Seventeenth-Century Poetry An Annotated Anthology

, by Cummings, Robert

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ISBN: 9780631210658 | 0631210652
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Copyright: 4/7/2000

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Author Biography

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This book offers an in-depth annotation to a chronologically arranged selection from more than 50 poets including Milton, Denham, Dillon, Anne Wharton.

Index of Topics

xiii

Alphabetical List of Authors

xxiii

Acknowledgments

xxiv

Preface

xxv

George Chapman (1559--1634)

(13)

The Fight at the Wall

(6)

Ulysses in Phaecia

(7)

Michael Drayton (1563--1631)

(11)

Wildlife in the Fens

(4)

To My Most Dearly Loved Friend Henry Reynolds

(6)

Thomas Campion (1567--1620)

(4)

`My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love'

(1)

`When thou must home to shades of underground'

(1)

`Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore'

(1)

`Now winter nights enlarge'

(1)

`Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air'

(1)

Aemilia Lanyer (1569--1645)

(6)

The Description of Cookham

(6)

John Donne (1572--1631)

(44)

Air and Angels

(1)

The Canonization

(1)

The Ecstasy

(3)

The Funeral

(1)

The Good-Morrow

(1)

Love's Deity

(1)

A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day

(2)

The Sun Rising

(1)

Twickenham Garden

(1)

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

(1)

A Valediction of Weeping

(1)

Holy Sonnets

(9)

`As due by many titles I resign'

(1)

`O my black soul! now thou art summoned'

(1)

`This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint'

(1)

`At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'

(1)

`If poisonous minerals, and if that tree'

(1)

`Death be not proud, though some have called thee'

(1)

`Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side'

(1)

`Why are we by all creatures waited on?'

(1)

`What if this present were the worlds last night?'

(1)

`Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you'

(1)

`Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest'

(1)

`Father, part of his double interest'

(1)

Sonnets from 1635

(3)

`Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay'

(1)

`O might those sighs and tears return again'

(1)

`I am a little world made cunnigly'

(1)

`If faithful souls be alike glorified'

(1)

Sonnets from the Westmoreland MS

(2)

`Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt'

(1)

`Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear'

(1)

`O, to vex me, contraries meet in one'

(1)

To the Countess of Beford

(3)

Obsequies to the Lord Harington, Brother to the Countess of Bedford

(7)

A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany

(1)

A Hymn to God the Father

(1)

A Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness

(2)

Ben Jonson (1572--1637)

(36)

On My First Daughter

(1)

On My First Son

(1)

On Lucy Countess of Bedford

(1)

Inviting a Friend to Supper

(1)

Epitaph on S. P.

(1)

Why I Write not of Love

(1)

To Penshurst

(4)

Song. To Celia (`Come my Celia')

(1)

Song. To Celia (`Kiss me, sweet')

(1)

Song. To Celia (`Drink to me, only, with thine eyes')

(1)

Epode

(4)

Her Triumph from A Celebration of Charis

(1)

My Picture left in Scotland

(1)

An Ode. To Himself

(2)

To the Immortal Memory..... of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison

(4)

Horace Epode 2: The Praises of a Country Life

101

(2)

To the memory of.....Mr William Shakespeare

103

(3)

Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue

106

(9)

Martha Moulsworth (1578--1646)

115

(4)

The Memorandum

115

(4)

Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583--1648)

119

(6)

An Ode upon a Question moved

119

(6)

William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585--1649)

125

(10)

Tears, on the Death of Moeliades

125

(6)

Song (`Phoebus arise')

131

(1)

Craton's Death

132

(1)

The Statue of Venus Sleeping

133

(1)

To Sir William Alexander (`Though I have twice been at the doors of Death')

133

(1)

To an Owl

134

(1)

On a Lamp

134

(1)

Lady Mary Wroth (1587--c. 1653)

135

(10)

`Why do you so much wish for rain, when I'

136

(1)

Lindamira's Complaint

136

(4)

`Dear eyes farewell, my sun once, now my end'

137

(1)

`O deadly rancour to a constant heart'

137

(1)

`A surgeon I would ask, but 'tis too late'

137

(1)

`O memory, could I but lose thee now'

138

(1)

`Leave me vain Hope, too long thou hast possessed'

138

(1)

`Though you forsake me, yet alas permit'

139

(1)

`Some do, perhaps, both wrong my love, and care'

139

(1)

`If a clear fountain still keeping a sad course'

140

(1)

`Love leave to urge, thou knowest thou hast the hand'

140

(1)

`Come darkest Night, becoming sorrow best'

141

(1)

`When last I saw thee, I did not thee see'

141

(1)

`When everyone to pleasing pastime hies'

142

(1)

Song: `The Springing time of my first loving'

142

(1)

`Juno still jealous of her husband Jove'

143

(1)

`No time, no room, no thought, nor writing can'

144

(1)

Robert Herrick (1591--1674)

145

(20)

To Perilla

145

(1)

A Song to the Masquers

146

(1)

Delight in Disorder

147

(1)

The Definition of Beauty

147

(1)

To Anthea Lying in Bed

147

(1)

Corinna's Going a-Maying

148

(2)

To the Virgins, to make much of Time

150

(1)

The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home

151

(1)

To Meadows

152

(1)

A Nuptial Song

153

(5)

Upon a Child that Died

158

(1)

The Mad Maid's Song

159

(1)

To Sycamores

160

(1)

To Daisies, Not to Shut so Soon

160

(1)

Lovers how they Come and Part

161

(1)

Upon Julia's Clothes

161

(1)

The White Island: or Place of the Blest

161

(1)

Good Friday: Rex Tragicus

162

(1)

A Carol presented to Dr Williams

163

(2)

Henry King (1592--1669)

165

(7)

The Exequy

165

(3)

To..... Sir Henry Blount

168

(4)

Francis Quarles (1592--1644)

172

(5)

`Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? O why'

172

(3)

`O whither shall I flee? what path untod'

175

(2)

George Herbert (1593--1633)

177

(31)

The Agony

178

(1)

Affliction 1

178

(3)

Prayer 1

181

(1)

The Temper 1

182

(1)

Jordan 1

183

(1)

Denial

184

(1)

Christmas

185

(1)

Vanity 1

186

(1)

Virtue

187

(1)

The Pearl. Matthew 13

188

(1)

Man

189

(2)

Life

191

(1)

Jordan 2

192

(1)

Providence

193

(5)

Artillery

198

(1)

The Collar

199

(2)

Josph's Coat

201

(1)

The Pulley

202

(1)

The Flower

202

(2)

Aaron

204

(1)

The Forerunners

205

(1)

Love 3

206

(2)

Thomas Carew (1595--1640)

208

(11)

An Elegy upon the Death of Doctor Donne

208

(3)

To Saxham

211

(2)

To Ben Jonson. Upon Occasion of his Ode of Defiance

213

(1)

A Song (`Ask me no more')

214

(1)

In Answer of an Elegiacal Letter

215

(4)

Owen Felltham (1602?--1668)

219

(3)

On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton

219

(1)

Upon a Rare Voice

220

(1)

To Phryne

221

(1)

Thomas Randolph (1605--1635)

222

(3)

An Ode to Mr Anthony Stafford to Hasten him into the Country

222

(3)

William Habington (1605--1654)

225

(4)

To Roses in the Bosom of Castara

225

(1)

Upon Castara's Departure

226

(1)

To my Worthy Cousin Mr. E. C.

226

(2)

Against them who lay Unchastity to the Sex of Women

228

(1)

Edmund Waller (1606--1687)

229

(18)

Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's

230

(1)

At Penshurst

231

(1)

To my Young Lady Lucy Sidney

232

(1)

The Self-banished

233

(1)

Song (`Go lovely rose')

234

(1)

On a Girdle

235

(1)

A Panegyric to my Lord Protector

235

(5)

On St James's Park

240

(4)

Of English Verse

244

(1)

Of the Last Verses in the Book

245

(2)

Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608--1666)

247

(6)

An Ode upon Occasion of His Majesty's Proclamation

247

(6)

John Milton (1608--1674)

253

(62)

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

254

(9)

L'Allegro and II Penseroso

263

(10)

Comus

273

(29)

Lycidas

302

(8)

Sonnets

310

(4)

`Captain or colonel or knight in arms'

310

(1)

To Mr Henry Lawes, on his Airs

311

(1)

On the late Massacre in Piedmont

312

(1)

`When I consider how my light is spent'

312

(1)

`Methought I saw my late espoused saint'

313

(1)

The Fifth Ode Of Horace

314

(1)

Sir John Suckling (1609--1642)

315

(7)

Song (`Why so pale and wan')

315

(1)

Sonnet 3 (`O! for some honest lover's ghost')

316

(1)

A Ballad. Upon a Wedding

317

(4)

`Out upon it, I have loved'

321

(1)

Richard Crashaw (1612--1649)

322

(16)

A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa

322

(5)

In the Holy Nativity of our Lord God A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds

327

(4)

Saint Mary Magdalene or the Weeper

331

(7)

Samuel Butler (1613--1680)

338

(7)

Satyr upon the Weakness and Misery of Man

338

(7)

John Cleveland (1613--1658)

345

(4)

Upon the Death of Mr King

345

(2)

Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford

347

(2)

Sir John Denham (1615--1669)

349

(12)

Cooper's Hill

349

(12)

Richard Lovelace (1618--1658)

361

(8)

Song. To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas

361

(1)

Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

362

(1)

The Grasshopper

363

(2)

Lucasta Weeping

365

(1)

To Althea, From Prison. Song

365

(1)

The Snail

366

(3)

Abraham Cowley (1618--1667)

369

(23)

Ode. Of Wit

370

(2)

On the Death of Mr William Hervey

372

(5)

To Mr Hobbes

377

(3)

Brutus

380

(2)

The Grasshopper

382

(1)

The College at Ramah

383

(6)

Horace: Epode 2

389

(3)

Lucy Hutchinson (1620--1681)

392

(7)

The Fear of Death

392

(7)

Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)

399

(43)

The Definition of Love

400

(1)

To His Coy Mistress

401

(2)

Eyes and Tears

403

(2)

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland

405

(4)

The Picture of little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers

409

(1)

Upon Appleton House

410

(24)

The Garden

434

(2)

A Dialogue between the Soul and Body

436

(2)

Bermudas

438

(2)

On Mr Milton's Paradise Lost

440

(2)

Henry Vaughan (1622--1695)

442

(18)

Regeneration

442

(3)

The British Church

445

(1)

The Shower

446

(1)

The Retreat

447

(1)

`Silence, and stealth of days'

448

(1)

The World

449

(3)

`I walked the other day'

452

(2)

`They are all gone into the world of light!'

454

(1)

The Night

455

(2)

L'Envoy

457

(3)

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1624--1674)

460

(8)

An Elegy (`Her corpse was borne to church')

461

(1)

A World made by Atoms

461

(1)

The Reason why Thoughts are only in the Head

462

(1)

Of Fish

462

(1)

A Description of an Island

463

(2)

Wherein Poetry chiefly consists

465

(1)

Of the Witches in Lapland that make Winds

465

(1)

Of a Wrought Carpet

466

(1)

The Fairies in the Brain may be the Causes of many Thoughts

466

(1)

A Song (`Since he is gone')

467

(1)

Charles Cotton (1630--1687)

468

(5)

Evening. Quatrains

468

(2)

Night. Quatrains

470

(3)

John Dryden (1631--1700)

473

(42)

Mac Flecknoe

474

(7)

To the Memory of Mr Oldham

481

(2)

Concerning the Nature of Love

483

(2)

From Horace, Epode 2

485

(3)

To the Pious Memory of..... Anne Killigrew

488

(6)

Virgil's Fourth Eclogue

494

(3)

Dido and Aeneas

497

(3)

The After life

500

(2)

Nisus and Euryalus

502

(1)

To my Honoured Kinsman, John Driden

503

(6)

Ovid's Baucis and Philemon

509

(6)

Katherine Philips (1632--1664)

515

(11)

Friendship's Mysteries

515

(1)

To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship

516

(1)

Lucasia..... parting at a Fountain

517

(1)

Epitaph. On her Son H. P.

518

(1)

Upon the Graving of her Name upon a Tree

519

(1)

La Solitude de St. Amant

520

(6)

Thomas Traherne (1637--1674)

526

(7)

Shadows in the Water

526

(3)

On Leaping over the Moon

529

(2)

Dreams

531

(2)

Aphra Behn (1640--1689)

533

(9)

Song. Love Armed

533

(1)

The Disappointment

534

(4)

To the fair Clarinda

538

(1)

Song (`When Jemmy first began to love')

539

(1)

The Counsel. A Song

540

(1)

Song. The Surprise

541

(1)

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647--1680)

542

(15)

A Ramble in St James's Park

542

(5)

Satyr

547

(6)

An Allusion to Horace

553

(4)

John Oldham (1653--1683)

557

(12)

The Lamentation for Adonis

557

(5)

A Letter from the Country

562

(7)

Anne Wharton (1659--1685)

569

(2)

A Paraphrase on the Last Speech of Dido

569

(2)

Index of Authors Cited

571

(11)

Index of Titles and First Lines

582

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