TABLE OF CONTENTS AND INDEX

OF AUTHORS

INTRODUCTION,

ANONYMOUS LYRICS, 1588-1603—

The Quiet Life,

Love's Perfections,

Sweet Lamenting,

The Test,

The Shepherd's Praise of his Sacred Diana,

The Shepherd to the Flowers,

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Revels,

Fain I would,

The Bellman's Song,

Two in One,

A-Maying,

The Hunt is Up,

(M 349)

Ode: Behold, out walking in these valleys,

Sonnet: Ah, Sweet Content,

Song: Ask me no more where Jove bestows,

Disdain Returned,

The Primrose,

Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers,

GEORGE CHAPMAN-

Her Coming,

Of Circumspection,

CHARLES COTTON-

Ode: Laura Sleeping,

ABRAHAM COWLEY-

Ode: On Solitude,

RICHARD CRASHAW-

Wishes: To his Supposed Mistress,

The Flaming Heart,

Two went up into the Temple to Pray,

SAMUEL DANIEL-

Sonnet to Delia: Beauty, sweet Love,

Sonnet: Care-charmer Sleep,

Song: Are they shadows that we see?

Love's Birth and Becoming,

ROBERT DAVENPORT-

A Requiem,

SIR JOHN DAVIES—

To the Rose, -

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The Gifts of Fortune and Cupid,

ROBERT DEVEREUX: see Essex, Earl of.

JOHN DICKENSON—

Ode: Absence, hear thou my protestation,

Song: Sweetest Love, I do not go,

The Undertaking,

The Blossom, -

Sonnet: Death, be not proud,

Hymn to God the Father,

MICHAEL DRAYTON-

Sonnet: To the Lady L. S.,

Sonnet: To the River Ankor, -

Sonnet: Since there's no help, come,

To the Cambro-Britons and their Harp: his Ballad

WILLIAM DRummond of HAWTHORNDEN-

Sonnet: To the Nightingale,

Sonnet: To Sir W. Alexander,

Madrigal: This Life, which seems so fair,

Song: Phoebus, arise!

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Madrigal: Sweet Rose, whence is this hue,

JOHN DRYDEN—

Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music,

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day,

Song: Ah, Fading Joy! -

Incantation from Edipus,

Song from King Arthur,

SIR EDWARD Dyer-

My mind to me a Kingdom is,

EARL OF ESSEX-

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"A Passion of my Lord of Essex",

JOHN FLETCHER, or BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER-

Penthea's Dying Song,

GEORGE GASCOIGNE-

The Lullaby of a Lover, -

JAMES GRAHAM: see Montrose, Marquis of.

ROBERT GREENE-

Sephestia's Song to her Child,

Fawnia, -

Philomela's Ode,

WILLIAM HABINGTON-

To Castara: The Reward of Innocent Love,

To the Moment Last Past,

Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam,

Cogitabo pro Peccato Meo,

LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY-

Love's Eternity,

GEORGE HERBERT—