
Alexander’s Feast; Or, the Power of Music by John Dryden |
The Choice by Thomas Traherne |
The Person by Thomas Traherne |
Contentation by Charles Cotton |
Upon Nothing by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
To a Very Young Lady by Sir George Etherege |
To a Very Young Lady by Sir Charles Sedley |
Love’s New Philosophy by Philip Ayres |
Love Will Find out the Way—Anonymous |
The Lure by John Hall |
The Call by John Hall |
You Pleasing Dreams of Love and Sweet Delight by John Dryden |
Song: ‘Love in fantastic triumph sate’ by Aphra Behn |
Love Still Has Something of the Sea by Sir Charles Sedley |
Les Amours by Charles Cotton |
The Plaything Changed—Anonymous |
He or She That Hopes to Gain—Anonymous |
Song: ‘O Love! that stronger art than wine’ by Aphra Behn |
The Enchantment by Thomas Otway |
Constancy by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
Love and Life by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
To His Mistress by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
On the Eyes and Breasts of the Lady on Whom He Was Enamoured—Anonymous |
The Mistress by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
A Song: ‘My dear mistress has a heart’ by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
Chloe’s Triumph by Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough |
Roundelay by John Dryden |
Phillis Knotting by Sir Charles Sedley |
Ode: ‘Fair Isabel, if ought but thee’ by Charles Cotton |
Song: ‘Join once again, my Celia’ by Charles Cotton |
Song: ‘Not, Celia, that I juster am’ by Sir Charles Sedley |
To a Lady, Asking How Long He Would Love Her by Sir George Etherege |
Song: ‘Phillis, for shame, let us improve’ by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
Song: ‘Phillis, men say that all my vows’ by Sir Charles Sedley |
Song: ‘Ladies, though to your conquering eyes’ by Sir George Etherege |
Written on a White Fan Borrowed from Miss Osborne, Afterwards His Wife by Francis Atterbury |
Song: ‘Dorinda’s sparkling wit and eyes’ by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
Laura Sleeping by Charles Cotton |
On Lydia Distracted by Philip Ayres |
On a Fair Beggar by Philip Ayres |
A Lady to a Young Courtier by Dr. Henry Hughes |
When I a Lover Pale Do See—Anonymous |
Song, Written at Sea, in the First Dutch War (1665), the Night before an Engagement by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
Song: ‘Some thirty or forty or fifty at least’ by Thomas D’Urfey |
A Scotch Song: ‘Jocky was a dowdy lad’ by Thomas D’Urfey |
Ladies, Farewell, I Must Retire by James Howard |
Chloe Divine by Thomas D’Urfey |
The Fair Stranger by John Dryden |
Song: ‘Why, dearest, shouldst thou weep, when I relate’ by Charles Cotton |
To Coelia by Charles Cotton |
A Song: ‘Absent from thee I languish still’ by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
The Song of Venus by John Dryden |
Damilcar’s Song by John Dryden |
May the Ambitions Ever Find by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
Song: ‘How happy the lover’ by John Dryden |
Song: ‘In vain, Clemene, you bestow’ by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
Song: ‘More love or more disdain I crave’ by Charles Webbe |
Phillada Flouts Me—Anonymous |
Song: ‘Phillis is my only joy’ by Sir Charles Sedley |
Song: ‘I feed a flame within, which so torments me’ by John Dryden |
A Song: ‘Fair, sweet and young, receive a prize’ by John Dryden |
Song: ‘You charmed me not with that fair face’ by John Dryden |
Song betwixt a Shepherd and a Shepherdess by John Dryden |
Song: ‘Dear, from thine arms then let me fly’ by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
Phyllis’s Resolution by William Walsh |
The Dream by Aphra Behn |
To Mira by George Granville, Lord Lansdowne |
Song: ‘How hardly I concealed my tears’ by Anne Wharton |
Song: ‘The happiest mortals once were we’ by George Granville, Lord Lansdowne |
A Pastoral Song: ‘As I was sitting on the grass’—Anonymous |
Song: ‘If she be not kind as fair’ by Sir George Etherege |
The Defiance by Thomas Flatman |
Fading Beauty—Anonymous |
Song: ‘How prodigious is my fate’ by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
Song: ‘Ye happy swains whose hearts are free’ by Sir George Etherege |
Song: ‘Farewell, ungrateful traitor!’ by John Dryden |
To Regina Collier, on Her Cruelty to Philaster by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
Song: ‘Of all the torments, all the cares’ by William Walsh |
The Despairing Lover by William Walsh |
Song: ‘Can life be a blessing’ by John Dryden |
The Libertine by Aphra Behn |
Song: ‘When on those lovely looks I gaze’ by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
Song: ‘Give me leave to rail at you’ by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
Song: ‘No, no, poor suffering heart, no change endeavour’ by John Dryden |
Song: ‘Come, Celia, let’s agree at last’ by John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire |
Inconstancy Excused by John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire |
Rondeau by Charles Cotton |
The Winchester Wedding by Thomas D’Urfey |
A South Sea Ballad by Edward Ward |
Upon Drinking in a Bowl by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
Ode: ‘The day is set did earth adorn’ by Charles Cotton |
The Commons’ Petition to King Charles II. by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
The Victory in Hungary by Thomas Shadwell |
Lines Printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton by John Dryden |
Prologues to the University of Oxford, I by John Dryden |
Prologues to the University of Oxford, II by John Dryden |
Prologues to the University of Oxford, III by John Dryden |
A Wish by Thomas Flatman |
For Thoughts by Thomas Flatman |
On News by Thomas Traherne |
The Aspiration by John Norris |
The Preparative by Thomas Traherne |
Song: ‘Ah, fading joy! how quickly art thou past!’ by John Dryden |
Hymn to Darkness by John Norris |
Sonnet: ‘What has this bugbear Death that’s worth our care?’ by William Walsh |
Death—A Song by Thomas Flatman |
Song of the Priestesses by Nahum Tate |
On His Mistress Drowned by Thomas Sprat |
Epitaph on Charles II. by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham by John Dryden |
On the Death of Waller by Aphra Behn |
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew by John Dryden |
To His Book by William Walsh |
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Book Fourth |
A Description of the Morning by Jonathan Swift |
An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Earl of Burlington by John Gay |
A Description of a City Shower by Jonathan Swift |
Hymn to Contentment by Thomas Parnell |
The Blind Boy by Colley Cibber |
To the Nightingale by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
The Tree by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
To a Child of Quality by Matthew Prior |
A Letter to the Honourable Lady Miss Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley by Matthew Prior |
Song: ‘My days have been so wondrous free’ by Thomas Parnell |
Secret Love by Peter Anthony Motteux |
The Rose-bud by William Broome |
The Poet and the Rose by John Gay |
Song: ‘See, see, she wakes, Sabina wakes!’ by William Congreve |
Song: ‘When thy beauty appears’ by Thomas Parnell |
Song: ‘O ruddier than the cherry!’ by John Gay |
A Song: ‘If wine and music have the power’ by Matthew Prior |
A Song: ‘I smile at Love and all its arts’ by Sir John Vanbrugh |
Song: ‘Only tell her that I love’ by John Cutts, Lord Cutts |
An Ode: ‘The merchant, to secure his treasure’ by Matthew Prior |
Sally in Our Alley by Henry Carey |
Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-eyed Susan by John Gay |
Song: ‘Pious Selinda goes to prayers’ by William Congreve |
The Indifferent by William Pattison |
Amoret by William Congreve |
To a Lady Making Love by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
Song: ‘Why, lovely charmer, tell me, why’ by Sir Richard Steele |
The Advice by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
The Answer by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
On a Certain Lady at Court by Alexander Pope |
Semele to Jupiter by William Congreve |
The Declaimer by Henry Baker |
The Answer by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
Those Arts Which Common Beauties Move by John Oldmixon |
The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-glass to Venus by Matthew Prior |
A Song: ‘Persuade me not, there is a grace’ by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
Verses, Written for the Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax |
The Question, to Lisetta by Matthew Prior |
Lisetta’s Reply by Matthew Prior |
To Chloe by John Oldmixon |
The Female Phaeton by Matthew Prior |
To Apollo Making Love by Thomas Tickell |
A Better Answer by Matthew Prior |
To a Lady by Matthew Prior |
False Though She Be to Me and Love by William Congreve |
To Chloe Weeping by Matthew Prior |
A Song: ‘In vain you tell your parting lover’ by Matthew Prior |
An Elegy to an Old Beauty by Thomas Parnell |
Colin and Lucy by Thomas Tickell |
A Ballad: ‘’Twas when the seas were roaring’ by John Gay |
Pastoral: Hylas and Ægon by Alexander Pope |
Eloïsa to Abelard by Alexander Pope |
A Pastoral by John Byrom |
On My Birthday by Matthew Prior |
Stella’s Birthday, 1720 by Jonathan Swift |
Stella’s Birthday, March 13, 1727 by Jonathan Swift |
The Secretary, Written at The Hague by Matthew Prior |
The Jugglers by John Gay |
The Goat without a Beard by John Gay |
The Hare with Many Friends by John Gay |
Apollo’s Edict by Jonathan Swift |
An Account of the Greatest English Poets by Joseph Addison |
Mr. Pope’s Welcome from Greece by John Gay |
To Sir Godfrey Kneller on His Picture of the King by Joseph Addison |
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Being the Prologue to the Satires by Alexander Pope |
An Epigram by John Byrom |
On the Death of Dr. Swift by Jonathan Swift |
Theristes, or the Lordling by Thomas Tickell |
A Grub Street Elegy by Jonathan Swift |
On a Fly by William Oldys |
The Wine Vault by George Alexander Stevens |
Trifles by George Farquhar |
Verses, Imitated from the French of Mons. Maynard to Cardinal Richelieu by George Stepney |
Careless Content by John Byrom |
Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope |
The Hermit by Thomas Parnell |
The Wish by Walter Pope |
The Change by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
To the Evening Star by George Stepney |
A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
A Hymn for Evening by Thomas Parnell |
A Night-Piece on Death by Thomas Parnell |
On the Origin of Evil by John Byrom |
Divine Ode by Joseph Addison |
A Cradle Hymn by Isaac Watts |
The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope |
To His Soul by Matthew Prior |
The Dying Christian to His Soul by Alexander Pope |
The Day of Judgment by Isaac Watts |
Verses Sent by Lord Melcombe to Dr. Young by George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe |
On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan by Thomas Tickell |
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison by Thomas Tickell |
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady by Alexander Pope |
My Own Epitaph by John Gay |
For My Own Monument by Matthew Prior |
Life’s Progress by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |