Hell's Children

Table of contents :
FROM Beowulf : "WHAT! WE OF SPEAR-DANES IN SPENT DAYS" / ANONYMOUS (A.D. 600-800) --
"Sing Cuccu ..." / ANONYMOUS (13TH CENTURY) --
"Bytuene Mersh and Averil" / "Lenten Is Come ..." / ANONYMOUS (14TH CENTURY) --
FROM The Bruce : "A! FREDOME IS A NOBLE THING!" / JOHN BARBOUR (1320?-1395) --
FROM The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales : 1. "WHAN THAT APRILLE ..."
2. "THERE WAS ALSO A NONNE ..."
3. "A MARCHANT WAS THER ..."
4. "A CLERK THER WAS OF OXENFORD ..."
5. "A FRANKELEYN WAS IN HIS COMPAIGNYE"
6. "A GOOD WIF WAS THER ..."
7. "THE MILLERE WAS A STOUT CARL ..." / FROM The Reeve's Tale : "AT TRUMPYNGTOUN NAT FER FROM CANTEBRIGGE" / FROM The Wife of Bath's Tale : "IN TH'OLDE DAYES OF THE KYNG ARTHOUR" / FROM The Parliament of Fowls : "THE LYF SO SHORT, THE CRAFT SO LONG TO LERNE" / FROM Troilus and Criseyde : "GO, LITEL BOK, GO, LITEL MYN TRAGEDYE" / FROM The Legend of Good Women : "AND AS FOR ME, THOUGH THAT MY WIT BE LITE" / Balade de Bon Conseil / The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse / GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340?-1400) --
"I Sing of a Maiden" / "Can 1 Not Sing ..." / "I Am as Light as Any Roe" / "I Have a Gentil Cok" / "Bring Us in Good Ale" / "How, Butler, How!" / ANONYMOUS (15TH CENTURY) --
FROM Philip Sparrow : "HOW SHALL I REPORT" / FROM Elinor Rumming : "AND THIS COMELY DAME" / FROM Against Garnesche : "WHAT, HAVE YE KITHED YOU A KNIGHT ..." / FROM Speak, Parrot : "so MANY MORAL MATTERS ..." / To Mistress Margery Wentworth / To Mistress Isabel Pennell / To Mistress Margaret Hussey / JOHN SKELTON (1460?-1529) --
FROM The Lament for the Makaris : "I THAT IN HEILL WAS AND GLADNESS" / WILLIAM DUNBAR (1460-1520?) --
FROM The Passetyme : "O MORTAL FOLK, YOU MAY BEHOLD AND SEE" / STEPHEN HAWES (1475?-1523?) ANONYMOUS (PERIODS UNCERTAIN) : BALLADS : Sir Patrick Spens / The Falcon / FROM The Birth of Robin Hood
"AND MONY ANE SINGS O' GRASS / FROM Robin Hood and the Monk
"IN SOMER, WHEN THE SHAWES BE SHEYNE" / FROM The Death of Robin Hood
"I NEVER HURT MAID IN ALL MY TIME" / The Three Ravens / The Unquiet Grave / Thomas the Rhymer / Chevy Chase / Waly, Waly / Fair Helen / Bonny George Campbell / Barbara Allen's Cruelty / Get Up and Bar the Door / CAROLS : "Joseph Was an Old Man" / "As Joseph Was A-Walking" / "As I Sat under a Sycamore Tree" / "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" / "The First Nowell ..." / FROM "The Maidens Came" : "THE MAIDENS CAME" / "Back and Side Go Bare ..." / ANONYMOUS (15TH-16TH CENTURY) --
"Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow" / ANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY) --
"As the Holly Groweth Green" / KING HENRY VIII (1491-1547) --
Harpalus' Complaint / A Praise of His Lady / Against Women either Good or Bad / As You Came from the Holy Land / "Fain Would I Have a Pretty Thing" / ANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY) --
The Lover Sheweth How He Is Forsaken ... / The Lover Beseecheth His Mistress ... / The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of His Love / SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503-1542) --
A Vow to Love Faithfully ... / The Means to Attain Happy Life / FROM The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid : "THEN MERCURY 'GAN BEND HIM TO OBEY" / HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1516-1547) --
The Praise of Philip Sparrow / GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1525?-1577) --
A Sweet Lullaby / FROM The Passionate Shepherd : "WHO CAN LIVE IN HEART SO GLAD" / Phillida and Coridon / FROM An Invective against the Wicked of the World : "LET BUT A FELLOW IN A FOX-FURRED GOWN" / NICHOLAS BRETON (1542-1626) --
Song / FROM A Joyful New Ballad : "O NOBLE ENGLAND" / THOMAS DELONEY (1543?-1607?) --
My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is / SIR EDWARD DYER (1545?-1607) --
"Venus, with Young Adonis ..." / FROM Sonnets : "FAIR IS MY LOVE ..." / BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN (15-?-1602) --
"Crabbed Age and Youth ..." / ANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY) --
The Shepherd's Description of Love / The Faery Queen / The Silent Lover / The Lie / FROM The Pilgrimage : "GIVE ME MY SCALLOP-SHELL OF QUIET" / Verses Written in His Bible / SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1552-1618) --
FROM The Shepherd's Calendar, April : "SEE WHERE SHE SITS UPON THE GRASSY GREEN" / FROM Sonnets : LXX. "FRESH SPRING, THE HERALD ..."
LXXV. "ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME ...
LXXVIII. "LACKING MY LOVE, I GO ... / Prothalamion / Epithalamion / FROM The Faery Queen : 1. "THE NOBLE HEART THAT HARBOURS ...
2. "MAMMON EMOVED WAS WITH INWARD WRATH"
3· "EFTSOONS THEY HEARD ..." / EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599) --
To Colin Clout / ANTHONY MUNDAY (1553-1633) "What Bird So Sings ..." / "Cupid and My Campaspe Played" / "Pan's Syrinx Was a Girl ..." / JOHN LYLY? (1553-1606) --
Song to His Cynthia / To Myra / Chorus from Mustapha / FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554- 1628) --
"My True Love Hath My Heart ..." / FROM Astrophel and Stella : SONNET 1. "LOVING IN TRUTH ..."
SONNET XXXI. "WITH HOW SAD STEPS, O MOON ..."
SONNET XXXIX. "COME, SLEEP
O SLEEP! ..."
ELEVENTH SONG / FROM Certain Sonnets : 1. "RING OUT YOUR BELLS! ..."
2. "THOU BLIND MAN'S MARK ..."
3· "LEAVE ME, O LOVE ..." / SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586) --
Phoebe's Sonnet / Rosalind's Madrigal / "The Earth, Late Choked ..." / To Phyllis, the Fair Shepherdess / To Phyllis / THOMAS LODGE (1556?-1625) --
"Fair and Fair ..." / "His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned" / "Whenas the Rye ..." / "Not Iris in Her Pride" / FROM The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, 1599 : 1. "NOW FOR THE CROWN AND THRONE ..."
2. "COME, GENTLE ZEPHYR ..."
3· "NOW COMES MY LOVER ..." / GEORGE PEELE (1558?-1597) --
Written the Night before His Execution / CHIDIOCK TICHBOURNE (1558?-1586) --
The Shepherd's Wife's Song / Samela / Weep Not, My Wanton / A Mind Content / "Ah, Were She Pitiful ..." / FROM A Madrigal : "THE SWANS, WHOSE PENS AS WHITE AS IVORY" / "Sonnet": "Fair Is My Love ..." / ROBERT GREENE (1560?-1592) --
Song: "O Come, Soft Rest ..." / FROM Bussy d'Ambois, 1607 : 1. "AS CEDARS BEATEN ..."
2. "I LONG TO KNOW" / FROM Caesar and Pompey, 1631 : "POOR SLAVES, HOW TERRIBLE THIS DEATH ..." / FROM The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron, 1608 : I. "AS WHEN THE MOON ..."
2. "GIVE ME A SPIRIT ..." / FROM The Sixth Book of Homer's Iliads : "SHE, WITH HIS SIGHT ..." / GEORGE CHAPMAN (1560-1634) --
The Burning Babe / The Virgin Mary to Christ on the Cross / FROM The Image of Death : "THE GOWN WHICH I DO USE TO WEAR" / ROBERT SOUTHWELL (1561?-1595) Damelus' Song to His Diaphenia / HENRY CONSTABLE (1562?-1613?) --
"Love Is a Sickness ..." / Ulysses and the Siren / Sonnets : 1. "FAIR IS MY LOVE ..."
2. "BEAUTY, SWEET LOVE ..."
3. "LET OTHERS SING OF KNIGHTS ..."
4. "CARE-CHARMER SLEEP ..." / SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619) --
Sonnet : "Were I as Base ..." / JOSHUA SYLVESTER (1563-1618) --
FROM The Shepherd's Garland : "GORBO, AS THOU CAM'ST THIS WAY" / To His Coy Love / To the Virginian Voyage / FROM Nimphidia, the Court of Fayrie : "PIGWIGGEN WAS THIS FAIRY KNIGHT" / Sonnets : I. "IF CHASTE AND PURE DEVOTION ..."
2. "SWEET SECRECY, WHAT TONGUE CAN TELL ..."
3. "INTO THESE LOVES ..."
4. "TO NOTHING FITTER CAN I THEE COMPARE"
5. "WIDLST THUS MY PEN STRIVES ..."
6. "DEAR, WHY SHOULD YOU COMMAND ..."
7. "SINCE THERE'S NO HELP ..." / MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631) --
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [Reply by SIR WALTER RALEIGH] / FROM Hero and Leander : "ON THIS FEAST DAY, O CURSED DAY AND HOUR" / FROM The First Part of Tamnburlaine the Great : 1. "DISDAINS ZENOCRATE TO LIVE WITH ME?"
2. "THE THIRST OF REIGN ..."
3. "THOSE WALLED GARRISONS ..."
4. "AH, FAIR ZENOCRATE ..." / FROM The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great : 1. "BLACK IS THE BEAUTY ..."
2. "FORWARD, THEN, YE JADES!" / FROM The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus : 1. "WAS THIS THE FACE ..."
2. "AH, FAUSTUS"
3. EPILOGUE: "CUT IS THE BRANCH ..." / FROM Edward the Second : "I MUST HAVE WANTON POETS ..." / CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593) Songs from the Plays : "WHO IS SILVIA?"
SONNET: "DID NOT THE HEAVENLY RHETORIC ..."
"ON A DAY-ALACK THE DAY!"
SPRING
WINTER
"OVER HILL, OVER DALE"
"YOU SPOTTED SNAKES ..."
"THE OUSEL COCK ..."
"NOW THE HUNGRY LION ROARS"
"TELL ME WHERE IS FANCY BRED"
"SIGH NO MORE, LADIES ..."
"PARDON, GODDESS OF THE NIGHT"
"UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE"
"IF IT DO COME TO PASS"
"BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND"
"WHAT SHALL HE HAVE ..."
"IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS"
"WEDDING IS GREAT JUNO'S CROWN"
"O MISTRESS MINE ..."
"COME AWAY, COME AWAY, DEATH"
"WHEN THAT I WAS AND A LITTLE TINY BOY"
"HOW SHOULD I YOUR TRUE LOVE KNOW"
"TO-MORROW IS SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY"
"AND WILL A' NOT COME AGAIN?"
"FIE ON SINFUL FANTASY!"
"FOR I THE BALLAD WILL REPEAT"
"TAKE, O TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY"
"THE COD-PIECE THAT WILL HOUSE"
"HE THAT HAS AND A LITTLE TINY WIT"
"WHEN PRIESTS ARE MORE IN WORD ..."
"COME, THOU MONARCH ..."
"HARK, HARK! THE LARK ..."
"FEAR NO MORE ..."
"WHEN DAFFODILS BEGIN TO PEER"
"JOG ON, JOG ON ..."
"LAWN AS WHITE AS DRIVEN SNOW"
"WILL YOU BUY ANY TAPE"
"COME UNTO THESE YELLOW SANDS"
"FULL FATHOM FIVE ..."
"NO MORE DAMS I'LL MAKE ..."
"THE MASTER, THE SWABBER ..."
"YOU NYMPHS, CALL'D NAIADS ..."
"WHERE THE BEE SUCKS ..." / Sonnets : VIII. "MUSIC TO HEAR, WHY HEAR'ST THOU MUSIC SADLY?"
XII. "WHEN I DO COUNT THE CLOCK THAT TELLS THE TIME"
XVM. "SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY?"
XXIX. "WHEN, IN DISGRACE WITH FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES"
XXX. "WHEN TO THE SESSIONS OF SWEET SILENT THOUGHT"
XXXIII. "FULL MANY A GLORIOUS MORNING HAVE I SEEN"
LIII. "WHAT IS YOUR SUBSTANCE, WHEREOF ARE YOU MADE"
LIV. "O, HOW MUCH MORE DOTH BEAUTY BEAUTEOUS SEEM"
LV. "NOT MARBLE, NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS"
LVII. "BEING YOUR SLAVE, WHAT SHOULD I DO BUT TEND"
LX. "LIKE AS THE WAVES MAKE TOWARD THE PEBBLED SHORE"
LXIV. "WHEN I HAVE SEEN BY TIME'S FELL HAND DEFAC'D"
LXVI. "TIRED WITH ALL THESE, FOR RESTFUL DEATH I CRY"
LXXI. "NO LONGER MOURN FOR ME WHEN I AM DEAD"
LXXIII. "THAT TIME OF YEAR THOU MAYST IN ME BEHOLD"
LXXXVII. "FAREWELL! THOU ART TOO DEAR FOR MY POSSESSING"
XCIV. "THEY THAT HAVE POWER TO HURT AND WILL DO NONE"
XCVIII. "FROM YOU HAVE I BEEN ABSENT IN THE SPRING"
CII. "MY LOVE IS STRENGTHENED, THOUGH MORE WEAK IN SEEMING"
CIV. "TO ME, FAIR FRIEND, YOU NEVER CAN BE OLD"
CVI. "WHEN IN THE CHRONICLE OF WASTED TIME"
CX. "ALAS, 'TIS TRUE I HAVE GONE HERE AND THERE"
CXVI. "LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS"
CXXIX. "TH' EXPENSE OF SPIRIT IN A WASTE OF SHAME"
CXXXVIIl. "WHEN MY LOVE SWEARS THAT SHE IS MADE OF TRUTH"
CXLVI. "POOR SOUL, THE CENTRE OF MY SINFUL EARTH" / WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) "Upon My Lap My Sovereign Sits" / RICHARD ROWLANDS, alias VERSTEGAN (1565-1630) --
"Spring, the Sweet Spring ..." / "Adieu
Farewell Earth's Bliss" / THOMAS NASHE (1567-1601) --
Sonnet: "Then Whilst That Latmos / WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING (1567?-1640) --
"Follow Your Saint ..." / "Follow Thy Fair Sun ..." / "Give Beauty All Her Right" / "Thou Art Not Fair ..." / "Turn All Thy Thoughts ..." / "Never Love ..." / "Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes ..." / "Love Me or Not ..." / "Shall I Come, Sweet Love ..." / "There Is a Garden in Her Face" / "When Thou Must Home ..." / "Now Winter Nights ..." / "The Man of Life Upright" / "I Care Not for These Ladies" / "Rose-Cheek'd Laura, Come" / THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1619) --
The Character of a Happy Life / On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia / Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife / SIR HENRY WOOTTON (1568-1639) --
FROM The Immortality of the Soul : "FOR WHY SHOULD WE THE BUSY SOUL BELIEVE" / SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) --
"I Loved Thee Once ..." / SIR ROBERT AYTOUN (1570-1638) --
"O, the Month of May ..." / "Cold's the Wind ..." / "Art Thou Poor ..." / "Golden Slumbers ..." / "Haymakers, Rakers ..." / FROM Old Fortunatus, 1600 : 1. "BEHOLD YOU NOT THIS GLOBE
2. "STAY, FORTUNATUS ..."
3· "OH, WHITHER AM I RAPT ..." / FROM The Honest Whore, Part I, 1604 : "PATIENCE, MY LORD! ..." / THOMAS DEKKER (1570?-1641?) --
"Love for Such a Cherry Lip" / "O for a Bowl of Fat Canary" / THOMAS MIDDLETON (1570?-1627) --
An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavey / Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. / That Women Are but Men's Shadows / To Celia / Her Triumph / To the Memory of William Shakespeare / Song: "Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount ..." / Song: "O, That Joy so Soon Should Waste!" / Hymn: "Queen and Huntress, Chaste and Fair" / Song: "Still to Be Neat ..." / FROM Volpone or The Fox, 1605 : "IF THOU HAST WISDOM ..." / FROM The Alchemist, 1610 : "NO. I'LL HAVE NO BAWDS" / BEN JONSON (1573-1637) FROM The Parliament of Bees, 1607? : 1. "I WILL HAVE ONE BUILT"
2. "THIS BASENESS FOLLOWS ..."
3· "HIGH STEWARD OF THY VINES" / JOHN DAY (15-?-1640?) --
The Good-Morrow / Song: "Go and Catch a Falling Star" / The Canonization / Song: "Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go" / Love's Alchemy / The Message / The Apparition / The Ecstasy / The Relique / Change / The Autumnal / On His Mistress / Love's Progress / Satire II / Holy Sonnets : VII. "AT THE ROUND EARTH'S IMAGINED CORNERS ..."
X. "DEATH, BE NOT PROUD ..." / A Hymn to Christ / A Hymn to God the Father / JOHN DONNE (1573-1631) --
"As It Fell upon a Day" / "If Music and Sweet Poetry ..." / RICHARD BARNEFIELD (1574-1627) --
FROM Vergidemiarum : 1. PROLOGUE
2. "A GENTLE SQUIRE WOULD GLADLY ENTERTAIN" / JOSEPH HALL (1574-1656) --
FROM Antonio and Mellida, 1602 : "MY THOUGHTS ARE FIXED IN CONTEMPLATION" / FROM Antonio's Revenge, 1602 : "THE RAWISH DANK OF CLUMSY WINTER ..." / FROM Satire V : "AMBITIOUS GORGONS ..." / JOHN MARSTON (1575?-1634) --
"Pack, Clouds, Away ..." / THOMAS HEYWOOD (1575?-1650?) --
Coridon's Song / JOHN CHALK HILL (15-?-16-?) --
FROM The Atheist's Tragedy, 1611 : "WALKING NEXT DAY UPON THE FATAL SHORE" / FROM The Revenger's Tragedy, 1607 : 1. "MY STUDY'S ORNAMENT, THOU SHELL OF DEATH"
2. "AND NOW METHINKS I COULD E'EN CHIDE MYSELF" / CYRIL TOURNEUR (1575?-1626) --
"To See a Quaint Outlandish Fowl" / HENRY FARLEY (15-?-16-?) --
"Hold Back Thy Hours ..." / "Lay a Garland on My Hearse" / "Sing His Praises ..." / "Now the Lusty Spring ..." / "Hear, Ye Ladies ..." / "Care-Charming Sleep ..." / "God Lyaeus, Ever Young" / "Cast Our Caps and Cares Away" / "Dearest, Do Not You Delay Me" / "'Tis Late and Cold ..." / "Hence, All You Vain Delights" / "Beauty Clear and Fair" / "Drink To-day ..." / "Hide, Oh, Hide Those Hills ..." / "Tell Me, Dearest ..." / "Away, Delights ..." / "Weep No More ..." / "Roses Their Sharp Spines ..." / "Orpheus with His Lute ..." / FROM The Faithful Shepherdess : 1. "HERE BE GRAPES ..."
2. "HERE BE WOODS ..."
3· "SHALL I STRAY" / JOHN FLETCHER (1579-1625) "Call for the Robin ..." / "Hark, Now Everything Is Still" / "All the Flowers of the Spring" / JOHN WEBSTER (158o-1630?) --
FROM The Fairies' Farewell : "FAREWELL, REWARDS AND FAIRIES" / RICHARD CORBET (1582 -1635) --
FROM The Purple Island : "BUT AH! LET ME UNDER SOME KENTISH HILL" / FROM Elisa : "MY DEAREST BETTY, MY MORE LOVED HEART" / PHINEAS FLETCHER (1582-1650) --
FROM Of My Dear Son, Gervase Beaumont : "CAN I, WHO HAVE FOR OTHERS OFT COMPILED" / SIR JOHN BEAUMONT (1583-1627) --
Sonnet: "Thus Ends My Love ..." / Madrigal: "How Should I Love My Best?" / Kissing / Elegy over a Tomb / FROM An Ode upon a Question Moved : "O NO, BELOVED, I AM MOST SURE" / LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY (1583-1648) --
On Mr. Wm. Shakespeare / WILLIAM BASSE (1583?-1653?) --
Song: "The Blushing Rose" / Song: "Why Art Thou Slow" / PHILIP MASSINGER (1583-1640) --
"Shake Off Your Heavy Trance!" / "Ye Should Stay Longer ..." / On the Marriage of a Beauteous Young Gentlewoman with an Ancient Man / On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey / FROM Mr. Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson : "THE SUN, WHICH DOTH THE GREATEST COMFORT BRING" / FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1584-1616) --
Madrigal: "Like the Idalian Queen" / Sonnet: "Dear Quirister ..." / Song: "Phoebus, Arise" / Sonnet: "My Lute, Be as Thou Wast ..." / Sonnet: "A Passing Glance ..." / WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN (1585-1649) --
Tom O' Bedlam's Song / GILES EARLE (15-?-16-?) --
"Fly Hence, Shadows ..." / "Can You Paint a Thought? ..." / "Oh, No More, No More ..." / "Glories, Pleasures ..." / "Pleasures, Beauty ..." / JOHN FORD (1586-1639) --
To Cynthia / SIR FRANCIS KYNASTON (1587-1642) --
The Author's Resolution / A Love Sonnet / A Christmas Carol / GEORGE WITHER (1588-1667) --
FROM Christ's Victory in Heaven : "SHE WAS A VIRGIN OF AUSTERE REGARD" / FROM Christ's Victory on Earth : "LOVE IS THE BLOSSOM ..." / GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER (1588?-1623) FROM Britannia's Pastorals : 1. "GENTLE NYMPHS, BE NOT REFUSING"
2. "SO SHUTS THE MARIGOLD HER LEAVES" / FROM The Inner Temple Masque : 1. "STEER HITHER, STEER YOUR WINGED PINES"
2. "SON OF EREBUS AND NIGHT" / "Shall I Love Again ..." / "Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing" / A Round / FROM Visions : "A ROSE, AS FAIR AS EVER SAW THE NORTH" / On the Dowager Countess of Pembroke / WILLIAM BROWNE OF TAVISTOCK (1591-l643?) --
The Argument of His Book / Delight in Disorder / To His Mistress / To Dianeme / To Violets / The Primrose / Upon Julia's Clothes / To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time / FROM The Hock-Cart or Harvest Home : "COME SONS OF SUMMER, BY WHOSE TOIL" / To Primroses Fill'd with Morning-Dew / FROM Oberon's Feast : "A LITTLE MUSHROOM TABLE SPREAD" / To Virgins / To Daffodils / To the Most Fair and Lovely Mistress, Anne Soame / The Mad Maid's Song / Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast / To the Water Nymphs, Drinking at the Fountain / Upon Her Feet / To Anthea, Who May Command Him in Anything / To Meadows / Grace for a Child / A Thanksgiving to God, for His House / ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674) --
"Sonnet": "Tell Me No More How Fair ..." / FROM The Exequy : "ACCEPT, THOU SHRINE OF MY DEAD SAINT" / HENRY KING (1592-1669) --
Man's Medley / The Collar / Discipline / Virtue / Sin / Love / Mortification / The Pulley / GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633) --
"Dear, Do Not Your Fair Beauty Wrong" / THOMAS MAY? (1595-1650) --
"You Virgins ..." / "The Glories of Our Blood ..." / JAMES SHIRLEY (1596-1666) --
FROM Persuasions to Love : "FOR THAT LOVELY FACE WILL FAIL" / Song: "Give Me More Love or More Disdain" / FROM Disdain Returned : "HE THAT LOVES A ROSY CHEEK" / Song: "Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows" / Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers / FROM A Rapture : "I WILL ENJOY THEE NOW, MY CELIA, COME" / THOMAS CAREW (1598?-1639?) "Art Thou That She ..." / "Hey Nonny No!" / "Yet If His Majesty ..." / "Daphnis Came on a Summer's Day" / "On a Fair Morning ..." / "I Saw My Lady Weep" / "Fine Knacks for Ladies ..." / "My Love in Her Attire ..." / "Flow Not so Fast ..." / "Weep You No More ..." / "Fain Would I Change ..." / "Ye Little Birds ..." / "Ha Ha! Ha Ha! This World ..." / "Love Not Me ..." / "The Sea Hath Many Thousand Sands" / "Sweet, Let Me Go!" / "Sweet Cupid, Ripen Her Desire" / "On a Time the Amorous Silvy" / "Love in Thy Youth ..." / Phillada Flouts Me / FROM The New Jerusalem : "HIERUSALEM, MY HAPPY HOME" / The Old and Young Courtier / Robin Goodfellow / The Queen of Fairies / In Praise of Ale / The Farewell / ANONYMOUS (17TH CENTURY) --
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara / WILLIAM HABINGTON (1605-1654) --
An Ode to Mr. Anthony Stafford / To One Admiring Herself in a Looking Glass / FROM A Pastoral Courtship : "BEING SET, LET'S SPORT A WHILE, MY FAIR" / THOMAS RANDOLPH (1605-1635) --
"The Lark Now Leaves ..." / FROM Song : "ROSES AND PINKS WILL BE STREWN WHERE YOU GO" / SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1606-1668) --
To a Very Young Lady / On a Girdle / Go, Lovely Rose! / On the Last Verses in the Book / EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687) --
Sonnet: "O Nightingale, That on Yon Bloomy Spray" / An Epitaph on William Shakespeare / Sonnet: "How Soon Hath Time the Subtle Thief ..." / FROM Arcades : SECOND SONG: "O'ER THE SMOOTH ENAMELLED GREEN"
THIRD SONG: "NYMPHS AND SHEPHERDS DANCE NO MORE" / L'Allegro / Il Penseroso / FROM A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus) : 1. "THE STAR THAT BIDS THE SHEPHERD FOLD"
2. SONG: "SWEET ECHO, SWEETEST NYMPH ..."
3. "O FOOLISHNESS OF MEN! ..."
4. SONG: "SABRINA FAIR"
5. "TO THE OCEAN NOW I FLY" / Lycidas / To the Lord General Cromwell / On the Late Massacre in Piedmont / "When I Consider ..." / FROM Paradise Lost : 1. "HAIL HOLY LIGHT, THOU OFFSPRING OF HEAV'N'S FIRST-BORN"
2. "SOUTHWARD THROUGH EDEN WENT A RIVER LARGE" / FROM Paradise Regained : "LOOK ONCE MORE ERE WE LEAVE ..." / FROM Samson Agonistes : "A LITTLE ONWARD LEND THY GUIDING HAND" / JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) The Siege / A Ballad upon a Wedding / A Poem: "Out upon It! I Have Loved" / Song: "I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart" / Song: "Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?" / SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642) --
To Chloe / WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT (1611-1643) --
Montrose to His Mistress / His Metrical Vow / JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUESS OF MONTROSE (1612-1650) --
FROM Hudibras : 1. "WHEN CIVIL DUDGEON FIRST GREW HIGH"
2. "FOR HIS RELIGION, IT WAS FIT"
8· "THIS STURDY SQUIRE, HE HAD, AS WELL" / SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) --
FROM Epithalamium : "COME, VIRGIN TAPERS OF PURE WAX" / FROM Wishes. To His Supposed Mistress : 'WHOE'ER SHE BE" / A Song: "Lord, When the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace" / For Hope / FROM A Hymn of the Nativity : "GLOOMY NIGHT EMBRACED THE PLACE" / FROM The Weeper : "HAIL SISTER SPRINGS!" / RICHARD CRASHAW (1613?-1649) --
Mark Antony / FROM The Rebel Scot : "COME, KEEN IAMBICS, WITH YOUR BADGER'S FEET" / JOHN CLEVELAND (1613-1658) --
FROM Cooper's Hill : "MY EYE DESCENDING FROM THE HILL, SURVEYS" / SIR JOHN DENHAM (1615-1669) --
The Rose / To Amarantha / To Lucasta, Going beyond the Seas / To Althea from Prison / To Lucasta, Going to the Wars / RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658) --
FROM On the Death of Mr. William Hervey : "IT WAS A DISMAL AND A FEARFUL NIGHT" / On the Death of Mr. Crashaw / The Wish / FROM Essay on Solitude : "HAIL, OLD PATRICIAN TREES, SO GREAT AND GOODl" / The Chronicle / ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667) --
Bermudas / To His Coy Mistress / The Garden / FROM A Horatian Ode upon Cromwell : "so RESTLESS CROMWELL COULD NOT CEASE" / FROM A Poem upon the Death of Oliver Cromwell : "I SAW HIM DEAD, A LEADEN SLUMBER LIES" / FROM The Loyal Scot : "BUT WHO CONSIDERS WELL WILL FIND INDEED" / ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678) --
A Song to Amoret / FROM To His Retired Friend : "COME! LEAVE THIS SULLEN STATE, AND LET NOT WINE" / FROM The Waterfall : "WITH WHAT DEEP MURMURS ..." / The Shower / The Morning-Watch / The Retreat / The World / "They Are All Gone ..." / HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695) --
Song: "When I Lie Burning in Thine Eye" / Song: "I Prithee Let My Heart Alone" / THOMAS STANLEY (1625-1678) --
The Call / JOHN HALL (1627-1656) FROM To Mr. Izaak Walton : "FAREWELL, THOU BUSY WORLD, AND MAY" / FROM Old Tityrus to Eugenia : "EUGENIA, YOUNG AND FAIR AND SWEET" / Ode: "Good Night, My Love, May Gentle Rest" / Sonnet: "Chloris, Whilst Thou and I Were Free" / Song: "Join Once Again, My Celia, Join" / Laura Sleeping / FROM Ode : "WITHOUT THE EVENING DEW AND SHOWERS" / CHARLES COTTON (1630-1687) --
Song: "Sylvia the Fair, in the Bloom of Fifteen" / Rondelay: "Chloe Found Amyntas Lying" / "Ah, Fading Joy ..." / "After the Pangs of a Desperate Lover" / "Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love" / "Why Should a Foolish Marriage Vow" / "Long betwixt Love and Fear ..." / "Can Life Be a Blessing" / "Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor" / "Fair Iris and Her Swain" / "How Happy the Lover" / "No, No, Poor Suffering Heart ..." / FROM Annus Mirabilis : "YET LONDON, EMPRESS OF THE NORTHERN CLIME" / FROM Absalom and Achitophel : 1. "OF THESE THE FALSE ACHITOPHEL WAS FIRST"
2. "IN THE FIRST RANK OF THESE DID ZIMRI STAND" / FROM MacFlecknoe : "ALL HUMAN THINGS ARE SUBJECT TO DECAY" / FROM Religio Laici : "DIM, AS THE BORROWED BEAMS OF MOON AND STARS" / To the Memory of Mr. Oldham / FROM Tyrannic Love, 1669 : PROLOGUE
EPILOGUE / Chorus from The Secular Masque / CHARLES COTTON (1630-1687) --
Friendship's Mystery / KATHERINE PHILIPS (1631-1664) --
Song: "Ye Happy Swains, Whose Hearts Are Free" / Upon the Downs ... / To a Lady / To a Very Young Lady / SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE (1635?-1691) --
Song: "Not, Celia, That I Juster Am" / Song: "Love Still Has Something of the Sea" / Song: "Ah Chloris! That I Now Could Sit" / SIR CHARLES SEDLEY (1639-1701) --
The Coquet / The Willing Mistress / Song: "Love in Fantastic Triumph Sate" / APHRA BEHN (1640-1689) --
Song: "The Fringed Vallance of Your Eyes Advance" / THOMAS SHADWELL (1642?-1692) --
FROM The Mistress : "AN AGE IN HER EMBRACES PAST" / A Song: "Absent from Thee I Languish Still" / Love and Life / Upon His Leaving His Mistress / Upon Nothing / King Charles II / JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680) --
The Enchantment / THOMAS OTWAY (1652-1685) --
FROM A Satire : "BUT, GRANT THY POETRY SHOULD FIND SUCCESS" / JOHN OLDHAM (1653-1683) A Song: "If for a Woman I Would Die" / ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA (1661?-1720) --
Verses / RICHARD BENTLEY (1662-1742) --
Song: "Of All the Torments, All the Cares" / Sonnet on Death / WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1708) --
An Ode / Cupid's Mistaken / The Lady Who Offers Her Looking Glass / To Cloe Jealous, a Better Answer / MATTHEW PRIOR (1664-1721) --
A Description of the Morning / FROM A Description of a City Shower : "AH! WHERE MUST NEEDY POET SEEK FOR AID" / FROM On the Death of Doctor Swift : 1. "THE TIME IS NOT REMOTE WHEN I"
2. "BEHOLD THE FATAL DAY ARRIVE!"
3· "FROM DUBLIN SOON TO LONDON SPREAD"
4· "MY FEMALE FRIENDS, WHOSE TENDER HEARTS"
5· "HE GAVE THE LITTLE WEALTH HE HAD" / JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) --
Song: "False Though She Be to Me and Love" / Amoret / FROM The Mourning Bride, 1697 : "MUSIC HAS CHARMS TO SOOTHE A SAVAGE BREAST" / WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670-1729) --
Song: "Why, Lovely Charmer, Tell Me Why" / SIR RICHARD STEELE (1672-1729) --
Epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh / ABEL EVANS (1679-1737) --
Extempore to Voltaire Criticising Milton / EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) --
Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America / GEORGE BERKELEY (1685-1753) --
Ballad: "'Twas When the Seas Were Roaring" / Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing / O Ruddier Than the Cherry / Air XXXV: "How Happy Could I Be with Either" / Air XXIII: "Sleep, O Sleep" / FROM The Fan : "RISE, HAPPY YOUTH, THIS BRIGHT MACHINE SURVEY" / His Own Epitaph / JOHN GAY (1685-1732) --
FROM "An Thou Were My Ain Thing" / Peggy / ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758) --
Sally in Our Alley / HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) --
Ode on Solitude / FROM An Essay on Criticism : "'TIS WITH OUR JUDGMENTS AS OUR WATCHES, NONE" / FROM The Rape of the Lock : 1. "NOT WITH MORE GLORIES, IN TH'ETHERIAL PLAIN"
2. "YE SYLPHS AND SYLPHIDS, TO YOUR CHIEF GIVE EAR!"
3· "FOR LO! THE BOARD WITH CUPS AND SPOONS IS CROWNED" / FROM Eloisa to Abelard : "HOW OFT, WHEN PRESSED TO MARRIAGE, HAVE I SAID" / FROM Essay on Man : 1. "HEAV'N FROM ALL CREATURES HIDES THE BOOK OF FATE"
2. "KNOW THEN THYSELF, PRESUME NOT GOD TO SCAN"
3· "FOR FORMS OF GOVERNMENT LET FOOLS CONTEST"
4· "WHAT'S FAME? A FANCIED LIFE IN OTHERS' BREATH"
5· "SEARCH THEN THE RULING PASSION: THERE ALONE" / FROM Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot : 1. "WHY DID I WRITE? WHAT SIN TO ME UNKNOWN"
2. "PEACE TO ALL SUCH! BUT WERE THERE ONE WHOSE FIRES"
3· "LET SPORUS TREMBLE" / FROM The Dunciad : "IN VAIN, IN VAIN --
THE ALL-COMPOSING HOUR" / Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton / ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) FROM Retirement, an Ode : "JOY, ROSE-LIPPED DRYAD, LOVES TO DWELL" / THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER (1688-1745) --
A Toast / JOHN BYROM (1692-1763) --
On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup / WILLIAM OLDYS (1696-1761) --
FROM The Grave : "SEE YONDER HALLOWED FANE, THE PIOUS WORK" / ROBERT BLAIR (1699-1746) --
FROM Grongar Hill : "OLD CASTLES ON THE CLIFF ARISE" / JOHN DYER (1700?-1758) --
FROM The Castle of Indolence : 1. "IN LOWLY DALE, FAST BY A RIVER'S SIDE"
2. "THE DOORS THAT KNEW NO SHRILL ALARMING BELL" / FROM Spring : "AT LENGTH THE FINISHED GARDEN TO THE VIEW" / FROM Winter : "THE KEENER TEMPESTS COME: AND, FUMING DUN" / JAMES THOMSON THE ELDER (1700-1748) --
"A-Hunting We Will Go" / HENRY FIELDING (1707-1754) --
FROM The Vanity of Human Wishes : "ON WHAT FOUNDATIONS STANDS THE WARRIOR'S PRIDE" / FROM London : "BY NUMBERS HERE FROM SHAME OR CENSURE FREE" / FROM On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet : "IN MISERY'S DARKEST CAVERN KNOWN" / FROM On the Coming of Age of a Rich Extravagant Young Man : "WEALTH, MY LAD, WAS MADE TO WANDER" / "Hermit Hoar ..." / SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) --
FROM The Happy Life : "A BOOK, A FRIEND, A SONG, A GLASS" / WILLIAM THOMPSON (1712?-1766?) --
Admiral Hosier's Ghost / RICHARD GLOVER (1712-1785) --
Written at an Inn at Henley / WILLIAM SHENSTONE (1714-1763) --
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Stanzas Cancelled from the Elegy / Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College / The Progress of Poesy / Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West / THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771) --
The Brown Jug / FRANCIS FAWKES (1720-1777) --
FROM Ode to Solitude : "O SOLITUDE, ROMANTIC MAID!" / JAMES GRAINGER (1721-1767) --
Ode: "How Sleep the Brave, Who Sink to Rest" / Ode to Evening / Dirge in Cymbeline / WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) --
FROM Song to David : "O SERVANT OF GOD'S HOLIEST CHARGE" / CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771) --
Lament for Flodden / JANE ELLIOT (1727-1805) --
Sonnet, to the River Loddon / THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER (1728-1790) --
FROM The Traveller : "REMOTE, UNFRIENDED, MELANCHOLY, SLOW" / FROM The Deserted Village : "SWEET AUBURN! LOVELIEST VILLAGE OF THE PLAIN" / Song: "When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly" / Song: "O Memory! Thou Fond Deceiver" / Song: "Let Schoolmasters Puzzle Their Brains" / OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728?-1774) The Drum / JOHN SCOTT OF AMWELL (1730-1783) --
John Gilpin / WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) --
To His Wife / SAMUEL BISHOP (1731-1795) --
Sonnet on Life / SIR BROOKE BOOTHBY (1734-1824) --
FROM The Minstrel : "BUT WHO THE MELODIES OF MORN CAN TELL?" / JAMES BEATTIE (1735-1803) --
FROM Love in a Village : "THERE WAS A JOLLY MILLER ONCE" / ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE (1735?-1812?) --
FROM Cumnor Hall : "THE DEWS OF SUMMER NIGHT DID FALL" / The Mariner's Wife / WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE (1735-1788) --
To the Cuckoo / MICHAEL BRUCE (1746-1767) --
The Gossamer / CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806) --
Auld Robin Gray / LADY ANNE LINDSAY (1750-1825) --
The Deserter / JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN (1750-1817) --
Song: "Here's to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen!" / RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751-1816) --
Song of Thyrsis / PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832) --
FROM Aella : "THE BUDDING FLOWERET BLUSHES AT THE LIGHT" / THOMAS CHATTERTON (1752-1770) --
The Vicar of Bray / Verses Copied from the Window of an Obscure LodgingHouse, in the Neighbourhood of London / ANONYMOUS (18TH CENTURY) --
Song / To the Muses / Introduction to Songs of Innocence / A Cradle Song / The Divine Image / Infant Joy / On Another's Sorrow / The Clod and the Pebble / The Tiger / The Sick Rose / "Ah! Sun-Flower! ..." / The Garden of Love / London / A Little Boy Lost / FROM Poems from MSS. : 1. "NEVER SEEK TO TELL THY LOVE"
2. "I LAID ME DOWN UPON A BANK"
3· "I ASKED A THIEF TO STEAL ME A PEACH"
4· "LOVE TO FAULTS IS ALWAYS BLIND"
5· "ABSTINENCE SOWS SAND ALL OVER" / The Question Answer'd / FROM Auguries of Innocence : "TO SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND" / FROM Visions of the Daughters of Albion : "FATHER OF JEALOUSY, BE THOU ACCURSED FROM THE EARTH!" / FROM Vala, or the Four Zoas : 1. "THE CITIES SEND TO ONE ANOTHER ..."
2. "O LORD, WILT THOU NOT LOOK ..." / FROM Milton : "AND DID THOSE FEET IN ANCIENT TIME" / FROM Jerusalem : "THE RHINE WAS RED WITH HUMAN BLOOD" / To the Accuser Who Is the God of This World / WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) A Poet's Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter / Holy Willie's Prayer / To a Louse / Address to the Unco Guid / Address to a Haggis / Tam O' Shanter / The Rigs o' Barley / Green Grow the Rashes / The Birks of Aberfeldy / I'm O'er Young to Marry Yet / Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw / My Bonie Mary / John Anderson, My Jo / My Love, She's but a Lassie Yet / Willie Brew'd a Peck o' Maut / The Banks o' Doon / Ae Fond Kiss, and Then We Sever / The Deil's Awa wi' the Exciseman / Highland Mary / Whistle an' I'll Come to Ye, My Lad / A Red, Red Rose / Charlie, He's My Darling / A Man's a Man for A' That / ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796) --
At Dover Cliffs / WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850) --
"My Heart Leaps Up ..." / "Strange Fits of Passion ..." / "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" / "She Was a Phantom ..." / "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" / "I Wandered Lonely ..." / Sonnets : 1. "NUNS FRET NOT AT THEIR CONVENT'S NARROW ROOM"
2. TO SLEEP
3. "SURPRISED BY JOY-IMPATIENT AS THE WIND"
4. "IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING, CALM AND FREE"
5· "THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US ..."
6. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE
7· ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC
8. "ENGLAND! THE TIME IS COME ..." / ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD / FROM Tintem Abbey : "AND NOW, WITH GLEAMS OF HALF-EXTINGUISHED THOUGHT" / FROM The Prelude : "ON A SUMMER EVENING (LED BY HER) I FOUND" / WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) --
FROM The Lay of the Last Minstrel : "IN PEACE, LOVE TUNES THE SHEPHERD'S REED" / FROM Mannion: SONG: "WHERE SHALL THE LOVER REST" / FROM The Lady of the Lake : 1. "HARP OF THE NORTH! ..."
2. "TIME ROLLS HIS CEASELESS COURSE ..."
3. CORONACH
4. "THE ROSE IS FAIREST WHEN 'TIS BUDDING NEW"
5. SOLDIER'S SONG
6. "HARP OF THE NORTH, FAREWELL! ..." / FROM Rokeby: SONG: "A WEARY LOT IS THINE, FAIR MAID" / "False Love ..." / "Hie Away ..." / "When Israel ..." / "Anna-Marie, Love, Up Is the Sun" / "March, March ..." / "Woman's Faith ..." / SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / FROM Christabel : "A LITTLE CHILD, A LIMBER ELF" / Kubla Khan / "Hear, Sweet Spirit ..." / SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) --
To Night / JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE (1775-1841) --
The Old Familiar Faces / CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834) --
Proem to Hellenics / To Robert Browning / On Catullus / To Shelley / Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher / FROM "In Clementina's Artless Mien" / "Fate! I Have Asked ..." / "Sweet Was the Song ..." / "Years, Many Parti-Coloured Years" / "Ah, What Avails ..." / "Past Ruined Ilion ..." / Ianthe's Troubles / "Twenty Years Hence ..." / "Proud Word You Never Spoke ..." / "Do You Remember Me? ..." / "Well I Remember ..." / Dirce / A Foreign Ruler / FROM Regeneration : "WE ARE WHAT SUNS AND WINDS AND WATERS MAKE US" / FROM Corinna to Tanagra : "TANAGRA! THINK NOT I FORGET" / FROM Pericles and Aspasia : 1. "BEAUTY! THOU ART A WANDERER ON THE EARTH"
2. "ARTEMIDORA! GODS INVISIBLE" / To Poets / "Leaf after Leaf ..." / WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864) --
"The Harp That Once ..." / "At the Mid Hour of Night ..." / Child's Song / THOMAS MOORE (1779-1852) --
The Nile / The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit / Rondeau / JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859) --
Song: "In His Last Bin Sir Peter Lies" / A Catch: "Seamen Three! What Men Be Ye?" / Song: "It Was a Friar of Orders Free" / "Not Drunk Is He ..." / FROM The War-Song of Dinas Vawr : "THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP ARE SWEETER" / Chorus: "If I Drink Water While This Doth Last" / Love and Age / Glee-The Ghosts / THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK (1785-1866) --
FROM To Woman : "WOMAN! EXPERIENCE MIGHT HAVE TOLD ME" / "Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer" / "When We Two Parted" / "Remember Thee! Remember Thee!" / FROM Stanzas : "COULD LOVE FOR EVER" / "So We'll Go No More a Roving" / FROM Childe Harold's Pilgrimage : 1. "THERE WAS A SOUND OF REVELRY BY NIGHT"
2. "THE CASTLED CRAG OF DRACHENFELS"
3. "I STOOD IN VENICE ON THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS"
4· "EGERIA, SWEET CREATION OF SOME HEART"
5· "OH LOVE! NO HABITANT OF EARTH THOU ART"
6. "THERE IS A PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS" / FROM Don Juan : 1. "'TIS SWEET TO HEAR"
2. "THEY TELL ME 'TIS DECIDED
YOU DEPART"
3· "TIS PLEASING TO BE SCHOOLED IN A STRANGE TONGUE"
4· "IT WAS THE COOLING HOUR ..."
5· "THE ISLES OF GREECE ..." / On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year / GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824) To Mary / CHARLES WOLFE (1791-1823) --
FROM Prometheus Unbound : 1. "ON A POET'S LIPS I SLEPT"
2. "THE PATH THROUGH WHICH THAT LOVELY TWAIN"
3· "LIFE OF LIFE! THY LIPS ENKINDLE" / FROM Lines Written among the Euganean Hills : "'MID THE MOUNTAINS EUGANEAN" / Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples / Song to the Men of England / FROM To the Lord Chancellor : "OH, LET A FATHER'S CURSE BE ON THY SOUL" / Ode to the West Wind / The Indian Serenade / Love's Philosophy / The Cloud / To-: "I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden" / To the Moon / The World's Wanderers / Good-Night / To Night / To-: "Music, When Soft Voices Die" / Mutability / To-: "One Word Is Too Often Profaned" / Lines: "When the Lamp Is Shattered" / To Stella / FROM Adonais : "I WEEP FOR ADONAIS-HE IS DEAD!" / PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) --
Written in Northampton County Asylum / JOHN CLARE (1793-1864) --
Thanatopsis / "Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids!" / Dante / WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) --
Dedication, to Leigh Hunt, Esq. / On First Looking into Chapman's Homer / To a Nightingale / On a Grecian Urn / To Psyche / To the Poets / Lines on the Mermaid Tavern / To Autumn / On Melancholy / Sonnet on the Sea / Sonnet to Sleep / Ballad: La Belle Dame sans Merci / FROM The Eve of St. Agnes : "OUT WENT THE TAPER AS SHE HURRIED IN" / FROM Isabella or The Pot of Basil : 1. "FAIR ISABEL, POOR SIMPLE ISABEL!"
2. "O MELANCHOLY, LINGER HERE AWHILE!" / FROM Endymion : 1. "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER"
2. "AND, TRULY, I WOULD RATHER BE STRUCK DUMB"
3. "O SOVEREIGN POWER OF LOVE! ..."
4. "BENEATH MY PALM-TREES, BY THE RIVER SIDE" / FROM Hyperion : 1. "AS WHEN, UPON A TRANCED SUMMER-NIGHT"
2. "O LEAVE THEM, MUSE! ..." / "Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art" / JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) --
Siren Chorus / GEORGE DARLEY (1795-1846) --
Song: "She Is Not Fair to Outward View" / HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1796-1849) Autumn / The Water Lady / Sonnet: "It Is Not Death, That Sometime in a Sigh" / Silence / THOMAS HOOD (1799-1845) Epitaph on a Jacobite / THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, LORD MACAULAY (1800-1859) --
FROM The Belle of the Ball-Room : "OUR LOVE WAS LIKE MOST OTHER LOVES" / WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED (1802-1839) --
"And When I Am Entombed ..." / FROM Ode Inscribed to W.H. Channing : "THE GOD WHO MADE NEW HAMPSHIRE" / Forbearance / Give All to Love / Bacchus / FROM Concord Hymn : "BY THE RUDE BRIDGE THAT ARCHED THE FLOOD" / Days / April / Heroism / Brahma / RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) --
Song: "How Many Times Do I Love Thee, Dear?" / Dream-Pedlary / Love-in-Idleness / Song: "Who Tames the Lion Now?" / The Phantom-Wooer / Song: "Strew Not Earth with Empty Stars" / THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849) --
Dark Rosaleen / JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN (1803-1849) --
Sonnets from the Portuguese : I. "I THOUGHT ONCE HOW THEOCIDTUS HAD SUNG"
VI. "GO FROM ME. YET I FEEL THAT I SHALL STAND"
XIV. "IF THOU MUST LOVE ME, LET IT BE FOR NOUGHT"
XXII. "WHEN OUR TWO SOULS STAND UP ERECT AND STRONG"
XXVIII. "MY LETTERS! ALL DEAD PAPER, MUTE AND WHITE!"
XXXII. "THE FIRST TIME THAT THE SUN ROSE ON THINE OATH"
xxxv. "IF I LEAVE ALL FOR THEE, WILT THOU EXCHANGE"
XXXVIII. "FIRST TIME HE KISSED ME, HE BUT ONLY KISSED"
XLIII. "HOW DO I LOVE THEE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS" / The Cry of the Children / ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) --
Hymn to the Night / Serenade / Suspiria / My Lost Youth / "Some Day, Some Day" / Divina Commedia / Ultima Thule / HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) --
"I Call the Old Time Back ..." / JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892) --
The Voiceless / After a Lecture on Keats / OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894) --
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur / EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883) --
Mariana / Choric Song of the Lotos-Eaters / CEnone / FROM The Princess : I. "THE SPLENDOUR FALLS ON CASTLE WALLS"
2. "TEARS, IDLE TEARS, I KNOW NOT WHAT THEY MEAN"
3· "NOW SLEEPS THE CRIMSON PETAL, NOW THE WHITE"
4· "COME DOWN, O MAID, FROM YONDER MOUNTAIN HEIGHT" / FROM In Memoriam : xxxv. "YET IF SOME VOICE THAT MAN COULD TRUST"
LXXXII. "DIP DOWN UPON THE NORTHERN SHORE"
XC. "WHEN ROSY PLUMELETS TUFT THE LARCH"
CXIV. "NOW FADES THE LAST LONG STREAK OF SNOW" / Ulysses / Crossing the Bar / ALFRED TENNYSON, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892) The Raven / Ulalume / The Valley of Unrest / The City in the Sea / To One in Paradise / The Haunted Palace / Annabel Lee / To Helen / EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) --
FROM The Chronicle of the Drum : "AH, GENTLE, TENDER LADY MINE!" / The Ballad of Bouillabaisse / WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-1863) --
A Winter Wish / ROBERT HINCKLEY MESSINGER (1811-1874) --
Song: "Give Her but a Least Excuse to Love Me!" / The Lost Leader / The Confessional / Meeting at Night / A Woman's Last Word / Respectability / Women and Roses / FROM In a Gondola : "I SEND MY HEART UP TO THEE, ALL MY HEART" / The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church / Fra Lippo Lippi / Song: "Nay but You, Who Do Not Love Her" / Confessions / Youth and Art / FROM One Word More : "THERE THEY ARE, MY FIFTY MEN AND WOMEN" / Epilogue / ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) --
On the Death of Anne Bronte / CHARLOTTE BRONTE (1816-1855) --
"Low-Anchored Cloud ..." / "Woof of the Sun ..." / The Atlantides / "All Things Are Current Found" / "Light-Winged Smoke ..." / HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) --
The Old Stoic / "Tell Me, Tell Me ..." / "The Sun Has Set ..." / "Sleep Brings No Joy ..." / "A Little While, a Little While" / FROM "I Am the Only Being ..." : "I AM THE ONLY BEING WHOSE DOOM" / "I Gazed Within ..." / At Castle Wood / "No Coward Soul ..." / EMILY JANE BRONTE (1818-1848) --
The Latest Decalogue / "Say Not the Struggle ..." / ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819-1861) --
FROM Starting from Paumanok : "STARTING FROM FISH-SHAPE PAUMANOK" / FROM Song of Myself " "I CELEBRATE MYSELF, AND SING MYSELF" / From Pent-Up Aching Rivers / Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd / FROM Song of the Open Road : "AFOOT AND LIGHT-HEARTED I TAKE TO THE OPEN ROAD" / FROM Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking / As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods / The Wound-Dresser / When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd / To a Common Prostitute / Darest Thou Now O Soul / WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) --
"When All the World ..." / CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-1875) --
She Came and Went / JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891) "The Ribs and Terrors ..." / The March into Virginia / Shiloh, a Requiem / FROM John Marr : "SINCE AS IN NIGHT'S DECK-WATCH YE SHOW" / To Ned / Lone Founts / Art / Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem / L'Envoi: The Return of the Sire de Nesle / Immolated / Camoens / Camoens in the Hospital / Falstaff's Lament over Prince Hal Become Henry V / HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) --
Shakespeare / The Forsaken Merman / Requiescat / The Scholar Gipsy / FROM Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse : "FOR RIGOROUS TEACHERS SEIZED MY YOUTH" / Dover Beach / MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888) --
Heraclitus / WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY (1823-1892) --
FROM The Angel in the House : "AN IDLE POET, HERE AND THERE" / The Toys / COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE (1823-1896) --
The Fairies / WILLIAM ALLINGHAM (1824-1889) --
Love in the Valley / FROM Modern Love : VI. "IT CHANCED HIS LIPS DID MEET HER FOREHEAD COOL"
XII. "NOT SOLELY THAT THE FUTURE SHE DESTROYS"
XXX. "WHAT ARE WE FIRST? FIRST, ANIMALS
AND NEXT"
XLII. "I AM TO FOLLOW HER. THERE IS MUCH GRACE"
XLVII. "WE SAW THE SWALLOWS GATHERING IN THE SKY"
L. "THUS PITEOUSLY LOVE CLOSED WHAT HE BEGAT" /Appreciation / Lucifer in Starlight / GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909) --
A Little While / Three Shadows / Autumn Song / For a Venetian Pastoral by Giorgione / FROM The House of Life : 1. "A SONNET IS A MOMENT'S MONUMENT"
2. LOVESIGHT
3· WITHOUT HER
4· THE CHOICE / The Ballad of Dead Ladies / Beauty / DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882) --
A Decanter of Madeira / SILAS WEIR MITCHELL (1829-1914) --
FROM Manna Innominata : XI. "MANY IN AFTER TIMES WILL SAY OF YOU"
XIV. "YOUTH GONE, AND BEAUTY GONE IF EVER THERE" / Song: "When I Am Dead, My Dearest" / Song: "Oh Roses for the Flush of Youth" / Remember / FROM The Prince's Progress : "TOO LATE FOR LOVE, TOO LATE FOR JOY" / A Birthday / Echo / Up-Hill / Twice / CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894) --
"My Life Closed Twice ..." / "Doubt Me ..." / "I'm Ceded ..." / "I'm Wife ..." / "Proud of My Broken Heart ..." / "Heart, We Will Forget Him!" / "Title Divine Is Mine" / "This Quiet Dust ..." / EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) FROM The City of Dreadful Night : PROEM
I. "THE CITY IS OF NIGHT
PERCHANCE OF DEATH"
XIII. "OF ALL THINGS HUMAN WHICH ARE STRANGE ..." / FROM Sunday up the River : I. "I LOOKED OUT INTO THE MORNING"
XVIII. "THE WINE OF LOVE IS MUSIC" / FROM Sunday at Hampstead : X. "AS WE RUSH, AS WE RUSH IN THE TRAIN" / JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) --
Summer Dawn / FROM The Life and Death of Jason : 1. "I KNOW A LITTLE GARDEN-CLOSE"
2. "O HAPPY SEAFARERS ARE YE" / FROM The Earthly Paradise : I. "OF HEAVEN OR HELL I HAVE NO POWER TO SING"
2. "O JUNE, O JUNE, THAT WE DESIRED SO" / FROM Ogier the Dane : "IN THE WHITE-FLOWERED HAWTHORN BRAKE" / FROM Love Is Enough : "LOVE IS ENOUGH: THOUGH THE WORLD BE A-WANING" / WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) --
FROM The Triumph of Time : "I HAVE PUT MY DAYS AND DREAMS OUT OF MIND" / A Leave-Taking / FROM Anactoria : "THEE TOO THE YEARS SHALL COVER
THOU SHALT BE" / Rococo / Rondel / The Garden of Proserpine / An Interlude / At Parting / Ave atque Vale / Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon : 1. "WHEN THE HOUNDS OF SPRING ..."
2. "BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF YEARS"
3· "WHO HATH GIVEN MAN SPEECH? ..." / ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909) --
The Impercipient / To an Unborn Pauper Child / Shut Out That Moon / The Conformers / Let Me Enjoy / Afterwards / THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928) --
On a Fan That Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour / HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON (1840-1921) --
FROM Esther : L. "HE WHO HAS ONCE BEEN HAPPY IS FOR AYE"
LI. "WHEN I HEAR LAUGHTER FROM A TAVERN DOOR" / FROM The Love Sonnets of Proteus : AS TO HIS CHOICE OF HER
HE HAS FALLEN FROM THE HEIGHT OF HIS LOVE
ON THE NATURE OF LOVE
IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION
FAREWELL TO JULIET
ST. VALENTINE'S DAY
TO ONE ON HER WASTE OF TIME
TO ONE WHO WOULD MAKE CONFESSION / Song: "Oh Fly Not, Pleasure" / FROM The Wisdom of Merlyn : "WHAT THEN IS MERLYN'S MESSAGE ..." / WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT (1840-1922) --
FROM The Symphony : "I SPEAK FOR EACH NO-TONGUED TREE" / SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881) --
Heaven-Haven / The Habit of Perfection / In the Valley of the Elwy / The Starlight Night / Pied Beauty / GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889) --
The Odyssey / ANDREW LANG (1844-1911) FROM Ode : "WE ARE THE MUSIC-MAKERS" / ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY (1844-1881) --
Pater Filio / To L.B.C.L.M. / On a Dead Child / ROBERT BRIDGES (1844-1930) --
Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age / Renouncement / ALICE MEYNELL (1849-1922) --
I.M., R.T. Hamilton Bruce [Invictus] / "Fill a Glass with Golden Wine" / To A.D. / "On the Way to Kew" / Epilogue to Rhymes and Rhythms / WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903) --
The Celestial Surgeon / The Vagabond / Requiem / ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) --
FROM The Ballad of Reading Gaol : "IN DEBTOR'S YARD THE STONES ARE HARD" / OSCAR WILDE (1856-1900) --
In Romney Marsh / Waiting / JOHN DAVIDSON (1857-1909) --
"Loveliest of Trees ..." / "When I Was One-and-Twenty" / "Into My Heart an Air ..." / Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries / "I to My Perils" / For My Funeral / ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN (1859-1936) --
The Hound of Heaven / FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907) --
Epitaphium Citharistriae / VICTOR PLARR (1863-1929) --
Ode: "My Heart Rebels against My Generation" / On the Death of a Metaphysician / "We Needs Must Be Divided ..." / GEORGE SANTAYANA (1863-1952) --
A Faery Song / The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart / FROM The Land of Heart's Desire : "THE WIND BLOWS OUT OF THE GATES OF THE DAY" / FROM Deirdre : "'WHY IS IT, ' QUEEN EDAIN SAID" / When Helen Lived / FROM A Prayer for My Daughter : "I HAVE WALKED AND PRAYED FOR THIS YOUNG CHILD ..." / Sailing to Byzantium / WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) --
Declaration / Wanderer's Song / ARTHUR SYMONS (1865-1945) --
The Long Trail / Screw-Guns / Shillin' a Day / Recessional / RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) --
Vitae Summa Brevis / Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae / ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900) --
Chivalry / A.E.-GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL (1867-1935) --
The Precept of Silence / LIONEL JOHNSON (1867-1902) --
The Hill / Howard Lamson / EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1869-1950) --
For a Dead Lady / Momus / Mr. Flood's Party / EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) FROM For the Fallen : "THEY WENT WITH SONGS TO THE BATTLE ..." / LAURENCE BINYON (1869-1943) --
The Sailor to His Parrot / WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES (1870-1940) --
Discovery / HILAIRE BELLOC (1870-1953) --
The Dead Poet / LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS (1870-1945) --
Sea Love / Moorland Night / CHARLOTTE MEW (1870-1928) --
The Fairy Fiddler / NORA HOPPER (1871-1906) --
War Is Kind / "A Newspaper Is ..." / STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900) --
Time, You Old Gipsy Man / RALPH HODGSON (B. 1871) --
In Flanders Fields / JOHN McCRAE (1872-1918) --
FROM On Heaven : " ... AND MY DEAR ONE SAT IN THE SHADOWS ..." / A Solis Ortus Cardine ... / FORD MADOX FORD (1873-1939) --
An Epitaph / The Listeners / All That's Past / Clear Eyes / WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) --
Wine and Water / On a Prohibitionist Poem / Elegy in a Country Churchyard / GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) --
"I Know Where I'm Going" / ANONYMOUS (19TH CENTURY) --
Mnemosyne / TRUMBULL STICKNEY (1874-1904) / Little Ivory Figures Pulled with String / AMY LOWELL (1874-1925) --
The Pasture / My November Guest / After Apple-Picking / Storm Fear / Mending Wall / FROM Two Witches : THE WITCH OF COOS / Fire and Ice / Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / ROBERT FROST (B. 1875) --
FROM Reynard the Fox : "THE COBBLER BENT AT HIS WOODEN FOOT" / On Growing Old / JOHN MASEFIELD (B. 1878) --
The Sign-Post / EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917) --
Chicago / Cool Tombs / CARL SANDBURG (B. 1878) --
The Eagle That Is Forgotten / VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931) --
Midnight Lamentation / HAROLD MONRO (1879-1932) --
The Emperor of Ice-Cream / Peter Quince at the Clavier / Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself / WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1957) --
Exit / WILSON PUGSLEY MAcDONALD (B. 1880) --
"Mourn Not the Dead ..." / RALPH CHAPLIN (B. 1880) --
Epitaph / LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE (1881-1938) --
The Old Woman / JOSEPH CAMPBELL (B. 1881) --
A Drover / PADRAIC COLUM (B. 1881) --
"I Hear an Army Charging ..." / She Weeps over Rahoon / A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight / JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941) --
Deirdre / JAMES STEPHENS (1882-1950) --
Autumn / Conversion / THOMAS ERNEST HULME (1883-1917) --
Peace on Earth / The Yachts / WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (B. 1883) --
The Fresh Start / ANNA WICKHAM (B. 1884) The Dying Patriot / JAMES ELROY FLECKER (1884-1915) --
FROM The Virgin Mother : "I KISS YOU GOOD-BYE, MY DARLING" / River Roses / Song of a Man Who Has Come Through / Sinners / Bavarian Gentians / Ship of Death / DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE (1885-1930) --
Awpia / The Return / FROM Canto LXXXI : "WHAT THOU LOVEST WELL REMAINS" / EZRA POUND (B. 1885) --
The Eagle and the Mole / ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928) --
Aftermath / SIEGFRIED SASSOON (B. 1886) --
Sitalkas / Lethe / FROM Hymen : "NEVER MORE WILL THE WIND" / H.D.-HILDA DOOLITTLE (B. 1886) --
Signpost / Shine, Perishing Republic / ROBINSON JEFFERS (B. 1887) --
An Old Woman Laments in Spring-Time / EDITH SITWELL (B. 1887) --
The Road / EDWIN MUIR (B. 1887) --
Chorus from a Tragedy / LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) --
Silence / A Talisman / Poetry / In Distrust of Merits / MARIANNE MOORE (B. 1887) --
The Hill / The Soldier / RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915) --
"I Have a Rendezvous with Death" / ALAN SEEGER (1888-1916) --
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / La Figlia Che Piange / "Eyes That Last I Saw in Tears" / FROM Four Quartets (FROM "Burnt Norton") : "WORDS MOVE, MUSIC MOVES" / THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (B. 1888) --
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son / JOHN CROWE RANSOM (B. 1888) --
FROM Time in the Rock : "AND YOU WHO LOVE, YOU WHO ATTACH YOURSELVES" / Blind Date / CONRAD AIKEN (B. 1889) --
Break of Day in the Trenches / ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918) --
Mrs. Southern's Enemy / FROM England Reclaimed : "SOUND OUT, PROUD TRUMPETS" / OSBERT SITWELL (B. 1892) --
You, Andrew Marvel / "Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments" / ARCHIBALD MAcLEISH (B. 1892) --
"Oh, Sleep Forever in the Latmian Cave" / "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed ..." / EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) --
Greater Love / The Show / Anthem for Doomed Youth / WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918) --
Ninth Philosopher's Song / Frascati's / ALDOUS HUXLEY (B. 1894) --
Epitaphs: For a Fickle Man / The End / MARK VAN DOREN (B. 1894) --
Song: "All in Green Went My Love Riding" / "The Cambridge Ladies Who Live in Furnished Souls" / "What If a Much of a Which of a Wind" / EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS (B. 1894) --
Hasbrouck and the Rose / HOWARD PHELPS PUTNAM (1891-1948) The Bards / The Climate of Thought / Counting the Beats / ROBERT GRAVES (B. 1895) --
Into the Salient / An Infantryman / EDMUND BLUNDEN (B. 1896) --
FROM John Brown's Body : "THIS IS THE HIDDEN PLACE THAT HIDERS KNOW" / STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1898-1913) --
Voyages: II / FROM The Bridge : THE RIVER / HART CRANE (1899-1932) --
Shadow and Shade / Ode to the Confederate Dead / ALLEN TATE (B. 1899) --
Country Summer / LEONIE ADAMS (B. 1899) --
Variation on a Theme by John Lyly / SACHEVERELL SITWELL (B. 1900) --
Metempsychosis / KENNETH SLESSOR (B. 1901) --
The Zebras / FROM Talking Bronco : THE VOLUNTEER'S REPLY TO THE POET / ROY CAMPBELL (1902-1957) --
FROM From Feathers to Iron : "NOW THE FULL-THROATED DAFFODILS" / CECIL DAY LEWIS (B. 1904) --
Midcentury Love Letter / PHYLLIS McGINLEY (B. 1905) --
Missing Dates / WILLIAM EMPSON (B. 1906) --
"O for Doors to Be Open" / Ballad: "O What Is That Sound ..." / In Memory of W.B. Yeats / WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN (B. 1907) --
Aubade / Bagpipe Music / LOUIS MAcNEICE (B. 1907) --
The Pythoness / KATHLEEN RAINE (B. 1908) --
Big Wind / THEODORE ROETHKE (B. 1908) --
Thoughts during an Air Raid / "I Think Continually of Those ..." / STEPHEN SPENDER (B. 1909) --
Eclogue / FREDERIC PROKOSCH (B. 1909) --
Neither Here nor There / WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS (B. 1909) --
The Fish / ELIZABETH BISHOP (B. 1911) --
Sonnet to My Mother / To Any Member of My Generation / GEORGE BARKER (B. 1913) --
FROM The Repetitive Heart : "ALL CLOWNS ARE MASKED AND ALL PERSONAE" / DELMORE SCHWARTZ (B. 1913) --
Buick / KARL SHAPIRO (B. 1913) --
Lessons of the War: Naming of Parts / HENRY REED (B. 1914) --
"The Force That through the Green Fuse ..." / "Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines" / Fern Hill / "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" / DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953) --
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket / ROBERT LOWELL (B. 1917) --
After the Last Bulletins / RICHARD WILBUR (B. 1921).