The Description of Castara

To Castara, in a Trance

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

The Collar

Aaron

The Quip

Misery

Love

The Pulley

Employment

The World

Upon Combing her Hair

SANDYS, HERBERT, CRASHAW, VAUGHAN, .

GEORGE SANDYS (1577-1643)

From the Paraphrase upon Luke I.

GEORGE HERBERT (1592-1634) The Deeple

Lord Herbert OF CHERBURY (1581-1648).

7. Churton Collins

An Ode upon a question moved whether Love should Continue for

Ever

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HENRY VAUGHAN (1621-1695) Silex Scintillans.

The Retreat

The Burial of an Infant

The World

Beyond the Veil.

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)

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)

Extracts from Pindarique Odes:

To Mr. Hobbes

Brutus

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

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EDMUND WALLER (1605-1687)

On a Girdle

Song

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

To One who wrote against a fair Lady

The Bud.

The Marriage of the Dwarfs

Extract from The Battle of the Summer's Islands

SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605-1668).

Extract from Gondibert

Song

On the Captivity of the Countess of Anglesey

The Garden

A Drop of Dew

Extract from Comus

Lycidas

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

On his Blindness

On the late Massacre in Piedmont
To the Lord General Cromwell

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JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)

Mark Pattison 293

An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, William Shakespeare 306

L'Allegro.

Il Penseroso

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The Bermudas

Young Love

SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)

Extracts from Hudibras :

A Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland

On Milton's Paradise Lost

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)

Extract from the Essay on Translated Verse

THE EARL OF DORSET (1637-1705-6)

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'

THE EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680).

Song: 'My dear Mistress'

Constancy.

The Bowl

Song (from Valentinian)

Song 'When on those lovely looks'

Song 'Absent from thee I languish still

Epitaph on Charles II

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THOMAS OTWAY (1651-1685)

Extract from The Poet's Complaint of his Muse

JOHN OLDHAM (1653-1683) .

The

the Second Satire upon them)

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

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JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)

Verses to her Royal Highness the Duchess [of York]

Extracts from Annus Mirabilis :

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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

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