INTRODUCTORY NOTE
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
1 THE PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
2 THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE
3 THE DOUGLAS TRAGEDY〖This and the following ballads are of unknown authorship and of uncertain date.〗
4 THE TWA SISTERS
5 EDWARD
6 BABYLON; OR, THE BONNIE BANKS O FORDIE
7 HIND HORN
8 LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET
9 LOVE GREGOR
10 BONNY BARBARA ALLAN
11 THE GAY GOSS-HAWK
12 THE THREE RAVENS
13 THE TWA CORBIES〖Crows.〗
14 SIR PATRICK SPENCE
15 THOMAS RYMER AND THE QUEEN OF ELFLAND
16 SWEET WILLIAM’S GHOST
17 THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL
18 HUGH OF LINCOLN
19 YOUNG BICHAM
20 GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR
21 THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN
22 CHEVY CHASE
23 JOHNIE ARMSTRONG
24 CAPTAIN CAR
25 THE BONNY EARL OF MURRAY
26 KINMONT WILLIE
27 BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL
28 THE DOWY HOUMS O YARROW
29 MARY HAMILTON
30 THE BARON OF BRACKLEY
31 BEWICK AND GRAHAME
32 A GEST OF ROBYN HODE
THE SECOND FYTTE
THE THIRDE FYTTE
THE FOURTH FYTTE
THE FYFTH FYTTE
THE SIXTH FYTTE
THE SEVENTH FYTTE
THE EIGHTH FYTTE
ANONYMOUS
33 BALOW
34 THE OLD CLOAK
35 JOLLY GOOD ALE AND OLD
SIR THOMAS WYATT
36 A SUPPLICATION
37 THE LOVER'S APPEAL
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY
38 COMPLAINT OF THE ABSENCE OF HER LOVER BEING UPON THE SEA
39 THE MEANS TO ATTAIN HAPPY LIFE
GEORGE GASCOIGNE
40 A LOVER'S LULLABY
NICHOLAS BRETON
41 PHILLIDA AND CORIDON
ANONYMOUS
42 A SWEET LULLABY
43 PREPARATIONS
44 THE UNFAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS
ANTHONY MUNDAY
45 BEAUTY BATHING
RICHARD EDWARDES
46 AMANTIUM IRAE
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
47 HIS PILGRIMAGE
48 THE LIE
49 VERSES
50 WHAT IS OUR LIFE
SIR EDWARD DYER
51 MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS
JOHN LYLY
52 CUPID AND CAMPASPE
53 SPRING'S WELCOME
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
54 SONG
55 A DIRGE
56 A DITTY
57 LOVING IN TRUTH
58 BE YOUR WORDS MADE, GOOD SIR, OF INDIAN WARE
59 TO SLEEP
60 TO THE MOON
THOMAS LODGE
61 ROSALIND'S MADRIGAL
62 ROSALINE
63 PHILLIS
GEORGE PEELE
64 PARIS AND ŒNONE
ROBERT SOUTHWELL
65 THE BURNING BABE
SAMUEL DANIEL
66 BEAUTY, TIME, AND LOVE
67 TO SLEEP
MICHAEL DRAYTON
68 AGINCOURT
69 TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE
70 LOVE'S FAREWELL
HENRY CONSTABLE
71 DIAPHENIA
EDMUND SPENSER
72 PROTHALAMION
73 EPITHALAMION
74 A DITTY
75 PERIGOT AND WILLIE'S ROUNDELAY
76 EASTER
77 WHAT GUILE IS THIS?
78 FAIR IS MY LOVE
79 SO OFT AS I HER BEAUTY DO BEHOLD
80 RUDELY THOU WRONGEST MY DEAR HEART'S DESIRE
81 ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME UPON THE STRAND
82 LIKE AS THE CULVER, ON THE BARED BOUGH
WILLIAM HABINGTON
83 TO ROSES IN THE BOSOM OF CASTARA
84 NOX NOCTI INDICAT SCIENTIAM
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
85 THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE
86 HER REPLY
RICHARD ROWLANDS
87 OUR BLESSED LADY'S LULLABY
THOMAS NASHE
88 IN TIME OF PESTILENCE
89 SPRING
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
90 WINTER
91 O MISTRESS MINE
92 FANCY
93 UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
94 A LOVER AND HIS LASS
95 SILVIA
96 SPRING
97 LULLABY
98 OPHELIA'S SONG
99 WHERE THE BEE SUCKS
100 LOVE'S PERJURIES
101 TAKE, O TAKE
102 A MADRIGAL
103 AMIENS' SONG
104 DAWN SONG
105 DIRGE OF LOVE
106 FIDELE'S DIRGE
107 A SEA DIRGE
108 EIGHTEENTH SONNET
109 TWENTY-NINTH SONNET
110 THIRTIETH SONNET
111 THIRTY-FIRST SONNET
112 THIRTY-SECOND SONNET
113 THIRTY-THIRD SONNET
114 FIFTY-FOURTH SONNET
115 FIFTY-FIFTH SONNET
116 FIFTY-SEVENTH SONNET
117 SIXTIETH SONNET
118 SIXTY-FOURTH SONNET
119 SIXTY-FIFTH SONNET
120 SIXTY-SIXTH SONNET
121 SEVENTY-FIRST SONNET
122 SEVENTY-THIRD SONNET
123 EIGHTY-SEVENTH SONNET
124 NINETIETH SONNET
125 NINETY-FOURTH SONNET
126 NINETY-SEVENTH SONNET
127 NINETY-EIGHTH SONNET
128 ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH SONNET
129 ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH SONNET
130 ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH SONNET
131 ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH SONNET
132 ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH SONNET
133 ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH SONNET
134 ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTH SONNET
135 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH SONNET
136 ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIXTH SONNET
137 ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHTH SONNET
ROBERT GREENE
138 CONNENT
RICHARD BARNFIELD
139 THE NIGHTINGALE
THOMAS CAMPION
140 CHERRY-RIPE
141 FOLLOW YOUR SAINT
142 WHEN TO HER LUTE CORINNA SINGS
143 FOLLOW THY FAIR SUN
144 TURN ALL THY THOUGHTS TO EYES
145 INTEGER VITAE
ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX
146 A PASSION OF MY LORD OF ESSEX
SIR HENRY WOTTON
147 ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA
148 CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE
EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD
149 A RENUNCIATION
BEN JONSON
150 SIMPLEX MUNDITIIS
151 THE TRIUMPH
152 THE NOBLE NATURE
153 TO CELIA
154 A FAREWELL TO THE WORLD
155 A NYMPH'S PASSION
156 EPODE
157 EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH L. H.
158 ON LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD
159 AN ODE TO HIMSELF
160 HYMN TO DIANA
161 ON SALATHIEL PAVY
162 HIS SUPPOSED MISTRESS
163 TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED THE AUTHOR
JOHN DONNE
164 THE FUNERAL
165 A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER
166 VALEDICTION, FORBIDDING MOURNING
167 DEATH
168 THE DREAM
169 SONG
170 SWEETEST LOVE, I DO NOT GO
171 LOVER'S INFINITENESS
172 LOVE'S DEITY
173 STAY, O SWEET
174 THE BOLSSOM
175 THE GOOD MORROW
176 PRESENT IN ABSENCE
JOSHUA SYLVESTER
177 LOVE'S OMNIPRESENCE
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING
178 TO AURORA
RICHARD CORBET
179 FAREWELL, REWARDS AND FAIRIES
THOMAS HEYWOOD
180 PACK, CLOUDS, AWAY
THOMAS DEKKER
181 COUNTRY GLEE
182 COLD'S THE WIND
183 O SWEET CONTENT
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
184 ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY
185 MASTER FRANCIS BEAUMONT'S LETTER TO
JOHN FLETCHER
186 ASPATIA'S SONG
187 MELANCHOLY
JOHN WEBSTER
188 CALL FOR THE ROBIN-REDBREAST
ANONYMOUS
189 O WALY, WALY
190 HELEN OF KIRCONNELL
191 MY LOVE IN HER ATTIRE
192 LOVE NOT ME
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
193 SAINT JOHN BAPTIST
194 MADRIGAL
195 LIFE
196 HUMAN FOLLY
197 THE PROBLEM
198 TO HIS LUTE
199 FOR THE MAGDALENE
200 CONTENT AND RESOLUTE
201 ALEXIS, HERE SHE STAYED; AMONG THESE PINES
202 SUMMONS TO LOVE
GEORGE WITHER
203 I LOVED A LASS
204 THE LOVER'S RESOLUTION
WILLIAM BROWNE (?)
205 ON THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF PEMBROKE
ROBERT HERRICK
206 CHERRY-RIPE
207 A CHILD'S GRACE
208 THE MAD MAID'S SONG
209 TO THE VIRGINS
210 TO DIANEME
211 A SWEET DISORDER
212 WHENAS IN SILKS
213 TO ANTHEA WHO MAY COMMAND HIM ANY THING
214 TO DAFFODILS
215 TO BLOSSOMS
216 CORINNA'S MAYING
FRANCIS QUARLES
217 AN ECSTASY
GEORGE HERBERT
218 LOVE
219 VIRTUE
220 THE ELIXIR
221 THE COLLAR
222 THE FLOWER
223 EASTER SONG
224 THE PULLEY
HENRY VAUGHAN
225 BEYOND THE VEIL
226 THE RETREAT
FRANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN
227 LIFE
JAMES SHIRLEY
228 THE GLORIES OF OUR BLOOD AND STATE
229 THE LAST CONQUEROR
THOMAS CAREW
230 THE TRUE BEAUTY
231 ASK ME NO MORE
232 KNOW, CELIA
233 GIVE ME MORE LOVE
SIR JOHN SUCKLING
234 THE CONSTANT LOVER
235 WHY SO PALE AND WAN
SIR WILLIAM D' AVENANT
236 DAWN SONG
RICHARD LOVELACE
237 TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS
238 TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON
239 TO LUCASTA, GOING BEYOND THE SEAS
EDMUND WALLER
240 ON A GIRDLE
241 GO, LOVELY ROSE!
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT
242 ON THE QUEEN'S RETURN FROM THE LOW COUNTRIES
JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE
243 MY DEAR AND ONLY LOVE
RICHARD CRASHAW
244 WISHES FOR THE SUPPOSED MISTRESS
245 UPON THE BOOK AND PICTURE OF THE SERAPHICAL SAINT TERESA
THOMAS JORDAN
246 LET US DRINK AND BE MERRY
ABRAHAM COWLEY
247 A SUPPLICATION
248 CHEER UP, MY MATES
249 DRINKING
250 ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM HERVEY
ALEXANDER BROME
251 THE RESOLVE
ANDREW MARVELL
252 A GARDEN
253 THE PICTURE OF LITTLE T. C. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS
254 HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND
255 SONG OF THE EMIGRANTS IN BERMUDA
256 THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN
ANONYMOUS
257 LOVE WILL FIND OUT THE WAY
258 PHILLADA FLOUTS ME
EARL OF ROCHESTER
259 EPITAPH ON CHARLES II
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY
260 CHLORIS
261 CELIA
JOHN DRYDEN
262 ODE
263 SONG TO A FAIR YOUNG LADY, GOING OUT OF THE TOWN IN THE SPRING
264 SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY
265 ALEXANDER'S FEAST
266 ON MILTON
MATTHEW PRIOR
267 TO A CHILD OF QUALITY
268 CLOE
269 THE DYING ADRIAN TO HIS SOUL
270 EPIGRAM
ISAAC WATTS
271 TRUE GREATNESS
LADY GRISEL BAILLIE
272 WERENA MY HEART LICHT I WAD DEE
JOSEPH ADDISON
273 HYMN
ALLAN RAMSAY
274 PEGGY
JOHN GAY
275 LOVE IN HER EYES SITS PLAYING
276 BLACK-EYED SUSAN
HENRY CAREY
277 SALLY IN OUR ALLEY
ALEXANDER POPE
278 SOLITUDE
279 ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT
280 AN ESSAY ON MAN
AMBROSE PHILIPS
281 TO CHARLOTTE PULTENEY
COLLEY CIBBER
282 THE BLIND BOY
JAMES THOMSON
283 RULE, BRITANNIA
284 TO FORTUNE
THOMAS GRAY
285 ELEGY
286 ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE
287 HYMN TO ADVERSITY
288 ODE ON THE SPRING
289 THE PROGRESS OF POESY
290 THE BARD
291 ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE
292 ON A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES
GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON, LORD MELCOMBE
293 SHORTEN SAIL