The Flower of the Mind

CONTENTS

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ANONYMOUS.
THE FIRST CAROL	1
SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1552–1618).
VERSES BEFORE DEATH	1
EDMUND SPENSER (1553–1599).
EASTER	2
FRESH SPRING	2
LIKE AS A SHIP	3
EPITHALAMION	3
JOHN LYLY (1554?–1606).
THE SPRING	17
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554–1586).
TRUE LOVE	18
THE MOON	18
KISS	19
SWEET JUDGE	19
SLEEP	20
WAT’RED WAS MY WINE	20
THOMAS LODGE (1556–1625).
ROSALYND’S MADRIGAL	21
ROSALINE	22
THE SOLITARY SHEPHERD’S SONG	24
ANONYMOUS.
I SAW MY LADY WEEP	24
GEORGE PEELE (1558?–1597).
FAREWELL TO ARMS	25
ROBERT GREENE (1560?–1592).
FAWNIA	26
SEPHESTIA’S SONG TO HER CHILD	27
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1562–1593).
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE	28
SAMUEL DANIEL (1562–1619).
SLEEP	29
MY SPOTLESS LOVE	30
MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563–1631).
SINCE THERE’S NO HELP	30
JOSHUA SYLVESTER (1563–1618).
WERE I AS BASE	31
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616).
POOR SOUL, THE CENTRE OF MY SINFUL EARTH	32
O ME! WHAT EYES HATH LOVE PUT IN MY HEAD	32
SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY?	33
WHEN IN THE CHRONICLE OF WASTED TIME	33
THAT TIME OF YEAR THOU MAY’ST IN ME BEHOLD	34
HOW LIKE A WINTER HATH MY ABSENCE BEEN	34
BEING YOUR SLAVE, WHAT SHOULD I DO BUT TEND	35
WHEN IN DISGRACE WITH FORTUNE AND MEN’S EYES	35
THEY THAT HAVE POWER TO HURT, AND WILL DO	36
FAREWELL! THOU ART TOO DEAR FOR MY POSSESSING	37
WHEN TO THE SESSIONS OF SWEET SILENT THOUGHT	37
DID NOT THE HEAVENLY RHETORIC OF THINE EYE	38
THE FORWARD VIOLET THUS DID I CHIDE	38
O LEST THE WORLD SHOULD TASK YOU TO RECITE	39
LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS	39
HOW OFT, WHEN THOU, MY MUSIC, MUSIC PLAY’ST	40
FULL MANY A GLORIOUS MORNING HAVE I SEEN	40
THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT IN A WASTE OF SHAME	41
FANCY	41
FAIRIES	42
COME AWAY	43
FULL FATHOM FIVE	43
DIRGE	44
SONG	44
SONG	45
ANONYMOUS.
TOM O’ BEDLAM	45
THOMAS CAMPION (circa 1567–1620).
KIND ARE HER ANSWERS	46
LAURA	47
HER SACRED BOWER	48
FOLLOW	49
WHEN THOU MUST HOME	50
WESTERN WIND	50
FOLLOW YOUR SAINT	51
CHERRY-RIPE	52
THOMAS NASH (1567–1601?).
SPRING	53
JOHN DONNE (1573–1631).
THIS HAPPY DREAM	53
DEATH	54
HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER	55
THE FUNERAL	56
RICHARD BARNEFIELD (1574?—?).
THE NIGHTINGALE	57
BEN JONSON (1574–1637).
CHARIS’ TRIUMPH	58
JEALOUSY	59
EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH L. H.	59
HYMN TO DIANA	60
ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER	60
ECHO’S LAMENT FOR NARCISSUS	61
AN EPITAPH ON SALATHIEL PAVY, A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH’S CHAPEL	61
JOHN FLETCHER (1579–1625).
INVOCATION TO SLEEP, FROM VALENTINIAN	62
TO BACCHUS	63
JOHN WEBSTER (—?–1625).
SONG FROM THE DUCHESS OF MALFI	63
SONG FROM THE DEVIL’S LAW-CASE	64
IN EARTH, DIRGE FROM VITTORIA COROMBONA	64
WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN (1585–1649).
SONG	65
SLEEP, SILENCE’ CHILD	66
TO THE NIGHTINGALE	67
MADRIGAL I	67
MADRIGAL II	68
BEAUMONT and FLETCHER (1586–1616)—(1579–1625).
I DIED TRUE	68
FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1586–1616).
ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY	69
SIR FRANCIS KYNASTON (1587–1642).
TO CYNTHIA, ON CONCEALMENT OF HER BEAUTY	69
NATHANIEL FIELD (1587–1638).
MATIN SONG	71
GEORGE WITHER (1588–1667).
SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP!	71
THOMAS CAREW (1589–1639).
SONG	74
TO MY INCONSTANT MISTRESS	75
AN HYMENEAL DIALOGUE	75
INGRATEFUL BEAUTY THREATENED	76
THOMAS DEKKER (—1638?).
LULLABY	77
SWEET CONTENT	77
THOMAS HEYWOOD (—1649?).
GOOD-MORROW	78
ROBERT HERRICK (1591–1674?).
TO DIANEME	79
TO MEADOWS	79
TO BLOSSOMS	80
TO DAFFODILS	81
TO VIOLETS	82
TO PRIMROSES	82
TO DAISIES, NOT TO SHUT SO SOON	83
TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME	84
DRESS	84
IN SILKS	85
CORINNA’S GOING A-MAYING	85
GRACE FOR A CHILD	86
BEN JONSON	88
GEORGE HERBERT (1593–1632).
HOLY BAPTISM	89
VIRTUE	89
UNKINDNESS	90
LOVE	91
THE PULLEY	91
THE COLLAR	92
LIFE	93
MISERY	94
JAMES SHIRLEY (1596–1666).
EQUALITY	97
ANONYMOUS (circa 1603).
LULLABY	98
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605–1668).
MORNING	99
EDMUND WALLER (1605–1687).
THE ROSE	99
THOMAS RANDOLPH (1606–1634?).
HIS MISTRESS	100
CHARLES BEST (—?).
A SONNET OF THE MOON	101
JOHN MILTON (1608–1674).
HYMN ON CHRIST’S NATIVITY	101
L’ALLEGRO	109
IL PENSEROSO	113
LYCIDAS	119
ON HIS BLINDNESS	125
ON HIS DECEASED WIFE	126
ON SHAKESPEARE	126
SONG ON MAY MORNING	127
INVOCATION TO SABRINA, FROM COMUS	127
INVOCATION TO ECHO, FROM COMUS	128
THE ATTENDANT SPIRIT, FROM COMUS	129
JAMES GRAHAM, Marquis of Montrose (1612–1650).
THE VIGIL OF DEATH	130
RICHARD CRASHAW (1615?–1652).
ON A PRAYER-BOOK SENT TO MRS. M. R.	131
TO THE MORNING	135
LOVE’S HOROSCOPE	137
ON MR. G. HERBERT’S BOOK	138
WISHES TO HIS SUPPOSED MISTRESS	139
QUEM VIDISTIS PASTORES, ETC.	144
MUSIC’S DUEL	149
THE FLAMING HEART	154
ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618–1667).
ON THE DEATH OF MR. CRASHAW	157
HYMN TO THE LIGHT	159
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618–1658).
TO LUCASTA ON GOING TO THE WARS	163
TO AMARANTHA	164
LUCASTA	165
TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON	166
A GUILTLESS LADY IMPRISONED: AFTER PENANCED	167
THE ROSE	168
ANDREW MARVELL (1620–1678).
A HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL’S RETURN FROM IRELAND	169
THE PICTURE OF T. C. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS	173
THE NYMPH COMPLAINING OF DEATH OF HER FAWN	174
THE DEFINITION OF LOVE	178
THE GARDEN	179
HENRY VAUGHAN (1621–1695).
THE DAWNING	182
CHILDHOOD	183
CORRUPTION	185
THE NIGHT	186
THE ECLIPSE	188
THE RETREAT	188
THE WORLD OF LIGHT	189
SCOTTISH BALLADS.
HELEN OF KIRCONNELL	191
THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL	192
THE DOWIE DENS OF YARROW	194
SWEET WILLIAM AND MAY MARGARET	197
SIR PATRICK SPENS	199
HAME, HAME, HAME	203
BORDER BALLAD.
A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE	204
JOHN DRYDEN (1631–1700).
ODE	205
APHRA BEHN (1640–1689).
SONG, FROM ABDELAZAR	209
JOSEPH ADDISON (1672–1719).
HYMN	209
ALEXANDER POPE (1688–1744).
ELEGY	210
WILLIAM COWPER (1731–1800).
LINES ON RECEIVING HIS MOTHER’S PICTURE	213
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743–1825).
LIFE	217
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757–1828).
THE LAND OF DREAMS	217
THE PIPER	218
HOLY THURSDAY	219
THE TIGER	220
TO THE MUSES	221
LOVE’S SECRET	221
ROBERT BURNS (1759–1796).
TO A MOUSE	222
THE FAREWELL	224
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770–1850).
WHY ART THOU SILENT?	225
THOUGHTS OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND	226
IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING, CALM AND FREE	226
ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC	227
O FRIEND! I KNOW NOT	227
SURPRISED BY JOY	228
TO TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE	228
WITH SHIPS THE SEA WAS SPRINKLED	229
THE WORLD	229
UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1802	230
WHEN I HAVE BORNE IN MEMORY	230
THREE YEARS SHE GREW	231
THE DAFFODILS	232
THE SOLITARY REAPER	233
ELEGIAC STANZAS	234
TO H. C.	237
’TIS SAID THAT SOME HAVE DIED FOR LOVE	238
THE PET LAMB	240
STEPPING WESTWARD	243
THE CHILDLESS FATHER	244
ODE ON INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY	245
SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771–1832).
PROUD MAISEE	252
A WEARY LOT IS THINE	252
THE MAID OF NEIDPATH	253
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772–1834).
KUBLA KHAN	254
YOUTH AND AGE	256
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER	258
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775–1864).
ROSE AYLMER	281
EPITAPH	282
CHILD OF A DAY	282
THOMAS CAMPBELL (1767–1844).
HOHENLINDEN	282
EARL MARCH	283
CHARLES LAMB (1775–1835).
HESTER	284
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM (1784–1842).
A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA	285
GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788–1823).
THE ISLES OF GREECE	286
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792–1822).
HELLAS	290
WILD WITH WEEPING	291
TO THE NIGHT	291
TO A SKYLARK	293
TO THE MOON	297
THE QUESTION	297
THE WANING MOON	298
ODE TO THE WEST WIND	299
RARELY, RARELY COMEST THOU	301
THE INVITATION, TO JANE	303
THE RECOLLECTION	305
ODE TO HEAVEN	308
LIFE OF LIFE	310
AUTUMN	311
STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION NEAR NAPLES	312
DIRGE FOR THE YEAR	313
A WIDOW BIRD	314
THE TWO SPIRITS	314
JOHN KEATS (1795–1821).
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI	316
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN’S HOMER	318
TO SLEEP	319
THE GENTLE SOUTH	319
LAST SONNET	320
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE	320
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN	323
ODE TO AUTUMN	325
ODE TO PSYCHE	326
ODE TO MELANCHOLY	328
HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1796–1849).
SHE IS NOT FAIR	329
NOTES	331

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