| Heroick Stanza’s |
| Astræa Redux |
| To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyrick on His Coronation |
| To my Lord Chancellor, presented on New-Years-Day, 1662 |
| Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666 |
| Absalom and Achitophel |
| The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel |
| Key to Both Parts of Absalom and Achitophel |
| The Medall |
| Mac Flecknoe |
| Religio Laici; or a Layman’s Faith |
| Threnodia Augustalis |
| The Hind and the Panther |
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The First Part |
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The Second Part |
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The Third Part |
| Britannia Rediviva: a Poem on the Birth of the Prince |
| Epistles and Complimentary Addresses |
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To John Hoddesdon, on his Divine Epigrams |
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To my Honored Friend Sir Robert Howard on his Excellent Poems |
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To my Honour’d Friend Dr. Charleton, on his learned and useful Works |
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To the Lady Castlemaine, upon Her incouraging his first Play |
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To Mr. Lee, on his Alexander |
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To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse |
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To my Friend, Mr. Northleigh, Author of The Parallel, on his Triumph of the British Monarchy |
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To my Ingenious Friend, Henry Higden, Esq., on his Translation of the Tenth Satyr of Juvenal |
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A Letter to Sir George Etherege |
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To Mr. Southern, on his Comedy called The Wives Excuse |
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To my Dear Friend, Mr. Congreve, on his Comedy called The Double-Dealer |
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To Sir Godfrey Kneller, principal Painter to His Majesty |
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To Mr. Granville, on his excellent Tragedy, called Heroick Love |
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[To Peter Antony Motteux, on his Tragedy, called Beauty in Distress] |
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To my honour’d Kinsman, John Driden |
| Elegies and Epitaphs |
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Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings |
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On the Monument of the Marquis of Winchester |
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Epitaph on Sir Palmes Fairborne’s Tomb, in Westminster Abbey |
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To the Memory of Mr. Oldham |
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To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady, Mrs. Anne Killigrew, excellent in the two Sister-arts of Poesie and Painting. An Ode |
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Upon the Death of the Viscount of Dundee |
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Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore |
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Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem: dedicated to the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon |
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On the Death of Mr. Purcell |
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The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady, who dy’d at Bath, and is there interr’d |
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On the Death of Amyntas. A Pastoral Elegy |
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On the Death of a very Young Gentleman |
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Upon Young Mr. Rogers, of Gloucestershire |
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On Mrs. Margaret Paston, of Barningham, in Norfolk |
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Epitaph on a Nephew in Catworth Church, Huntingdonshire |
| Songs, Odes, and Lyrical Pieces |
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The Tears of Amynta for the Death of Damon |
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Song (“Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of Fifteen”) |
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A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, November 22, 1687 |
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The Lady’s Song |
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A Song to a Fair Young Lady going out of Town in the Spring |
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Alexander’s Feast; or, The Power of Musique. An Ode in honour of St. Cecilia’s Day: 1697 |
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A Song (“Go tell Amynta, gentle Swain”) |
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Rondelay |
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The Fair Stranger |
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A Song (“Fair, sweet and young, receive a prize”) |
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A Song (“High State and Honours to others impart”) |
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The Secular Masque |
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Song of a Scholar and his Mistress |
| Prologues and Epilogues |
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Wild Gallant |
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Prologue to The Rival Ladies |
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Indian Emperor |
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Prologue to Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen |
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Wild Gallant, revived |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence |
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Tempest |
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Prologue to Albumazar |
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Prologue and Epilogue to An Evening’s Love, or the Mock Astrologer |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Tyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr |
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards |
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Prologue and Epilogue to the Second Part of The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards |
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Prologue. Spoken on the First Day of the Kings House acting after the Fire |
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Prologue to Arviragus and Philicia, revived |
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Prologue, for the Women, when they Acted at the Old Theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields |
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Maiden Queen, or Secret Love, When acted by the Women only |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Marriage-à-la-Mode |
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants |
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Prologue and Epilogue to the University of Oxford |
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Prologue and Epilogue. Spoken at the opening of the New House, March 26, 1674 |
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Prologue and Epilogue to the University of Oxford |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Aureng-Zebe |
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Epilogue to Calisto, or the Chaste Nymph |
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Epilogue to The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter |
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Prologue to Circe |
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Earlier version of Prologue to Circe |
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Prologue and Epilogue to All for Love, or the World well Lost |
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Epilogue to Mithridates, King of Pontus |
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Kind Keeper, or Mr. Limberham |
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Prologue to The True Widow |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Œdipus |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Troilus and Cressida, or Truth found Too Late |
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Prologue to Cæsar Borgia, Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth |
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The Prologue at Oxford, 1680 |
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Prologue to The Loyal General |
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Prologue to The Spanish Fryar, or the Double Discovery |
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Epilogue to Tamerlane the Great |
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A Prologue (“Gallants, a bashful Poet bids me say”) |
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Princess of Cleves |
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First Prologue to the University of Oxford |
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Second Prologue to the University of Oxford |
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Third Prologue to the University of Oxford |
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Prologue to The Unhappy Favourite |
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Epilogue to The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex |
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Prologue to his Royal Highness upon his first appearance at the Duke’s Theatre since his Return from Scotland |
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Prologue to the Duchess on her Return from Scotland |
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Prologue and Epilogues to The Loyal Brother, or the Persian Prince |
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Prologue and Epilogue to the King and Queen |
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Duke of Guise |
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Epilogue to Constantine the Great |
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Prologue to Disappointment, or the Mother in Fashion |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Albion and Albanius |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Don Sebastian |
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Prologue to The Prophetess |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias |
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Prologue to Mistakes, or the False Report |
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Prologue and Epilogue to King Arthur, or the British Worthy |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Cleomenes, the Spartan Heroe |
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Epilogue to Henry II, King of England, with the Death of Rosamond |
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Prologue and Epilogue to Love Triumphant, or Nature will Prevail |
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Epilogue to The Husband his own Cuckold |
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Prologue and Epilogue on the Occasion of a Representation for Dryden’s Benefit, March 25, 1700 |
| Fables Ancient and Modern |
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To his Grace the Duke of Ormond: Dedication and Preface |
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To her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond |
| Palamon and Arcite: or the Knight’s Tale. From Chaucer |
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Book I |
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Book II |
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Book III |
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The Cock and the Fox, or the Tale of the Nun’s Priest |
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The Flower and the Leaf; or, The Lady in the Arbour |
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The Wife of Bath her Tale |
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The Character of a Good Parson |
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Sigismonda and Guiscardo |
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Theodore and Honoria |
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Cymon and Iphigenia |
| Translations of Latin Hymns and Minor Miscellanies |
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Veni, Creator Spiritus |
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Te Deum |
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Hymn for the Nativity of St. John Baptist |
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Lines in a Letter to his Lady Cousin, Honor Driden |
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Lines printed under the engraved portrait of Milton, in Tonson’s folio edition of the Paradise Lost, 1688 |
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Impromptu Lines addressed to his Cousin, Mrs. Creed |
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Fragment of a Character of Jacob Tonson |
| Songs from the Plays |
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Song of Aerial Spirits, from The Indian Queen |
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Hymn to the Sun, from The Indian Queen |
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“I look’d and saw within the Book of Fate,” from The Indian Emperor |
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“Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past!,” from The Indian Emperor |
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“I Feed a Flame within which so torments me,” from The Maiden Queen |
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“Make ready fair Lady to night,” from Sir Martin Marr-All |
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“Blind Love, to this hour,” from Sir Martin Marr-All (after Voiture) |
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“You charm’d me not with that fair face,” from An Evening’s Love |
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“After the pangs of a desperate Lover,” from An Evening’s Love |
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“Calm was the Even, and clear was the Sky,” from An Evening’s Love |
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“Celimena, of my heart,” from An Evening’s Love |
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“You pleasing Dreams of Love and sweet delight,” from Tyrannick Love |
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“Ah how sweet it is to love,” from Tyrannick Love |
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“Wherever I am, and whatever I doe,” from The Conquest of Granada |
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Song of the Zambra Dance, from The Conquest of Granada |
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“How unhappy a Lover am I,” from The Conquest of Granada, Part II |
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“Why should a foolish Marriage Vow,” from Marriage-à-la-Mode |
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“Whilst Alexis lay prest,” from Marriage-à-la-Mode |
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“Long betwixt Love and fear Phillis tormented,” from The Assignation |
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Epithalamium, from Amboyna |
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Song of the Sea Fight, from Amboyna |
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Song from the Italian, from The Kind Keeper |
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Song to Apollo, from Œdipus |
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“Can Life be a Blessing,” from Troilus and Cressida |
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“Farwell ungratefull Traytor,” from The Spanish Fryar |
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Song betwixt a Shepherd and a Shepherdess, from The Duke of Guise |
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“Celia, that I once was blest,” from Amphitryon |
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“Fair Iris I love and hourly I dye,” from Amphitryon |
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Pastoral Dialogue, from Amphitryon |
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“Oh Sight, the Mother of Desires,” from King Arthur |
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“How happy the Lover,” from King Arthur |
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Song of Æolus, from King Arthur |
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Song of Pan and Nereide, from King Arthur |
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“Your Hay it is Mow’d, and your Corn is Reap’d,” from King Arthur |
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Song of Venus, from King Arthur |
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“No, no, poor suff’ring Heart, no Change endeavour,” from Cleomenes |
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Song of Jealousie, from Love Triumphant |
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Song for a Girl, from Love Triumphant |
| Translations |
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Preface to Sylvae, or the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies, 1685 |
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Amaryllis; or, the Third Idyllium of Theocritus, paraphras’d |
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The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus, from the Eighteenth Idyllium of Theocritus |
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The Despairing Lover, from the Twenty-third Idyllium of Theocritus |
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The Beginning of the First Book of Lucretius |
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The Beginning of the Second Book of Lucretius |
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The Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius; against the Fear of Death |
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From Book the Fifth of Lucretius |
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The Third Ode of the First Book of Horace; inscribed to the Earl of Roscommon, on his intended Voyage to Ireland |
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The Ninth Ode of the First Book of Horace |
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The Twenty-ninth Ode of the Third Book of Horace; paraphrased in Pindarick Verse, and inscribed to the Right Hon. Laurence, Earl of Rochester |
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The Second Epode of Horace |
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The First Book of Homer’s Ilias |
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The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache. From the Sixth Book of Homer’s Iliads |
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The Dedication to Examen Poeticum, 1693 |
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The First Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
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Meleager and Atalanta, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
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Baucis and Philemon, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
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The Fable of Iphis and Ianthe, from the Ninth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
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Pygmalion and the Statue, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
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Cinyras and Myrrha, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
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Ceyx and Alcyone, out of the Eleventh Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
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Æsacus transformed into a Cormorant. From the Eleventh Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
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The Twelfth Book of the Metamorphoses, wholly translated |
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The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses; from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book XIII |
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The Fable of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea. From the Thirteenth Book of the Metamorphoses |
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Of the Pythagorean Philosophy; from the Fifteenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
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Preface concerning Ovid’s Epistles |
| Ovid’s Epistles |
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Canace to Macareus |
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Helen to Paris |
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Dido to Æneas |
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The First Book of Ovid’s Art of Love |
| From Ovid’s Amours |
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Book I. Eleg. I |
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Book I. Eleg. IV |
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Book II. Eleg. XIX |
| From Juvenal |
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The First Satyr |
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The Third Satyr |
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The Sixth Satyr |
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The Tenth Satyr |
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The Sixteenth Satyr |
| From Aulus Persius Flaccus |
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Prologue to the First Satyr |
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The First Satyr |
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The Second Satyr |
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The Third Satyr |
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The Fourth Satyr |
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The Fifth Satyr |
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The Sixth Satyr |
| Some Peculiar Spellings of Dryden’s |
