The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900
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- Preface
- ROBERT MANNYNG OF BRUNNE
- JOHN BARBOUR
- GEOFFREY CHAUCER
- THOMAS HOCCLEVE
- ROBERT HENRYSON
- Preface
- I THAT in heill was and gladnèss
- I SING of a maiden
- I AM true love that false was never;
- I WOO her with hem wherever she go.
- Preface
- I WOULD be loth to see her pine.
- M ERRY Margaret
- STEPHEN HAWES
- SIR THOMAS WYATT
- HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY
- Preface
- C RABBÈD Age and Youth
- Preface
- L OVE wing’d my Hopes and taught me how to fly
- NICHOLAS BRETON
- SIR WALTER RALEIGH
- EDMUND SPENSER
- Preface
- C UPID and my Campaspe play’d
- ANTHONY MUNDAY
- SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
- Preface
- L OVE in my bosom like a bee
- L OVE guards the roses of thy lips
- L IKE to the clear in highest sphere
- GEORGE PEELE
- ROBERT GREENE
- ALEXANDER HUME
- GEORGE CHAPMAN
- ROBERT SOUTHWELL
- HENRY CONSTABLE
- SAMUEL DANIEL
- Preface
- L ET others sing of Knights and Paladines
- MARK ALEXANDER BOYD
- JOSHUA SYLVESTER
- MICHAEL DRAYTON
- D OWN the French host did ding
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
- Preface
- L ET the bird of loudest lay
- L ET me not to the marriage of true minds
- Preface
- I LOVED thee once; I’ll love no more—
- BEN JONSON
- Preface
- L AY a garland on my herse
- JOHN WEBSTER
- WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING
- Preface
- L OVE is the blossom where there blows
- FRANCIS BEAUMONT
- GEORGE WITHER
- WILLIAM BROWNE, OF TAVISTOCK
- ROBERT HERRICK
- Preface
- FRANCIS QUARLES
- HENRY KING, BISHOP OF CHICHESTER
- Preface
- JAMES SHIRLEY
- THOMAS CAREW
- WILLIAM HABINGTON
- THOMAS RANDOLPH
- EDMUND WALLER
- JOHN MILTON
- At a Solemn Musick
- Preface
- M ETHOUGHT I saw my late espousèd Saint
- SIR JOHN SUCKLING
- SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE
- WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT
- JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE
- THOMAS JORDAN
- RICHARD CRASHAW
- Preface
- RICHARD LOVELACE
- ABRAHAM COWLEY
- ALEXANDER BROME
- ANDREW MARVELL
- Preface
- HENRY VAUGHAN
- JOHN BUNYAN
- BALLADS AND SONGS BY UNKNOWN AUTHORS
- Preface
- C LERK Saunders and may Margaret
- Preface
- WILLIAM STRODE
- Preface
- L OVE in fantastic triumph sate
- JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER
- Preface
- JOHN SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
- JOHN OLDHAM
- MATTHEW PRIOR
- LADY GRISEL BAILLIE
- WILLIAM CONGREVE
- ISAAC WATTS
- THOMAS PARNELL
- WILLIAM OLDYS
- I KNOW a thing that’s most uncommon;
- V ITAL spark of heav’nly flame!
- GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON, LORD MELCOMBE
- HENRY CAREY
- WILLIAM BROOME
- JAMES THOMSON
- GEORGE LYTTELTON, LORD LYTTELTON
- SAMUEL JOHNSON
- THOMAS GRAY
- Preface
- WILLIAM COLLINS
- MARK AKENSIDE
- CHRISTOPHER SMART
- JANE ELLIOT
- OLIVER GOLDSMITH
- ROBERT CUNNINGHAME-GRAHAM OF GARTMORE
- WILLIAM COWPER
- ISOBEL PAGAN
- Preface
- JOHN LOGAN
- LADY ANNE LINDSAY
- THOMAS CHATTERTON
- WILLIAM BLAKE
- ROBERT BURNS
- Preface
- HENRY ROWE
- WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES
- JOANNA BAILLIE
- CAROLINA, LADY NAIRNE
- JAMES HOGG
- Preface
- M ILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
- I WANDER’d lonely as a cloud
- Preface
- L OOK not thou on beauty’s charming;
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
- Part V
- Part VI
- Part VII
- Preface
- I SAW where in the shroud did lurk
- THOMAS CAMPBELL
- THOMAS MOORE
- EDWARD THURLOW, LORD THURLOW
- Preface
- ALLAN CUNNINGHAM
- THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
- CAROLINE SOUTHEY
- GEORGE GORDON BYRON, LORD BYRON
- SIR AUBREY DE VERE
- CHARLES WOLFE
- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
- Preface
- I ARISE from dreams of thee
- AN IMITATION
- HEW AINSLIE
- JOHN KEBLE
- JOHN CLARE
- JOHN KEATS
- Preface
- M OTHER of Her mes! and still youthful Maia!
- FROM THE IRISH
- GEORGE DARLEY
- I SENT a ring—a little band
- Preface
- I SAW old Autumn in the misty morn
- WILLIAM THOM
- WILLIAM BARNES
- WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED
- SARA COLERIDGE
- GERALD GRIFFIN
- Preface
- THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
- RICHARD HENRY HORNE
- ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER
- THOMAS WADE
- FRANCIS MAHONY
- ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
- Preface
- I DO not love thee!—no! I do not love thee!
- EDGAR ALLAN POE
- EDWARD FITZGERALD
- Preface
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
- D EEP on the convent-roof the snows
- I HEAR the noise about thy keel;
- Preface
- RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, LORD HOUGHTON
- HENRY ALFORD
- SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON
- FROM THE IRISH
- FROM THE IRISH
- ROBERT BROWNING
- Preface
- WILLIAM BELL SCOTT
- AUBREY DE VERE
- FROM THE IRISH OF THOMAS LAVELLE
- CHARLES KINGSLEY
- ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
- WALT WHITMAN
- EBENEZER JONES
- FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON
- MATTHEW ARNOLD
- Preface
- WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS
- WILLIAM PHILPOT
- COVENTRY PATMORE
- Preface
- SYDNEY DOBELL
- GEORGE MAC DONALD
- DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
- GEORGE MEREDITH
- Preface
- I TOOK my heart in my hand
- D OES the road wind uphill all the way?
- THOMAS EDWARD BROWN
- EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON, EARL OF LYTTON
- Preface
- I KNOW a little garden-close
- THOMAS ASHE
- THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON
- ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
- I AM that which began;
- Preface
- I LONG have had a quarrel set with Time
- HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON
- HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL
- ROBERT BRIDGES
- Preface
- I WILL make you brooches and toys for your delight
- WILLIAM WATSON
- HENRY CHARLES BEECHING
- FROM THE IRISH
- Preface
- L OUD mockers in the roaring street
- LAURENCE BINYON
- FRANCIS THOMPSON
- HENRY CUST
- KATHARINE TYNAN HINKSON
- I CAME into the City and none knew me;
- ALICE MEYNELL
- DORA SIGERSON
- Preface
- INDEX OF AUTHORS
- INDEX OF FIRST LINES