The Description of Castara

To Castara, in a Trance

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To Castara, upon the Death of a Lady

Against them who lay Unchastity to the Sex of Women

To Castara. Or True Delight.

Nox Nocti indicat scientiam

RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)

Going to the Wars

The Rose.

To Althea from Prison

The Grasshopper

To Luca ta

From the Paraphrase upon Luke I.

GEORGE HERBERT (1592-1634)

The Collar

Aaron

The Quip

Misery

Love.

RICHARD CRASHAW (1615?-1650)

Wishes. To his supposed Mistress

The Flaming Heart

Description of a Religious House

LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY (1581-1648).

7. Churton Collins

An Ode upon a question moved whether Love should Continue for

Ever

Upon Combing her Hair

SANDYS, HERBERT, CRASHAW, VAUGHAN,

GEORGE SANDYS (1577-1643)

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JAMES SHIRLEY (1596-1667)

A Lullaby (from The Triumph of Beauty, a Masque)

The Garden (from Poems)

The Might of Death (from Cupid and Death, a Masque)

A Dirge (from The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses)

THOMAS RANDOLPH (1605-1634-5)

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Extract from Poetical Blossomes:
A Wish

Extracts from The Miscellanies:
Ode of Wit

Extracts from Anacreontiques:

Drinking

The Swallow

Extracts from The Mistress:

The Spring

The Wish.

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT (1615?-1643)

On His Majesty's Recovery from the Small-pox

A New Year's Gift to Brian Lord Bishop of Sarum

To a virtuous young Gentlewoman that died suddenly

ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667)

On the Death of Mr. William Hervey

The Chronicle. A Ballad .

On the Death of Mr. Crashaw

Extracts from Pindarique Odes:

To Mr. Hobbes.

Brutus

Extracts from Verses written on Several Occasions:

Stanzas from The Hymn to Light

Extract from The Ode to the Royal Society

Extract from Discourses by way of Essays:

On Solitude

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EDMUND WALLER (1605-1687)

On a Girdle

Song

Extract from His Majesty's Escape at St. Andrew's .

To One who wrote against a fair Lady

The Bud

SIR JOHN DENHAM (1615-1668)

Praise of the Thames

Against Love

The Marriage of the Dwarfs

Extract from The Battle of the Summer's Islands

View of London from Cooper's Hill

Extracts from Paradise Lost:

Book I

Book IV

Book X

Extracts from Paradise Regained:

Book I

Book III

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Extract from Samson Agonistes

ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)

The Garden

A Drop of Dew

Extract from Comus.

Lycidas

Sonnets: On his being arrived at the age of Twenty-three

On his Blindness

On the late Massacre in Piedmont

To the Lord General Cromwell

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SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605-1668).

Extract from Gondibert

Song

On the Captivity of the Countess of Anglesey

JOHN MILTON (1608 1674)

Mark Pattison 293

An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, William Shakespeare

L'Allegro

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Il Penseroso

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A Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
On Milton's Paradise Lost

An Apology for Plagiaries.

Upon the Weakness and Misery of Man

Distichs and Saws (from Hudibras and Miscellanies)

SIR CHARLES SEDLEY (1639-1701)

Song: Love still has something of the Sea'

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Song (from The Mulberry Garden) Ah! Chloris'

Song Phillis is my only Joy'

THOMAS OTWAY (1651-1685)

Extract from The Poet's Complaint of his Muse

JOHN OLDHAM (1653-1683)

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The Jesuits (from the Second Satire upon them)

The Domestic Chaplain (from A Satire addressed to a Friend).

JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)

Verses to her Royal Highness the Duchess [of York]

Extracts from Annus Mirabilis :

The Malcontents. Zimri

Doeg and Og

Shadwell (from Mac Flecknoe).

Tradition (from Religio Laici).

Extracts from The Hind and the Panther:

The Sects. Private Judgment

The Unity of the Catholic Church

The Buzzard

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Prologue to Aureng-Zebe, or the Great Mogul.

To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew.

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day

Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music

Lines printed under the Portrait of Milton

To my Friend, Mr. Congreve

Palamon and Arcite .

To my Honoured Kinsman, John Dryden

Veni Creator Spiritus

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