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 (1608-1642)

A Ballad upon a Wedding

Truth in Love

164

165

Edmund W. Gosse 170

Edmund W. Gosse 181

LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY (1581-1648).

An Ode upon a question moved whether Love should Continue for

Upon Combing her Hair

SANDYS, HERBERT, CRASHAW, VAUGHAN, .

GEORGE SANDYS (1577-1643)

From the Paraphrase upon Luke I.

GEORGE HERBERT (1592-1634) The "emple Church Loch Sat N

C RICHARD CRASHAW (1615?-1650)

Wishes. To his supposed Mistress

The Flaming Heart (SD)

Description of a Religious House

200

201

202

202

203

204

205

205

JAMES SHIRLEY (1596-1667)

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 (1605-1634-5)

Ode to Master Anthony Stafford
Extract from The Cotswold Eclogue
A Pastoral Courtship

To Ben Jonson

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT (1615?-1643)

Edmund W. Gosse 219

Prof. A. W. Ward 227

On His Majesty's Recovery from the Small-pox

A New Year's Gift to Brian Lord Bishop of Sarum

To a virtuous young Gentlewoman that died suddenly

ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667)

Extract from Poetical Blossomes:

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

Extract from His Majesty's Escape at St. Andrew's .

To One who wrote against a fair Lady

The Marriage of the Dwarfs

Extract from The Battle of the Summer's Islands

SIR JOHN DENHAM (1615-1668)

View of London from Cooper's Hill

274

274

Edmund W. Gosse 279

The Tomb

On the Captivity of the Countess of Anglesey

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)

An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, William Shakespeare 306

L'Allegro

Il Penseroso

Extract from Comus.

Lycidas

Sonnets On his being arrived at the age of Twenty-three

Extracts from Paradise Lost:

329

Edmund W. Gosse 409

Extracts from Miscellanies:

An Apology for Plagiaries

Upon the Weakness and Misery of Man

Distichs and Saws (from Hudibras and Miscellanies)

THE EARL OF ROSCOMMON (1634-1684-5)

THE EARL OF DORSET (1637-1705-6)

Song written at Sea

Songs

SIR CHARLES SEDLEY (1639-1701)

Song: 'Love still has something of the Sea

Song (from The Mulberry Garden) 'Ah! Chloris'

Song 'Phillis is my only Joy'

MRS. BEHN (1642-1689).

Song (from Abdelazar)

The Dream

Edmund W. Gosse 415

On the Death of Waller

THE EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680).

Edmund W. Gosse 424

Extract from The Poet's Complaint of his Muse

JOHN OLDHAM (1653-1683)

The Jesuits (from the Second Satire upon them)

Prof. A. W. Ward 432

The Domestic Chaplain (from A Satire addressed to a Friend).

JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)

Verses to her Royal Highness the Duchess [of York]

Extracts from Annus Mirabilis :

The Attempt at Berghen

The Fire of London

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 Portrait of Milton

To my Friend, Mr. Congreve

Palamon and Arcite .

To my Honoured Kinsman, John Dryden

Veni Creator Spiritus

434

435

Prof. A. W. Ward 437