Ben Jonson.
1572–1637. |
Critical Introduction by Adolphus William Ward |
Echo’s Lament of Narcissus (from Cynthia’s Revels) |
Venetian Song (from Volpone) |
Song: ‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’ (from Epicæne) |
Charis’ Triumph (from Underwoods) |
Truth (from Hymenæi) |
The Shepherds’ Holiday (from Pan’s Anniversary) |
Song before the Entry of the Masquers (from The Fortunate Isles) |
Ode to Himself (after the failure of The New Inn) |
Song—To Celia: ‘Drink to me only with thine eyes’ (from The Forest) |
Epigrams: To My Mere English Censurer |
On Court-Worm |
To Fool or Knave |
On Lucy, Countess of Bedford |
An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy, a Child of Queen Elizabeth’s Chapel |
Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H. |
An Ode to Himself (from Underwoods) |
To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us (from the First Folio) |
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke (from Underwoods) |
An Epitaph on Master Philip Gray (from Underwoods) |
Epode (from The Forest) |
To Heaven (from The Forest) |
William Drummond of Hawthornden.
1585–1649. |
Critical Introduction by Thomas Humphry Ward |
Extracts from the Poems: Sonnets |
Sextain |
Song: ‘Phœbus, arise’ |
To Chloris |
Sonnet to Sir W. Alexander |
Extracts from The Flowers of Sion: Sonnet: ‘Look how the flower which ling’ringly doth fade’ |
For the Baptist |
To the Nightingale |
Madrigal: ‘This world a hunting is’ |
Sonnet to Sir W. Alexander (from The Cypresse Grove) |
William Alexander, Earl of Stirling.
1567?–1640. |
Critical Introduction by Thomas Humphry Ward |
Sonnets from Aurora |
Third Chorus from The Tragedy of Darius |
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. |
Critical Introduction by Andrew Cecil Bradley |
Francis Beaumont.
1584–1616. |
Lines on the Tombs in Westminster |
Beaumont and Fletcher. |
Song from The Maid’s Tragedy |
John Fletcher.
1579–1625. |
The Satyr, I (from The Faithful Shepherdess) |
The River God to Amoret (from The Faithful Shepherdess) |
The Satyr, II (from The Faithful Shepherdess) |
Song (from The Two Noble Kinsmen) |
Song: ‘Hear, ye ladies that despise’ (from Valentinian) |
Song to Bacchus: ‘God Lyæus, ever young’ (from Valentinian) |
Invocation to Sleep (from Valentinian) |
Song: ‘Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan’ (from The Queen of Corinth) |
Song: ‘Hence, all you vain delights’ (from The Nice Valour) |
Thomas Dekker.
c. 1570–1632. |
Critical Introduction by William Minto |
Content (from Patient Grissil) |
Lullaby (from Patient Grissil) |
The Praise of Fortune (from Old Fortunatus) |
Rustic Song: ‘Haymakers, rakers, reapers, and mowers’ (from The Sun’s Darling) |
John Ford.
1586–c. 1640. |
Critical Introduction by William Minto |
Penthea’s Dying Song (from The Broken Heart) |
Calantha’s Dirge (from The Broken Heart) |
Awakening Song (from The Lover’s Melancholy) |
William Browne.
c. 1590–c. 1645. |
Critical Introduction by William Thomas Arnold |
Extracts from Britannia’s Pastorals: Marina and the River-God |
The Scented Grove |
The Music Lesson |
The Hunted Squirrel |
A Metamorphosis |
The Poet’s Ambition |
The Praise of Spenser |
A Lament for His Friend |
The Praise of Sydney |
A Colour Passage |
The Description of Walla |
The Song of Tavy |
The Complaint of Pan |
The Song of Celadyne |
A Comparison |
Song: ‘Welcome, welcome do I sing’ (from Minor Poems) |
The Charm (from The Inner Temple Masque) |
Sonnet: ‘Fairest, when by the rules of palmistry’ |
George Wither.
1588–1667. |
Critical Introduction by William Thomas Arnold |
Weakness (from Abuses Stript and Whipt) |
Eclogue 4 (from The Shepherd’s Hunting) |
The Author’s Resolution in a Sonnet (from Fidelia) |
Love-poems (from The Mistress of Philarete) |
A Christmas Carol |
Extracts from Hallelujah: When We Are upon the Seas |
For Summer Time |
The Prayer of Old Age |
Giles Fletcher.
1586?–1623. |
Critical Introduction by John W. Hales |
Christ’s Victory in Heaven |
Sir Henry Wotton.
1568–1639. |
Critical Introduction by John W. Hales |
The Character of a Happy Life |
On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia |
Thomas Carew.
1595?–1639?. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
Song: ‘Ask me no more where Jove bestows’ |
A Prayer to the Wind |
The Cruel Mistress |
A Deposition from Love |
Disdain Returned |
Celia Singing |
The Lady to Her Inconstant Servant |
A Pastoral Dialogue |
Extract from The Rapture |
Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers |
Song: ‘Would you know what ’s soft?’ |
The Protestation |
In Praise of His Mistress |
Robert Herrick.
1591–1674. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
The Argument of the Hesperides |
When He Would Have His Verses Read |
Corinna’s Going a Maying |
The Rock of Rubies |
Candlemas Eve |
The Night Piece |
To the Virgins |
To Blossoms |
To Primroses Filled with Morning Dew |
To Daffadils |
To Meadows |
A Thanksgiving to God |
The Mad Maid’s Song |
Upon Julia’s Clothes |
Delight in Disorder |
Art above Nature |
Cherry-Ripe |
The Bride-Cake |
His Prayer to Ben Jonson |
An Ode for Ben Jonson |
To Anthea, I |
To Anthea, II |
To Perilla |
The Wake |
To Robin Red-breast |
To the Lark |
To the Rose |
The Bag of the Bee |
To the Duke of York |
The Litany |
Grace for a Child |
The Dirge of Jephthah’s Daughter |
Ode to Endymion Porter |
What Love Is |
Upon Prew His Maid |
The White Island |
Music |
Oberon’s Feast |
To Phillis |
William Habington.
1605–1654. |
Critical Introduction by William Thomas Arnold |
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara |
To Cupid, upon a Dimple in Castara’s Cheek |
The Description of Castara |
To Castara, in a Trance |
To Castara, upon the Death of a Lady |
Against Them Who Lay Unchastity to the Sex of Women |
To Castara. Of True Delight |
Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam |
Sir John Suckling.
1609–1642. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
A Ballad upon a Wedding |
Truth in Love |
The Dance |
Orsames’ Song in Aglaura |
Song: ‘I prithee send me back my heart’ |
The Lute Song in The Sad One |
Constancy |
Richard Lovelace.
1618–1658. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
Going to the Wars |
The Rose |
To Althea from Prison |
The Grasshopper |
To Lucasta |
Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
1583–1648. |
Critical Introduction by John Churton Collins |
An Ode upon a Question Moved Whether Love Should Continue for Ever |
Upon Combing Her Hair |
Sandys, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan. |
Critical Introduction by George Augustus Simcox |
From the Paraphrase upon Luke I |
George Herbert.
1593–1633. |
The Collar |
Aaron |
The Quip |
Misery |
Love |
The Pulley |
Employment |
The World |
Richard Crashaw.
c. 1613–1649. |
Wishes. To His Supposed Mistress |
The Flaming Heart |
Description of a Religious House |
Henry Vaughan.
1621–1695. |
The Retreat |
The Burial of an Infant |
The World |
Beyond the Veil |
James Shirley.
1596–1666. |
Critical Introduction by William Minto |
A Lullaby (from The Triumph of Beauty, a Masque) |
The Garden (from Poems) |
The Might of Death (from Cupid and Death, a Masque) |
A Dirge (from The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses) |
Thomas Randolph.
1605–1635. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
Ode to Master Anthony Stafford |
Extract from The Cotswold Eclogue |
Extract from A Pastoral Courtship |
To Ben Jonson |
William Cartwright.
1611–1643. |
Critical Introduction by Adolphus William Ward |
On His Majesty’s Recovery from the Small-Pox, 1633 |
A New Year’s Gift to Brian Lord Bishop of Sarum upon the Author’s Entering into Holy Orders, 1638 |
On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman That Died Suddenly |
Abraham Cowley.
1618–1667. |
Critical Introduction by Thomas Humphry Ward |
Extract from Poetical Blossomes: A Wish |
Extracts from The Miscellanies: Ode of Wit |
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey |
The Chronicle. A Ballad |
On the Death of Mr. Crashaw |
Extracts from Anacreontiques: Drinking |
The Swallow |
Extracts from The Mistress: The Spring |
The Wish |
Extracts from Pindarique Odes: To Mr. Hobbes |
Brutus |
Extracts from Verses Written on Several Occasions: Stanzas from The Hymn to Light |
Extract from The Ode to the Royal Society |
Extract from Discourses by Way of Essays: On Solitude |
Edmund Waller.
1606–1687. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
On a Girdle |
Song: ‘Go, lovely Rose’ |
Extract from His Majesty’s Escape at St. Andrews |
To One Who Wrote against a Fair Lady |
The Bud |
The Marriage of the Dwarfs |
Extract from The Battle of the Summer’s Islands |
Sir John Denham.
1615–1669. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
View of London from Cooper’s Hill |
Praise of the Thames |
Against Love |
Song: ‘Morpheus, the humble god, that dwells’ |
Extract from The Elegy on Cowley |
Thomas Stanley.
1625–1678. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
Celia Singing |
The Tomb |
Sir William Davenant.
1606–1668. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
Extract from Gondibert |
Song: ‘The lark now leaves his watery nest’ |
On the Captivity of the Countess of Anglesey |
John Milton.
1608–1674. |
Critical Introduction by Mark Pattison |
An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, William Shakespeare |
L’Allegro |
Il Penseroso |
Extract from Comus |
Lycidas |
Sonnets: On His Being Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three |
On His Blindness |
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont |
To the Lord General Cromwell |
Extracts from Paradise Lost: Book I |
Book IV |
Book X |
Extracts from Paradise Regained: Book I |
Book III |
Extract from Samson Agonistes |
Andrew Marvell.
1621–1678. |
Critical Introduction by Goldwin Smith |
The Garden |
A Drop of Dew |
The Bermudas |
Young Love |
A Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland |
On Milton’s Paradise Lost |
Samuel Butler.
1612–1680. |
Critical Introduction by William Ernest Henley |
Extracts from Hudibras: Argumentative Theology |
The Presbyterians |
‘New Light’ |
The Muse of Doggerel |
Martial Music |
Honour |
Night |
Morning |
Spiritual Trimmers |
Marriage |
Amantium Irae |
Extracts from Miscellanies: An Apology for Plagiaries |
Upon the Weakness and Misery of Man |
Distichs and Saws (from Hudibras and Miscellanies) |
Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon.
1633?–1685. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
Extract from the Essay on Translated Verse |
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset.
1638–1706. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
Song Written at Sea |
Songs |
Sir Charles Sedley.
1639–1701. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
Song: ‘Love still has something of the Sea’ |
Song (from The Mulberry Garden): ‘Ah! Chloris’ |
Song: ‘Phillis is my only joy’ |
Aphra Behn.
1640–1689. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
Song (from Abdelazar): ‘Love in fantastic triumph sate’ |
The Dream |
On the Death of Waller |
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
1647–1680. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
Song: ‘My dear Mistress’ |
Constancy |
The Bowl |
Song (from Valentinian): ‘Injurious charmer of my vanquished heart’ |
Song: ‘When on those lovely looks’ |
Song: ‘Absent from thee I languish still’ |
Epitaph on Charles II. |
Thomas Otway.
1652–1685. |
Critical Introduction by Edmund W. Gosse |
Extract from The Poet’s Complaint of His Muse |
John Oldham.
1653–1683. |
Critical Introduction by Adolphus William Ward |
The Jesuits (from the Second Satire upon them) |
The Domestic Chaplain (from A Satire addressed to a Friend) |
John Dryden.
1631–1700. |
Critical Introduction by Adolphus William Ward |
Verses to her Royal Highness the Duchess [of York] |
Extracts from Annus Mirabilis: The Attempt at Berghen |
The Fire of London |
Extracts from Absalom and Achitophel: Achitophel |
The Malcontents. Zimri |
Shadwell (from Mac Flecknoe) |
Extracts from Absalom and Achitophel: Doeg and Og |
Tradition (from Religio Laici) |
Extracts from The Hind and the Panther: The Sects. Private Judgment |
The Unity of the Catholic Church |
The Buzzard |
Prologue to Aureng-Zebe, or the Great Mogul |
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew |
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day |
Alexander’s Feast; or, The Power of Music |
Lines Printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton |
To My Friend, Mr. Congreve |
Palamon and Arcite |
To My Honoured Kinsman, John Dryden |
Veni Creator Spiritus |