Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
John Milton. 1608–1674 | 307. | Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity |
308. | On Time |
309. | At a Solemn Musick |
310. | L’Allegro |
311. | Il Penseroso |
312. | From ‘Arcades‘ |
313. | From ‘Comus’ i |
314. | From ‘Comus’ ii |
315. | From ‘Comus’ iii |
316. | From ‘Comus’ iv |
317. | Lycidas |
318. | On His Blindness |
319. | To Mr. Lawrence |
320. | To Cyriack Skinner |
321. | On His Deceased Wife |
322. | Light |
323. | From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i |
324. | From ‘Samson Agonistes’ ii |
Sir John Suckling. 1609–1642 | 325. | A Doubt of Martyrdom |
326. | The Constant Lover |
327. | Why so Pale and Wan? |
328. | When, Dearest, I but think of Thee |
Sir Richard Fanshawe. 1608–1666 | 329. | A Rose |
William Cartwright. 1611–1643 | 330. | To Chloe |
331. | Falsehood |
332. | On the Queen’s Return from the Low Countries |
333. | On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman that died suddenly |
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. 1612–1650 | 334. | I’ll never love Thee more |
Thomas Jordan. 1612?–1685 | 335. | Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant |
Richard Crashaw. 1613?–1649 | 336. | Wishes to His Supposed Mistress |
337. | The Weeper |
338. | A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa |
339. | Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa |
340. | Verses from the Shepherds’ Hymn |
341. | Christ Crucified |
342. | An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife |
Richard Lovelace. 1618–1658 | 343. | To Lucasta, going to the Wars |
344. | To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas |
345. | Gratiana Dancing |
346. | To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her Hair |
347. | The Grasshopper |
348. | To Althea, from Prison |
Abraham Cowley. 1618–1667 | 349. | Anacreontics 1 |
350. | Anacreontics 2 |
351. | Anacreontics 3 |
352. | On the Death of Mr. William Hervey |
353. | The Wish |
Alexander Brome. 1620–1666 | 354. | The Resolve |
Andrew Marvell. 1621–1678 | 355. | An Horatian Ode |
356. | A Garden |
357. | To His Coy Mistress |
358. | The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers |
359. | Thoughts in a Garden |
360. | Bermudas |
361. | An Epitaph |
Henry Vaughan. 1621–1695 | 362. | The Retreat |
363. | Peace |
364. | The Timber |
365. | Friends Departed |
John Bunyan. 1628–1688 | 366. | The Shepherd Boy sings in the Valley of Humiliation |
Anonymous: Ballads. | 367. | Thomas the Rhymer |
368. | Sir Patrick Spens |
369. | The Lass of Lochroyan |
370. | The Dowie Houms of Yarrow |
371. | Clerk Saunders |
372. | Fair Annie |
373. | Edward, Edward |
374. | Edom o’ Gordon |
375. | The Queen’s Marie |
376. | Binnorie |
377. | The Bonnie House o’ Airlie |
378. | The Wife of Usher’s Well |
379. | The Three Ravens |
380. | The Twa Corbies |
381. | A Lyke-Wake Dirge |
382. | The Seven Virgins. |
383. | Two Rivers |
384. | Cradle Song |
385. | The Call |
386. | The Bonny Earl of Murray |
387. | Helen of Kirconnell |
388. | Waly, Waly |
389. | Barbara Allen’s Cruelty |
390. | Pipe and Can |
391. | Love will find out the Way |
392. | Phillada flouts Me |
William Strode. 1602–1645 | 393. | Chloris in the Snow |
Thomas Stanley. 1625–1678 | 394. | The Relapse |
Thomas D’Urfey. 1653–1723 | 395. | Chloe Divine |
Charles Cotton. 1630–1687 | 396. | To Coelia |
Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’). 1631–1664 | 397. | To One persuading a Lady to Marriage |
John Dryden. 1631–1700 | 398. | Ode |
399. | A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687 |
400. | Ah, how sweet it is to love! |
401. | Hidden Flame |
402. | Song to a Fair Young Lady, going out of the Town in the Spring |
Charles Webbe. c. 1678 | 403. | Against Indifference |
Sir George Etherege. 1635–1691 | 404. | Song |
405. | To a Lady asking him how long he would love her |
Thomas Traherne. 1637?–1674 | 406. | News |
Thomas Flatman. 1637–1688 | 407. | The Sad Day |
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset. 1638–1706 | 408. | Song |
Sir Charles Sedley. 1639–1701 | 409. | To Chloris |
410. | To Celia |
Aphra Behn. 1640–1689 | 411. | Song |
412. | The Libertine |
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. 1647–1680 | 413. | Return |
414. | Love and Life |
415. | Constancy |
416. | To His Mistress |
John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire. 1649–1720 | 417. | The Reconcilement |
418. | On One who died discovering her Kindness |
Thomas Otway. 1652–1685 | 419. | The Enchantment |
John Oldham. 1653–1683 | 420. | A Quiet Soul |
John Cutts, Lord Cutts. 1661–1707 | 421. | Song |
Matthew Prior. 1664–1721 | 422. | The Question to Lisetta |
423. | To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704. The Author then Forty |
424. | Song |
425. | On My Birthday, July 21 |
426. | The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus |
427. | A Letter |
428. | For my own Monument |
William Walsh. 1663–1708 | 429. | Rivals |
Lady Grisel Baillie. 1665–1746 | 430. | Werena my Heart’s licht I wad dee |
William Congreve. 1670–1729 | 431. | False though She be |
432. | A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret |
Joseph Addison. 1672–1719 | 433. | Hymn |
Isaac Watts. 1674–1748 | 434. | The Day of Judgement |
435. | A Cradle Hymn |
Thomas Parnell. 1670–1718 | 436. | Song |
Allan Ramsay. 1686–1758 | 437. | Peggy |
William Oldys. 1687–1761 | 438. | On a Fly drinking out of his Cup |
John Gay. 1688–1732 | 439. | Song |
Alexander Pope. 1688–1744 | 440. | On a certain Lady at Court |
441. | Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady |
442. | The Dying Christian to his Soul |
George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe. 1691?–1762 | 443. | Shorten Sail |
Henry Carey. 1693?–1743 | 444. | Sally in our Alley |
445. | A Drinking-Song |
William Broome. ?–1745 | 446. | The Rosebud |
447. | Belinda’s Recovery from Sickness |
James Thomson. 1700–1748 | 448. | On the Death of a particular Friend |
George Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton. 1709–1773 | 449. | Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love |
Samuel Johnson. 1709–1784 | 450. | One-and-Twenty |
451. | On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic |
Richard Jago. 1715–1781 | 452. | Absence |