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SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
COMPLETE
VOL. I.
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
THE SPOUTS AND SOLEMNITIES WHICH FOLLOWED KING ARTHUR'S CORONATION.
AN OLD TRADITION.
ARTHUR'S INTRIGUE WITH YGERNE.
THE PROLOGUE.
KING VORTIGERN'S MEETING WITH PRINCESS KODWEN.
THE ATTACK OF RICHARD I. ON A CASTLE HELD BY THE SARACENS.
THE SOLDAN SALADIN SENDS KING RICHARD A HORSE.
DEGORE AND THE DRAGON.
A BATTLE
HUMAN LIFE.
ALLEGORICAL PICTURES.
COVETOUSNESS.
THE PRELATES.
MERCY AND TRUTH.
NATURE, OR KIND, SENDING FORTH HIS DISEASES FROM THE PLANETS, AT THE COMMAND OF CONSCIENCE, AND OF HIS ATTENDANTS, AGE AND DEATH.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
ADVERTISEMENT.
CONTENTS.
SPECIMENS, WITH MEMOIRS, OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
JOHN GOWER
THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN.
OF THE GRATIFICATION WHICH THE LOVERS PASSION RECEIVES FROM THE SENSE OF HEARING.
JOHN BARBOUR.
APOSTROPHE TO FREEDOM.
DEATH OF SIR HENRY DE BOHUN.
ANDREW WYNTOUN.
BLIND HARRY.
BATTLE OF BLACK-EARNSIDE.
THE DEATH OF WALLACE.
JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND.
THE KING THUS DESCRIBES THE APPEARANCE OF HIS MISTRESS, WHEN HE FIRST SAW HER FROM A WINDOW OF HIS PRISON AT WINDSOR.
JOHN THE CHAPLAIN—THOMAS OCCLEVE.
JOHN LYDGATE.
CANACE, CONDEMNED TO DEATH BY HER FATHER AEOLUS, SENDS TO HER GUILTY BROTHER MACAREUS THE LAST TESTIMONY OF HER UNHAPPY PASSION.
THE LONDON LYCKPENNY.
DINNER GIVEN BY THE TOWN MOUSE TO THE COUNTRY MOUSE.
[FROM THE MORAL.]
THE GARMENT OF GOOD LADIES.
WILLIAM DUNBAR
THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS THROUGH HELL.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
THE MERLE AND NIGHTINGALE.
GAVIN DOUGLAS.
MORNING IN MAY.
SKELTON.
TO MISTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY.
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY.
MELDRUM'S DUEL WITH THE ENGLISH CHAMPION TALBART.
SUPPLICATION IN CONTEMPTION OF SIDE TAILS,[1] (1538.)
THOMAS TUSSER.
DIRECTIONS FOR CULTIVATING A HOP-GARDEN.
HOUSEWIFELY PHYSIC.
MORAL REFLECTIONS ON THE WIND.
GEORGE GASCOIGNE.
GOOD-MORROW.
GOOD-NIGHT.
THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST AND EARL OF DORSET.
ALLEGORICAL CHARACTERS FROM THE MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES.
HENRY DUKE OP BUCKINGHAM IN THE INFERNAL REGIONS.
JOHN HARRINGTON.
SONNET ON ISABELLA MARKHAM,
VERSES ON A MOST STONY-HEARTED MAIDEN WHO DID SORELY BEGUILE THE NOBLE KNIGHT, MY TRUE FRIEND.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
TO SLEEP.
SONNETS.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
ROBERT SOUTHWELL.
LOOK HOME.
THE IMAGE OF DEATH.
LOVE'S SERVILE LOT.
TIMES GO BY TURNS.
THOMAS WATSON.
THE NYMPHS TO THEIR MAY-QUEEN.
SONNET.
THOMAS TURBERVILLE.
IN PRAISE OP THE RENOWNED LADY ANNE, COUNTESS OF WARWICK.
HARPALUS' COMPLAINT OF PHILLIDA'S LOVE BESTOWED ON CORIN, WHO LOVED HER NOT, AND DENIED HIM THAT LOVED HER.
A PRAISE OF HIS LADY.
THAT ALL THINGS SOMETIME FIND EASE OF THEIR PAIN, SAVE ONLY THE LOVER.
FROM 'THE PHOENIX' NEST.'
FROM THE SAME.
THE SOUL'S ERRAND.
SECOND PERIOD.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT.
TO BEN JONSON.
ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER.
AN EPITAPH.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH.
THE COUNTRY'S RECREATIONS.
THE SILENT LOVER.
A VISION UPON 'THE FAIRY QUEEN.'
LOVE ADMITS NO RIVAL.
JOSHUA SYLVESTER.
TO RELIGION.
ON MAN'S RESEMBLANCE TO GOD. (FROM DU BARTAS.)
THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN.
RICHARD BARNFIELD.
ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
ALEXANDER HUME.
THANKS FOR A SUMMER'S DAY.
OTHER SCOTTISH POETS.
SAMUEL DANIEL.
RICHARD II., THE MORNING BEFORE HIS MURDER IN POMFRET CASTLE.
EARLY LOVE.
SELECTIONS FROM SONNETS.
SIR JOHN DAVIES.
INTRODUCTION TO THE POEM ON THE SOUL OF MAN.
THE SELF-SUBSISTENCE OF THE SOUL.
SPIRITUALITY OF THE SOUL.
GILES FLETCHER.
THE NATIVITY.
SONG OF SORCERESS SEEKING TO TEMPT CHRIST.
CLOSE OF 'CHRIST'S VICTORY AND TRIUMPH.'
JOHN DONNE.
HOLY SONNETS.
THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL.
MICHAEL DRAYTON,
DESCRIPTION OF MORNING.
EDWARD FAIRFAX.
RINALDO AT MOUNT OLIVET.
SIR HENRY WOTTON
FAREWELL TO THE VANITIES OF THE WORLD.
A MEDITATION.
RICHARD CORBET.
DR CORBET'S JOURNEY INTO FRANCE.
FAREWELL TO THE FAIRIES.
BEN JONSON.
EPITAPH ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE.
THE PICTURE OF THE BODY.
TO PENSHURST.
TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER, WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US.
ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKSPEARE.
THOMAS RANDOLPH.
THE PRAISE OF WOMAN.
TO MY PICTURE.
TO A LADY ADMIRING HERSELF IN A LOOKING-GLASS.
ROBERT BURTON.
ON MELANCHOLY.
THOMAS CAREW.
PERSUASIONS TO LOVE.
SONG.
TO MY MISTRESS SITTING BY A RIVER'S SIDE.
SONG.
A PASTORAL DIALOGUE.
SONG.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING.
SONG.
A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING.
SONG.
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT.
LOVE'S DARTS.
ON THE DEATH OF SIR BEVIL GRENVILLE.
A VALEDICTION.
WILLIAM BROWNE.
SONG.
SONG.
POWER OF GENIUS OVER ENVY.
EVENING.
FROM 'BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS.'
A DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING.
SONNET.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND.
THE RIVER OF FORTH FEASTING.
SONNETS.
SPIRITUAL POEMS.
PHINEAS FLETCHER
DESCRIPTION OF PARTHENIA.
INSTABILITY OF HUMAN GREATNESS.
HAPPINESS OF THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE.
MARRIAGE OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.
END OF VOL. I.
SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
CONTENTS
SECOND PERIOD—FROM SPENSER TO DRYDEN. (CONTINUED.)
SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
SECOND PERIOD—FROM SPENSER TO DRYDEN. (CONTINUED.)
WILLIAM HABINGTON.
EPISTLE ADDRESSED TO THE HONOURABLE W.E.
TO HIS NOBLEST FRIEND, J.C., ESQ.
A DESCRIPTION OF CASTARA.
JOSEPH HALL, BISHOP OF NORWICH.
THE MORNING STAR.
'UPON THE SIGHT OF TWO SNAILS.'
SATIRE I.
SATIRE VII.
RICHARD LOVELACE.
SONG.
SONG.
A LOOSE SARABAND.
ROBERT HERRICK.
SONG.
CHERRY-RIPE.
THE KISS: A DIALOGUE.
TO DAFFODILS.
TO PRIMROSES.
TO BLOSSOMS.
OBERON'S PALACE.
THE MAD MAID'S SONG.
CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING.
JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER.
THE COUNTRY LIFE.
SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE.
THE SPRING, A SONNET. FROM THE SPANISH.
ABRAHAM COWLEY.
THE CHRONICLE, A BALLAD.
THE COMPLAINT.
THE DESPAIR.
OF WIT.
OF SOLITUDE.
THE WISH.
UPON THE SHORTNESS OF MAN'S LIFE.
ON THE PRAISE OF POETRY.
THE MOTTO.
DAVIDEIS.
LIFE.
THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT.
GEORGE WITHER
FROM 'THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING.'
THE SHEPHERD'S RESOLUTION.
THE STEADFAST SHEPHERD.
THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING.
SONG.
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT,
FROM 'GONDIBERT'—CANTO II.
FROM 'GONDIBERT'—CANTO IV.
DR HENRY KING.
SIC VITA.
SONG.
LIFE.
JOHN CHALKHILL.
ARCADIA.
THEALMA, A DESERTED SHEPHERDESS.
PRIESTESS OF DIANA.
THEALMA IN FULL DRESS.
DWELLING OF THE WITCH ORANDRA.
CATHARINE PHILLIPS.
THE INQUIRY.
A FRIEND.
MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE.
MELANCHOLY DESCRIBED BY MIRTH.
MELANCHOLY DESCRIBING HERSELF.
THOMAS STANLEY.
CELIA SINGING.
SPEAKING AND KISSING.
LA BELLE CONFIDANTE.
THE LOSS.
NOTE ON ANACREON.
ANDREW MARVELL.
THE EMIGRANTS.
THE NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAWN.
ON PARADISE LOST.
THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN.
SATIRE ON HOLLAND.
IZAAK WALTON.
THE ANGLER'S WISH.
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER
SONG.
SONG.
THE EARL OF ROSCOMMON.
FROM "AN ESSAY ON TRANSLATED VERSE."
CHARLES COTTON.
INVITATION TO IZAAK WALTON.
A VOYAGE TO IRELAND IN BURLESQUE.
CANTO II
CANTO III.
DR HENRY MORE.
OPENING OF SECOND PART OF 'PSYCHOZOIA.'
EXORDIUM OF THIRD PART.
DESTRUCTION AND RENOVATION OF ALL THINGS.
A DISTEMPERED FANCY.
SOUL COMPARED TO A LANTERN.
WILLIAM CHAMBERLAYNE.
ARGALIA TAKEN PRISONER BY THE TURKS.
HENRY VAUGHAN.
ON A CHARNEL-HOUSE.
ON GOMBAULD'S ENDYMION.
APOSTROPHE TO FLETCHER THE DRAMATIST.
PICTURE OF THE TOWN.
THE GOLDEN AGE.
REGENERATION.
RESURRECTION AND IMMORTALITY.
THE SEARCH.
ISAAC'S MARRIAGE.
MAN'S FALL AND RECOVERY.
THE SHOWER.
BURIAL.
CHEERFULNESS.
THE PASSION.
RULES AND LESSONS.
REPENTANCE.
THE DAWNING.
THE TEMPEST.
THE WORLD.
THE CONSTELLATION.
MISERY.
MOUNT OF OLIVES.
ASCENSION-DAY.
COCK-CROWING.
THE PALM-TREE.
THE GARLAND.
LOVE-SICK.
PSALM CIV.
THE TIMBER.
THE JEWS.
PALM-SUNDAY.
PROVIDENCE.
ST MARY MAGDALENE.
THE RAINBOW.
THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY.
CHILDHOOD.
ABEL'S BLOOD.
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
JACOB'S PILLOW AND PILLAR.
THE FEAST.
THE WATERFALL.
DR JOSEPH BEAUMONT.
HELL.
JOSEPH'S DREAM.
PARADISE.
EVE.
TO THE MEMORY OF HIS WIFE.
IMPERIAL ROME PERSONIFIED.
END.
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
FROM ROBERT HEATH.
WHAT IS LOVE?
PROTEST OF LOVE.
TO CLARASTELLA.
MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS. (FROM BYRD'S 'PSALMS, SONNETS,' ETC. 1588.)
THE OLD AND YOUNG COURTIER.
THERE IS A GARDEN IN HER FACE.
HALLO, MY FANCY.
THE FAIRY QUEEN.
SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
CONTENTS.
THIRD PERIOD—FROM DRYDEN TO COWPER.
SPECIMENS, WITH MEMOIRS, OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY.
TO A VERY YOUNG LADY.
SONG.
JOHN POMFRET,
THE CHOICE.
THE EARL OF DORSET.
SONG.
JOHN PHILIPS.
THE SPLENDID SHILLING.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH.
THE DISPENSARY.
SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE.
VERSES TO BE PLACED UNDER THE PICTURE OF SIR R. BLACKMORE, CONTAINING A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS.
CREATION.
ELIJAH FENTON.
AN ODE TO THE RIGHT HON. JOHN LORD GOWER.
ROBERT CRAWFORD.
THE BUSH ABOON TRAQUAIR.
THOMAS TICKELL.
TO THE EARL OF WARWICK, ON THE DEATH OF MR ADDISON.
JAMES HAMMOND.
ELEGY XIII.
RICHARD SAVAGE.
THE BASTARD.
THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER.
VERSES WRITTEN AFTER SEEING WINDSOR CASTLE.
AN AMERICAN LOVE ODE.
JONATHAN SWIFT.
BAUCIS AND PHILEMON.
ON POETRY.
ON THE DEATH OF DR SWIFT.
A CHARACTER, PANEGYRIC, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGION-CLUB. 1736.
ISAAC WATTS.
FEW HAPPY MATCHES.
THE SLUGGARD.
THE ROSE.
A CRADLE HYMN.
BREATHING TOWARD THE HEAVENLY COUNTRY.
TO THE REV. MR JOHN HOWE.
AMBROSE PHILIPS.
A FRAGMENT OF SAPPHO.
WILLIAM HAMILTON.
THE BRAES OF YARROW.
ALLAN RAMSAY.
LOCHABER NO MORE.
THE LAST TIME I CAME O'ER THE MOOR.
FROM 'THE GENTLE SHEPHERD.'
ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE.
IMITATION OF THOMSON.
IMITATION OF POPE.
IMITATION OF SWIFT.
WILLIAM OLDYS.
SONG, OCCASIONED BY A FLY DRINKING OUT OF A CUP OF ALE.
ROBERT LLOYD.
THE MISERIES OF A POET'S LIFE.
HENRY CAREY.
SALLY IN OUR ALLEY.
DAVID MALLETT.
WILLIAM AND MARGARET.
THE BIRKS OF INVERMAY.
JAMES MERRICK.
THE CHAMELEON.
DR JAMES GRAINGER.
ODE TO SOLITUDE.
MICHAEL BRUCE.
TO THE CUCKOO.
ELEGY, WRITTEN IN SPRING.
CHRISTOPHER SMART.
SONG TO DAVID.
THOMAS CHATTERTON.
BRISTOWE TRAGEDY.
MINSTREL'S SONG.
THE STORY OF WILLIAM CANYNGE.
KENRICK.
FEBRUARY, AN ELEGY.
LORD LYTTELTON.
FROM THE 'MONODY.'
JOHN CUNNINGHAM.
MAY-EVE; OR, KATE OF ABERDEEN.
ROBERT FERGUSSON.
THE FARMER'S INGLE.
DR WALTER HARTE.
EDWARD LOVIBOND.
THE TEARS OF OLD MAY-DAY.
FRANCIS FAWKES.
THE BROWN JUG.
JOHN LANGHORNE.
FROM 'THE COUNTRY JUSTICE.'
GIPSIES.
A CASE WHERE MERCY SHOULD HAVE MITIGATED JUSTICE.
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE.
THE LAWYER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MUSE.
JOHN SCOTT.
ODE ON HEARING THE DRUM.
THE TEMPESTUOUS EVENING.
ALEXANDER ROSS.
WOO'D, AND MARRIED, AND A'.
THE ROCK AN' THE WEE PICKLE TOW.
RICHARD GLOVER.
FROM BOOK XII
ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST.
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD.
VARIETY.
WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE.
CUMNOR HALL.
THE MARINER'S WIFE.
LORD NUGENT.
ODE TO MANKIND.
JOHN LOGAN.
THE LOVERS.
WRITTEN IN A VISIT TO THE COUNTRY IN AUTUMN.
COMPLAINT OF NATURE.
THOMAS BLACKLOCK.
THE AUTHOR'S PICTURE.
ODE TO AURORA, ON MELISSA'S BIRTHDAY.
MISS ELLIOT AND MRS COCKBURN.
THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.
THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.
SIR WILLIAM JONES.
A PERSIAN SONG OF HAFIZ.
SAMUEL BISHOP.
TO MRS BISHOP,
TO THE SAME,
SUSANNA BLAMIRE.
THE NABOB.
WHAT AILS THIS HEART O' MINE?
JAMES MACPHERSON.
OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN.
DESOLATION OF BALCLUTHA.
FINGAL AND THE SPIRIT OF LODA.
ADDRESS TO THE MOON.
FINGAL'S SPIRIT-HOME.
THE CAVE.
WILLIAM MASON.
EPITAPH ON MRS MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL.
AN HEROIC EPISTLE TO SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS, KNIGHT, COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S WORKS, ETC.
JOHN LOWE.
MARY'S DREAM.
JOSEPH WARTON.
ODE TO FANCY.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SONG.
VERSES,
THE OLD BACHELOR.
CARELESS CONTENT.
A PASTORAL.
ODE TO A TOBACCO-PIPE.
AWAY! LET NOUGHT TO LOVE DISPLEASING.
RICHARD BENTLEY'S SOLE POETICAL COMPOSITION.
LINES ADDRESSED TO POPE.[1]
THE END.
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