The Viking book of poetry of the English-speaking world
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New York : Viking Press, 1941.
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lxxi, [1], 1272 pages 22 cm.
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Table of Contents
"What! we of spear-danes in spent days" / Anonymous
"Sing cuccu..." / Anonymous
"Bytuene Mersh and Averil" / Anonymous
"Lenten is come..." / Anonymous
"A! fredome is a noble thing!" / John Barbour
"Whan that Aprille..." / Geoffrey Chaucer
"There was also a nonne..." / Geoffrey Chaucer
"A marchant was ther..." / Geoffrey Chaucer
"A clerk ther was of Oxenford..." / Geoffrey Chaucer
"A frankeleyn was in his compaignye" / Geoffrey Chaucer
"A good wif was ther..." / Geoffrey Chaucer
"The millere was a stout carl..." / Geoffrey Chaucer
"At Trumpyngtoun nat fer from Canterbrigge" / Geoffrey Chaucer
"In the'olde dayes of the Kyng Arthour" / Geoffrey Chaucer
"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne" / Geoffrey Chaucer
"Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye" / Geoffrey Chaucer
"And as for me, though that my wit be lite" / Geoffrey Chaucer
Balade de bon conseil / Geoffrey Chaucer
The complaint of Chaucer to his purse / Geoffrey Chaucer
"I sing of a maiden" / Anonymous
"Can I not sing..." / Anonymous
"I am as light as any roe" / Anonymous
"I have a gentil cok" / Anonymous
"Bring us in good ale" / Anonymous
"How, butler, how!" / Anonymous
"How shall I report" / John Skelton
"And this comely dame" / John Skelton
"What, have ye kithed you a knight..." / John Skelton
"So many moral matters..." / John Skelton
To Mistress Margery Wentworth / John Skelton
To Mistress Isabel Pennell / John Skelton
To Mistress Margaret Hussey / John Skelton
"I that in heill was and gladness" / William Dunbar
"O mortal folk, you may behold and see" / Stephen Hawes
The falcon / Anonymous
"And mony ane sings o' grass..." / Anonymous
"In somer, when the shawes be sheyne" / Anonymous
"I never hurt maid in all my time" / Anonymous
The three ravens / Anonymous
The unquiet grave / Anonymous
Thomas the rhymer / Anonymous
Chevy Chase / Anonymous
Waly, Waly / Anonymous
Fair Helen / Anonymous
Bonny George Campbell / Anonymous
Barbara Allen's cruelty / Anonymous
Get up and bar the door / Anonymous
"Joseph was an old man" / Anonymous
"As Joseph was a-walking" / Anonymous
"As I sat under a sycamore tree" / Anonymous
"God rest ye merry, gentlemen" / Anonymous
"The first nowell..." / Anonymous
"The maidens came" / Anonymous
"Back and side go bare..." / Anonymous
"Western wind, when wilt thou blow" / Anonymous
"As the holly groweth green" / King Henry VIII
Harpalus' complaint / Anonymous
A praise of his lady / Anonymous
Against women either good or bad / Anonymous
As you came from the holy land / Anonymous
"Fain would I have a pretty thing" / Anonymous
The lover sheweth how he is forsaken... / Sir Thomas Wyatt
The lover beseecheth his mistress... / Sir Thomoas Wyatt
The lover complaineth the unkindness of his love / Sir Thomas Wyatt
A vow to love faithfully... / Henry Howard
The means to attain happy life / Henry Howard
"Then Mercury 'gan bend him to obey" / Henry Howard
The praise of Philip Sparrow / George Gascoigne
A sweet lullaby / Nicholas Breton
"Who can live in heart so glad" / Nicholas Breton
Phillida and Coridon / Nicholas Breton
"Let but a fellow in a fox-furred gown" / Nicholas Breton
Song / Thomas Deloney
"O noble England" / Thomas Deloney
My mind to me a kingdom is / Sir Edward Dyer
"Venus, with young Adonis..." / Bartholomew Griffin
"Fair is my love..." / Bartholomew Griffin
"Crabbed age and youth..." / Anonymous
The shepherd's description of love / Sir Walter Raleigh
The faery queen / Sir Walter Raleigh
The silent lover / Sir Walter Raleigh
The lie / Sir Walter Raleigh
"Give me my scallop-shell of quiet" / Sir Walter Raleigh
Verses written in his bible / Sir Walter Raleigh
"See where she sits upon the grassy green" / Edmund Spenser
LXX. "Fresh spring, the herald..." / Edmund Spenser
LXXV. "One day I wrote her name..." / Edmund Spenser
LXXVIII. "Lacking my love, I go..." / Edmund Spenser
Prothalamion / Edmund Spenser
Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser
1. "The noble heart that harbours..." / Edmund Spenser
2. "Mammon emoved was with inward wrath" / Edmund Spenser
3. "Eftsoons they heard..." / Edmund Spenser
To Colin Cloud / Anthony Munday
"What bird so sings..." / John Lyly
"Cupid and my campaspe played" / John Lyly
"Pan's syrinx was a girl..." / John Lyly
Song to his Cynthia / Fulke Greville
To Myra / Fulke Greville
Chorus from Mustapha / Fulke Greville
"My true love hath my heart..." / Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet I. "Loving in truth..." / Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet XXXI. "With how sad steps, o moon..." / Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet XXXIX. "Come, sleep; o sleep!..." / Sir Philip Sidney
1. "Ring out your bells!..." / Sir Philip Sidney
2. "Thou blind man's mark..." / Sir Philip Sidney
3. "Leave me, o love..." / Sir Philip Sidney
Phoebe's sonnet / Thomas Lodge
Rosalind's madrigal / Thomas Lodge
"The earth, late choked..." / Thomas Lodge
To Phyllis, the fair shepherdess / Thomas Lodge
To Phyllis / Thomas Lodge
"Fair and fiar..." / George Peele
"His golden locks time hath to silver turned" / George Peele
"Whenas the rye..." / George Peele
"Not iris in her pride" / George Peele
1. "Now for the grown and throne..." / George Peele
2. "Come, gentle zephyr..." / George Peele
3. "Now comes my lover..." / George Peele
Written the night before his execution / Chidiock Tichbourne
The shepher's wife's song / Robert Greene
Samela / Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton / Robert Greene
My mind content / Robert Greene
"Ah, were she pitiful..." / Robert Greene
"The swans, whose pens as whtie as ivory" / Robert Greene
"Sonnet": "fair is my love..." / Robert Greene
Song: "o come, soft rest..." / George Chapman
1. "As cedars beaten..." / George Chapman
2. "I long to know" / George Chapman
"Poor slaves, how terrible this death..." / George Chapman
1. "As when the moon..." / George Chapman
2. "Give me a spirit..." / George Chapman
"She, with his sight..." / George Chapman
The burning babe / Robert Southwell
The Virgin Mary to Christ on the cross / Robert Southwell
"The gown which I do use to wear" / Robert Southwell
Damelus' song to his Diaphenia / Henry Constable
"Love is a sickness..." / Samuel Daniel
Ulysses and the siren / Samuel Daniel
1. "Fair is my love..." / Samuel Daniel
2. "Beauty, sweet love..." / Samuel Daniel
3. "Let others sing of knights..." / Samuel Daniel
4. "Care-charmer sleep..." / Samuel Daniel
Sonnet: "were I as base..." / Joshua Sylvester
"Gorbo, as thou cam'st this way" / Michael Drayton
To his coy love / Michael Drayton
To his Virginian voyage / Michael Drayton
"Pigwiggen was this fairy knight" / Michael Drayton
1. "If chaste and pure devotion..." / Michael Drayton
2. "Sweet secrecy, what tongue can tell..." / Michael Drayton
3. "Into these loves..." / Michael Drayton
4. "To nothing fitter can I thee compare" / Michael Drayton
5. "Whilst thus my pen strives..." / Michael Drayton
6. "Dear, why should you command..." / Michael Drayton
7. "Sine there's no help..." / Michael Drayton
The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe
Reply / Sir Walter Raleigh
"On this feast day, o cursed day and hour" / Chistopher Marlowe
1. "Disdains Zenocrate to live with me?" / Christopher Marlowe
2. "The thirst of reign..." / Christopher Marlowe
3. "Those walled garrisons..." / Christopher Marlowe
4. "Ah, fair Zenocrate..." / Christopher Marlowe
1. "Black is the beauty..." / Christopher Marlowe
2. "Forward, then, ye jades!" / Christopher Marlowe
1. "Was this the face..." / Christopher Marlowe
2. "Ah, Faustus" / Christopher Marlowe
3. Epilogue: "cut is the branch..." / Cristopher Marlowe
"I must have wanton poets..." / Christopher Marlowe
"Who is Sylvia?" / William Shakespeare
Sonnet: "did not the heavenly rhetoric..." / William Shakespeare
"On a day
alack the day!" / William Shakespeare
Spring / William Shakespeare
Winter / William Shakespeare
"Over hill, over dale" / William Shakespeare
"You spotted snakes..." / William Shakespeare
"The ousel cock..." / William Shakespeare
"Now the hungry lion roars" / William Shakespeare
"Tell me where is fancy bred" / William Shakespeare
"Sigh no more, ladies..." / William Shakespeare
"Pardon, goddess of the night" / William Shakespeare
"Under the greenwood tree" / William Shakespeare
"If it do come to pass" / William Shakespeare
"Blow, blow, thou winter wind" / William Shakespeare
"What shall he have..." / William Shakespeare
"It was a lover and his lass" / William Shakespeare
"Wedding is great Juno's crown" / William Shakespeare
"O mistress mine..." / William Shakespeare
"Come away, come away, death" / William Shakespeare
"When that I was and a little tiny boy" / William Shakespeare
"How should I your true love know" / William Shakespeare
"To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day" / William Shakespeare
"And will a' not come again?" / William Shakespeare
"Fie on sinful fantasy!" / William Shakespeare
"For I the ballad will repeat" / William Shakespeare
"Take, o take those lips away" / William Shakespeare
"The cod-piece that will house" / William Shakespeare
"He that has and a little tiny wit" / William Shakespeare
"When priests are more in word..." / William Shakespeare
"Come, thou monarch..." / William Shakespeare
"Hark, hark! the lark..." / William Shakespeare
"Fear no more..." / William Shakespeare
"When daffodils begin to peer" / William Shakespeare
"Jog on, jog on..." / William Shakespeare
"Lawn as white as driven snow" / William Shakespeare
"Will you buy any tape" / William Shakespeare
"Come unto these yellow sands" / William Shakespeare
"Full fathom five..." / William Shakespeare
"No more dams I'll make..." / William Shakespeare
"The master, the swabber..." / William Shakespeare
"You nymphs, call'd naiads..." / William Shakespeare
"Where the bee sucks..." / William Shakespeare
VIII. "Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?" / William Shakespeare
XII. "When I do count the clock the clock that tells the time" / William Shakespeare
XVIII. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" / William Shakespeare
XXIX. "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" / William Shakespeare
XXX. "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" / William Shakespeare
XXXIII. "Full many a glorious morning have I seen" / William Shakespeare
LIII. "What is your substance, whereof are you made" / William Shakespeare
LIV. "O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem" / William Shakespeare
LV. "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments" / William Shakespeare
LVII. "Being your slave, what should I do but tend." / William Shakespeare
LX. "Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore" / William Shakespeare
LXIV. "When I have seen by time's fell hand defac'd" / William Shakespeare
LXVI. "Tired with all these, for restful death I cry" / William Shakespeare
LXXI. "No longer mourn for me when I am dead" / William Shakespeare
LXXIII. "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" / William Shakespeare
LXXXVII. "Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing" / William Shakespeare
XCIV. "They that have power to hurt and will do none" / William Shakespeare
XCVIII. "From you have I been absent in the spring" / William Shakespeare
CII. "My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming" / William Shakespeare
CIV. "To me, fair friend, you never can be old" / William Shakespeare
CVI. "When in the chronicle of wasted time" / William Shakespeare
CX. "Alas, 'tis true I ahve gone here and there" / William Shakespeare
CXVI. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" / William Shakespeare
CXXIC. "Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame" / William Shakespeare
CXXXVIII. "When my love swears that she is made of truth" / William Shakespeare
CXLVI. "Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth" / William Shakespeare
"Upon my lap my sovereign sits" Richard Rowlands, alias Verstegan
"Spring, the sweet spring..." Thomas Nashe
"Adieu; farewell earth's bliss" / Thomas Nashe
Sonnet: "then whilst that latmos..." / William Alexander
"Follow your saint..." / Thomas Campion
"Follow thy fair sun..." / Thomas Campion
"Give beauty all her right" / Thomas Campion
"Thou art not fair..." / Thomas Campion
"Turn all they thoughts..." / Thomas Campion
"Never love..." / Thomas Campion
"Thrice toss these oaken ashes..." / Thomas Campion
"Love me or not..." / Thomas Campion
"Shall I come, sweet love..." / Thomas Campion
"There is a garden in her face" / Thomas Campion
"When thou must home..." / Thomas Campion
"Now winter nights..." / Thomas Campion
"The man of life upright" / Thomas Campion
"I care not for these ladies" / Thomas Campion
"Rose-cheek'd Laura, come" / Thomas Campion
The character of a happy life / Sir Henry Wootton
On his mistress, the queen of Bohemia / Sir Henry Wootton
Upon the death of Sir Albert Morton's wife / Sir Henry Wootton
"For why should we the busy soul believe" / Sir John Davies
"I loved thee once..." / Sir Robert Aytoun
"O, the month of May..." / Thomas Dekker
"Cold's the wind..." / Thomas Dekker
"Art thou poor..." / Thomas Dekker
"Golden slumbers..." / Thomas Dekker
"Haymakers, rakers..." / Thomas Dekker
1. "Behold you not this globe..." / Thomas Dekker
2. "Stay, Fortunatus..." / Thomas Dekker
3. "Oh, whither am I rapt..." / Thomas Dekker
"Patience, my lord!..." / Thomas Dekker
"Love for such a cherry lip" / Thomas Middleton
"O for a bowl of fat canary" / Thomas Middleton
An epitaph on Salathiel Pavey / Ben Jonson
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. / Ben Jonson
That women are but men's shadows / Ben Jonson
To Celia / Ben Jonson
Her triumph / Ben Jonson
To the memory of William Shakespeare / Ben Jonson
Song: "slow, slow, fresh fount..." / Ben Jonson
Song: "o, that joy so soon should waste!" / Ben Jonson
Hymn: "queen and huntress, chaste and fair" / Ben Jonson
Song: "still to be neat..." / Ben Jonson
"If thou hast wisdom..." / Ben Jonson
"No. I'll have no bawds" / Ben Jonson
1. "I will have one built" / John Day
2. "This baseness follows..." / John Day
3. "High steward of thy vines" / John Day
The good-morrow / John Donne
Song: "go and catch a falling star" / John Donne
The canonization / John Donne
Song: "sweetest love, I do not go" / John Donne
Love's alchemy / John Donne
The message / John Donne
The apparition / John Donne
The ecstasy / John Donne
The relique / John Donne
Change / John Donne
The autumnal / John Donne
On his mistress / John Donne
Love's progress / John Donne
Satire II / John Donne
VII. "At the round earth's imagined corners..." / John Donne
X. "Death, be not proud..." / John Donne
A hymn to Crhist / John Donne
A hymn to God the Father / John Donne
"As it fell upon a day" / Richard Barnefield
"If music and sweet poetry..." / Richard Barnefield
1. Prologue from Vergidemiarum / Joseph Hall
2. "A gentle squire would gladly entertain" / Joseph Hall
"My thoughts are fixed in contemplation" / John Marston
"The rawish dank of clumsy winter..." / John Marston
"Ambitious gorgons..." / John Marston
"Pack, clouds, away..." / Thomas Heywood
Coridon's song / John Chalkhill
"Walking next day upon the fatal shore" / Cyril Tourneur
1. My study's ornament, thou shell of death" / Cyril Tourneur
2. "And now methinks I could e'en chide myself" / Cyril Tourneur
"To see a quaint outlandish fowl" / Henry Farley
"Hold back thy hours..." / John Fletcher
"Lay a garland on my hearse" / John Fletcher
"Sing his praises..." / John Fletcher
"Now the lusty spring..." / John Fletcher
"Hear, ye ladies..." / John Fletcher
"Care-charming sleep..." / John Fletcher
"God Lyaeus, ever young" / John Fletcher
"Cast our caps and cares away" / John Fletcher
"Dearest, do not you delay me" / John Fletcher
"'Tis late and cold..." / John Fletcher
"Hence, all you vain delights" / John Fletcher
"Beauty clear and fair" / John Fletcher
"Drink to-day..." / John Fletcher
"Hide, oh hide those hills..." / John Fletcher
"Tell me, dearest..." / John Fletcher
"Away, delights..." / John Fletcher
"Weep no more..." / John Fletcher
"Roses their sharp spines..." / John Fletcher
"Orpheus with his lute..." / John Fletcher
1. "Here be grapes..." / John Fletcher
2. "Here be woods..." / John Fletcher
3. "Shall I stray" / John Fletcher
"Call for the robin..." / John Webster
"Hark, now everything is still" / John Webster
"All the flowers of the spring" / John Webster
"Farewell, rewards and fairies" / Richard Corbet
"But ah! let me under som Kentish hill" / Phineas Fletcher
"My dearest Betty, my more loved heart" / Phineas Fletcher
"Can I, who have for others oft compiled" / Sir John Beaumont
Sonnet: "thus ends my love..." / Lord Herbert of Cherbury
Madrigal: "how should I love my best?" / Lord Herbert of Cherbury
Kissing / Lord Herbert of Cherbury
Elegy over a tomb / Lord Herbert of Cherbury
"O no, beloved, I am most sure" / Lord Herbert of Cherbury
On Mr. Wm. Shakespeare / William Basse
Song: "the blushing rose..." / Philip Massinger
Song: "why art thou slow..." / Philip Massinger
"Shake off your heavy trance!" / Francis Beaumont
"Ye should stay longer..." / Francis Beaumont
On the marriage of a beauteous young gentlewoman with an ancient man / Francis Beaumont
On the tombs in Westminster Abbey / Francis Beaumont
"The sun, which doth the greatest comfort bring" / Francis Beaumont
Madrigal: "like the Idalian queen" / William Drummond of Hawthornden
Sonnet: "dear quirister..." / William Drummond of Hawthornden
Song: "Phoebus, arise" / William Drummond of Hawthornden
Sonnet: "my lute, be as thou wast..." / William Drummond of Hawthornden
Sonnet: "a passing glance..." / William Drummond of Hawthornden
Tom o' Bedlam's song / Giles Earle
"Fly hence, Shadows..." / John Ford
"Can you paint a thought?..." / John Ford
"Oh, no more, no more..." / John Ford
"Glories, pleasures..." / John Ford
"Pleasures, beauty..." / John Ford
To Cynthia / Sir Francis Kynaston
The author's resolution / George Wither
A love sonnet / George Wither
A Christmas carol / George Wither
"She was a virgin of austere regard" / Giles Fletcher the Younger
"Love is the blossom..." / Giles Fletcher the Younger
1. "Gentle nymphs, be not refusing" / William Browne of Tavistock
2. "So shuts the marigold her leaves" / William Browne of Tavistock
1. "Steer hither, steer your winged pines" / William Browne of Tavistock
2. "Son of Erebus and night" / William Browne of Tavistock
"Shall I love again..." / William Browne of Tavistock
"Welcome, welcome, do I sing" / William Browne of Tavistock
A round / William Browne of Tavistock
"A rose, as fair as ever saw the North" / William Browne of Tavistock
The argument of his book / Robert Herrick
Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick
To his mistress / Robert Herrick
To Dianeme / Robert Herrick
To violets / Robert Herrick
The primrose / Robert Herrick
Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick
To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
"Come sons of summer, by whose toil" / Robert Herrick
To primroses fill'd with morning-dew / Robert Herrick
"A little mushroom table spread" / Robert Herrick
To virgins / Robert Herrick
To daffodils / Robert Herrick
To the most fair and lovely mistress, Anne Soame / Robert Herrick
The mad maid's song / Robert Herrick
Upon the nipples of Julia's breast / Robert Herrick
To the water nymphs, drinking at the fountain / Robert Herrick
Upon her feet / Robert Herrick
To Anthea, who may command him in anything / Robert Herrick
To meadows / Robert Herrick
Grace for a child / Robert Herrick
A thanksgiving to God, for his house / Robert Herrick
"Sonnet": "tell me no more how fair..." / Henry King
"Accept, thou shrine of my dead saint" / Henry King
Man's medley / George Herbert
The collar / George Herbert
Discipline / George Herbert
Virtue / George Herbert
Sin / George Herbert
Love / George Herbert
Mortification / George Herbert
The pulley / George Herbert
"Dear, do not your fair beauty wrong" / Thomas May?
"You virgins..." / James Shirley
"The glories of our blood..." / James Shirley
"For that lovely face will fail" / Thomas Carew
Song: "give me more love or more disdain" / Thomas Carew
"He that loves a rosy cheek" / Thomas Carew
Song: "Ask me no more where Jove bestows" / Thomas Carew
Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers / Thomas Carew
"I will enjoy thee now, my Celia, come" / Thomas Carew
"Art thou that she..." / Anonymous
"Hey nonny no!" / Anonymous
"Yet if his majesty..." / Anonymous
"Daphnis came on a summer's day" / Anonymous
"On a fair morning..." / Anonymous
"I saw my lady weep" / Anonymous
"Fine knacks for ladies..." / Anonymous
"My love in her attire..." / Anonymous
"Flow not so fast..." / Anonymous
"Weep you no more..." / Anonymous
"Fain would I change..." / Anonymous
"Ye little birds..." / Anonymous
"Ha ha! ha ha! this world..." / Anonymous
"Love not me..." / Anonymous
"The sea hath many thousand sands" / Anonymous
"Sweet, let me go!" / Anonymous
"Sweet Cupid, ripen her desire" / Anonymous
"On a time the amorous silvy" / Anonymous
"Love in thy youth..." / Anonymous
Phillada flouts me / Anonymous
"Hierusalem, my happy home" / Anonymous
The old and young courtier / Anonymous
Robing Goodfellow / Anonymous
The queen of fairies / Anonymous
In praise of ale / Anonymous
The farewell / Anonymous
To roses in the bosom of Castara / William Habington
An ode to Mr. Anthony Stafford / Thomas Randolph
To one admiring herself in a looking glass / Thomas Randolph
"Being set, let's sport a while my fair" / Thomas Randolph
"The lark now leaves..." / Sir William Davenant
"Roses and pinks will be strewn where you go" / Sir William Davenant
To a very young lady / Edmund Waller
On a girdle / Edmund Waller
Go, lovely rose! / Edmund Waller
On the last verses in the book / Edmund Waller
Sonnet: "o nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray" / John Milton
An epitaph on William Shakespeare / John Milton
Sonnet: "how soon hath time the subtle thief..." / John Milton
Second song: "o'er the smooth enamelled green" / John Milton
Third song: "nymphs and shepherds dance no more" / John Milton
L'allegro / John Milton
Il penseroso / John Milton
1. "The star that bids the shepherd fold" / John Milton
2. Song: "sweet echo, sweetest nymph..." / John Milton
3. "O foolishness of men!..." / John Milton
4. Song: "Sabrina fair" / John Milton
5. "To the ocean now I fly" / John Milton
Lycidas / John Milton
To the Lord General Cromwell / John Milton
On the late massacre in Piedmont / John Milton
"When I consider..." / John Milton
1. "Hail holy light, thou offspring of heav'n's first-born" / John Milton
2. "Southward through Eden went a river large" / John Milton
"Look once more ere we leave..." / John Milton
"A little onward lend thy guiding hand" / John Milton
The siege / Sir John Suckling
A ballad upon a wedding / Sir John Suckling
A poem: "out upon it! I have loved" / Sir John Suckling
Song: "I prithee send me back my heart" / Sir John Suckling
Song: "why so pale and wan, fond lover?" / Sir John Suckling
To Chloe / William Cartwright
Montrose to his mistress / James Graham, Marquess of Montrose
His metrical vow / James Graham, Marquess of Montrose
1. "When civil dudgeon first grew high" / Samuel Butler
2. "For his religion, it was fit" / Samuel Butler
3. "This sturdy squire, he had, as well" / Samuel Butler
"Come, virgin tapers of pure wax" / Richard Crashaw
"Whoe'er she be" / Richard Crashaw
A song: "Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace" / Richard Crashaw
For hope / Richard Crashaw
"Gloomy night embraced the place" / Richard Crashaw
"Hail sister springs!" / Richard Crashaw
Mark Antony / John Cleveland
"Come, keen iambics, with your badger's feet" / John Cleveland
"My eye descending from the hill, surveys" / Sir John Denham
The rose / Richard Lovelace
To Amarantha / Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, going beyond the seas / Richard Lovelace
To Althea from prison / Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace
"It was a dismal and fearful night" / Abraham Cowley
On the death of Mr. Crashaw / Abraham Cowley
The wish / Abraham Cowley
"Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good!" / Abraham Cowley
The chronicle / Abraham Cowley
Bermudas / Andrew Marvell
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell
The garden / Andrew Marvell
"So restless Cromwell could not cease" / Andrew Marvell
"I saw him dead, a leaden slumber lies" / Andrew Marvell
"But who considers well will find indeed" / Andrew Marvell
A song to Amoret / Henry Vaughan
"Come! leave this sullen state, and let not wine" / Henry Vaughan
"With what deep murmurs..." / Henry Vaughan
The shower / Henry Vaughan
The morning-watch / Henry Vaughan
The retreat / Henry Vaughan
The world / Henry Vaughan
"They are all gone..." / Henry Vaughan
Song: "when I lie burning in thine eye" / Thomas Stanley
Song: "I prithee let my heart alone" / Thomas Stanley
The call / John Hall
"Farewell, thou busy world, and may" / Charles Cotton
"Eugenia, young and fair and sweet" / Charles Cotton
Ode: "good night, my love, may gentle rest" / Charles Cotton
Sonnet: "Chloris, whilst thou and I were free" / Charles Cotton
Song: "join once again, my Celia, join" / Charles Cotton
Laura sleeping / Charles Cotton
"Without the evening dew and showers" / Charles Cotton
Song: "Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of fifteen" / John Dryden
Rondelay: "Chloe found Amyntas lying" / John Dryden
"Ah, fading joy..." / John Dryden
"After the pangs of a desperate lover" / John Dryden
"Ah, how seet it is to love" / John Dryden
"Why should a foolish marriage vow" / John Dryden
"Long betwixt love and fear..." / John Dryden
"Can life be a blessing" / John Dryden
"Farewell, ungrateful traitor" / John Dryden
"Fair Iris and her swain" / John Dryden
"How happy the lover" / John Dryden
"No, no, poor suffering heart..." / John Dryden
"Yet London, empress of the Northern clime" / John Dryden
1. "Of these the false Achitophel was first" / John Dryden
2. "In the first rank of these did Zimri stand" / John Dryden
"All human things are subject to decay" / John Dryden
"Dim, as the borrowed beams of moon and stars" / John Dryden
To the memory of Mr. Oldham / John Dryden
from Tyrannic Love, 1669 / John Dryden
Chrous from The Secular Masque / John Dryden
Friendship's mystery / Katherine Philips
Song: "ye happy swains, whose hearts are free" / Sir George Etheredge
Upon the downs... / Sir George Etheredge
To a lady / Sir George Etheredge
To a very young lady / Sir George Etheredge
Song: "not, Celia, that I juster am" / Sir Charles Sedley
Song: "love still has something of the sea" / Sir Charles Sedley
Song: "ah Chloris! that I now could sit" / Sir Charles Sedley
The coquet / Aphra Behn
The willing mistress / Aphra Behn
Song: "love in fantastic triumph sate" / Aphra Behn
Song: "the fringed vallance of your eyes advance" / Thomas Shadwell
"An age in her embraces past" / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
A song: "absent from thee I languish still" / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Love and life / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Upon his leaving his mistress / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Upon nothing / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
King Charles II / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
The enchantment / Thomas Oway
"But, grand thy poetry should find success" / John Oldham
A song: "if for a woman I would die" / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea
Verses / Richard Bentley
Song: "of all the torments, all the cares" / William Walsh
Sonnet on death / William Walsh
An ode / Matthew Prior
Cupid's mistaken / Matthew Prior
The lady who offers her looking glass / Matthew Prior
To Cloe jealous, a better answer / Matthew Prior
A description of the morning / Jonathan Swift
"Ah! where must needy poet seek for aid" / Jonathan Swift
1. "The time is not remote when I" / Jonathan Swift
2. "Behold the fatal day arrive!" / Jonathan Swift
3. "From Dublin soon to London spread" / Jonathan Swift
4. "My female friends, whose tender hearts" / Jonathan Swift
5. "He gave the little wealth he had" / Jonathan Swift
Song: "false though she be to me and love" / William Congreve
Amoret / William Congreve
"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast" / William Congreve
Song: "why, lovely charmer, tell me why" / Sir Richard Steele
Epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh / Abel Evans
Extempore to Voltaire criticising Milton / Edward Young
Verses on the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / George Berkeley
Ballat: "'twas when the seas were roaring" / John Gay
Love in her eyes sits playing / John Gay
O ruddier than the cherry / John Gay
Air XXXV: "how happy could I be with either" / John Gay
Air XXIII: "sleep, o sleep" / John Gay
"Rise, happy youth, this bright machine survey" / John Gay
His own epitaph / John Gay
from "An thou were my ain thing" / Allan Ramsay
Peggy / Allan Ramsay
Sally in our alley / Henry Carey
Ode on solitude / Alexander Pope
"'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none" / Alexander Pope
1. "Not with more glories, in th'etherial plain" / Alexander Pope
2. "Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear!" / Alexander Pope
3. "For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned" / Alexander Pope
"How oft, when pressed to marriage, have I said" / Alexander Pope
1. "Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate" / Alexander Pope
2. "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan" / Alexander Pope
3. "For forms of government let fools contest" / Alexander Pope
4. "What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath" / Alexander Pope
5. "Search then the ruling passion: there alone" / Alexander Pope
1. "Why did I write? what sin to me unknown" / Alexander Pope
2. "Peace to all such! but where there one whose fires" / Alexander Pope
3. "Let sporus tremble" / Alexander Pope
"In vain, in vain
the all-composing hour" / Alexander Pope
Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton / Alexander Pope
"Joy, rose-lipped dryad, loves to dwell" / Thomas Warton the Elder
A toast / John Byrom
On a fly drinking out of his cup / William Oldys
"See yonder hallowed fane, the pious work" / Robert Blair
"Old castles on the cliff arise" / John Dyer
1. "In lowly dale, fast by a river's side" / James Thomson the Elder
2. "The doors that knew no shrill alarming bell" / James Thomson the Elder
"At length the finished garden to the view" / James Thomson the Elder
"The keener tempests come: and, fuming dun" / James Thomson the Elder
"A-hunting we will go" / Henry Fielding
"On what foundations stands the warrior's pride" / Samuel Johnson
"By numbers here from shame or censure free" / Samuel Johnson
"In misery's darkest cavern known" / Samuel Johnson
"Wealth, my lad, was made to wander" / Samuel Johnson
"Hermit Hoar..." / Samuel Johnson
"A book, a friend, a song, a glass" / William Thompson
Admiral Hosier's ghost / Richard Glover
Written at an inn at Henley / William Shenstone
Elegy written ini a country churchyard / Thomas Gray
Stanzas cancelled from the elegy / Thomas Gray
Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College / Thomas Gray
The progress of poesy / Thomas Gray
Sonnet on the death of Mr. Richard West / Thomas Gray
The brown jug / Francis Fawkes
"O solitude, romantic maid!" / James Grainger
Ode: "how sleep the brave, who sink to rest" / William Collins
Ode to evening / William Collins
Dirge in Cymbeline / William Collins
"O servant of God's holiest charge" / Christopher Smart
Lament for Flodden / Jane Elliot
Sonnet, to the River Loddon / Thomas Warton the Younger
"Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow" / Oliver Goldsmith
"Sweet auburn! loveliest village of the plain" / Oliver Goldsmith
Song: "when lovely woman stoops to folly" / Oliver Goldsmith
Song: "o memory! thou fond deceiver" / Oliver Goldsmith
Song: "let schoolmasters puzzle their brains" / Oliver Goldsmith
The drum / John Scott of Amwell
John Gilpin / William Cowper
To his wife / Samuel Bishop
Sonnet on life / Sir Brooke Boothby
"But who the melodies of morn can tell?" / James Beattie
"There was a jolly miller once" / Isaac Bickerstaffe
"The dews of summer night did fall" / William Julius Mickle
The mariner's wife / William Julius Mickle
To the cuckoo / Michael Bruce
The gossamer / Charlotte Smith
Auld Robin Gray / Lady Anne Lindsay
The deserter / John Philpot Curran
Song: "here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen!" / Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Song of Thyrsis / Philip Freneau
"The budding floweret blushes at the light" / Thomas Chatterton
The vicar of Bray / Anonymous
Verses copied from the window of an obscure lodging-house, in the neighborhood of London / Anonymous
Song / William Blake
To the muses / William Blake
Introduction to songs of innocence / William Blake
A cradle song / William Blake
The divine image / William Blake
Infant joy / William Blake
On another's sorrow / William Blake
The clod and the pebble / William Blake
The tiger / William Blake
The sick rose / William Blake
"Ah! sun-flower!..." / William Blake
The garden of love / William Blake
London / William Blake
A little boy lost / William Blake
1. "Never seek to tell thy love" / William Blake
2. "I laid me down upon a bank" / William Blake
3. "I asked a thief to steal me a peach" / William Blake
4. "Love to faults is always blind" / William Blake
5. "Abstinence sows sand all over" / William Blake
The question answer'd / William Blake
"To see a world in a grain of sand" / William Blake
"Father of jealousy, be thou accursed from the earth!" / William Blake
1. "The cities send to one another..." / William Blake
2. "O lord, wilt thou not look..." / William Blake
"And did those feet in ancient time" / William Blake
"The Rhine was red with human blood" / William Blake
To the accuser who is the god of this world / William Blake
A poet's welcome to his love-begotten daughter / Robert Burns
Holy Willie's prayer / Robert Burns
To a louse / Robert Burns
Address to the unco guid / Robert Burns
Address to a haggis / Robert Burns
Tam o' Shanter / Robert Burns
The rigs o' barley / Robert Burns
Green grow the rashes / Robert Burns
The birks of Aberfeldy / Robert Burns
I'm o'er young to marry yet / Robert Burns
Of a' the airts the wind can blaw / Robert Burns
My bonie Mary / Robert Burns
John Anderson, my Jo / Robert Burns
My love, she's but a lassie yet / Robert Burns
Willie brew'd a peck o' maut / Robert Burns
The banks o' Doon / Robert Burns
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever / Robert Burns
The deil's awa wi' the exciseman / Robert Burns
Highland Mary / Robert Burns
Whistle an' I'll come to ye, my lad / Robert Burns
A red, red rose / Robert Burns
Charlie, he's my darling / Robert Burns
A man's a man for a' that / Robert Burns
At Dover Cliffs / William Lisle Bowles
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Published
New York : Viking Press, 1941.
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English
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Bibliography
Bibliography: p. 1207-1225.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Aldington, R. (1941). The Viking book of poetry of the English-speaking world . Viking Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962. 1941. The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-speaking World. Viking Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962. The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-speaking World Viking Press, 1941.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Aldington, Richard. The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-speaking World Viking Press, 1941.
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