Record details

• ISBN: 0155802356
• ISBN: 9780155802353
• Physical Description: 1094 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Edition: 2d ed.
• Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1963]

Content descriptions

General Note:

First ed., 1929, edited by R.P.T. Coffin and A.M. Witherspoon, has title: A book of seventeenth-century prose.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prose. from Fantastics : serving for a perpetual prognostication. January ; February ; March ; April ; May ; June ; July ; August ; September ; October ; November ; December / Nicholas Breton -- from The history of the world / Sir Walter Ralegh -- from XCVI sermons. A sermon preached before the king's majesty, at Whitehall, on Wednesday, the twenty-fifth of December, A.D. MDCXXII. being Christmas-day / Lancelot Andrewes -- from Essays or counsels, civil and moral. Of truth ; Of death ; Of parents and children ; Of marriage and single life ; Of love ; Of great place ; Of travel ; Of friendship ; Of youth and age ; Of studies / Francis Bacon -- from The advancement of learning. The errors and vanities of learning / Francis Bacon -- from Novum organum. Idols and false notions / Francis Bacon.

Prose. from Devotions upon emergent occasions. Meditation I, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, XII, XIII, XIV, XVI, XVII, XXI / John Donne -- Sermon XV, folio of 1640 ; Sermon XXIII, folio of 1640 ; Sermon LXXII, folio of 1640 / John Donne -- Selections from other sermons. Decay of the world ; Wretched man ; Sin ; Death ; Damnation ; The resurrection of the body ; At the bier of a king ; To the honorable company of the Virginian plantation, 1622 ; Guy Fawkes Day ; The divided mind ; The world a musical instrument ; The lamp of Christ extinguished by reason ; The need of faith ; The folly of the atheist ; Sanctified passions ; The upright man ; The unfading flower ; The paradox of Christ ; The image of God ; God in all things ; The books of God ; The sight of God / John Donne -- from Cynthia's revels. Crites / Ben Jonson -- from Timber : or discoveries made upon men and matter. Censura de poetis ; De Shakespeare nostrati ; Ingeniorum discrimina ; Stili eminentia ; Scriptorum catalogus ; De malignitate studentium ; Poesis et pictura ; De pictura ; De stilo ; De progressione picturæ ; De stilo et optimo scribendi genere ; Præcipiendi modi ; Præcepta elementaria ; De orationis dignitate ; Oratio imago animi ; De poetica ; What is a poet? / Ben Jonson -- from Ben Jonson's conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden / Ben Jonson.

Prose. from The anatomy of melancholy. The author's abstract of melancholy ; Democritus Junior to the reader ; The utopia of Democritus Junior ; Love of learning, or overmuch study. with a digression of the misery of scholars, and why the muses are melancholy ; Air rectified. with a digression of the air ; Charity composed of all three kinds, pleasant, profitable, honest ; How love tyrannizeth over men. love, or heroical melancholy, his definition, part affected / Robert Burton -- from Sir Thomas Overbury his wife-- new news and divers more characters. A good woman ; A courtier ; An amorist ; An affectate traveler ; An old man ; a fine gentleman ; A braggadochio Welshman ; A pedant ; A good wife ; A Puritan ; A tinker ; A chambermaid ; A worthy commander in the wars ; A fair and happy milkmaid ; A Jesuit ; An excellent actor ; A franklin ; What a character is / Sir Thomas Overbury -- from Leviathan, or, The matter, form, and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiastical and civil. The introduction ; from Chapter IV : of speech (the importance of definitions) ; from Chapter XIII : of the natural condition of mankind, as concerning their felicity and misery ; Chapter XVII : of the causes, generation, and definition of a commonwealth / Thomas Hobbes -- The answer to Davenant's preface before Gondibert / Thomas Hobbes -- from A priest of the temple. The parson's life ; The parson in his house ; The parson's completeness ; The parson in mirth / George Herbert.

Prose. The complete angler. The epistle to the reader ; Chapter I : a conference betwixt an angler, a falconer, and a hunter, each commending his recreation ; Chapter II : obeservations of the otter and the chub ; Chapter III : How to fish for and to dress the chavender or chub ; Chapter IV : on the nature and breeding of the trout, and how to fish for him, and the milkmaid's song ; Chapter V : more directions how to fish for and how to make for the trout an artificial minnow and fly, and some merriment / Izaak Walton -- Life of Dr. John Donne ; from The life of Mr. George Herbert / Izaak Walton -- from Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ : familiar letters, domestic and foreign. To Sir J.S., at Leeds Castle ; To Captain Francis Bacon, from Paris ; To Dr. Francis Mansell, from Valencia ; To the honorable Sir Robert Mansell, vice-admiral of England; from Venice ; To Mr. Richard Altham at Gray's Inn; from Venice ; To Sir J.H., from Lyons ; To my father ; To the honorable Sir Thomas Savage, knight and baronet ; To Captain Thomas Porter ; To my noble friend, Sir John North, knight ; To my father, from London ; To Dr. Pritchard ; To my brother, Master Hugh Penry ; To Sir J.S., knight ; To my father, Mr. Ben Johnson ; To my noble lady, the Lady Cor ; To Dr. Duppa, L.B., of Chichester, His Highness' tutor at St. James ; To Sir Thomas Hawk, knight ; To my honorable friend, Sir C.C. ; To Mr. T.V., at Brussels ; To Henry Hopkins, esq. ; To Sir William Boswell, at the Hague ; To Sir James Crofts, knight, at his house near Lemster / James Howell -- from Microcosmography, or, A piece of the world discovered in essays and characters. A child ; A young raw preacher ; A mere alderman ; An antiquary ; A tavern ; A young man ; An upstart knight ; A gallant ; A constable ; A downright scholar ; A plain country fellow ; A player ; A young gentleman of the university ; A pot-poet ; A contemplative man ; A vulgar-spirited man ; A plodding student ; Paul's walk ; A pretender to learning ; A blunt man / John Earle.

Prose. from The history of the worthies of England, endeavored by Thomas Fuller, D.D. Berkshire. (William Laud, Alfred the Great) ; Bedfordshire. Henry de Essex ; Cheshire. ( Captain John Smith, John Dod) ; Cornwall. King Arthur ; London. Edmund Spenser ; Westminster. Benjamin Jonson ; Warwickshire. William Shakespeare / Thomas Fuller.

Prose. Of education ; Areopagitica : a speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed pringing, to the parliament of England / John Milton -- from The history of the rebellion. University plate for the king ; Death and character of Hampden ; Character and death of Lord Falkland ; The first battle of Newbury ; The Battle of Naseby ; Character of Charles I ; The Spanish toros ; The end of Montrose ; The battle of Dunbar ; Defeat of Van Tromp ; Blake's last victory and death ; Death and character of Cromwell / Edward Hyde -- Letters of Sir John Suckling. To a cousin who still loved young girls-- ; To Aglaura ; A dissuasion from love ; A letter from the border ; A cavalier looks at Holland ; The wine-drinkers to the water-drinkers, greeting ; To T[homas] C[arew] ; A letter to a friend to dissuade him from marrying a widow-- ; An answer to the letter ; A letter from Germany ; A sermon on malt / Sir John Suckling -- from The rule and exercises of holy dying : chapter I. Section I : consideration of the vanity and shortness of man's life ; Section II : the consideration reduced to practice ; Section III : rules and spiritual arts of lengthening our days, and to take off the objection of a short life ; Section IV : consideration of the miseries of man's life ; Section V : this consideration reduced to practice / Jeremy Taylor -- A proposition for the advancement of experimental philosophy. Dedication ; The preface ; The college ; Of the professors, scholars, chaplain, and other officers ; The school ; Conclusion / Abraham Cowley -- from Several discourses by way of essays, in verse and prose. Of liberty ; Of solitude ; Of obscurity ; Of greatness ; The dangers of an honest man in much company ; Of myself / Abraham Cowley.

Prose. from The diary of John Evelyn / John Evelyn -- from Brief lives. Sir John Popham ; Sir Walter Ralegh ; Francis Bacon ; Ralph Kettel ; William Harvey ; Thomas Hobbes ; George Herbert ; Cecil Calvert ; John Milton ; Sir John Suckling ; William Penn / John Aubrey -- from The pilgrim's progress. Christian escapes from the city of destruction ; Simple, Sloth, and Presumption; Formalist and Hypocrisy ; The Hill Difficulty and the Palace Beautiful ; Christian and Apollyon ; The Valley of the Shadow of Death ; Christian meets Faithful ; Christian and Faithful at Vanity Fair ; Christian, Hopeful, and By-Ends ; By-Path, Meadow, Doubting Castle, and Giant Despair ; The Delectable Mountains ; Beulah Land and the arrival at the Celestial City ; Great-Heart and his companions ; The land of Beulah / John Bunyan -- from Grace abounding to the chief of sinners. First steps in the Pilgrimage of Grace / John Bunyan -- Of poetry ; Of health and long life / Sir William Temple -- An essay of dramatic poesy ; A defense of an essay of dramatic poesy ; Of heroic plays ; Antony and Cleopatra and the art of tragedy ; from A discourse concerning the original and progress of satire ; Preface to the Fables / John Dryden.

Prose. from Athenæ Oxoniensis. Edward Kelley ; Nathaniel Pownoll ; Walter Ralegh ; Robert Burton ; Jeremy Taylor / Anthony À Wood -- from The diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys -- The character of a trimmer. The preface ; The trimmer's opinion of the laws and government ; The trimmer's opinion concerning the Protestant religion ; The trimmer's opinion concerning the Papists ; The trimmer's opinion in relation to things abroad ; Conclusion / George Saville -- from Centuries of meditations. The first century ; The second century ; The third century ; The fourth century ; the fifth century / Thomas Traherne.

Poetry. from Poems. To the Virginian voyage ; To the Cambro-Britons and their harp, his ballad of Agincourt / Michael Drayton -- Nymphidia, the court of fairy ; from Idea : I, VI, VIII, IX, XXXVII, LXI / Michael Drayton -- from Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. The character of a happy life ; Upon the death of Sir Albert Morton's wife ; On his mistress, the queen of Bohemia / Sir Henry Wotton.

Poetry. from Poems. The good-morrow ; Song : Go and catch a falling star ; Woman's constancy ; The undertaking ; The sun rising ; The indifferent ; the canonization ; The triple fool ; Lover's infiniteness ; Song : Sweetest love, I do not go ; The legacy ; A fever ; Air and angels ; The anniversary ; Twickenham Garden ; The dream ; Love's growth ; A valediction of weeping ; Love's alchemy ; The flea ; The message ; A nocturnal upon Saint Lucy's Day, being the shortest day ; The bait ; The apparition ; The broken heart ; A valediction forbidding mourning ; The ecstasy ; Love's deity ; The funeral ; The relique ; Farewell to love ; The computation ; A lecture upon the shadow ; Elegy I : Jealousy ; Elegy III : Change ; Elegy VII ; Elegy IX : The autumnal ; Elegy XVI : On his mistress ; Elegy XIX : To his mistress going to bed ; Satire III : of religion ; The calm ; Holy sonnets : 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18 ; Goodfriday, 1613, riding westward ; A hymn to Christ, at the author's last going into Germany ; Hymn to God, my God, in my sickness ; A hymn to God the Father / John Donne.

Poetry. from The works of Benjamin Jonson (1616). To William Camden ; On my first daughter ; To John Donne ; On my first son ; On Lucy, Countess of Bedford ; An epitaph on S.P., a child of Queen Elizabeth's chapel ; Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. ; To Penshurst ; Song, That women are but men's shadows ; Song, To Celia / Ben Jonson -- from The works of Benjamin Jonson (1640-41). A hymn on the Nativity of my Saviour ; A celebration of Charis in ten lyric pieces : 1, 4 ; A song : O do not wanton with those eyes ; An elegy : Though beauty be the mark of praise ; An ode to himself ; A fit rhyme against rhymn ; from A pindaric ode. to the immortal memory and friendship of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison / Ben Jonson -- from Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies. To the memory of my beloved the author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us / Ben Jonson -- Songs from the plays and masques. Slow, slow, fresh fount ; Queen and huntress, chaste and fair ; If I freely may discover ; This is Mab, the mistress-fairy ; Fools ; Come, my Celia, let us prove ; Still to be neat ; Here she was wont to go ; Though I am young, and cannot tell ; Thus, thus begin the yearly rites ; The faery beam upon you ; To the old, long life and treasure ; It was a beauty that I saw / Ben Jonson -- Poems from the plays. Song : Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes ; Aspatia's song ; Sleep / John Fletcher -- Poems from the plays. A dirge ; Death-song ; The madman's song / John Webster -- from Certain elegant poems. A proper new ballad, intituled The fairies' farewell, or God a mercy will / Richard Corbet -- from The Apollyonists. Canto I / Phineas Fletcher.

Poetry. from Occasional verses. Ditty : Deep sighs, records of my unpitied grief ; Upon combing her hair ; Ditty in imitation of the Spanish Entre tanto que l'Avril ; Elegy over a tomb ; To her hair ; Sonnet of Black Beauty ; Another sonnet, to Black itself ; An ode upon a question moved, whether love should continue forever / Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- from Poems by William Drummond of Hawthornden. The first part. Sonnet 7 : That learnèd Grecian, who did so excell ; Sonnet 9 : Sleep, Silence' child, sweet father of soft rest ; Song 2 : Phœbus, arise / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- from Poems by William Drummond of Hawthornden. The second part. Madrigal I : This life which seems so fair ; Sonnet 8 : My lute, be as thou wast when thou didst grow / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- from Poems by William Drummond of Hawthornden. Urania, or spiritual poems. Sonnet 2 : Too long I followed have my fond desire ; Madrigal 2 : Love which is here a care ; Sonnet 7 : Thrice happy he who by some shady grove / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- from Flowers of Sion. Sonnet 3 : Look how the flower which ling'ringly doth fade ; Sonnet 11 : The last and greatest hearald of heaven's King ; Madrigal 4 : This world a hunting is ; Sonnet 23 : Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours ; Sonnet 25 : More oft than once death whispered in mine ear / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- from Christ's triumph after death. Canto IV / Giles Fletcher -- from Fair virtue, the mistress of Philarete. Sonnet 4 : Shall I, wasting in despair ; Sonnet 5 : I wandered out a while agone ; A Christmas carol ; A sonnet upon a stolen kiss / George Wither -- from A collection of emblems. The marigold / George Wither -- Selected poems. On the death of Marie, Countess of Pembroke ; Song of the sirens ; Down in a valley ; Song : For her gait if she be walking / William Browne of Tavistock.

Poetry. from Hesperides. The argument of his book ; When he would have his verses read ; His answer to a question ; Upon the loss of his mistresses ; To Robin Redbreast ; Discontents in Devon ; Cherry-ripe ; His request to Julia ; The cheat of Cupid : or, The ungentle guest ; Delight in disorder ; Dean-bourn, a rude river in Devon, by which sometimes he lived ; To Dianeme (2) ; Corinna's going a-Maying ; To live merrily, and to trust to good verses ; To the virgins, to make much of time ; His poetry his pillar ; Lyric of legacies ; To music, to becalm his fever ; To the rose ; The hock-cart, or, Harvest home : to the right honorable Mildmay, Earl of Westmorland ; To the western wind ; How roses came red (1) ; How violets came blue ; To Anthea, who may command him anything ; To meadows ; Oberon's feast ; The bellman (1) ; Upon Prudence Baldwin her sickness ; Upon a child that died ; Content, not Cates ; To daffodils ; The mad maid's song ; To daisies, not to shut so soon ; To blossoms ; To the water nymphs, drinking at the fountain ; Mistress Susanna Southwell upon her feet ; Meat without mirth ; His content in the country ; The fairies ; His prayer to Ben Jonson ; The night-piece, to Julia ; The hag ; The country life, to the honored Mr. End. Porter, groom of the bedchamber to his majesty ; To Electra (4) ; His return to London ; His grange, or, Private wealth ; A ternary of littles, upon a pipkin of jelly sent to a lady ; Upon Julia's clothes ; Upon Prue, his maid ; Ceremonies for Christmas ; The amber bead ; Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve ; The ceremonies for Candlemas Day ; Upon Ben Jonson ; An ode for him ; His wish (2) ; Upon his spaniel Tracy ; The pillar of fame / Robert Herrick -- from His noble numbers. His prayer for absolution ; To find God ; His litany to the Holy Spirit ; A thanksgiving to God for his house ; To death ; Another grace for a child ; The bellman (2) ; The white island, or Place of the blest ; To keep a true Lent / Robert Herrick.

Poetry. from Emblems, divine and moral. The first book. Emblem XIV ; Emblem XV / Francis Quarles -- from Emblems, divine and moral. The third book. Emblem VII / Francis Quarles -- from Emblems, divine and moral. The fourth book. Emblem III / Francis Quarles -- from Emblems, divine and moral. The fifth book. Emblem III ; Emblem IV ; Emblem VI / Francis Quarles -- from Divine Fancies. A good-night / Francis Quarles -- from Poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets. Sonnet : Tell me no more how fair she is ; The exequa ; The surrender ; Upon the death of my ever-desired friend, Doctor Donne of Paul's ; Sic vita / Henry King -- from Harlein Ms. 6917, British museum. A contemplation upon flowers / Henry King -- from Izaak Walton's life of Mr. George Herbert. To his mother / George Herbert -- from The temple. from The church porch ; The altar ; Easter wings ; The thanksgiving ; The reprisal ; The agony ; Redemption ; Easter ; Affliction (I) ; Prayer (I) ; The temper (I) ; Jordan (I) ; Matins ; Church monuments ; Church music ; The windows ; The quiddity ; Employment (2) ; Denial ; Vanity ; Virtue ; The pearl ; Man ; Life ; Jordan (2) ; Conscience ; The quip ; The dawning ; Jesu ; Dialogue ; Time ; The pilgrimage ; The collar ; The pulley ; The flower ; The forerunners ; Discipline ; The elixir ; Love (3) / George Herbert.

Poetry. from Poems. The spring ; A beautiful mistress ; A prayer to the wind ; Mediocrity in love rejected ; Persuasions to enjoy ; Ingrateful beauty threatened ; Disdain returned ; Eternity of love protested ; Upon a ribbon ; Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers (3) ; An elegy upon the death of Doctor Donne, dean of Paul's ; To a lady that desired I would love her ; To my worthy friend, Master George Sandys, on his translation of the psalms ; A song : Ask me no more where Jove bestows / Thomas Carew -- from The contention of Ajax and Ulysses. Of death / James Shirley -- from Lusoria. When dearest, I but think on thee / Owen Felltham -- from Poems. Upon his picture ; An elegy / Thomas Randolph -- from Works (1673). Song : The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest ; To the queen, entertained at night by the Countess of Anglesey ; Endymion Porter and Olivia ; Song : O thou that sleepest like pig in straw / Sir William Davenant -- from Poems. To the king, on his navy ; To Mr. Henry Lawes, who had then newly set a song of mine, in the year 1635 ; At Penshurst (I) ; Song : Say, lovely dream, where couldst thou find ; To a very young lady ; The Battle of the Summer Islands : canto I ; To Phyllis ; On a girdle ; To a lady singing a song of his composing ; Song : Stay, Phœbus, stay! ; While I listen to thy voice ; Go, lovely rose ; Of English verse ; On the last verses in the book / Edmund Waller.

Poetry. from Poems (1673). from At a vacation exercise in the college, part Latin, part English ; On the morning of Christ's Nativity ; On time ; At a solemn music ; Song on May morning ; On Shakespeare ; L'allegro ; Il penseroso ; Sonnet VII : On his having arrived at the age of twenty-three ; Sonnet VIII : When the assault was intended to the city ; Lycidas / John Milton -- from Poems (1673). Songs from Comus. Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen ; Sabrina fair ; By the rushy-fringèd bank ; Goddess dear ; Shepherd, 'tis my office best ; Virgin, daughter of Locrine ; To the ocean now I fly / John Milton -- from Poems (1673). Sonnet XV : On the late massacre in Piemont ; Sonnet XVI : On his blindness ; Sonnet XIX : On his deceased wife / John Milton -- from The Cambridge manuscript of Milton's poems. On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester ; To the Lord General Cromwell, May, 1652 ; To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his blindness / John Milton -- from Fragmenta aurea. Sonnet I, II, III ; The lover's clock ; The siege ; A ballad upon a wedding / Sir John Suckling -- from The last remains of Sir John Suckling. Out upon it! I have loved ; Song : I prithee send me back my heart ; A soldier / Sir John Suckling -- Songs from the plays. Song : Why so pale and wan, fond lover? ; Song : No, no, fair heretic, it needs must be ; A song to a lute / Sir John Suckling -- My dear and only love / James Graham.

Poetry. from Hudibras. from Canto I / Samuel Butler -- from The delights of the muses. Wishes to his (supposed) mistress ; Music's duel / Richard Crashaw -- from Carmen deo nostro. To the noblest and best of ladies, the Countess of Denbigh ; In the holy Nativity of our Lord God ; Charitas nimia; or, the dear bargain ; Saint Mary Magdalene; or, the weeper ; A hymn to the name and honor of the admirable Saint Teresa ; The flaming heart ; A song : Lord, when the sense of Thy sweet grace / Richard Crashaw -- from Jonsonus virbius. An elegy on Ben Jonson / John Cleveland -- from Clievelandi vindiciæ; or Clieveland's genuine poems. Fuscara; or, The bee errant ; Upon Phillis walking in a morning before sun-rising ; Mark Antony ; The rebel Scot ; On the memory of Mr. Edward King, drowned in the Irish Sea / John Cleaveland -- from Poems and translations. Cooper's hill ; Somnus, the humble God / Sir John Denham -- from Lucasta. Song : To Lucasta : Gong beyond the seas ; Song : To Lucasta : Going to the wars ; Song : To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her hair ; Ode : To Lucasta : the Rose ; Gratiana dancing and singing ; The scrutiny ; The grasshopper ; To Lucasta : from prison ; To Althea : from prison / Richard Lovelace -- from Love's riddle ; Sport / Abraham Cowley -- from The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. On the death of Mr. William Hervey ; On the death of Mr. Crashaw ; Anacreontics; or, some copies of verses translated paraphrastically out of anacreon : II, VIII, X ; The wish ; The praise of Pindar in imitation of Horace his second ode, book 4 ; Awake, awake, my lyre ; Hymn : To light ; To the royal society / Abraham Cowley.

Poetry. from Miscellaneous poems. On a drop of dew ; The coronet ; Bermudas ; A dialogue between the soul and the body ; The nymph complaining for the death of her fawn ; To his coy mistress ; The gallery ; The fair singer ; The definition of love ; The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers ; The mower against gardens ; The mower to the glowworms ; The mower's song ; The garden ; from Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax ; An Horation ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland / Andrew Marvell -- from Olor Iscanus. Liber 2, metrum 5 / Henry Vaughan -- from Silex scintillans. Regeneration ; Vanity of spirit ; The retreat ; Joy of my life while left me here! ; Silence and stealth of days! ; Peace ; And do they so? ; Corruption ; The dawning ; Love and discipline ; The world ; Man ; I walked the other day, to spend my hour ; They are all gone into the world of light ; The morning watch ; Unprofitableness ; Cock-crowing ; The bird ; The timber ; The dwelling-place ; Childhood ; The night ; The waterfall ; Quickness ; The book / Henry Vaughan -- from Poems on several occasions. Noon quatrains ; Evening quatrains / Charles Cotton -- from Poems (1667). To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship / Katherine Philips.

Poetry. Songs from the plays. Ah, fading joy ; You pleasing dreams ; Ah, how sweet it is to love ; You charmed me not with that fair face ; Wherever I am ; Farewell, ungrateful traitor ; Old father ocean calls my tide ; Mercury's song to Phædra ; Song to a minuet ; Song sung by Venus in honor of Britannia / John Dryden -- from Annus Mirabilis. The new London / John Dryden -- from Absalom and Achitophel. Part I / John Dryden -- from Threnodia Augustalis, a funeral Pindaric poem to the happy memory of King Charles II. A warlike prince ascends the regal state / John Dryden -- Memorial poems. To the memory of Mr. Oldham ; To the pious memory of the accomplished young lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew, excellent in the two sister arts of poesy and painting ; Lines printed under the engraved portrait of Milton / John Dryden -- Poems in honor of Saint Cecilia. A song for St. Cecilia's Day ; Alexander's feast; or, The power of music / John Dryden -- from The secular masque. Hunting song ; The seventeenth century / John Dryden -- from Poems : Dobell folio ms. The salutation ; Wonder ; Innocence ; Desire ; The recovery / Thomas Traherne -- from Poems of felicity : Burney ms. 392. News ; The apostasy ; Poverty ; Right apprehension (I) ; On leaping over the moon ; Shadows in the water ; Walking / Thomas Traherne -- from A serious and pathetical contemplation of the mercies of God. from A thanksgiving and prayer for the nation / Thomas Traherne -- Selected poems. Song, written at sea, in the first Dutch war ; The advice ; Dorinda / Charles Sackville.

Poetry. from The mulberry garden. To Chloris / Sir Charles Sedley -- from The miscellaneous works. Love still has something ; To Celia ; The knotting song ; Phyllis is my only joy / Sir Charles Sedley -- from The poems of Edward Taylor. from God's determinations touching his elect. The preface ; The joy of church fellowship rightly attended / Edward Taylor -- from The poems of Edward Taylor. Two poems. Huswifery ; The ebb and flow / Edward Taylor -- from The poems of Edward Taylor. from Preparatory mediations before my approach to the Lord's supper. The prologue ; First series : meditation 1, 6, 29, 32, 38, 39 ; Second series : meditation 3, 7, 12, 143, 146 / Edward Taylor -- from Poems on several occasions. Upon drinking in a bowl ; Constancy ; Love and life / John Wilmot -- from Poems (1696). Absent from thee ; My dear mistress.

Action Note:

commitment to retain 20151208

committed to retain 20170930 20421231 HathiTrust https://www.hathitrust.org/shared_print_program

Search for related items by subject

Subject:

English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700.
Great Britain > Civilization > 17th century > Literary collections.
Littérature anglaise > 1500-1700 (Moderne)
Civilization.
English literature > Early modern.
Great Britain.
English literature > 16th and 17th centuries.

Genre:

Literature.
Literary collections.