98

98
98

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Sir Thomas WYATT (1503-1542)

The Deserted Lover Consoleth Himself

97

The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness

of His Love..

A Description of Such a One as He Would

Love....

Of the Mean and Sure Estate.

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517?-

1547)

Description of Spring.

Complaint of a Lover Rebuked..

Description and Praise of His Love

Geraldine.

The Means to Attain a Happy Life.
Virgil's Æneid, Bk. II.

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ROGER ASCHAM (1515-1568)

The Scholemaster: The First Booke for

the Youth..

John Foxe (1516-1587)

Acts and Monuments: The Behaviour of

Ridley and Latimer...

103

THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST

(1536–1608)

A Mirror for Magistrates: The Induc-

tion....

105

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GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559?-1634)

The Twelfth Book of Homer's Odysseys 145

SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619)

Sonnets to Delia (XIX, LIV, LV)...... 146
Epistle to the Lady Margaret, Countess
of Cumberland.

147

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563–1631)

Idea (IV, XX, XXXVII, LXI). 148

Ode XII, To the Cambro-Britans: Agin-

court.

149

Nymphidia, The Court of Fairy.

150

Francis BACON (1561-1626)

Essays

Of Truth....

150

Of Marriage and Single Life. 151

Of Great Place..

152

Of Atheism..

15+

Of Wisdom for a Man's Sell.

155

Of Friendship...

156

Of Youth and Age.

159

MINOR POETRY

My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is- Sir

Edward Dyer..

160

The Silent Lover -- Sir Walter Raleigh. 160

The Conclusion — Sir Walter Raleigh .. 160

Song of Paris and Enone George

Peele..

161

Harvestmen a-Singing George Peele.. 161

Farewell to Arms George Peele. 161

The Burning Babe - Robert Southwell 161

Cherry Ripe — Thomas Campion...... 162

ENGLAND's HELICON

Phyllida and Corydon – N. Breton. ... 162

As It Fell Upon a Day — Ignoto. 162

Phyllida's Love-call to Her Corydon

Ignoto.

162

The Shepherd's Description of Love

Ignoto.

163

Damelus' Song to his Diaphenia

H. C.

164

A Nymph's Disdain of Love - Ignoto.. 164

Rosalind's Madrigal Thom. Lodge... 164

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love --

Chr. Marlowe...

165

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

Ignoto

165

THE RENAISSANCE

III

I 20

I 21

I 22

128

EDMUND SPENSER (1552?-1599)

The Shepheards Calender: Februarie... 108

The Faerie Queene.

Epithalamion.

115

Amoretti..

117

Prothalamion.

118

An Hymn in Honour of Beauty

An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty.

Sir Pullip SIDNEY (1554-1586)

Astrophel and Stella..

The Nightingale..

123

Hymn to Apollo..

123

Arcadia, from Bk. I.

I 24

John LYLY (1554-1606)

Euphues and His England

127

Apelles' Song....

Spring's Welcome.

128

Fairy Revels...

128

Tuomas LODGE (1558?-1625)

Rosalynde: Euphues' Golden Legacy... 129

Robert GREENE (1560?-1592)

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of

content.

131

Philomela's Ode..

131

Sephestia's Song to Her Child.

132

The Shepherd's Wife's Song.

132

A Groat's Worth of Wit, Bought with a

Million of Repentance.

133

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)

Hero and Leander, The First Sestiad 135

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)

Venus and Adonis..

137

Sonnets..

139

Songs from the Plays.

143

463

466

538

539

478

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792–1822) (Continued)

Ode to the West Wind.

462

The Indian Serenade.

The Cloud..

464

To a Skylark

465

To — (Music when soft voices die).

Adonais.

466

Final Chorus from Hellas.

473

To Night..

474

To -- (One word is too often profaned) 474

JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)

Ode to a Nightingale.

474

Ode on a Grecian Urn.

475

To Autumn....

476

Ode: Bards of Passion and of Mirth

477

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern.

477

La Belle Dame sans Merci.

477

Sonnets

The Grasshopper and the Cricket

On First Looking into Chapman's

Homer.

To Sleep.

On the Sea ..

When I have fears.

479

Bright Star!

479

Endymion.

479

Hyperion.

481

The Eve of St. Agnes.

482

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864)

Æsop and Rhodopè..

487

Rose Aylmer..

492

A Fiesolan Idyl.

492

To Robert Browning.

492

Why..

493

On his Seventy-fifth Birthday.

493

On Death.

493

Thomas Hood (1798-1845)

The Song of the Shirt..

493

Ruth..

494

WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED (1802–1839)

The Belle of the Ball-Room..

494

THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849)

Dream Pedlary..

495

Death's Jest-Book (Song)

496

478

478

478

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892) (Continued)

Ulysses..

532

Locksley Hall.

532

St. Agnes Eve.

537

Sir Galahad.

537

Break, break, break.

538

Wages.

The Higher Pantheism.

538

Maud (XXII).

In Memoriam

Proem, I, XXVII, XXXI, XXXII,

LIV, LVII, XCVI, CVI,

CXXX, Epilogue..

540

Sir John Franklin..

543

To Dante..

543

The Silent Voices.

543

Merlin and the Gleam,

543

Crossing the Bar....

545

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)

Sonnets from the Po uguese (I, VII,

XIV, XVII, XX, XXI, XXII,

XXVIII, XLIII).

545

The Cry of the Children.

547

A Musical Instrument..

549

ROBERT BROWNING (1812–1889)

Cavalier Tunes

Marching Along.

549

Give a Rouse..

550

“How They Brought the Good News

from Ghent to Aix”,

550

Song : Nay but you, who do not love her 551

Evelyn Hope..

551

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad.

552

Saul..

552

Song : My Star.

554

My Last Duchess..

554

A Grammarian's Funeral.

555

“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower

Came".

556

Fra Lippo Lippi.

559

One Word More.

564

Abt Vogler..

567

Rabbi Ben Ezra.

569

Apparitions.

572

Wanting is -- What?.

572

Never the time and the place.

572

The Epilogue to Asolando..

572

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-

1863)

The English Humorists: Sterne..

573

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGII (1819-1861)

Qua Cursum Ventus...

578

"With Whom is no Variableness'

579

Easter Day...

579

“Perchè Pensa ?”

581

Say not the struggle nought availeth 581

JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900)

The Stones of Venice, Vol. II, Chap. IV 582

The Crown of Wild Olive: Preface.... 584

FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON(1821–1895)

To My Grandmother.

590

The Unrealized Ideal.

590