excerpt from Eva's lament -- Adam lay I-Bowndyn -- I sing of a maiden -- Of a rose, a lovely rose -- The virgin's song -- Modyr whyt as lyly flowr -- There is a floure spring of a tree -- Veni, Coronaberis -- Al the meryere -- Hayll, comly and clene -- Terly terlow -- Quia amore langueo -- Ah my dere -- Sunset on Calvary -- Luveli ter of loveli eyghe -- O my harte is wo -- Jhesu cryst, myn leman swete -- An evening prayer -- My trewest tresowre / Richard Rolle -- Merie sungen the muneches -- Ichot a burde in bourne bryht -- Now sprinkes the spray -- Spring -- Al nist by the rose -- Alisoun -- Ich am of Irlonde -- Maiden in the mor -- A farewell to his mistriss -- His harp, whereon was al his gale / from Sir Orfeo -- Blissit mot be the heye goddis all / King James I of Scotland; from The Kingis Quiar -- Mercile beate: first roundel / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Canticus Troili / Geoffrey Chaucer; from Troilus and Criseide -- O blisful light / Geoffrey Chaucer; from Troilus and Criseide -- But whan the cok / Geoffrey Chaucer; from Troilus and Criseide -- O Lord, oure Lord / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The Canterbury Tales -- The Nun's priest's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The Canterbury Tales -- Whan that the month of May / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The legend of good women -- Balade: Hyd, Absolon, thy gilte tresses clere / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The legend of good women -- The house of sleep / John Gower; from Confessio Amantis, Ceix and Alceone -- The flees he tok and goth to bote / John Gower; from Confessio Amantis, Jason and Medea -- Lat noman booste of Konnyng nor vertu / John Lydgate -- Lament for the makaris / William Dunbar -- Quod Dumbar to Kennedy / William Dunbar; from The Flyting of Dumbar adn Kennedie -- The manere of the crying of Ane Playe / William Dunbar -- Hart's castle / Gavin Douglas; from King Hart -- Quhill schotley with the blesand torch of day / Gavin Douglas; from The proloug of the twelft buik of the Ænead -- Quhen Alysandyr our king was dede -- Lully Lulley -- Epitaph on Queen Elizabeth, wife of Henry VII -- excerpt from Dalyaunce -- The childhood of James V / David Lindsay; from The complaynt of Schir David Lindesay -- Placebo / John Skelton ; from Philip Sparrow -- To Mistress Isabell Pennell / John Skelton; from The garland of Laurel -- To Mistress Margaret Hussey / John Skelton; from The garland of laurel -- Lullay, lullay / John Skelton -- And can the physician make sick men well -- The maidens came -- Who shall have my faire lady -- Westron winde, when will thou blow -- Who so list to hount / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- The lover complayneth the unkindness of his love / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Forget not yet the tryde entent / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- What shulde I saye / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- And wylt thow leve me thus / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Ah! my herte, A! what aileth the / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- The lover sheweth how he is forsaken of such as he sometime enjoyed / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Description of the spring / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Tom O'Bedlam's song -- Hieruslame, my happie home -- Ladie greensleeves -- My heart is high above -- A lyke-wake dirge -- Edward -- The three ravens -- Lord Randal -- The wife of usher's well -- The unquiet grave -- Sir Patrick Spens -- The goulden vanitie -- The wandering spectre -- Hey! now the day dawis / Alexander Montgomerie; from The nicht is neir gone -- The lowest trees have topps / Sir Edward Dyer -- My mynde to me a kyngdome is / Sir Edward Dyer -- The burning babe / Robert Southwell -- A litany / Phineas Fletcher -- The nightingale / Sir Philip Sidney -- O faire! o sweete! / Sir Philip Sidney -- When to my deadlie pleasure / Sir Philip Sidney -- Who hath his fancie pleased / Sir Philip Sidney -- Doubt you to whom my muse these notes entendeth / Sir Philip Sidney; from Astrophel and Stella -- Onely joy, now here you are / Sir Philip Sidney; from Astrophel and Stella -- Who is it that this darke night / Sir Philip Sidney; from Astrophel and Stella -- With how sad steps, o moone, thou climb'st the skies / Sir Philip Sidney; from Astrophel and Stella -- What have I thus betrayed my libertie / Sir Philip Sidney; from Astrophel and Stella -- O sweet woods / Sir Philip Sidney; from The Countess of Pembroke's arcadia -- Double sestine: you gote-heard gods / Sir Philip Sidney; from The Countess of Pembroke's arcadia -- My true love hath my hart / Sir Philip Sidney; from The Countess of Pembroke's arcadia -- Get hence foule griefe / Sir Philip Sidney; from The Countess of Pembroke's arcadia -- Self-pitties tears, wherein my hope lyes drown'd / Fulke Greville; from Cælica -- I, with whose colors Myra drest her head / Fulke Greville; from Cælica -- Cupid, my pretty boy, leave off thy crying / Fulke Greville; from Cælica -- Cupid, my little boy, come home againe / Fulke Greville; from Cælica -- Away with these selfe-loving lads / Fulke Greville; from Cælica -- Aprill / Edmund Spenser; from The shepheardes calendar -- November / Edmund Spenser; from The shepheardes calendar -- Comming to kisse her lyps / Edmund Spenser -- Prothalamian / Edmund Spenser -- excerpt from Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser -- excerpts from The Faerie Queen / Edmund Spenser --

First sestiad: on Helespont guiltie of true-loves blood / Christopher Marlowe; from Hero and Leander -- Second sestiad: O Hero, Hero, thus he cry'de full oft / Christopher Marlowe; from Hero and Leander -- Ah fiare Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate / Christopher Marlowe; from Tamburlaine -- Blacke is the beauty of the brightest day / Christopher Marlowe; from Tamburlaine -- Was this the face that lancht a thousand shippes / Christopher Marlowe; from Doctor Faustus -- Ah Faustus, now hast thou but one bare hower to live / Christopher Marlowe; from Doctor Faustus -- Epithalmion Teratus / George Chapman; from Hero and Leander -- A Princes statue / George Chapman; from Homer's Iliads -- O that I were as sure to live, immortal / George Chapman; from Homer's Iliads -- Nor had great Hector and his friends the rampire overrun / George Chapman; from Homer's Iliads -- Hymnus in noctem / George Chapman; from The shadow of night -- Bethsabe's song / George Peele; from David and Bethsabe -- The song at the well / George Peele; from The old wives tale -- When as the rie reach to the chin / George Peele; from The old wives tale -- His golden lockes, time hath to silver turn'd / George Peele; from Polyhymnia -- In praise of Rosamund / Robert Greene; from Greene's mourning garment -- Sephestia's song to her childe / Robert Greene; from Menaphon -- Doron's description of Samela / Robert Greene; from Menaphon -- Doron's jigge / Robert Greene; from Menaphon -- In praise of his loving and best-beloved Fawnia / Robert Greene; from Pandosto -- Infida's song / Robert Greene; from Never too late -- Rose-cheekt Laura, come / Thomas Campion -- Followe thy faire sunne / Thomas Campion -- Kinde are her answers / Thomas Campion -- When to her lute Corinna sings / Thomas Campion -- Follow your Saint / Thomas Campion -- Beauty is but a painted hell / Thomas Campion -- When thou must home / Thomas Campion -- Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion -- Thrice tosse these oaken ashes / Thomas Campion -- What faire pompe / Thomas Campion -- Just beguiler / Thomas Campion -- Thou art not faire / Thomas Campion -- My sweetest Lesbia / Thomas Campion -- There is a garden / Thomas Campion -- Come, O come / Thomas Campion -- There is none, o none but you / Thomas Campion -- Author of light / Thomas Campion -- Rosalynde's madrigall / Thomas Lodge; from Rosalynde -- Montanus' sonnet / Thomas Lodge; from Rosalynde -- Adieu, farewell earths blisse / Thomas Nashe; from Summer's last will and testament -- Spring / Thomas Nashe -- Fortune smiles / Thomas Dekker; from The pleasant comedie of old fortunatus -- O pittie / Thomas Dekker; from The pleasant comedie of old forunatus -- O sweet content / Thomas Dekker; from The pleasant comedie of patient Grissell -- Dauncing (bright lady) then began to bee / Sir John Davies; from Orchestra -- To the Virginian boyage / Michael Drayton -- To the new yeere / Michael Drayton -- To his valentine / Michael Drayton -- Now are the Tritons heard / Michael Drayton; from Poly-olbion -- With full-leav'd lillies / Michael Drayton; from The second nimphall -- Stay, Thames, to heare my song / Michael Drayton; from The third eclogue -- Song to Sirena / Michael Drayton; from The shepheards Sirena -- LInes written the night before he dyed; or Soe well I love thee / Michael Drayton -- Cupid and Campaspe / John Lyly; from Alexander and Campaspe -- Pan's song / John Lyly; from Mydas -- Song to Apollo / John Lyly; from Mydas -- The marigold so likes the lovely sunne / Thomas Watson -- Fain would I change that note / Tobias Hume -- Deare, if you change -- Lachrimae -- Weepe you no more, sad fountaines -- The silver swanne -- Weepe O mine eyes -- A ha ha ha! this world doth passe -- Brown is my love, but gracefull -- On a rosebud sent to her lover -- Are the shadowes that we see / Samuel Daniel; from Tethys' festival -- Had sorrow ever fitter place / Samuel Daniel; from Hymen's triumph -- Love is a sicknesse full of woes / Samuel Daniel; from Hymen's triumph -- Looke Delia how wee 'steeme the half-blowne rose / Samuel Daniel; from Delia -- But love whilst that thou maist be lov'd againe / Samuel Daniel; from Delia -- My cares drawe on myne everlasting night / Samuel Daniel; from Delia -- Time, cruell time, come and subdue that brow / Samuel Daniel; from Delia -- Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the sable night / Samuel Daniel; from Delia -- Innumerable beauties / Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Echo to a rock / Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Sonnet of black beauty / Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- La Gialletta Gallante / Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Elegy over a tomb / Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Tears, flow no more / Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Regret / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- Unhappie light / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- My thoughts hold mortall strife / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- The beautie, and the life / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- Iölas' epitaph / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- For the Magdalene / William Drummond of Hawthornden --

The good-morrow / John Donne -- Goe, and catche a falling starre / John Donne -- The sunne rising / John Donne -- The legacie / John Donne -- Aire and angels / John Donne -- A valediction: of weeping / John Donne -- A nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day / John Donne -- The broken heart / John Donne -- The relique / John Donne -- The expiration / John Donne -- Elegie IX: The autumnall / John Donne -- An epithalamion / John Donne -- The apparition / John Donne -- A lecture upon the shadow / John Donne -- At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow / John Donne -- If poysonous minerals, and if that tree / John Donne -- Death be not proud, though some have called thee / John Donne -- Goodfriday, 1613. Riding westward / John Donne -- Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse / John Donne -- A hymne to God the Father / John Donne -- The litanie / John Donne -- The double rock / Henry King -- The exequy / Henry King -- O fly my soul / James Shirley -- Oh heere's my mother... / John Webster; from The devil's law-case -- All the flowers of the spring / John Webster; from The devil's law-case -- Banisht / John Webster; from The white divel -- Indeed I am studying alcumye / John Webster; from The White divel -- How now my noble cousin- what in blacke / John Webster; from The White divel -- O thou soft naturall death / John Webster; from The White divel -- Call for the robin-red-brest and the wren / John Webster; from The White divel -- Then here's an end of me: fare-well day-light / John Webster; from The White divel -- Cease that harsh musick / Cyril Tourneur; from The atheist's tragedy -- O hour of incest / Cyril Tourneur; from The revenger's tragedy -- Ravish me in thine answere / Cyril Tourneur; from The revenger's tragedy -- Madame, his grace will not be absent long / Cyril Tourneur; from The revenger's tragedy -- Love is like a lamb / Thomas Middleton; from Blurt, Master Constable -- What makes you lip so strange / Thomas Middleton; from The changeling -- Here we are, if you have any more / Thomas Middleton; from The Changeling -- From fairest creatures we desire increase / William Shakespeare -- Shall I compare thee to a summers day / William Shakespeare -- Devouring time blunt thou the lyons pawes / William Shakespeare -- When in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes / William Shakespeare -- What is your substance, whereof are you made / William Shakespeare -- Since brasse, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundlesse sea / William Shakespeare -- Poore soule the center of my sinfull earth / William Shakespeare -- How now spirit, whether wander you / William Shakespeare; from A midsummer nights dream -- Now the hungry lyon rores / William Shakespeare; from A midsummer nights dream -- How oft when men are at the point of death / William Shakespeare; from Romeo and Juliet -- Good morrow to you both / William Shakespeare; from King Lear -- Bow winds, and crack your cheeks / William Shakespeare; from King Lear -- Here is the place my lord / William Shakespeare; from King Lear -- Heere is better than the open ayre / William Shakespeare; from King Lear -- No, they cannot touch me for coyning / William Shakespeare; from King Lear -- Howle, howle, howle... / William Shakespeare; from King Lear -- They met me in the day of success / William Shakespeare; from Macbeth -- That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold / William Shakespeare; from Macbeth -- Heere's a knocking indeed / William Shakespeare; from Macbeth -- We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it / William Shakespeare; from Macbeth -- I am thy father's spirit / William Shakespeare; from Hamlet -- But look where sadly the poore wretch comes reading / William Shakespeare; from Hamlet --To be, or not to be / William Shakespeare; from Hamlet -- Now Hamlet, where's Polonius / William Shakespeare; from Hamlet --Where is the beauteous Majesty of Denmark / William Shakespeare; from Hamlet -- How now? what noise is that / William Shakespeare; from Hamlet -- Is she to be buried in Christian burial / William Shakespeare; from Hamlet -- O sunne, burne the great sphere thou mov'st / William Shakespeare; from Anthony and Cleapatra -- Give me my rove, put on my crowne / William Shakespeare; from Anthony and Cleapatra -- I have laied those sheets you bad me on the bed / William Shakespeare; from Othello -- It is the cause, it is the cause / William Shakespeare; from Othello -- What did thy song boad lady / William Shakespeare; from Othello --The crickets sing / William Shakespeare; from Cymbeline -- Hearke, hearke the larke / William Shakespeare; from Cymbeline -- Feare no more the heat o' th' sun / William Shakespeare; from Cymbeline -- Come unto these yellow sands / William Shakespeare; from The tempest -- Full fadom five thy fader lies / William Shakespeare; from The tempest -- Be not affeard, the isle is full of noises / William Shakespeare; from The tempest -- Ceres, most bounteous lady / William Shakespeare; from The tempest -- Sir, Welcome / William Shakespeare; from The winter's tale -- Take, oh take those lips away / William Shakespeare; from Measure for measure -- Come away, come away death / William Shakespeare; from Twelfe night -- When that I was and a little tine boy / William Shakespeare; from Twelfe night --Tell me where is fancie bred / William Shakespeare; from The Merchant of Venice -- Funeral song / William Shakespeare; from The two noble kinsmen -- Orpheus with his lute made trees / William Shakespeare; from Henry the Eighth --

Slow, slow, fresh found / Ben Jonson; from Cynthia's revels -- The hymne: Queen and huntress... / Ben Jonson; from Cynthia's revels -- To Celia / Ben Jonson; from The Forrest -- To Penhurst / Ben Jonson; from The Forrest -- That women are but mens shaddowes / Ben Jonson -- On my first sonne / Ben Jonson -- The jackman's song / Ben Jonson; from The masque of the gypsies -- How he saw her / Ben Jonson -- Her triumph / Ben Jonson -- The kiss / Ben Jonson -- Her man described by her own dictamen / Ben Jonson -- An ode to himself / Ben Jonson; from Underwoods -- Karolin's song / Ben Jonson; from The sad shepherd -- Good morning to the day; and Next, my gold / Ben Jonson; from Volpone -- Come, my Celia, let us prove / Ben Jonson; from Volpone -- Come on, Sir. Now, you set your foot on shore / Ben Jonson; from The alchemist -- Weep no more / John Fletcher -- Beauty cleere and fair / John Fletcher -- Take, oh take those lips away / John Fletcher -- Turn, turn thy beauteous face away / John Fletcher -- Care-charming sleep / John Fletcher -- Come you whose loves are dead / John Fletcher -- Lay a garland on my hearse / John Fletcher -- Hence all you vaine delights / John Fletcher -- O love, how strangely sweet / John Marston -- Oh no more, no more, too late / John Ford -- Can you paint a thought / John Ford -- The argument of his book / Robert Herrick -- Upon Julia's haire fill'd with dew / Robert Herrick -- Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick -- Lovers how they come and part / Robert Herrick -- The night-piece, to Julia / Robert Herrick -- A conjuration, to Electra / Robert Herrick -- The lilly in a christal / Robert Herrick -- Upon Julia's recovery / Robert Herrick -- The weeping cherry / Robert Herrick -- Upon Julia's voice / Robert Herrick -- To his honoured kinsman Sir William Soame / Robert Herrick -- To the most faire and lovely mistris, Anne Soame, now Lady Abdie / Robert Herrick -- To Meddowes / Robert Herrick -- To daffadils / Robert Herrick -- To daisies, not to shut so soone / Robert Herrick -- A nuptiall song, or Epithalmie / Robert Herrick -- To Perilla / Robert Herrick -- Corinna's going a maying / Robert Herrick -- The comming of good luck / Robert Herrick -- The collar / George Herbert -- Prayer / George Herbert -- The temper / George Herbert -- Employment / George Herbert -- I got me flowers to straw thy way / George Herbert -- The flower / George Herbert -- Sighs and grones / George Herbert -- Whitsunday / George Herbert -- The starre / George Herbert -- Vertue / George Herbert -- The rose / George Herbert -- The sacrifice / George Herbert -- The pulley / George Herbert -- Aske me no more where Jove bestowes / Thomas Carew -- He that loves a rosie cheeke / Thomas Carew -- No, no, fair heretick / Sir John Suckling -- A ballad upon a wedding / Sir John Suckling -- To Lucasta, going beyond the seas / Richard Lovelace -- To Lucasta, going to the warres / Richard Lovelace -- The snayl / Richard Lovelace -- Another / Richard Lovelace -- The grasse-hopper / Richard Lovelace -- La bella bona roba / Richard Lovelace -- Go lovely rose / Edmund Waller -- Hymn of the nativity / Richard Crashaw -- Live here, great heart / Richard Crashaw -- Saint Mary Magdalene, or The weeper / Richard Crashaw -- To a young gentle-woman, councel concerning her choice / Richard Crashaw -- Hymn, to light / Abraham Cowley -- On the morning of Christs nativity / John Milton -- Lycidas / John Milton -- O're the smooth enameld green / John Milton -- Nymphs and shepherds dance no more / John Milton -- Sweet Echo / John Milton -- O foolishnes of men / John Milton -- Sabrina fair / John Milton -- To the ocean now I fly / John Milton -- High on a throne of royal state / John Milton -- Hail holy light, ofspring of heav'n first-born / John Milton -- A little onward lend thy guiding hand / John Milton -- Portrait of Hudibras / Samuel Butler -- Bermudas / Andrew Marvell -- The garden / Andrew Marvell -- The nymph complaining for the death of her fawn / Andrew Marvell -- The mower to the glow-worms / Andrew Marvell -- And now to the abbyss I pass / Andrew Marvell -- The kingfisher / Andrew Marvell -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- Unprofitablenes / Henry Vaughan -- Christ's nativity / Henry Vaughan -- Son-dayes / Henry Vaughan -- Cock-crowing / Henry Vaughan -- The retreate / Henry Vaughan -- Idle verse / Henry Vaughan -- The bird / Henry Vaughan -- Palm-Sunday / Henry Vaughan -- The shower / Henry Vaughan -- The world / Henry Vaughan -- Wonder / Thomas Traherne -- Shadows in the water / Thomas Traherne -- The salutation / Thomas Traherne -- On leaping over the moon / Thomas Traherne -- An age in her ambraces past / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- Upon nothing / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- Love in fastastique triumph satt / Aphra Behn -- Ah stay! Ah turn! Ah whither would you fly / William Congreve -- Am I thy gold? or purse, Lord, for thy wealth / Edward Taylor -- I kenning through astronomy divine / Edward Taylor -- My Lord, my life / Edward Taylor -- Upon a wasp chilled with cold / Edward Taylor -- The reflexion / Edward Taylor --

A song for St. Cecilia's Day / John Dryden -- Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew / John Dryden -- I heard the ruffian-shepherd rudely blow / John Dryden -- Portents and prodigies are grown so frequent / John Dryden; from All for love -- Song of the Zambra dance / John Dryden -- Song of aerial spirits / John Dryden -- No, no, poor suff'ring heart / John Dryden -- Of these, the false Achitophel was first / John Dryden -- A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed / John Dryden -- Levi, thou art a load, I'll lay thee down / John Dryden -- Now stop your noses, readers, all and some / John Dryden -- All humane things are subject to decay / John Dryden -- Were I laid on Greenland's coast / John Gay -- My handsome Gilderoy -- Cam' ye by -- I know where I'm going -- I gave her cakes -- Three knights from Spain -- A New Year carol -- Lily bright and shine-a -- Johnny Faa, the gypsy laddie -- Brome, Brome on hill -- The false knight upon the road -- The riddling knight -- Old May song -- Flowers in the valley -- My master hath a garden -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- The mighty mother, and her son / Alexander Pope -- High on a gorgeous seat / Alexander Pope -- Now turn to diff'rent sports / Alexander Pope -- Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light / Alexander Pope -- In vain, in vain - the all-composing hour / Alexander Pope -- Lo! From the livid east / James Thomson -- Spring flowers / James Thomson -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- To evening / William Collins -- A song to David / Christopher Smart -- Rejoice in God / Christopher Smart -- Let Lotan rejoice with Sauterelle / Christopher Smart -- Let Peter rejoice with the moon fish / Christopher Smart -- For the letter ל which signifies God / Christopher Smart -- For I will consider my cat Jeoffry / Christopher Smart -- Light shining out of darkness / William Cowper -- The castaway / William Cowper -- Lines written under the influence of delirium / William Cowper -- And did those feet in ancient time / William Blake -- Auguries of innocence / William Blake -- The tyger / William Blake -- The chimney sweeper (I) / William Blake -- The chimney sweeper (II) / William Blake -- The little black boy / William Blake -- London / William Blake -- Soft snow / William Blake -- The sick rose / William Blake -- Ah, sun-flower / William Blake -- Mock on / William Blake -- A divine image / William Blake -- Proverbs of hell / William Blake -- Night / William Blake -- How sweet I roam'd / William Blake -- The marigold / William Blake -- My heart leaps up / William Wordsworth -- I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth -- Three years she grew / William Wordsworth -- The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth -- O nightingale / William Wordsworth -- The green linnet / William Wordsworth -- Ode on the intimations of immortality... / William Wordsworth -- Fair seed-time had my soul / William Wordsworth -- Wisdom and spirit of the universe / William Wordsworth -- Blest the infant babe / William Wordsworth -- 'twere long to tell / William Wordsworth -- As if awakened, summoned / William Wordsworth -- Oh, blank confusion / William Wordsworth -- Enough of humble arguments / William Wordsworth -- Kubla Kahn / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Adonais / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Hymn of Pan / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- To a skylardk / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- To night / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Music when soft voices die / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- A lament / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- A widow bird / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- On a poet's lips I slept / Percy Bysshe Shelley; from Prometheus unbound -- The path through which that lovely twain / Percy Bysshe Shelley; from Prometheus unbound -- Life of life! Thy lips enkindle / Percy Bysshe Shelley; from Prometheus unbound -- The earth and the moon / Percy Bysshe Shelley; from Promethues unbound -- The world's great age begins anew / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- La belle dame sans merci / John Keats -- Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- One on melancholy / John Keats -- To Autumn / John Keats -- After dark vapors / John Keats -- To sleep / John Keats -- Hymn to Pan / John Keats; from Endymion -- What is more gentle than a wind in summer / John Keats -- The eve of St. Agnes / John Keats -- Proud Maisie / Sir Walter Scott -- Still must I hear / Lord Byron -- Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean / Lord Byron -- She walks in beauty / Lord Byron -- Sun of the sleepless / Lord Byron -- And thou art dead / Lord Byron -- So we'll go no more a-roving / Lord Byron -- Bobby Shafto / Robert Burns -- Ye banks and braes o' bonnie doon / Robert Burns -- A red, red rose / Robert Burns -- Open the door to me, O / Robert Burns -- For the sake o' somebody / Robert Burns -- Johnnie, cock up your beaver / Robert Burns -- Bonnie Lesley / Robert Burns -- Honey dew falls from the tree / John Clare -- To Harriett / John Clare -- The winter's spring / John Clare -- The maple hangs its green bee flowers / John Clare -- Meet me in the primrose lane / John Clare -- I love the blue violet / John Clare -- I hid my love / John Clare -- My love's guardian angel / William Barnes -- The wind at the door / William Barnes -- The rwose in the dark / William Barnes -- Winds of the west, arise / George Darley -- O blest unfabled incense tree / George Darley --

I'll be as true / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Her kisses / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Grief-in-idleness / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- I should not say / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- Romance / Edgar Allan Poe -- The lotos-eaters / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- A voice by the cedar tree / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Dead, long dead / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- O that 'twere possible / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- A spirit haunts the year's last hours / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Claribel / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Now sleeps the crimson petal / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- O swallow, swallow, flying, flying / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Come down, o maid / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Ask me no more / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The splendour falls on castle walls / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- As thro' the land at Eve we went / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Be near me when my light is low / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Do we indeed desire the dead / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Oh yet we trust that somehow good / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The wish, that of the living whole / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Heroism / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Berrying / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nemesis / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The whale / Herman Melville -- The berg / Herman Melville -- Billy in the Darbies / Herman Melville -- excerpt from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr / Edward Fitzgerald -- Love-lily / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- A New Year's burden / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- The woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Goblin market / Christina Rossetti -- The hollow land / William Morris -- Gold wings across the sea / William Morris -- In prison / William Morris -- I know a little garden-close / William Morris -- Summer dawn / William Morris -- Dawn talks to-day / William Morris -- For who shall change with prayers or thanksgivings / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- excerpt from The masque of Queen Bersabe / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- August / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- The sun that brief December day / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The witnesses / Henry Wadsorth Longfellow -- The discoverer of the north cape / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Starting from Paumanok / Walt Whitman -- Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road / Walt Whitman -- A child said What is the grass / Walt Whitman -- With music strong I come / Walt Whitman -- I am he that walks with the tender and growing night / Walt Whitman -- Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me / Walt Whitman -- My spirit has pass'd in compassion / Walt Whitman -- There's a certain slant of light / Emily Dickinson -- There came a wind like a bugle / Emily Dickinson -- A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson -- Great streets of silence led away / Emily Dickinson -- Our journey had advanced / Emily Dickinson -- It was not death, for I stood up / Emily Dickinson -- My life closed twice / Emily Dickinson -- Ample make this bed / Emily Dickinson -- The mothh's kiss, first / Robert Browning -- Misconceptions / Robert Browning -- Porphyria's lover / Robert Browning -- In a year / Robert Browning -- Philomela / Matthew Arnold -- Nightingales / Robert Bridges -- The wreck of the Deutschland / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Peace / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The May magnificat / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The furl of fresh-leaved dog-rose down / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- That nature is a Heraclitean fire and of the comfort of the resurrection / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Carrion comfort / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The woman I met / Thomas Hardy -- A trampwoman's tragedy / Thomas Hardy -- After a journey / Thomas Hardy -- The haunter / Thomas Hardy -- The runes on Weland's sword / Rudyard Kipling -- Harp sog of the Dane women / Rudyard Kipling -- The Queen's men / Rudyard Kipling -- A St. Helena lullaby / Rudyard Kipling -- Sea-change / John Masefield -- Port of Holy Peter / John Masefield -- The ploughman / John Masefield -- St. Francis Einstein of the daffodils / William Carlos William -- The library / William Carlos William -- The night is freezing fast / A. E. Housman -- Is my team ploughing / A. E. Housman -- The chestnut casts his flambeaux / A. E. Housman -- Oh who is that young sinner / A. E. Housman -- In no strange land / Francis Thompson -- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats -- The collar-bone of a hare / William Butler Yeats -- Crazy Jane and the bishop / William Butler Yeats -- Crazy Jane reproved / William Butler Yeats -- Crazy Jane on the day of judgement / William Butler Yeats -- Crazy Jane and Jack the journeyman / William Butler Yeats -- Crazy Jane on God / William Butler Yeats -- Crazy Jane talks with the bishop / William Butler Yeats -- Crazy Jane grown old looks at the dancers / William Butler Yeats -- Three things / William Butler Yeats -- Mad as the mist and snow / William Butler Yeats -- Those dancing days are gone / William Butler Yeats -- I thought no more was needed / William Butler Yeats -- The second coming / William Butler Yeats -- The friends of his youth / William Butler Yeats -- The hawk / William Butler Yeats -- The three hermits / William Butler Yeats -- The statesman's holiday / William Butler Yeats -- Crazy Jane on the mountain / William Butler Yeats -- John Kensella's lament for Mrs. Mary Moore / William Butler Yeats -- The wild old wicked man / William Butler Yeats -- The scribe / Walter de la Mare -- A queen wasp / Walter de la Mare -- The marionettes / Walter de la Mare -- Polonius / Walter de la Mare -- The keys of morning / Walter de la Mare -- Nod / Walter de la Mare -- The hawthorn hath a deathly smell / Walter de la Mare -- Old shellover / Walter de la Mare -- Full moon / Walter de la Mare -- Berries / Walter de la Mare -- A widow's weeds / Walter de la Mare -- The song of the mad prince / Walter de la Mare -- The bird-catcher / Ralph Hodgson -- Stupidity street / Ralph Hodgson -- The journeyman / Ralph Hodgson -- The song of honour / Ralph Hodgson -- Netted strawberries / Gordon Botomley -- Fancy's home / William Henry Davies -- The happy child / William Henry Davies -- Sweet stay-at-home / William Henry Davies -- The bird of paradise / William Henry Davies -- Body and spirit / William Henry Davies -- Here is a poem / Gertrude Stein ; from Land of Nations -- Noisy pearls noisy pearl coat / Gertrude Stein ; from Sacred Emily -- A pale rose is a smell that has no faountain / Gertrude Stein ; from Scenes -- The heat / Gertrude Stein -- A day lost / Gertrude Stein -- Alsace or Alsatians / Gertrude Stein -- The watch on the Rhine / Gertude Stein -- Snake / D. H. Lawrence -- Mountain lion / D. H. Lawrence -- Bavarian Genetians / D. H. Lawrence -- Lilacs / Amy Lowell -- Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers -- The spring was late that year / V. Sackville West -- The gorse / Wilfrid Wilson Gibson -- Melancthon / Marianne Moore -- The jerboa / Marianne Moore -- Rite and fore-time / David Jones -- In a London terminus / John Lehmann -- A death in hospital / John Lehmann -- Lavish kindness / Elinor Wylie -- A short walk along the coast / Vachel Lindsay -- Yes, I have walked in California / Vachel Lindsay -- North to the pole, south to the pole / Vachel Lindsay --

But the surf is white, down the long strange coast / Vachel Lindsay -- But shat is the earthquake's try at last / Vachel Lindsay -- Him not the golden fang of furious heaven / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Here lies, and none to mourn him but the sea / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The dug-out / Siegfried Sassoon -- A local train of thought / Siegfried Sassoon -- My past has gone to bed / Siegfried Sassoon -- Black Angel / Lewis Thompson -- Rose / Lewis Thompson -- The garden / H. D. -- Sea gods / H. D. -- Orchard / H. D. -- O heart, small urn / H. D. -- O wha's been here afore me, lass / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Winter the huntsman / Osbert Sitwell -- Mrs. Southern's enemy / Osbert Sitwell -- Osmund Toulmin / Osbert Sitwell -- What was your dream, Doctor Murricombe / Osbert Sitwell -- The ballad of Sister Anne / Osbert Sitwell -- Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom -- Waking from sleep we heard the Great Lakes' tide / Horace Gregory -- Ave Marie / Hart Crane -- Atlantis / Hart Crane -- Bantams in pine-woods / Wallace Stevens -- Dry loaf / Wallace Stevens -- The glass of water / Wallace Stevens -- The president ordains the bee to be / Wallace Stevens -- Nomad exquisite / Wallace Stevens -- We saw that city on an inland sea / Archibald MacLeish -- The argument / Archibald MacLeish -- Ah how the throat of a girl / Archibald MacLeish -- Dawn on the wall-head there / Archibald MacLeish -- Our singing strength / Robert Frost -- The tuft of flowers / Robert Frost -- The sound of the trees / Robert Frost -- Desert places / Robert Frost -- Bereft / Robert Frost -- They were welcome to their belief / Robert Frost -- The witch of coös / Robert Frost -- Provide, provide / Robert Frost -- A worm fed on the heart of Corinth / Isaac Rosenberg -- Strange meeting / Wilfred Owen -- Futility / Wilfred Owen -- Greater love / Wilfred Owen -- Saagin / Sydney Goodsir Smith -- The mandrake hert / Sydney Goodsir Smith -- ye spier me / Sydney Goodsir Smith -- Defeat o' the hert / Sydney Goodsir Smith -- The walking woman / Sidney Keyes -- Cool tombs / Carl Sandburg -- Last days of Alice / Allen Tate -- The walk / Leonard Clark -- You are like the snow only / E. E. Cummings -- Somewhere I have never travelled / E. E. Cummings -- The moon is hiding in / E. E. Cummings -- My father moved through dooms of love / E. E. Cummings -- Fisherman / Sacheverell Sitwell -- Cherry tree / Sacheverell Sitwell -- Orange tree by day / Sacheverell Sitwell -- Orange tree by night / Sacheverell Sitwell -- Psittacus eois imitatrix ales ab indis / Sacheverell Sitwell -- Centaurs and Lapithæ / Sacheverell Sitwell -- To a pet cobra / Roy Campbell -- The zulu girl / Roy Campbell -- Pomegranates / Roy Campbell -- The snake / Roy Campbell -- Horses on the Camargue / Roy Campbell -- On Lisa's golden hair / Roy Campbell; translated from Franciso de Quevedo -- Upon a gloomy night / Roy Campbell; translated from St. John of the Cross -- This is the shape of the leaf / Conrad Aiken -- The ghost / Robert Lowell -- Plaint / Charles Henri Ford -- Pastoral / Kenneth Patchen -- Our bias / W. H. Auden -- In memory of Ernst Toller / W. H. Auden -- In memory of Sigmund Freud / W. H. Auden -- Crisis / W. H. Auden -- As I walked out one eveing / W. H. Auden -- Fish in the unruffled lakes / W. H. Auden -- O for doors to be open / W. H. Auden -- My love is a tower / Cecil Day Lewis -- Is it far to go / Cecil Day Lewis -- Come live with me and be my love / Cecil Day Lewis -- Pegasus / Cecil Day Lewis -- The double vision / Cecil Day Lewis -- The mountain lake / Richard Church -- Brother Fire / Louis MacNeice -- Abel / Demetrios Capetanakis -- The lie / Howard Moss -- After they have tired of the brilliance of cities / Stephen Spender -- I think continually of those who were truly great / Stephen Spender -- Seascape / Stephen Spender -- Memento / Stephen Spender -- Ice / Stephen Spender -- Midsummer / Stephen Spender -- Missing my daughter / Stephen Spender -- The vase of tears / Stephen Spender -- The horse chestnut tree / Richard Eberhart -- The scorpion / William Plomer -- Elegy just in case / John Ciardi -- The evil eye / John Ciardi -- Thaw / Jean Starr Untermeyer -- The sunflower / Peter Quennell -- Day of these days / Laurie Lee -- News of the world III / George Barker -- Turn on your side and bear the day to me / George Barker -- Lachrymae / David Gascoyne -- September sun: 1947 / David Gascoyne -- John Brown's prayer / Stephen Vincent Benét -- For all blasphemers / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Elegy for two banjos / Karl Shapiro -- Ou phrontis / Charles Causley -- Sailor's carol / Charles Causley -- Forcing house / Theodore Roethke -- Child on top of a greenhouse / Theodore Roethke -- The florist rose / Robert Graves -- Time / Robert Graves -- New legends / Robert Graves -- Like snow / Robert Graves -- A love story / Robert Graves -- The window sill / Robert Graves -- To and old lady / William Empson -- Invitation to Juno / William Empson -- Part of mandevil's travels / William Empson -- Doctrinal point / William Empson -- Note on local flora / William Empson -- High dive / William Empson -- Why east wind chills / Dylan Thomas -- A grief ago / Dylan Thomas -- A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London / Dylan Thomas -- A winter's tale / Dylan Thomas -- Fern hill / Dylan Thomas -- In the white giant's thigh / Dylan Thomas -- Canto I / Ezra Pound -- Canto II / Ezra Pound -- O lynx, wake Silenus and Casey / Ezra Pound ; from Canto LXXIX -- The waste land / T. S. Eliot -- Notes for The waste land / T. S. Eliot -- Burnt Norton / T. S. Eliot -- Lo-yang / Chien Wên-ti ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley -- Remembering golden bells / Po Chü-i ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley -- The lady and the magpie / translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley -- Hot cake / Shu Hsi ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley -- Winter night / Chien Wên-ti ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley -- The hat given to the poet by Li Chien / Po Chü-i ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley -- The little cart / Ch'ên Tzŭ-lung ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley -- Li Fu-Jên / Wu-ti ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley -- The bones of Chuang Tzu / Chang Hêng ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley -- Under the bronze leaves / Saint-John Perse ; translated by T. S. Eliot -- I have built myself, with honour and dignity / Saint-John Perse ; translated by T. S. Eliot -- Such is the way of the world / Saint-John Perse ; translated by T. S. Eliot -- We shall not dwell forever in these yellow lands / Saint-John Perse ; translated by T. S. Eliot -- Invocation / Edith Sitwell -- Heart and mind / Edith Sitwell -- Most lovely shade / Edith Sitwell -- Lullaby / Edith Sitwell -- Dirge for the new sunrise / Edith Sitwell ; from Three poems of the Atomic age --