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THE FLOWER OF THE MIND
INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
ANONYMOUS 13TH CENTURY
THE FIRST CAROL
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 1552–1618
VERSES BEFORE DEATH
EDMUND SPENSER 1553–1599
EASTER
FRESH SPRING
LIKE AS A SHIP
EPITHALAMION
JOHN LYLY 1554(?)–1606
THE SPRING
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 1554–1586
TRUE LOVE
THE MOON
KISS
SWEET JUDGE
SLEEP
WAT’RED WAS MY WINE
THOMAS LODGE 1556–1625
ROSALYND’S MADRIGAL
ROSALINE
THE SOLITARY SHEPHERD’S SONG
ANONYMOUS
I SAW MY LADY WEEP
GEORGE PEELE 1558(?)–1597
FAREWELL TO ARMS
ROBERT GREENE 1560(?)–1592
FAWNIA
SEPHESTIA’S SONG TO HER CHILD
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 1562–1593
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE
SAMUEL DANIEL 1562–1619
SLEEP
MY SPOTLESS LOVE
MICHAEL DRAYTON 1563–1631
SINCE THERE’S NO HELP
JOSHUA SYLVESTER 1563–1618
WERE I AS BASE
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564–1616
FANCY
UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
FAIRIES
COME AWAY
FULL FATHOM FIVE
DIRGE
SONG
SONG
ANONYMOUS
TOM O’ BEDLAM
THOMAS CAMPION Circ.1567–1620
KIND ARE HER ANSWERS
LAURA
HER BACKED BOWER
FOLLOW
WHEN THOU MUST HOME
WESTERN WIND
FOLLOW YOUR SAINT
CHERRY-RIPE
THOMAS NASH 1567–1601
SPRING
JOHN DONNE 1573–1631
THIS HAPPY DREAM
DEATH
HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER
THE FUNERAL
RICHARD BARNEFIELD 1574(?)–(?)
THE NIGHTINGALE
BEN JONSON 1574–1637
CHARIS’ TRIUMPH
JEALOUSY
EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH L. H.
HYMN TO DIANA
ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER
ECHO’S LAMENT FOB NARCISSUS
AN EPITAPH ON SALATHIEL PAVY, A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH’S CHAPEL
JOHN FLETCHER 1579–1625
INVOCATION TO SLEEP, FROM VALENTINIAN
TO BACCHUS
JOHN WEBSTER (?)–1625
SONG FROM THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
SONG FROM THE DEVIL’S LAW-CASE
IN EARTH, DIRGE FROM VITTORIA COROMBONA
WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 1585–1649
SONG
SLEEP, SILENCE’ CHILD
TO THE NIGHTINGALE
MADRIGAL I
MADRIGAL II
BEAUMONT and FLETCHER 1586–1616 and 1579–1625
I DIED TRUE
FRANCIS BEAUMONT 1586–1616
ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY
SIR FRANCIS KYNASTON 1587–1642
TO CYNTHIA, ON CONCEALMENT OF HER BEAUTY
NATHANIEL FIELD 1587–1638
MATIN SONG
GEORGE WITHER 1588–1667
SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP!
THOMAS CAREW 1589–1639
SONG
TO MY INCONSTANT MISTRESS
AN HYMENEAL DIALOGUE
INGRATEFUL BEAUTY THREATENED
THOMAS DEKKER Circa1570–1641
LULLABY
SWEET CONTENT
THOMAS HEYWOOD —1649?
GOOD-MORROW
ROBERT HERRICK 1591–1674
TO DIANEME
TO MEADOWS
TO BLOSSOMS
TO DAFFODILS
TO VIOLETS
TO PRIMROSES
TO DAISIES, NOT TO SHUT SO SOON
TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME
DRESS
IN SILKS
CORINNA’S GOING A-MAYING
GRACE FOR A CHILD
BEN JONSON
GEORGE HERBERT 1593–1632
HOLY BAPTISM
VIRTUE
UNKINDNESS
LOVE
THE PULLEY
THE COLLAR
LIFE
MISERY
JAMES SHIRLEY 1596–1666
EQUALITY
ANONYMOUS Circa1603
LULLABY
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT 1605–1668
MORNING
EDMUND WALLER 1605–1687
THE ROSE
THOMAS RANDOLPH 1606–1634?
HIS MISTRESS
CHARLES BEST 17th century
A SONNET OF THE MOON
JOHN MILTON 1608–1674
HYMN ON CHRIST’S NATIVITY
L’ALLEGRO
IL PENSEROSO
LYCIDAS
ON HIS BLINDNESS
ON HIS DECEASED WIFE
ON SHAKESPEARE
SONG ON MAY MORNING
INVOCATION TO SABRINA, FROM COMUS
INVOCATION TO ECHO, FROM COMUS
THE ATTENDANT SPIRIT, FROM COMUS
JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE 1612–1650
THE VIGIL OF DEATH
RICHARD CRASHAW 1615(?)–1652
ON A PRAYER-BOOK SENT TO MRS. M. R.
TO THE MORNING
LOVE’S HOROSCOPE
ON MR. G. HERBERT’S BOOK
WISHES TO HIS SUPPOSED MISTRESS
QUEM VIDISTIS PASTORES, ETC. A HYMN OF THE NATIVITY, SUNG BY THE SHEPHERDS
MUSIC’S DUEL
THE FLAMING HEART
ABRAHAM COWLEY 1618–1667
ON THE DEATH OF MR. CRASHAW
HYMN TO THE LIGHT
RICHARD LOVELACE 1618–1658
TO LUCASTA ON GOING TO THE WARS
TO AMARANTHA
LUCASTA
TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON
A GUILTLESS LADY IMPRISONED: AFTER PENANCED
THE ROSE
ANDREW MARVELL 1620–1678
A HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL’S RETURN FROM IRELAND
THE PICTURE OF T. C. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS
THE NYMPH COMPLAINING OF THE DEATH OF HER FAWN
THE DEFINITION OF LOVE
THE GARDEN
HENRY VAUGHAN 1621–1695
THE DAWNING
CHILDHOOD
CORRUPTION
THE NIGHT
THE ECLIPSE
THE RETREAT
THE WORLD OF LIGHT
SCOTTISH BALLADS
HELEN OF KIRCONNELL
THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL
THE DOWIE DENS OF YARROW
SWEET WILLIAM AND MAY MARGARET
SIR PATRICK SPENS
HAME, HAME, HAME
BORDER BALLAD
A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE
JOHN DRYDEN 1631–1700
ODE
APHRA BEHN 1640–1689
SONG, FROM ABDELAZAR
JOSEPH ADDISON 1672–1719
HYMN
ALEXANDER POPE 1688–1744
ELEGY
WILLIAM COWPER 1731–1800
LINES ON RECEIVING HIS MOTHER’S PICTURE
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD 1743–1825
LIFE
WILLIAM BLAKE 1757–1828
THE LAND OF DREAMS
THE PIPER
HOLY THURSDAY
THE TIGER
TO THE MUSES
LOVE’S SECRET
ROBERT BURNS 1759–1796
TO A MOUSE
THE FAREWELL
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1770–1850
WHY ART THOU SILENT?
THOUGHTS OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND
IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING, CALM AND FREE
ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC
O FRIEND! I KNOW NOT
SURPRISED BY JOY
TO TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE
WITH SHIPS THE SEA WAS SPRINKLED
THE WORLD
UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1802
WHEN I HAVE BORNE IN MEMORY
THREE YEARS SHE GREW
THE DAFFODILS
THE SOLITARY REAPER
ELEGIAC STANZAS
TO H. C.
’TIS SAID THAT SOME HAVE DIED FOR LOVE
THE PET LAMB
STEPPING WESTWARD
THE CHILDLESS FATHER
ODE ON INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771–1832
PROUD MAISIE
A WEARY LOT IS THINE
THE MAID OF NEIDPATH
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1772–1834
YOUTH AND AGE
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
ARGUMENT
PART I
PART II
PART III
PART IV
PART V
PART VI
PART VII
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 1775–1864
ROSE AYLMER
EPITAPH
CHILD OF A DAY
THOMAS CAMPBELL 1767–1844
HOHENLINDEN
EARL MARCH
CHARLES LAMB 1775–1835
HESTER.
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM 1784–1842
A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA
GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON 1788–1823
THE ISLES OF GREECE
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792–1822
HELLAS
WILD WITH WEEPING
TO THE NIGHT
TO A SKYLARK
TO THE MOON
THE QUESTION
THE WANING MOON
ODE TO THE WEST WIND
RARELY, RARELY COMEST THOU
THE INVITATION, TO JANE
THE RECOLLECTION
ODE TO HEAVEN
FIRST SPIRIT
SECOND SPIRIT
THIRD SPIRIT
LIFE OF LIFE
AUTUMN
STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION NEAR NAPLES
DIRGE FOR THE YEAR
A WIDOW BIRD
THE TWO SPIRITS
JOHN KEATS 1795–1821
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN’S HOMER
TO SLEEP
THE GENTLE SOUTH
LAST SONNET
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
ODE TO AUTUMN
ODE TO PSYCHE
ODE TO MELANCHOLY
HARTLEY COLERIDGE 1796–1849
SHE IS NOT FAIR
NOTES
Epithalamion.—Page 3.
Rosalynd’s Madrigal.—Page 21.
Rosaline.—Page 22.
Farewell to Arms.—Page 25.
The Passionate Shepherd.—Page 28.
Take, O take those Lips away.—Page 44.
Kind are her Answers.—Page 46.
Dirge.—Page 44.
Follow.—Page 49.
When thou must Home.—Page 50.
The Funeral.—Page 56.
Charis’ Triumph.—Page 58.
In Earth.—Page 64.
Song.—Page 65.
To my Inconstant Mistress.—Page 75.
The Pulley.—Page 91.
Misery.—Page 94.
The Rose.—Page 99.
L’Allegro.—Page 109.
Il Penseroso.—Page 113.
Lycidas.—Page 119.
On a Prayer-book.—Page 131.
Wishes to his Supposed Mistress.—Page 139.
On the Death of Mr. Crashaw.—Page 157.
Hymn to the Light.—Page 159.
To Lucasta.—Page 163.
Lucasta Paying her Obsequies.—Page 165.
To Althea, from Prison.—Page 166.
A Horatian Ode.—Page 169.
The Picture of T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers.—Page 173.
The Definition of Love.—Page 179.
Childhood.—Page 183.
Scottish Ballads.—Page 191.
Mrs. Anne Killigrew.—Page 205.
Song, from Abdelazar.—Page 209.
Hymn.—Page 209.
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.—Page 210.
Lines on Receiving his Mother’s Picture.—Page 213.
Life.—Page 217.
The Land of Dreams.—Page 217.
Surprised by Joy.—Page 229.
Stepping Westward.—Page 243.
Youth and Age.—Page 256.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.—Page 258.
Page 265.
Page 266.
Rose Aylmer.—Page 281.
The Isles of Greece.—Page 286.
Hellas.—Page 290.
The Waning Moon.—Page 298.
Ode to the West Wind.—Page 299.
The Invitation.—Page 303.
La Belle Dame bans Merci.—Page 316.
Ode to a Nightingale.—Page 320.
FOOTNOTES.
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