JOHN DONNE (1573-1631)
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) (Continued)
The Indifferent.
171
Sonnets
Love's Deity.
171
At the Age of Twenty-three. .
198
The Funeral..
172
When the Assault was intended to
Forget..
172
the City..
198
Death.
172
To the Lord General Cromwell. 198
John FLETCHER (1579-1625)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont 198
Sweetest Melancholy.
173
On his Blindness..
199
Invocation to Sleep..
173
To Cyriack Skinner.
199
Song to Bacchus.
173 Paradise Lost, Bk. I.
199
Beauty Clear and Fair.
173
Of Education...
208
Weep No More....
173 Areopagitica..
210
Dirge..
173
SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642)
FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1584-1616)
The Constant Lover...
214
Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to
Why so Pale and Wan.
214
Ben Jonson..
174 RICHARD CRASHAW (1613?-1649)
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1585–1649)
In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God 214
Sonnet.
174 JEREMY TAYLOR (1613–1667)
Madrigal I.
174 The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying,
JOHN FORD (il. 1639)
Chap. I, Sec. II..
216
Song from The Broken Heart..
175 SIR JOHN DENHAM (1615-1669)
Dirge from The Broken Heart.
175
Cooper's Hill...
GEORGE WITHER (1588–1667)
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)
Sonnet IV (from Fair Virtue).
175 To Lucasta, Going to the Wars.
218
Thomas HEYWOOD (d. 1650?)
The Grasshopper..
218
Go, Pretty Birds!...
176 To Althea, from Prison.
218
WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)
ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667)
Britannia's Pastorals, Bk. II, Song V 176 The Wish..
219
Epitaph...
176 ANDREW MARVELL (1621–1678)
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke. 177 The Garden..
219
ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)
To his Coy Mistress..
Cherry-Ripe....
177 HENRY VAUGHN (1622–1695)
Corinna's Going a-Maying.
177
The Retreat.
To the Virgins, to Make Much of
The World.
Time....
178 The Timber.
Upon Julia's Clothes.
178
To Daffodils...
178
THE RESTORATION
To Keep a True Lent.
GEORGE HERBERT (1593–1633)
JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)
Virtue.
178 Stanzas on Oliver Cromwell.
The Collar.
179
Absalom and Achitophel.
Love...
179
The Hind and the Panther.
223
Izaak WALTON (1593–1683)
Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music 224
The Complete Angler (extract)....... 179 Lines under the Portrait of Milton..... 226
THOMAS CAREW (1598?-1639?)
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy..
226
Ask me no more where Jove bestows.... 181 SAMUEL PEPYS (1633–1703)
Would you know what's soft?..
181 His Diary (extract)....
234
SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605–1682)
SAMUEL BUTLER (1612–1680)
Hydriotaphia : Urn-Burial, Chap. V.... 181 Hudibras, Part I, Canto I..
237
EDMUND WALLER (1606–1687)
JOHN OLDHAM (1653–1683)
The Story of Phoebus and Daphne,
A Satire Dissuading from Poetry.... 238
Applied..
184 JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704)
On a Girdle..
184 Of the Conduct of the Understanding
Go, Lovely Rose!.
185
(extract)..
238
THOMAS FULLER (1608-1661)
JOHN BUNYAN (1628–1688)
The Holy State : The Life of Sir Francis
The Fight with Apollyon, from The
Drake.
185
Pilgrim's Progress,
239
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)
Vanity Fair, from The Pilgrim's Progress 241
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity.... 189 MINOR LYRISTS
L'Allegro..
192 Song: Love still
othing of the
Il Penseroso.
193
ley...... 243
Lycidas.
195
To Celia —S