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been disastrous。  I would be bound to find the modern stanzas in an
old song by this very habit of anapaests and this very
misunderstanding of the long words and interlinear pauses of the
older stanzas。  This; for instance; is the old metre:


〃Hame; hame; hame!  O hame fain wad I be!〃


and this the lamentable anapaestic line (from the same song):


〃Yet the sun through the mirk seems to promise to me …。〃


It has been difficult to refuse myself the delight of including A
Divine Love of Carew; but it seemed too bold to leave out four
stanzas of a poem of seven; and the last four are of the poorest
argument。  This passage at least shall speak for the first three:


〃Thou didst appear
A glorious mystery; so dark; so clear;
As Nature did intend
All should confess; but none might comprehend。〃


From Christ's Victory in Heaven of Giles Fletcher (out of reach for
its length) it is a happiness to extract here at least the passage
upon 〃Justice;〃 who looks 〃as the eagle


〃that hath so oft compared
Her eye with heaven's〃;


from Marlowe's poem; also unmanageable; that in which Love ran to
the priestess


〃And laid his childish head upon her breast〃;


with that which tells how Night;


〃deep…drenched in misty Acheron;
Heaved up her head; and half the world upon
Breathed darkness forth〃;


from Robert Greene two lines of a lovely passage:


〃Cupid abroad was lated in the night;
His wings were wet with ranging in the rain〃;


from Ben Jonson's Hue and Cry (not throughout fine) the stanza:


〃Beauties; have ye seen a toy;
Called Love; a little boy;
Almost naked; wanton; blind;
Cruel now; and then as kind?
If he be amongst ye; say;
He is Venus' run…away〃;


from Francis Davison:


〃Her angry eyes are great with tears〃;


from George Wither:


〃I can go rest
On her sweet breast
That is the pride of Cynthia's train〃;


from Cowley:


〃Return; return; gay planet of mine east〃!


The poems in which these are cannot make part of the volume; but
the citation of the fragments is a relieving act of love。

At the very beginning; Skelton's song to 〃Mistress Margery
Wentworth〃 had almost taken a place; but its charm is hardly fine
enough。

If it is necessary to answer the inevitable question in regard to
Byron; let me say that in another Anthology; a secondary Anthology;
the one in which Gray's Elegy would have an honourable place; some
more of Byron's lyrics would certainly be found; and except this
there is no apology。  If the last stanza of the 〃Dying Gladiator〃
passage; or the last stanza on the cascade rainbow at Terni;


〃Love watching madness with unalterable mien;〃


had been separate poems instead of parts of Childe Harold; they
would have been amongst the poems that are here collected in no
spirit of arrogance; or of caprice; of diffidence or doubt。

The volume closes some time before the middle of the century and
the death of Wordsworth。



A。 M。







Anonymous。
    The first carol
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552…1618)
    Verses before death
Edmund Spenser (1553…1599)
    Easter
    Fresh spring
    Like as a ship
    Epithalamion
John Lyly (1554?…1606)
    The Spring
Sir Philip Sidney (1554…1586)
    True love
    The moon
    Kiss
    Sweet judge
    Sleep
    Wat'red was my wine
Thomas Lodge (1556…1625)
    Rosalynd's madrigal
    Rosaline
    The solitary shepherd's song
Anonymous
    I saw my lady weep
George Peele (1558?…1597)
    Farewell to arms
Robert Greene (1560?…1592)
    Fawnia
    Sephestia's song to her child
Christopher Marlowe (1562…1593)
    The passionate shepherd to his love
Samuel Daniel (1562…1619)
    Sleep
    My spotless love
Michael Drayton (1563…1631)
    Since there's no help
Joshua Sylvester (1563…1618)
    Were I as base
William Shakespeare (1564…1616)
    Poor soul; the centre of my sinful earth
    O me!  What eyes hath love put in my head
    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
    When in the chronicle of wasted time
    That time of year thou may'st in me behold
    How like a winter hath my absence been
    Being your slave; what should I do but tend
    When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
    They that have power to hurt; and will do
    Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
    When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
    Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye
    The forward violet thus did I chide
    O lest the world should task you to recite
    Let me not to the marriage of true minds
    How oft; when thou; my music; music play'st
    Full many a glorious morning have I seen
    The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
    Fancy
    Fairies
    Come away
    Full fathom five
    Dirge (Fear no more the heat o' the sun)
    Song (Take; O take those lips away)
    Song (How should I your true love know)
Anonymous
    Tom o' Bedlam
Thomas Campion (circa 1567…1620)
    Kind are her answers
    Laura
    Her sacred bower
    Follow
    When thou must home
    Western wind
    Follow your saint
    Cherry…ripe
Thomas Nash (1567…1601?)
    Spring
John Donne (1573…1631)
    This happy dream
    Death
    Hymn to God the father
    The funeral
Richard Barnefield (1574?…?)
    The nightingale
Ben Jonson (1574…1637)
    Charis' triumph
    Jealousy
    Epitaph on Elizabeth L。 H。
    Hymn to Diana
    On my first daughter
    Echo's lament for Narcissus
    An epitaph on Salathiel Pavy; a child of Queen Elizabeth's
Chapel
John Fletcher (1579…1625)
    Invocation to sleep; from Valentinian
    To Bacchus
John Webster (…?1625)
    Song from the Duchess of Malfi
    Song from the Devil's Law…case
    In Earth; dirge from Vittoria Corombona
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585…1649)
    Song (Phoebus; arise!)
    Sleep; Silence' child
    To the nightingale
    Madrigal I
    Madrigal II
Beaumont and Fletcher (1586…1616)…(1579…1625)
    I died true
Francis Beaumont (1586…1616)
    On the tombs in Westminster Abbey
Sir Francis Kynaston (1587…1642)
    To Cynthia; on concealment of her beauty
Nathaniel Field (1587…1638)
    Matin song
George Wither (1588…1667)
    Sleep; baby; sleep!
Thomas Carew (1589…1639)
    Song (Ask me no more where Jove bestows)
    To my inconstant mistress
    An hymeneal dialogue
    Ingrateful beauty threatened
Thomas Dekker (…1638?)
    Lullaby
    Sweet content
Thomas Heywood (…1649?)
    Good…morrow
Robert Herrick (1591…1674?)
    To Dianeme
    To meadows
    To blossoms
    To daffodils
    To violets
    To primroses
    To daisies; not to shut so soon
    To the virgins; to make much of time
    Dress
    In silks
    Corinna's going a…maying
    Grace for a child
    Ben Jonson
George Herbert (1593…1632)
    Holy baptism
    Virtue
    Unkindness
    Love
    The pulley
    The collar
    Life
    Misery
James Shirley (1596…1666)
    Equality
Anonymous (circa 1603)
    Lullaby (Weep you no more; sad fountains)
Sir William Davenant (1605…1668)
    Morning
Edmund Waller (1605…1687)
    The rose
Thomas Randolph (1606…1634?)
    His mistress
Charles Best (…?)
    A sonnet of the moon
John Milton (1608…1674)
    Hymn on Christ's nativity
    L'allegro
    Il penseroso
    Lycidas
    On his blindness
    On his deceased wife
    On Shakespeare
    Song on May morning
    Invocation to Sabrina; from Comus
    Invocation to Echo; from Comus
    The attendant spirit; from Comus
James Graham; Marquis of Montrose (1612…1650)
    The vigil of death
Richard Crashaw (1615?…1652)
    On a prayer…book sent to Mrs。 M。 R。
    To the morning
    Love's horoscope
    On Mr。 G。 Herbert's book
    Wishes to his supposed mistress
    Quem Vidistis Pastores etc。
    Music's duel
    The flaming heart
Abraham Cowley (1618…1667)
    On the death of Mr。 Crashaw
    Hymn to the light
Richard Lovelace (1618…1658)
    To Lucasta on going to the wars
    To Amarantha
    Lucasta
    To Althea; from prison
    A guiltless lady imprisoned:  after penanced
    The rose
Andrew Marvell (1620…1678)
    A Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland
    The picture of T。 C。 in a prospect of flowers
    The nymph complaining of death of her fawn
    The definition of love
    The garden
Henry Vaughan (1621…1695)
    The dawning
    Childhood
    Corruption
    The night
    The eclipse
    The retreat
    The world of light
Scottish Ballads
    Helen of Kirconnell
    The wife of Usher's well
    The dowie dens of Yarrow
    Sweet William and May Margaret
    Sir Patrick Spens
    Hame; hame; hame
Border Ballad
    A lyke…wake dirge
John Dryden (1631…1700)
    Ode (Thou youngest virgin…daughter of the skies)
Aphre Behn (1640…1689)
    Song; from Abdelazar
Joseph Addison (1672…1719)
    Hymn (The spacious firmament on high)
Alexander Pope (1688…1744)
    Elegy
William Cowper (1731…1800)
    Lines on receiving his mother's picture
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743…1825)
    Life
William Blake (1757…1828)
    The land of dreams
    The piper
    Holy Thursday
    The tiger
    To the muses
    Love's secret
Robert Burns (1759…1796)
    To a mouse
 

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