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A Birthday Christina Rossetti |
Christina Rossetti, The Complete Poems, ed. R.W. Crump, Penguin Books 2001, p. 30-31. From Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862). |
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A Broken Appointment Thomas Hardy |
Thomas Hardy, Selected Poetry, ed. Samuel Hynes, Oxford University Press 1998, p. 28. From Poems of the Past and the Present (1901). |
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Absence Matthew Arnold |
The Poems of Matthew Arnold, eds. Kenneth & Miriam Allott, Longman 1979, p. 144-45. Written c. 1849-50; first published in Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (1852). |
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Absence Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke |
Poems and Dramas of Fulke Greville first Lord Brooke, ed. Geoffrey Bullough, 2 vols., Oxford University Press 1945, vol. 1, p. 99-100. Sonnet XLV from Cælica, published in Certaine learned and elegant workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke (1633). |
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Absence, heare thou my Protestation Anonymous |
A Poetical Rhapsody, ed. Hyder E. Rollins, 2 vols., Harvard University Press 1931, vol. 1, p. 225. Printed in A Poetical Rapsody (1602). |
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A crowne of Sonetts dedicated to Love Lady Mary Wroth |
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 1509-1659, eds. David Norbrook & H.R. Woudhuysen, Penguin Books 1993, p. 342-49. From Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (early seventeeth century). |
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A Dedication to my Wife T.S. Eliot |
The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot, Faber and Faber 1969, p. 206. Originally from The Elder Statesman; the final version was first published in Collected Poems 1909-62. |
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A Deep-sworn Vow W.B. Yeats |
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, gen. eds. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, 14 vols., Simon & Schuster 1984-, vol 1., p. 154-55. From The Wild Swans at Coole (1919). |
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A Description of Tyme Alexander Montgomerie |
The Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Christopher Ricks, Oxford University Press 1999, p. 38. |
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A Dream within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe |
Edgar Allan Poe, Poetry, Tales, & Selected Essays, eds. Patrick F. Quinn & G.R. Thompson, The Library of America 1996, p. 97. First published in Flag of Our Union, March 31, 1849. |
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A Drinking Song W.B. Yeats |
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, gen. eds. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, 14 vols., Simon & Schuster 1984-, vol 1., p. 92. From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910). |
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Ae Fond Kiss Robert Burns |
The Canongate Burns, eds. Andrew Noble & Patrick Scott Hogg, Canongate Books 2001, p. 375. First printed in Scots Musical Museum, vol. 4, 13th August 1792. Inspired by Robert Dodsley's The Parting Kiss ("One kiss before we part ..."). |
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A Farewell Coventry Patmore |
Everyman's Book of English Love Poems, ed. John Hadfield, J.M. Dent & Sons 1980, p. 300-01. From The Unknown Eros (1877). |
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A Farewell to false Loue Sir Walter Ralegh |
The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Agnes M.C. Latham, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1951, p. 7-8. First four stanzas first printed in William Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets, & songs of sadnes and pietie (1588). |
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After Philip Bourke Marston |
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, ed. Christopher Ricks, Oxford University Press 1990, p. 508-09. From All in All (1875). |
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After a Journey Thomas Hardy |
Thomas Hardy, Selected Poetry, ed. Samuel Hynes, Oxford University Press 1998, p. 90. From Satires of Circumstance (1914). |
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Ah see, who so faire thing doest faine to see Edmund Spenser |
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, ed. Thomas P. Roche, Jr., Penguin Books 1987, p. 379. From The Faerie Queene (1590-1609), Book II, Canto XII, stanzas 74-75. |
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Alas so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
Tottel's Miscellany (1557-1587), ed. Hyder E. Rollins, 2 vols., Harvard University Press 1965, vol. 1, p. 10. Printed in Richard Tottel's Songes and Sonettes (1557), and headed: A complaint by night of the louer not beloued. Inspired by Petrarch, Rime sparse 164. |
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A Last Confession W.B. Yeats |
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, gen. eds. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, 14 vols., Simon & Schuster 1984-, vol 1., p. 280. From The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933). |
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A Leave-Taking Algernon Charles Swinburne |
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, ed. Christopher Ricks, Oxford University Press 1990, p. 379-80. From Poems and Ballads (1866). |
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A Love Sonnet George Wither |
The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, ed. Alastair Fowler, Oxford University Press 1992, p. 240-43. From A Description of Love (1620). |
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An Argument Thomas Moore |
The Penguin Book of Love Poetry, ed. Jon Stallworthy, Penguin Books 1976, p. 82. |
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And in Life's noisiest hour Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems, ed. William Keach, Penguin Books 1997, p. 336-37. "Lines from a notebook — February 1807". |
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And what is Love? John Keats |
John Keats, Complete Poems, ed. Jack Stillinger, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1982, p. 220-21. Written in 1818; first published in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848), ed. Richard Houghton Milnes. |
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And wylt thow leve me thus? Sir Thomas Wyatt |
Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, eds. Kenneth Muir & Patricia Thomson, Liverpool University Press 1969, p. 196-97. |
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An Epitaph Vpon Husband and Wife, which died, and were buried together Richard Crashaw |
The Poems of Richard Crashaw, ed. L.C. Martin, Clarendon Press 1968, p. 174. From Steps to the Temple (1646), The Delights of the Muses. Crashaw revised this poem but made no improvements save the last two lines which he turned from neat to unforgettable (original wording: "And they waken with that Light, / Whose day shall never sleepe in Night"). So, those lines have simply been replaced here; yes, it's arbitrary editing, but the outcome is greater poetry. |
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An euill spirit your beautie haunts Me still Michael Drayton |
Poems: by Michael Drayton, Esquyer (1619), The Scolar Press 1969, p. 259. Sonnet 20 from Idea, printed in Poems: by Michael Drayton, Esquyer (1619). |
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An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind Henry King |
The Poems of Henry King, ed. Margaret Crum, Oxford University Press 1965, p. 68-72. Printed in Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes and Sonnets (1657). |
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An Hour with Thee Sir Walter Scott |
The Penguin Book of Love Poetry, ed. Jon Stallworthy, Penguin Books 1976, p. 179. |
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An Invite to Eternity John Clare |
John Clare (The Oxford Authors), eds. Eric Robinson & David Powell, Oxford University Press 1984, p. 351-52. |
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Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe |
Edgar Allan Poe, Poetry, Tales, & Selected Essays, eds. Patrick F. Quinn & G.R. Thompson, The Library of America 1996, p. 102-03. Published in Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond) XV (Nov. 1849), 697. |
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A Poet's Love Letitia Elizabeth Landon |
Romanticism: An Anthology, ed. Duncan Wu, Blackwell Publishers 2000, p. 1107. Published in Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. (1841). |
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A Rapture Thomas Carew |
The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap, Clarendon Press 1970, p. 49-53. Published in Poems (1640). |
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A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns |
The Canongate Burns, eds. Andrew Noble & Patrick Scott Hogg, Canongate Books 2001, p. 412. First printed in Scots Songs (1794). |
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A Rondel of Love Alexander Scott |
The Penguin Book of Love Poetry, ed. Jon Stallworthy, Penguin Books 1976, p. 320-21. Seems derivative of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Lo what it is to love!, or at least both poems derive from the same source. However it is, Scott's version is better. |
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As If a Phantom Caress'd Me Walt Whitman |
Walt Whitman, Poetry and Prose, ed. Justin Kaplan, The Library of America 1996, p. 562. From Leaves of Grass (1891-92), Whispers of Heavenly Death. |
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As Loue and I, late harbour'd in one Inne Michael Drayton |
Poems: by Michael Drayton, Esquyer (1619), The Scolar Press 1969, p. 272. Sonnet 59 from Idea, printed in Poems: by Michael Drayton, Esquyer (1619). Headed To Prouerbe. |
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A Song ("Aske me no more where Iove bestowes") Thomas Carew |
The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap, Clarendon Press 1970, p. 102-03. Published in Poems (1640). |
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A Song ("Farwell ungratefull Traytor") John Dryden |
The Poems and Fables of John Dryden, ed. James Kinsley, Oxford University Press 1962, p. 181. From The Spanish Fryar (1681). |
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A Song by the Novice John Fletcher |
The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ed. A. Glover & A.R. Waller, 10 vols., Cambridge University Press 1905-12, vol. 5, p. 112. From The Lovers Progress (performed 1623), 3.1. |
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As you came from the holy land Sir Walter Ralegh |
The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Agnes M.C. Latham, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1951, p. 22-23. Printed in Thomas Deloney's The Garland of Good-Will (1678). Distracted Ophelia misquotes the second stanza: "How should I your true loue know / from another one? / By his Cockle hat and staffe, / and his Sandal shoone" (Hamlet 5.4.23f) and with his An Old Song Ended Dante Gabriel Rossetti adds 4 boring stanzas to Ophelia's song. |
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At Castle Boterel Thomas Hardy |
Thomas Hardy, The Complete Poems, ed. James Gibson, Palgrave 2001, p. 351-52. From Satires of Circumstance (1914); dated "March 1913". |
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At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe's W.H. Auden |
W.H. Auden, Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson, Faber and Faber 1994, p. 418-19. From The Sea and the Mirror (1944), The Supporting Cast, Sotto Voce. |
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At her faire hands how haue I grace intreated Walter Davison |
A Poetical Rhapsody, ed. Hyder E. Rollins, 2 vols., Harvard University Press 1931, vol. 1, p. 110-111. First printed in A Poetical Rapsody (1602) where it is headed A dialogue betweene him and his Hart; later in Robert Jones's Vltimvm Vale (1605) and the first two stanzas were printed in Martin Peerson's Priuate Musicke (1620). Though very popular in its day a much neglected poem today. Cf. Farewell, dear love, since thou wilt needs be gone. |
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A True Maid Matthew Prior |
The New Penguin Book of English Verse, ed. Paul Keegan, Penguin Books 2001, p. 427. |
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At the mid hour of night Thomas Moore |
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, ed. A.D. Godley, Oxford University Press 1929, p. 201. From Irish Melodies (1807-35). |
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A Valediction Ernest Dowson |
The Poetry of Ernest Dowson, ed. Desmond Flower, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 1970, p. 82. From Verses (1896). |
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A Valediction: forbidding Mourning John Donne |
John Donne, The Elegies and The Songs and Sonnets, ed. Helen Gardner, Oxford University Press 1965, p. 62-64. Printed in Poems (1633). |
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A Zong ("O Jenny, don't sobby! vor I shall be true") William Barnes |
The Poems of William Barnes, ed. Bernard Jones, 2 vols., Southern Illinois University Press 1962, vol. 1, p. 187. From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1879). |
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Beauty is but a painted hell Thomas Campion |
The Works of Thomas Campion, ed. Walter R. Davis, W.W. Norton & Company 1970, p. 181. From The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (1617?), The Fourth Booke, Song XIV. |
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Beauty, since you so much desire Thomas Campion |
The Works of Thomas Campion, ed. Walter R. Davis, W.W. Norton & Company 1970, p. 190. From The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (1617?), The Fourth Booke, Song XXII. A mockery of his own Mistris, since you so much desire, which is much more in the Petrarchan strain. |
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Because I breathe not love to everie one Sir Philip Sidney |
The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler, Jr., Oxford University Press 1962, p. 191-92. Sonnet 54 from Astrophil and Stella (1591). |
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Because I liked you better A.E. Housman |
A.E. Housman, Collected Poems and Selected Prose, ed. Christopher Ricks, Penguin Books 1988, p. 177. First published in More Poems (1936), poem XXXI. I have preferred the text given in Ricks' edition; Archie Burnett's authoritative text is no doubt more faithful to Housman's intentions, but I think none of the restored readings be improvements. |
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Behold what happe Pigmaleon had to frame Samuel Daniel |
Samuel Daniel, Poems and A Defence of Ryme, ed. Arthur Colby Sprague, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1950, p. 17. Sonnet XIII from Delia (1592). |
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Believe me, if all those endearing young charms Thomas Moore |
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, ed. A.D. Godley, Oxford University Press 1929, p. 189. From Irish Melodies (1807-35) |
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Blow, northerne wind Anonymous |
The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse, eds. Celia & Kenneth Sisam, Clarendon Press 1970, p. 122. The refrain of a medieval song. |
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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art John Keats |
John Keats, Complete Poems, ed. Jack Stillinger, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1982, p. 247. Written in 1819; first published in The Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal, 1838. This poem is often entitled Last Sonnet or Keats's Last Sonnet, but these headings were added by victorian editors of Keats' poetry (obviously), and what is more, they're misleading, since it isn't his last sonnet. |
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Brown Penny W.B. Yeats |
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, gen. eds. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, 14 vols., Simon & Schuster 1984-, vol 1., p. 97. From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910). |
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But loue, first learned in a Ladies eyes William Shakespeare |
The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare, ed. Charlton Hinman, W.W. Norton & Company 1996, p. 153. From Loues Labour's lost (written and performed c. 1594-95; first printed 1598), 4.3.329-56. The text follows Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623), known as "The First Folio" (the annoyingly arbitrary punctuation has been gently normalized). |
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Canticus Troili Geoffrey Chaucer |
The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson, Oxford University Press 1988, p. 478-79. From Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1385), Book I, v. 400-20. Seems inspired by Petrarch, Rime sparse 132. |
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Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night Samuel Daniel |
Samuel Daniel, Poems and A Defence of Ryme, ed. Arthur Colby Sprague, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1950, p. 33. Sonnet XLV from Delia (1592). |
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Clear, cool, sweet, running waters Francis Petrarch |
Petrarch, Canzoniere, ed. Mark Musa, Indiana University Press 1999, p. 467. Canzone 126 from The Canzoniere, or, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (1360), also known as Rime sparse. Translated from the Italian by Mark Musa. The last three lines are addressed to the poem. |
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Cloe George Granville, Lord Lansdowne |
Everyman's Book of English Love Poems, ed. John Hadfield, J.M. Dent & Sons 1980, p. 201. First published in The History of Adolphus (1691). |
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Come away, come away death William Shakespeare |
The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare, ed. Charlton Hinman, W.W. Norton & Company 1996, p. 280. From Twelfte Night, or what you will (written c. 1601; performed c. 1602; first printed 1623 in the First Folio), 2.4.51-66. The text follows Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623) ("Flye away, flye away..." is amended from "Fye away, fie away..."). |
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Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Tennyson: A Selected Edition, ed. Christopher Ricks, University of California Press 1989, p. 320-322. From The Princess (1847), VII, v. 177-207. |
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Come not, when I am dead Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The Poems of Tennyson, ed. Christopher Ricks, 3 vols., Longman 1987, vol. 2, p. 131. First published in The Keepsake for 1851. |
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Come, O come, my lifes delight Thomas Campion |
The Works of Thomas Campion, ed. Walter R. Davis, W.W. Norton & Company 1970, p. 160. From The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (1617?), The Third Booke, Song XXIII. |
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Come sleepe, ō sleepe, the certaine knot of peace Sir Philip Sidney |
The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler, Jr., Oxford University Press 1962, p. 184. Sonnet 39 from Astrophil and Stella (1591). |
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Comming to kisse her lyps Edmund Spenser |
Edmund Spenser, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe, Penguin Books 1999, p. 419. Sonnet LXIIII from Amoretti (1595). |
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Conquest by flight Thomas Carew |
The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap, Clarendon Press 1970, p. 15. Published in Poems (1640). |
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Corinna's going a Maying Robert Herrick |
The Poems of Robert Herrick, ed. L.C. Martin, Oxford University Press 1965, p. 67-69. From Hesperides (1648). |
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Counting the Beats Robert Graves |
Robert Graves, The Complete Poems in One Volume, eds. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward, Carcanet Press 2000, p. 429. From Poems and Satires 1951 (1951). |
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Crazy Kate William Cowper |
The Poems of William Cowper, eds. John D. Baird & Charles Ryskamp, 3 vols., Clarendon Press 1997, vol. 2, p. 130-31. From The Task (1785), Book I, ll. 534-56. |
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Cupid and my Campaspe playd John Lyly |
The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond, 3. vols., Clarendon Press 1902, vol. 2, p. 343. From Campaspe (1584), 3.5.62-75. |
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Deere to my soule, then leaue me not forsaken Henry Constable |
The Poems of Henry Constable, ed. Joan Grundy, Liverpool University Press 1960, p. 201. From Diana (1594), The fifth Decad, Sonnet VIII. |
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Delight in Disorder Robert Herrick |
The Poems of Robert Herrick, ed. L.C. Martin, Oxford University Press 1965, p. 28. From Hesperides (1648). |
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Desire Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems, ed. William Keach, Penguin Books 1997, p. 379. First published in The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge (1834). |
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Diaphenia like the Daffadown-dillie Sir Walter Ralegh |
England's Helicon, ed. Hyder E. Rollins, 2. vols., Harvard University Press 1935, vol. 1, p. 96. Printed in Englands Helicon (1600) as Damelus Song to his Diaphenia. Assigned to "H.C.", most likely the initials of Henry Chettle, not Henry Constable. |
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Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short Ben Jonson |
Ben Jonson, eds. C.H. Herford, Percy & Evelyn Simpson, 11. vols., Clarendon Press 1954-70, vol. 8, p. 294. Printed in The Vnder-wood (1616) as [Fragmentum Petron. Arbitr.] The Same Translated. |
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Down by the Salley Gardens W.B. Yeats |
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, gen. eds. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, 14 vols., Simon & Schuster 1984-, vol 1., p. 18. From Crossways (1889). |
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Down, Wanton, Down! Robert Graves |
Robert Graves, The Complete Poems in One Volume, eds. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward, Carcanet Press 2000, p. 338-39. From Poems 1930-1933 (1933). |
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Echo Christina Rossetti |
Christina Rossetti, The Complete Poems, ed. R.W. Crump, Penguin Books 2001, p. 40. From Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862). Could be inspired by Moore's Oh, come to me when daylight sets and, more obvious, Echo. |
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Elegy over a Tomb Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury |
The Metaphysical Poets, ed. Helen Gardner, Penguin Books 1985, p. 94-95. Dated 1617; published in Poems (1665). |
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Epitaph on Sir William Dyer Katherine, Lady Dyer |
The New Penguin Book of English Verse, ed. Paul Keegan, Penguin Books 2001, p. 234. Epitaph on the monument to Sir William Dyer in the parish church of Colmworth in Bedfordshire, 1641. |
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Epithalamion Edmund Spenser |
Edmund Spenser, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe, Penguin Books 1999, p. 437-49. From Amoretti and Epithalamion (1595). |
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Eternitie of love protested Thomas Carew |
The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap, Clarendon Press 1970, p. 23-24. Published in Poems (1640). |
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Exile Ernest Dowson |
The Poetry of Ernest Dowson, ed. Desmond Flower, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 1970, p. 55. From Verses (1896). Dedicated to Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan. |
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Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes Sir John Davies |
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 1509-1659, eds. David Norbrook & H.R. Woudhuysen, Penguin Books 1993, p. 252. From John Davies and Christopher Marlowe, Epigrammes and elegies (1599?). According to the editor the word omitted is "presumably 'fuck'"; and it better be, for if not this here sonnet ain't worth ( ). |
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Fare Thee Well! George Gordon, Lord Byron |
Lord Byron, The Complete Poetical Works, ed. Jerome J. McGann, 7 vols., Clarendon Press 1980-93, vol 3, p. 380-82. Written and printed for private circulation in 1816; published in Poems (1816). |
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Farewell, dear love, since thou wilt needs be gone Anonymous |
English Madrigal Verse 1588-1632, eds. E.H. Fellowes, Frederick W. Sternfeld & David Greer, Clarendon Press 1967, p. 553-54. Printed in Robert Jones's The First Booke of Songes & Ayres (1600). Has similarities with Walter Davison's Ode. |
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Farewell sweet Boy Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke |
Poems and Dramas of Fulke Greville first Lord Brooke, ed. Geoffrey Bullough, 2 vols., Oxford University Press 1945, vol. 1, p. 134-35. Sonnet LXXXIV from Cælica, published in Certaine learned and elegant workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke (1633). Coleridge gave this poem a romantic twist with his Farewell to Love. |
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Farewell to Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems, ed. William Keach, Penguin Books 1997, p. 334. First Published in The Courier for 27 September 1806. A rip-off of Greville's Farewell sweet Boy. |
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Farewell to Love John Donne |
John Donne, The Elegies and The Songs and Sonnets, ed. Helen Gardner, Oxford University Press 1965, p. 82-83. Printed in Poems (1633). |
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Fatima Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Tennyson: A Selected Edition, ed. Christopher Ricks, University of California Press 1989, p. 33-35. From Poems (1832). |
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Ffarewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever Sir Thomas Wyatt |
Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, eds. Kenneth Muir & Patricia Thomson, Liverpool University Press 1969, p. 12-13. In Tottel's Miscellany (1557) headed: A renouncing of loue. |
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Fforget not yet Sir Thomas Wyatt |
Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, eds. Kenneth Muir & Patricia Thomson, Liverpool University Press 1969, p. 211-12. |
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First Love John Clare |
John Clare (The Oxford Authors), eds. Eric Robinson & David Powell, Oxford University Press 1984, p. 398-99. |
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Follow your Saint, follow with accents sweet Thomas Campion |
The Works of Thomas Campion, ed. Walter R. Davis, W.W. Norton & Company 1970, p. 32. From A Booke of Ayres (1601), Song X. |
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For Anne Leonard Cohen |
Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music, Random House 1993, p. 22. From The Spice-Box of Earth (1961). |
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For she was beautiful Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Shelley's Poetry and Prose, eds. Donald H. Reiman & Sharon B. Powers, W.W. Norton & Company 1977, p. 352-53. Stanza XII from The Witch of Atlas, first published in Posthumous Poems (1824). |
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Fragment John Clare |
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, ed. Christopher Ricks, Oxford University Press 1990, p. 181. |
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Fresh spring the herald of loues mighty king Edmund Spenser |
Edmund Spenser, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe, Penguin Books 1999, p. 422. Sonnet LXX from Amoretti (1595). Some of the lines reverberate in Waller's Song ("Go lovely Rose"). |
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Frohnleichnam D.H. Lawrence |
D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems, eds. Vivian de Sola Pinto & Warren Roberts, Penguin Books 1993, p. 209-10. First published in Look! We Have Come Through! (1917); appears in the section Unrhyming Poems in The Collected Poems (1928). |
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From Pent-up Aching Rivers Walt Whitman |
Walt Whitman, Poetry and Prose, ed. Justin Kaplan, The Library of America 1996, p. 248-50. From Leaves of Grass (1891-92), Children of Adam. |
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Give All to Love Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays & Poems, eds. Joel Porte, Harold Bloom & Paul Kane, The Library of America 1996, p. 1122-23. From Poems (1847). |
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Gloire de Dijon D.H. Lawrence |
D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems, eds. Vivian de Sola Pinto & Warren Roberts, Penguin Books 1993, p. 217. Published in Look! We Have Come Through! (1917); appears in the section Unrhyming Poems in The Collected Poems (1928). |
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"Go now" Edward Thomas |
The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. R. George Thomas, Clarendon Press 1978, p. 303. Written 1916; first published in Poems (1917). |
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Go now, my grieving verse Francis Petrarch |
Petrarch, Canzoniere, ed. Mark Musa, Indiana University Press 1999, p. 467. Sonnet 333 from The Canzoniere, or, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (1360), also known as Rime sparse. Translated from the Italian by Mark Musa. |
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Green D.H. Lawrence |
D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems, eds. Vivian de Sola Pinto & Warren Roberts, Penguin Books 1993, p. 216. Published in Look! We Have Come Through! (1917); appears in the section Unrhyming Poems in The Collected Poems (1928). |
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Green Grow the Rashes, O Robert Burns |
The Canongate Burns, eds. Andrew Noble & Patrick Scott Hogg, Canongate Books 2001, p. 228-29. Published in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1787); known as "The Edinburgh Edition". There is an anonymous sixteenth century lyric beginning "Green groweth the holly" which may (directly or indirectly) have inspired the folk song that inspired Burns. |
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Had there been falshood in my breast Emily Brontė |
The Poems of Emily Brontė, ed. Derek Roper, Clarendon Press 1995, p. 130. Dated "July 28th 1842"; first published in Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontė, Now for the First Time Printed (1902). |
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Happy ye leaues when as those lilly hands Edmund Spenser |
Edmund Spenser, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe, Penguin Books 1999, p. 388. Sonnet I from Amoretti (1595). |
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He is Far Anonymous |
The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse, eds. Celia & Kenneth Sisam, Clarendon Press 1970, p. 456. |
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Her Anxiety W.B. Yeats |
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, gen. eds. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, 14 vols., Simon & Schuster 1984-, vol 1., p. 266. From The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Words for Music Perhaps, X. |
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Her Triumph Ben Jonson |
Ben Jonson, eds. C.H. Herford, Percy & Evelyn Simpson, 11. vols., Clarendon Press 1954-70, vol. 8, p. 134-35. Printed in The Vnder-wood (1616) as the fourth lyric in A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. |
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He thinks of Those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved W.B. Yeats |
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, gen. eds. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, 14 vols., Simon & Schuster 1984-, vol 1., p. 64-65. From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899). |
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He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W.B. Yeats |
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, gen. eds. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, 14 vols., Simon & Schuster 1984-, vol 1., p. 70. From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899). |
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Ho, everyone that thirsteth A.E. Housman |
The Poems of A.E. Housman, ed. Archie Burnett, Oxford University Press 1997, p. 128. First published in More Poems (1936), poem XXII. |
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Hopeless desire soon withers and dies Anonymous |
The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, ed. Emrys Jones, Oxford University Press 1991, p. 439. Printed in A Poetical Rapsody (1602). |
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How Can I Care? Robert Graves |
Robert Graves, The Complete Poems in One Volume, eds. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward, Carcanet Press 2000, p. 601. From Poems 1965-1968 (1968). |
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, eds. Charlotte Porter & Helen A. Clarke, 6 vols., AMS Press 1973, vol. 3, p. 248. Sonnet XLIII from Sonnets from the Portuguese, published in Poems (1850). As is well known not translated from the Portuguese and at first not meant for publication either; the sonnets were much too intimate for the victorian precepts of wifely decency, hence the shenaningans. Her husband Robert Browning suggested the title as preferable to her own Sonnets translated from the Bosnian... The "thee" of line 12 has been added by me; what an embarrassing omission. |
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How many paltry, foolish, painted things Michael Drayton |
Poems: by Michael Drayton, Esquyer (1619), The Scolar Press 1969, p. 255. Sonnet 6 from Idea, printed in Poems: by Michael Drayton, Esquyer (1619). |
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How to Choose a Mistress Anonymous |
The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, ed. Alastair Fowler, Oxford University Press 1992, p. 653. Printed in Parnassus Biceps (1656). |
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I am an apple Plato |
Plato, Complete Works, ed. John M. Cooper, Hackett Publishing Company 1997, p. 1744. Epigram 8. Translated from the Greek by J.M. Edmonds & John M. Cooper. |
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Iambicum Trimetrum Edmund Spenser |
Edmund Spenser, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe, Penguin Books 1999, p. 158. From Three Proper, and wittie, familiar Letters (1580), Letter to Harvey, Oct. 16, 1579. Immerito is Latin for (here) "unworthy"; it is also Spenser's pseudonym from The Shepheardes Calendar. |
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I am the rose of Sharon Anonymous |
The Bible: Authorized King James Version, eds. Robert Carroll & Stephen Prickett, Oxford University Press 1997, p. 761. From The Song of Solomon, 2:1-17. |
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I care not for these Ladies Thomas Campion |
The Works of Thomas Campion, ed. Walter R. Davis, W.W. Norton & Company 1970, p. 22. From A Booke of Ayres (1601), Song III. |
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I cry your mercy — pity — love! — aye, love John Keats |
John Keats, Complete Poems, ed. Jack Stillinger, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1982, p. 374. Written in 1819; first published in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848), ed. Richard Houghton Milnes. |
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I find no peace, and I am not at war Francis Petrarch |
Petrarch, Canzoniere, ed. Mark Musa, Indiana University Press 1999, p. 219. Sonnet 134 from The Canzoniere, or, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (1360), also known as Rime sparse. Translated from the Italian by Mark Musa. Robert Southwell gave this poem a religious twist with his What joy to live?. |
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If this be loue, to drawe a weary breath Samuel Daniel |
Samuel Daniel, Poems and A Defence of Ryme, ed. Arthur Colby Sprague, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1950, p. 15. Sonnet IX from Delia (1592). |
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I gently touched her hand Anonymous |
Everyman's Book of English Love Poems, ed. John Hadfield, J.M. Dent & Sons 1980, p. 208-09. Printed in Mercurius Musicus (1699); the last stanza first printed in The Hive 1729, III. |
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I hate & love Catullus |
The Poems of Catullus, ed. Charles Martin, The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990, p. 122. Poem 85; translated from the Latin by the editor. |
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I have a gentil cok Anonymous |
The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse, eds. Celia & Kenneth Sisam, Clarendon Press 1970, p. 433-34. |
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In nature apt to like when I did see Sir Philip Sidney |
The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler, Jr., Oxford University Press 1962, p. 172-73. Sonnet 16 from Astrophil and Stella (1591). |
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In the Valley of Cauteretz Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Tennyson: A Selected Edition, ed. Christopher Ricks, University of California Press 1989, p. 590-91. From Enoch Arden (1864). |
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In Time of "the Breaking of Nations" Thomas Hardy |
Thomas Hardy, Selected Poetry, ed. Samuel Hynes, Oxford University Press 1998, p. 132-33. Written 1915; published in Moments of Vision (1917). |
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I Said to Love Thomas Hardy |
Thomas Hardy, The Complete Poems, ed. James Gibson, Palgrave 2001, p. 114. From Poems of the Past and the Present (1901). |
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I saw my lady weep Anonymous |
English Madrigal Verse 1588-1632, eds. E.H. Fellowes, Frederick W. Sternfeld & David Greer, Clarendon Press 1967, p. 467. Printed in John Dowland's The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600). Dedicated "To the most famous Anthony Holborne" - never heard of him. |
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It lies not in our power to love, or hate Christopher Marlowe |
The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, ed. Fredson Bowers, 2 vols., Cambridge University Press 1981, vol. 2, p. 435-36. From Hero and Leander (1598), Sestyad I, v. 167-176. |
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It was a beauty that I saw Ben Jonson |
Ben Jonson, eds. C.H. Herford, Percy & Evelyn Simpson, 11. vols., Clarendon Press 1954-70, vol. 6, p. 468-69. From The New Inne (1629), 4.4.4-13. |
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It was a louer, and his lasse William Shakespeare |
The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare, ed. Charlton Hinman, W.W. Norton & Company 1996, p. 223. From As you Like it (written 1599; first printed 1623 in the First Folio), 5.3.16-33. The text follows Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623). The song was also printed in Thomas Morley's The First Booke of Ayres (1600), and I have followed Morley in his arrangement of the stanzas (fourth stanza here is second stanza in the Folio) and adjusted the first line of the chorus (Folio: "In the spring time, the onely pretty rang time"); contractions have been expanded. |
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I wish I could remember that first day Christina Rossetti |
Christina Rossetti, The Complete Poems, ed. R.W. Crump, Penguin Books 2001, p. 295. From A Pageant and Other Poems (1881). The second sonnet of the sonnet sequence Monna Innominata (italian for Unnamed lady). The epigraph translates "It was already the hour which turns back the desire" (Dante, La Divina Commedia, Purgatorio 8.1) and "I think about the first time I beheld you" (Petrarch, Rime sparse 20.3). |
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I with whose colors Myra drest her head Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke |
Poems and Dramas of Fulke Greville first Lord Brooke, ed. Geoffrey Bullough, 2 vols., Oxford University Press 1945, vol. 1, p. 84-85. Sonnet XXII from Cælica, published in Certaine learned and elegant workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke (1633). |
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John Anderson My Jo Robert Burns |
The Canongate Burns, eds. Andrew Noble & Patrick Scott Hogg, Canongate Books 2001, p. 336. First printed in The Scots Musical Museum, vol. 3, 2nd February 1790. |
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Kinde are her answeres Thomas Campion |
The Works of Thomas Campion, ed. Walter R. Davis, W.W. Norton & Company 1970, p. 140. From The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (1617?), The Third Booke, Song VII. |
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La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad John Keats |
John Keats, Complete Poems, ed. Jack Stillinger, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1982, p. 270-71. Written in 1819; first published in the Indicator, 10 May 1820. |
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Ladie Greensleeues Anonymous |
A Handful of Pleasant Delights, ed. Hyder E. Rollins, Dover Publications 1965, p. 19-22. Written 1580; printed in A Handefull of pleasant delites (1584). Headed A new Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Green sleeues. To the new tune of Greensleeues. |
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Lady Montrevor Christina Rossetti |
Christina Rossetti, The Complete Poems, ed. R.W. Crump, Penguin Books 2001, p. 685. Written 1848; first published in New Poems, Hitherto Unpublished or Uncollected (1896), ed. William Michael Rossetti. |
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Leave me ō Love, which reachest but to dust Sir Philip Sidney |
The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler, Jr., Oxford University Press 1962, p. 161-62. Sonnet 32 from Certain Sonnets (1598). The Latin translates "I bid a long farewell to splendid trifles", cf. Henry King's The Farwell. |
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Lesbia, let us live only for loving Catullus |
The Poems of Catullus, ed. Charles Martin, The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990, p. 7. Poem 5; translated from the Latin by the editor. These lines have spawned numerous translations and imitations. The most succesful rendering (an improvement, really) is Campion's My sweetest Lesbia, others are by Jonson, Crashaw (Out of Catullus) , Herrick (To Phillis, to love, and live with him), etc. Ralegh did an excellent translation of ll. 4-6 in The History of the World: "The Sunne may set and rise: / But we contrariwise / Sleepe after our short light / One euerlasting night." |
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Let others sing of Knights and Palladines Samuel Daniel |
Samuel Daniel, Poems and A Defence of Ryme, ed. Arthur Colby Sprague, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1950, p. 33. Sonnet XLVI from Delia (1592). |
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Like the very gods in my sight is he Sappho |
The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, gen. eds. Sarah Lawall & Maynard Mack, 7th edn, 2 vols., W.W. Norton & Company 1999, vol. 1, p. 516. Translated from the Greek by Richmond Lattimore. |
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Like to a Hermite poore Sir Walter Ralegh |
The Phœnix Nest 1593, ed. Hyder E. Rollins, Harvard University Press 1969, p. 77-78. Printed in The Phœnix Nest (1593) |
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Looke Delia how wee steeme the half-blowne Rose Samuel Daniel |
Samuel Daniel, Poems and A Defence of Ryme, ed. Arthur Colby Sprague, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1950, p. 26. Sonnet XXXI from Delia (1592). |
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Loue in my bosome like a Bee Sir Walter Ralegh |
England's Helicon, ed. Hyder E. Rollins, 2. vols., Harvard University Press 1935, vol. 1, p. 135-136, variants vol. 2, p. 163. From Rosalynde (1590). Printed in Englands Helicon (1600) as Rosalindes Madrigall. |
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Loue is a sicknes full of woes Samuel Daniel |
Samuel Daniel, Hymen's Triumph, ed. John Pitcher, Oxford University Press 1994, p. 17-18. From Hymen's Triumph (1615), 1.5.453-68. Headed The Song of the first Chorus. Punctuation is added by me. |
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Loue is the Peace, whereto all thoughts doe striue Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke |
Poems and Dramas of Fulke Greville first Lord Brooke, ed. Geoffrey Bullough, 2 vols., Oxford University Press 1945, vol. 1, p. 135. Sonnet LXXXV from Cælica, published in Certaine learned and elegant workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke (1633). |
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Loues Progresse John Donne |
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, gen. ed. Gary A. Stringer, 8 vols., Indiana University Press 1995-, vol. 2, p. 301-03. Printed in Poems (1633). Headed Elegy 14 in the variorum edition, but numbering of the elegies varies from edition to edition and is pretty useless when not standardized. The traditional title is supplied. |
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Love Henry Baker |
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, ed. Roger Lonsdale, Oxford University Press 1987, p. 163-64. From Original Poems, Serious and Humorous (1725). |
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Love Robert Browning |
Robert Browning, The Poems, eds. John Pettigrew & Thomas J. Collins, 2 vols., Yale University Press 1981, vol. 1, p. 447. First published in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845) as the second poem in the three-poem section Earth's Immortalities. An older Browning called the refrain "a mournful comment on the short duration of the conventional 'For Ever!'" |
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Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems, ed. William Keach, Penguin Books 1997, p. 275. From Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800). Only the first stanza, there's 23 more. |
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Love George Granville, Lord Lansdowne |
Everyman's Book of English Love Poems, ed. John Hadfield, J.M. Dent & Sons 1980, p. 203. First published in Poems upon Several Occasions (1712). |
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Love and Age Walter Savage Landor |
The Works of Walter Savage Landor, eds. T.E. Welby & S. Wheeler, 16 vols., Chapman and Hall 1927-36, vol. 16, p. 195. Published in Leigh Hunt's Journal, December 7, 1850. |
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Love and Life John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Harold Love, Oxford University Press 1999, p. 25-26. From Poems on Several Occasions (1680). |
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Love in a Life Robert Browning |
Robert Browning, The Poems, eds. John Pettigrew & Thomas J. Collins, 2 vols., Yale University Press 1981, vol. 1, p. 603-04. First published in Men and Women 10 Nov. 1855. |
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Love in thy youth, fair maid Anonymous |
English Madrigal Verse 1588-1632, eds. E.H. Fellowes, Frederick W. Sternfeld & David Greer, Clarendon Press 1967, p. 650. Printed in Walter Porter's Madrigales and Ayres (1632). |
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Love — is anterior to Life Emily Dickinson |
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, Little Brown and Company 1976, p. 432 (poem no. 917). Written c. 1864; first published in Poems, Third Series (1896). |
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Love is a secret feeding fire Anonymous |
English Madrigal Verse 1588-1632, eds. E.H. Fellowes, Frederick W. Sternfeld & David Greer, Clarendon Press 1967, p. 192. Printed in Francis Pilkington's The First Set Of Madrigals And Pastorals (1613). |
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Love is Weal, Love is Wo Anonymous |
The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse, eds. Celia & Kenneth Sisam, Clarendon Press 1970, p. 35-37. |
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Love's a Riddle Henry Carey |
Everyman's Book of English Love Poems, ed. John Hadfield, J.M. Dent & Sons 1980, p. 216. From Poems on Several Occasions (1713). |
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Loves Deitie John Donne |
John Donne, The Elegies and The Songs and Sonnets, ed. Helen Gardner, Oxford University Press 1965, p. 47-48. Printed in Poems (1633). |
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Love's Pains John Clare |
John Clare (The Oxford Authors), eds. Eric Robinson & David Powell, Oxford University Press 1984, p. 338-339. |
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Love's Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley |
The Penguin Book of Love Poetry, ed. Jon Stallworthy, Penguin Books 1976, p. 80. |
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Love, that doth reign and live within my thought Francis Petrarch |
Tottel's Miscellany (1557-1587), ed. Hyder E. Rollins, 2 vols., Harvard University Press 1965, vol. 1, p. 8 & vol. 2, p. 135 (with variant readings adopted here). Sonnet 140 from The Canzoniere, or, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (1360), also known as Rime sparse. Translated from the Italian by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey under the heading: Complaint of a louer rebuked; since it is a translation spelling and punctuation have been modernized. Another great translation of this sonnet is Sir Thomas Wyatt's The long love that in my thought doth harbour. |
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Love what it is Robert Herrick |
The Poems of Robert Herrick, ed. L.C. Martin, Oxford University Press 1965, p. 13. From Hesperides (1648). |
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Love Without Hope Robert Graves |
Robert Graves, The Complete Poems in One Volume, eds. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward, Carcanet Press 2000, p. 227. From Welchman's Hose (1925). |
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Loving and Beloved Sir John Suckling |
The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton, Clarendon Press 1971, p. 60-61. First published in Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of All the Incomparable Peeces, Written by Sir John Suckling (1646). |
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Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show Sir Philip Sidney |
The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler, Jr., Oxford University Press 1962, p. 165. Sonnet 1 from Astrophil and Stella (1591). |
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Lullaby W.H. Auden |
W.H. Auden, Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson, Faber and Faber 1994, p. 157-58. From Another Time (1940); written January 1937. |
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Lyke as the Culuer on the bared bough Edmund Spenser |
Edmund Spenser, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe, Penguin Books 1999, p. 432. Sonnet LXXXIX from Amoretti (1595). |
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Mary John Clare |
John Clare (The Oxford Authors), eds. Eric Robinson & David Powell, Oxford University Press 1984, p. 341-42. |
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May Christina Rossetti |
Christina Rossetti, The Complete Poems, ed. R.W. Crump, Penguin Books 2001, p. 45. From Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862). |
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Mediocritie in love rejected Thomas Carew |
The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap, Clarendon Press 1970, p. 12-13. Published in Poems (1640). |
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Meeting at Night Robert Browning |
Robert Browning, The Poems, eds. John Pettigrew & Thomas J. Collins, 2 vols., Yale University Press 1981, vol. 1, p. 451. First published in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845). |
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Merciles Beaute Geoffrey Chaucer |
The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson, Oxford University Press 1988, p. 659. First printed in Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1767). Though attributed to Chaucer there's no evidence of the authorship, but the editor deems it "undoubtedly genuine". "So woundeth hit ..." in the last line of the third stanza has been corrected from "So woundeth it ...", cf. the first stanza. |
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Methought I saw my late espoused Saint John Milton |
The Riverside Milton, ed. Roy Flannagan, Houghton Mifflin Company 1998, p. 259. Sonnet XXIII from Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions (1673); written 1658. |
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Mirage Christina Rossetti |
Christina Rossetti, The Complete Poems, ed. R.W. Crump, Penguin Books 2001, p. 49-50. From Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862). |
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Most glorious Lord of lyfe Edmund Spenser |
Edmund Spenser, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe, Penguin Books 1999, p. 421. Sonnet LXVIII from Amoretti (1595). |
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Mother, I cannot mind my wheel Walter Savage Landor |
The Works of Walter Savage Landor, eds. T.E. Welby & S. Wheeler, 16 vols., Chapman and Hall 1927-36, vol. 15, p. 248. First published in Simonidea (1806); partly translated from the Greek of Sappho. |
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My heart's fit to break Lady Caroline Lamb |
Romanticism: An Anthology, ed. Duncan Wu, Blackwell Publishers 2000, p. 650. From Glenarvon (1816). |
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My hopes retire Walter Savage Landor |
The Works of Walter Savage Landor, eds. T.E. Welby & S. Wheeler, 16 vols., Chapman and Hall 1927-36, vol. 15, p. 383. Published in Works (1846). |
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My hungry eyes, through greedy couetize Edmund Spenser |
Edmund Spenser, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe, Penguin Books 1999, p. 429. Sonnet LXXXIII from Amoretti (1595). |
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My life closed twice before its close Emily Dickinson |
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, Little Brown and Company 1976, p. 702-03 (poem no. 1731). First published in Poems, Third Series (1896). |
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My love bound me with a kiss Thomas Campion |
English Madrigal Verse 1588-1632, eds. E.H. Fellowes, Frederick W. Sternfeld & David Greer, Clarendon Press 1967, p. 560. Printed in Robert Jones's The Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (1601). The first stanza was appended to Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella (1591) and is almost certainly Campion's, but the succeeding stanzas may be the work of another author. |
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My Love in her attire doth show her wit Anonymous |
Everyman's Book of English Love Poems, ed. John Hadfield, J.M. Dent & Sons 1980, p. 100. Printed in A Poetical Rapsody (1602). |
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My lute, awake! Sir Thomas Wyatt |
Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, eds. Kenneth Muir & Patricia Thomson, Liverpool University Press 1969, p. 48-50. In Tottel's Miscellany (1557) headed: The louer complayneth the vnkindnes of his loue. |
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My Picture left in Scotland Ben Jonson |
Ben Jonson, eds. C.H. Herford, Percy & Evelyn Simpson, 11. vols., Clarendon Press 1954-70, vol. 8, p. 149-50. Written in 1619; Printed in The Vnder-wood (1616). |
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My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love Thomas Campion |
The Works of Thomas Campion, ed. Walter R. Davis, W.W. Norton & Company 1970, p. 18. From A Booke of Ayres (1601), Song I. Based on the fifth ode of Catullus ("Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atqua amemus"). See also Jonson's Song. To CELIA. |
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My true love hath my hart, and I have his Sir Philip Sidney |
The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler, Jr., Oxford University Press 1962, p. 75-76. From The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1593), The Third Book or Act. |
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My woman says there is no one whom she'd rather marry Catullus |
The Poems of Catullus, ed. Charles Martin, The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990, p. 107. Poem 69; translated from the Latin by the editor. |
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Negative Love John Donne |
John Donne, The Elegies and The Songs and Sonnets, ed. Helen Gardner, Oxford University Press 1965, p. 56. Printed in Poems (1633). |
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Never give all the Heart W.B. Yeats |
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, gen. eds. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, 14 vols., Simon & Schuster 1984-, vol 1., p. 77. From In the Seven Woods (1904). |
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Never seek to tell thy Love William Blake |
The Notebook of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman, Readex Books 1977, N115. Blake revised this poem, replaced "seek" with "pain", then crossed out the entire first stanza and further crippled it by replacing the concluding line ("He took her with a sigh") with "O was no deny". |
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New Year's Eve D.H. Lawrence |
D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems, eds. Vivian de Sola Pinto & Warren Roberts, Penguin Books 1993, p. 238. First published in Look! We Have Come Through! (1917); appears in the section Unrhyming Poems in The Collected Poems (1928). |
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Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae Ernest Dowson |
The Poetry of Ernest Dowson, ed. Desmond Flower, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 1970, p. 52. From Verses (1896). The heading quotes Horace Odes 4.1.3-4: "I'm not the man I was in good Cinara's reign" (transl. David West). |
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No Platonique Love William Cartwright |
The New Penguin Book of English Verse, ed. Paul Keegan, Penguin Books 2001, p. 306-07. Mocking Donne's The Exstasie. Anti-platonic poetry seems to have had its heyday in the seventeenth century (in spite of Donne); John Cleveland's The Antiplatonick is another great "in your face Petrarch!" |
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No Second Troy W.B. Yeats |
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, gen. eds. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, 14 vols., Simon & Schuster 1984-, vol 1., p. 89. From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910). |
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Now sleeps the crimson petal Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Tennyson: A Selected Edition, ed. Christopher Ricks, University of California Press 1989, p. 318-19. From The Princess (1847), VII, v. 161-74. |
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Now the lusty Spring is seen John Fletcher |
The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ed. A. Glover & A.R. Waller, 10 vols., Cambridge University Press 1905-12, vol. 4, p. 29. From The Tragedy of Valentinian (performed c. 1610-14), 2.4. |
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O blush not so! John Keats |
John Keats, Complete Poems, ed. Jack Stillinger, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1982, p. 167-68. Written in 1818; first published in The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats (1883), ed. H. Buxton Forman. |
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O do not Love Too Long W.B. Yeats |
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, gen. eds. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, 14 vols., Simon & Schuster 1984-, vol 1., p. 82. From In the Seven Woods (1904). |
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Of a' the Airts Robert Burns |
The Canongate Burns, eds. Andrew Noble & Patrick Scott Hogg, Canongate Books 2001, p. 332. First printed in The Scots Musical Museum, vol. 3, 2nd February 1790. |
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Of Beauty Sir Richard Fanshawe |
The Penguin Book of Love Poetry, ed. Jon Stallworthy, Penguin Books 1976, p. 76. |
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O fond, but fickle and untrue Walter Savage Landor |
The Works of Walter Savage Landor, eds. T.E. Welby & S. Wheeler, 16 vols., Chapman and Hall 1927-36, vol. 15, p. 378-79. From Gebir, Count Julian, and other Poems (1831). Evokes Edward de Vere's "If women could be fair, and yet not fond / Or that their loves were firm, not fickle still ...". |
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Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay Edmund Spenser |
Edmund Spenser, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe, Penguin Books 1999, p. 414. Sonnet LIIII from Amoretti (1595). |
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O happy dames Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
Tottel's Miscellany (1557-1587), ed. Hyder E. Rollins, 2 vols., Harvard University Press 1965, vol. 1, p. 15-16. Printed in Richard Tottel's Songes and Sonettes (1557), and headed: Complaint of the absence of her louer being vpon the sea. |
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Oh! that 'twere possible Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Tennyson: A Selected Edition, ed. Christopher Ricks, University of California Press 1989, p. 989-92. Published in The Tribute, 1837. |
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Oh, when I was in love with you A.E. Housman |
The Poems of A.E. Housman, ed. Archie Burnett, Oxford University Press 1997, p. 19-20. From A Shropshire Lad (1896), poem XVIII. |
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O Mistris mine where are you roming? William Shakespeare |
The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare, ed. Charlton Hinman, W.W. Norton & Company 1996, p. 279. Feste's song in Twelfte Night, or what you will (written c. 1601; performed c. 1602; first printed 1623 in the First Folio), 2.3.39-44 & 47-52. The text follows Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623), known as "The First Folio". |
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O my thoughtes' sweete foode, my my onely owner Sir Philip Sidney |
The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler, Jr., Oxford University Press 1962, p. 138. First printed in 1926; by Ringler established as sonnet 5 of Certain Sonnets. |
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On a girdle Edmund Waller |
The Poems of Edmund Waller, ed. G. Thorn Drury, Greenwood Press 1968, p. 95. From Poems, etc. written by Mr. Ed. Waller (1686). |
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Once did my thoughts both ebb and flow
Anonymous |
English Madrigal Verse 1588-1632, eds. E.H. Fellowes, Frederick W. Sternfeld & David Greer, Clarendon Press 1967, p. 604-05. Printed in Robert Jones's The Muses Gardin for Delights, Or the fift Booke of Ayres (1610). |
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Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City Walt Whitman |
Walt Whitman, Poetry and Prose, ed. Justin Kaplan, The Library of America 1996, p. 266. From Leaves of Grass (1891-92), Children of Adam. |
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One day I wrote her name vpon the strand Edmund Spenser |
Edmund Spenser, The Shorter Poems, ed. Richard A. McCabe, Penguin Books 1999, p. 425. Sonnet LXXV from Amoretti (1595). |
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Onely joy, now here you are Sir Philip Sidney |
The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler, Jr., Oxford University Press 1962, p. 210-11. Fourth song from Astrophil and Stella (1591). The famous Elizabethan miscellany Englands Helicon (1600), crammed with pining Sheepheards and coy Nimphs, prints this song as The Sheepheard to his chosen Nimph. |
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One word is too often profaned Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Shelley's Poetry and Prose, eds. Donald H. Reiman & Sharon B. Powers, W.W. Norton & Company 1977, p. 446-47. First published in Posthumous Poems (1824). |
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One Writing against His Prick Anonymous |
The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, ed. Alastair Fowler, Oxford University Press 1992, p. 776. |
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On Fruition Sir Charles Sedley |
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Charles Sedley, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto, 2 vols., Constable & Company 1928, vol. 2, p. 152-53. Printed in The Poetical Works (1707). Attribution doubtful. |
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On his Mistris, the Queen of Bohemia Sir Henry Wotton |
Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of The Seventeenth Century, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, Clarendon Press 1925, p. 24-25. Published in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651). |
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Ons as me thought fortune me kyst Sir Thomas Wyatt |
Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, eds. Kenneth Muir & Patricia Thomson, Liverpool University Press 1969, p. 47-48. In Tottel's Miscellany (1557) headed: The louer reioiceth the enioying of his loue. R.A. Rebholz notes a double meaning of this poem in his Wyatt edition: "At first glance it ["my dere hert"] refers to the speaker's lady and her love for him. But it also might refer to the speaker's own heart - his desire, his inclination to love - which he would have 'evermore' in his own power so that he would never again fall in love." Making this (partly) a "Farewell to Love"-poem. I was sceptical, but try and read it with the less obvious meaning in mind - suddenly you know good old whining Wyatt again. Nonetheless, Rebholz, "what I thought best" he is granted; would Wyatt, would any non-Buddhist prefer relieve of pain to having the woman he loves? Can stanzas 1, 5 and 6 survive the Rebholzean double meaning without a certain effort of interpretation? |
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On Some Snow That Melted on a Lady's Breast Anonymous |
Everyman's Book of English Love Poems, ed. John Hadfield, J.M. Dent & Sons 1980, p. 219. Printed in Steele's Poetical Miscellanies (1714). |
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On Stella's Birthday Jonathan Swift |
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, gen. eds. Frank Kermode & John Hollander, 2 vols., Oxford University Press 1973, vol. 1, p. 1776. |
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On the Happy Corydon and Phillis Sir Charles Sedley |
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Charles Sedley, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto, 2 vols., Constable & Company 1928, vol. 2, p. 151-52. Printed in The Poetical Works (1707). Attribution doubtful. Contractions have been expanded. |
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O she doth teach the Torches to burne bright William Shakespeare |
The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare, ed. Charlton Hinman, W.W. Norton & Company 1996, p. 673-74. From The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet (written c. 1595-96; first printed 1597), 1.5.46-55. The text follows Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623), known as "The First Folio". |
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O! synge untoe mie roundelaie Thomas Chatterton |
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, ed. Roger Lonsdale, Oxford University Press 1987, p. 558-59. From Aella: A Tragycal Enterlude (1777), ll. 961-1021. |
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Out upon it Sir John Suckling |
The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton, Clarendon Press 1971, p. 55-56. Published in The Last Remains of Sir John Suckling (1659). |
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O, Were My Love Yon Lilack Fair Robert Burns |
The Canongate Burns, eds. Andrew Noble & Patrick Scott Hogg, Canongate Books 2001, p. 787-88. First published in Robert Burns: Works (1800), ed. James Currie. "The first stanza of this song is from Burns, the last is from the traditional song in Herd's collection (1769)." |
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O what unhop't for sweet supply! Thomas Campion |
The Works of Thomas Campion, ed. Walter R. Davis, W.W. Norton & Company 1970, p. 89. From Two Bookes of Ayres (c. 1612-13), The Second Booke of Ayres, Song IV. |
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Pad, Pad Stevie Smith |
The New Penguin Book of English Verse, ed. Paul Keegan, Penguin Books 2001, p. 966. |
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Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives Walter Savage Landor |
The Works of Walter Savage Landor, eds. T.E. Welby & S. Wheeler, 16 vols., Chapman and Hall 1927-36, vol. 15, p. 376. From Gebir, Count Julian, and other Poems (1831). For the 1846 edition of his works Landor changed "In distant ages" to "These many summers" and omitted the last stanza (?!). |
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Payne of all payne, the most grevous paine Sir Thomas Wyatt |
Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, eds. Kenneth Muir & Patricia Thomson, Liverpool University Press 1969, p. 218. This is only the first two lines of an otherwise rather pedestrian poem. I blame his lute. Cf. Anacreon's Ode XXIX in Thomas Moore's translation: "... But oh, it is the worst of pain, / To love and not be lov'd again!" |
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Penal Law Austin Clarke |
The Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Christopher Ricks, Oxford University Press 1999, p. 589. From Night and Morning (1938). |
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Perswasions to enjoy Thomas Carew |
The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap, Clarendon Press 1970, p. 16. Published in Poems (1640). |
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Proud word you never spoke Walter Savage Landor |
The Works of Walter Savage Landor, eds. T.E. Welby & S. Wheeler, 16 vols., Chapman and Hall 1927-36, vol. 15, p. 393. Published in Works (1846). |
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Quondam was I in my Ladys gras Sir Thomas Wyatt |
Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, eds. Kenneth Muir & Patricia Thomson, Liverpool University Press 1969, p. 172-73. |
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Recollections of Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems, ed. William Keach, Penguin Books 1997, p. 342-43. From Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems (1817). |
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Remember Christina Rossetti |
Christina Rossetti, The Complete Poems, ed. R.W. Crump, Penguin Books 2001, p. 31. From Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862). |
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Remembrance Emily Brontė |
The Poems of Emily Brontė, ed. Derek Roper, Clarendon Press 1995, p. 166-67. Dated "March 3d 1845"; first published in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846). |
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Renouncement Alice Meynell |
The New Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Helen Gardner, Oxford University Press 1991, p. 790. |
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Requiescat Matthew Arnold |
The Poems of Matthew Arnold, eds. Kenneth & Miriam Allott, Longman 1979, p. 371-72. Written c. 1849-53; first published in Poems (1853). |
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Ring out your belles Sir Philip Sidney |
The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler, Jr., Oxford University Press 1962, p. 159-61. Sonnet 30 from Certain Sonnets (1598). In Englands Helicon (1600) headed Astrophels Loue is dead. |
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Rondeau Leigh Hunt |
The Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Christopher Ricks, Oxford University Press 1999, p. 378. |
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Rose Aylmer Walter Savage Landor |
The Works of Walter Savage Landor, eds. T.E. Welby & S. Wheeler, 16 vols., Chapman and Hall 1927-36, vol. 15, p. 339. First published in Simonidea (1806); the text follows the 1846 edition of Landor's Works. |
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Rose-cheekt Lawra, come Thomas Campion |
The Works of Thomas Campion, ed. Walter R. Davis, W.W. Norton & Company 1970, p. 310. From Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602), The eight Chapter, of Ditties and Odes. These lines probably echoed in Shelley's mind when he wrote To Jane. |
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Separated Lovers Anonymous |
The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse, eds. Celia & Kenneth Sisam, Clarendon Press 1970, p. 237. |
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Several Questions Answerd William Blake |
The Notebook of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman, Readex Books 1977, N99. |
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Severed Selves Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ed. William M. Rossetti, Hazel, Watson and Viney 1911, p. 88. Written in 1871; published in The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence (1881), as Sonnet XL. |
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Shall I wasting in Dispaire George Wither |
The Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Christopher Ricks, Oxford University Press 1999, p. 140-41. |
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Shee, shee is dead John Donne |
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, gen. ed. Gary A. Stringer, 8 vols., Indiana University Press 1995-, vol. 6, p. 11. From The First Anniuersary. An Anatomie of the World (1612), ll. 427-28. Sort of a refrain, elsewhere in that unsurpassed masterpiece of hyperbole the lament goes: "Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: when thou knowest this, / Thou knowest how poore a trifling thing man is" and "... / Thou knowst how lame a cripple this world is" and "... / Thou knowst how vgly a monster this world is" and "... / Thou knowst how wan a Ghost this our world is" (ll. 183-84 & 237-38 & 325-26 & 369-70). |
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She is the clernesse and the verray lyght Geoffrey Chaucer |
The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson, Oxford University Press 1988, p. 590. From The Legend of Good Women (c. 1386-88), ll. 84-96 (Text F). |
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Shelter from the storm Bob Dylan |
The Definitive Dylan Songbook, ed. Don Giller & Ed Lozano, Special Rider Music 2001, p. 421-23. Song from Blood on the Tracks (1975). |
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She sings Robert Browning |
Robert Browning, The Poems, eds. John Pettigrew & Thomas J. Collins, 2 vols., Yale University Press 1981, vol. 1, p. 360. First published in Dramatic Lyrics (1842) as part of In a Gondola. |
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She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep Robert Graves |
Robert Graves, The Complete Poems in One Volume, eds. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward, Carcanet Press 2000, p. 402. From Poems 1938-45 (1945). This must be the woman of Yeats's Her Anxiety a couple of months later (notice how yeatsean the title is). |
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She Walked Unaware Patrick MacDonogh |
The Penguin Book of Love Poetry, ed. Jon Stallworthy, Penguin Books 1976, p. 38. The title evokes Byron's She Walks in Beauty. |
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She Walks in Beauty George Gordon, Lord Byron |
Lord Byron, The Complete Poetical Works, ed. Jerome J. McGann, 7 vols., Clarendon Press 1980-93, vol 3, p. 288-89. Written in 1814; published in Hebrew Melodies (1815). |
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She was a Phantom of delight William Wordsworth |
William Wordsworth, The Major Works, ed. Stephen Gill, Oxford University Press 2000, p. 292-93. Written 1803-04; published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). |
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Sick Love Robert Graves |
Robert Graves, The Complete Poems in One Volume, eds. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward, Carcanet Press 2000, p. 295. From Poems 1914-27 (1927). Alludes to the Song of Songs "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love" (KJV 2:5). |
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Silent Love John Clare |
John Clare (The Oxford Authors), eds. Eric Robinson & David Powell, Oxford University Press 1984, p. 376-77. Cf. The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall. |
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Silent Noon Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ed. William M. Rossetti, Hazel, Watson and Viney 1911, p. 81. Written in 1871; published in The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence (1881), as Sonnet XIX. |
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Since she whome I lovd, hath payd her last debt John Donne |
John Donne, The Divine Poems, ed. Helen Gardner, Clarendon Press 1978, p. 14-15. From the only recently discovered Westmoreland Manuscript; first published in Edmund Gosse's Jacobean Poets (1894). |
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Since ther's no helpe, Come let vs kisse and part Michael Drayton |
Poems: by Michael Drayton, Esquyer (1619), The Scolar Press 1969, p. 273. Sonnet 61 from Idea, printed in Poems: by Michael Drayton, Esquyer (1619). |
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Soe well I love thee Michael Drayton |
The Works of Michael Drayton, eds. J. William Hebel, Kathleen Tillotson & Bernard Newdigate, 5 vols., Shakespeare Head Press 1961, vol. 1, p. 507. Headed These verses weare made By Michaell Drayton Esquier Poett Lawreatt the night before hee dyed. |
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Some Lovers speake when they their Muses entertaine Sir Philip Sidney |
The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler, Jr., Oxford University Press 1962, p. 167-68. Sonnet 6 from Astrophil and Stella (1591). |
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Some say that love's a little boy W.H. Auden |
W.H. Auden, Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson, Faber and Faber 1994, p. 143-45. From Another Time (1940), Twelve Songs, XII; written January 1938. |
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Sometimes with One I Love Walt Whitman |
Walt Whitman, Poetry and Prose, ed. Justin Kaplan, The Library of America 1996, p. 285. From Leaves of Grass (1891-92), Calamus. |
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Sonet Mark Alexander Boyd |
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 1509-1659, eds. David Norbrook & H.R. Woudhuysen, Penguin Books 1993, p. 213. |
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Song ("Absent from thee I languish still") John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Harold Love, Oxford University Press 1999, p. 29. Published in Poems on Several Occasions: with Valentinian, A Tragedy (1691). |
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Song ("Ah how sweet it is to love") John Dryden |
The Poems and Fables of John Dryden, ed. James Kinsley, Oxford University Press 1962, p. 121-22. From Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr. (1670). |
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Song ("Before we shall again behold") Sir William Davenant |
Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of The Seventeenth Century, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, Clarendon Press 1925, p. 49-50. From Works (1673). |
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Song ("False though she be to me and Love") William Congreve |
The Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Christopher Ricks, Oxford University Press 1999, p. 246. |
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Song ("Goe, and catche a falling starre") John Donne |
John Donne, The Elegies and The Songs and Sonnets, ed. Helen Gardner, Oxford University Press 1965, p. 29-30. Printed in Poems (1633). |
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Song ("Go lovely Rose") Edmund Waller |
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 1509-1659, eds. David Norbrook & H.R. Woudhuysen, Penguin Books 1993, p. 363. From Poems, etc. written by Mr. Ed. Waller (1645). Probably inspired by Spenser's Sonnet LXX from Amoretti and Herrick's To the Rose. Song ("Goe happy Rose ..."). Waller revised this song for the 1686 edition of his Poems, spoiling it with exclamation marks. |
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Song ("How long shall I pine for love?") John Fletcher |
The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ed. A. Glover & A.R. Waller, 10 vols., Cambridge University Press 1905-12, vol. 7, p. 62. From The Maid in the Mill, 5.2. |
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Song ("I feed a flame within") John Dryden |
The Poems and Fables of John Dryden, ed. James Kinsley, Oxford University Press 1962, p. 108. From Secret-Love, or The Maiden-Queen (1668). |
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Song ("I hid my love") John Clare |
John Clare (The Oxford Authors), eds. Eric Robinson & David Powell, Oxford University Press 1984, p. 411. |
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Song ("In this cold world without a home") John Clare |
John Clare (The Oxford Authors), eds. Eric Robinson & David Powell, Oxford University Press 1984, p. 306-07. |
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Song ("I saw faire Cloris walke alone") William Strode |
The New Penguin Book of English Verse, ed. Paul Keegan, Penguin Books 2001, p. 321. |
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Song ("Love a child is ever criing") Lady Mary Wroth |
The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts, Louisiana State University Press 1992, p. 125. From Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (early seventeeth century). |
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Song ("Love and harmony combine") William Blake |
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman, Doubleday 1988, p. 413-14. From Poetical Sketches (1783). |
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Song ("Love lives beyond") John Clare |
John Clare (The Oxford Authors), eds. Eric Robinson & David Powell, Oxford University Press 1984, p. 363-64. |
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Song ("Love still has something of the Sea") Sir Charles Sedley |
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Charles Sedley, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto, 2 vols., Constable & Company 1928, vol. 1, p. 19-20. First Printed in Hobart Kemp's A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (1672). |
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Song ("My silks and fine array") William Blake |
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman, Doubleday 1988, p. 413. From Poetical Sketches (1783). |
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Song ("Not Celia, that I juster am") Sir Charles Sedley |
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Charles Sedley, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto, 2 vols., Constable & Company 1928, vol. 1, p. 6-7. First Printed in Hobart Kemp's A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (1672). |
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Song ("Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below") John Fletcher |
The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ed. A. Glover & A.R. Waller, 10 vols., Cambridge University Press 1905-12, vol. 3, p. 48. From The Mad Lover (performed c. 1616), 4.1. |
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Song ("Phillis, let's shun the common Fate") Sir Charles Sedley |
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Charles Sedley, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto, 2 vols., Constable & Company 1928, vol. 1, p. 6. First Printed in Hobart Kemp's A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (1672). |
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Song ("Pious Selinda goes to Pray'rs") William Congreve |
The Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Christopher Ricks, Oxford University Press 1999, p. 246. From Deliciae Musicae (1695). |
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Song ("Say What Is Love") John Clare |
John Clare (The Oxford Authors), eds. Eric Robinson & David Powell, Oxford University Press 1984, p. 309. |
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Song ("She dwelt among th' untrodden ways") William Wordsworth |
William Wordsworth, The Major Works, ed. Stephen Gill, Oxford University Press 2000, p. 147-48. From Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800). |
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Song ("Still to be neat, still to be drest") Ben Jonson |
Ben Jonson, eds. C.H. Herford, Percy & Evelyn Simpson, 11. vols., Clarendon Press 1954-70, vol. 5, p. 167. From Epicoene (1609), 1.1.91-102. |
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Song ("Sweetest love, I do not goe") John Donne |
John Donne, The Elegies and The Songs and Sonnets, ed. Helen Gardner, Oxford University Press 1965, p. 31-32. Printed in Poems (1633). |
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Song ("When I am dead, my dearest") Christina Rossetti |
Christina Rossetti, The Complete Poems, ed. R.W. Crump, Penguin Books 2001, p. 52. From Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862). |
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Song ("Whilst Alexis lay prest") John Dryden |
The Poems and Fables of John Dryden, ed. James Kinsley, Oxford University Press 1962, p. 145-46. From Marriage a-la-Mode (1673). |
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Song ("Why so pale and wan fond Lover?") Sir John Suckling |
The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton, Clarendon Press 1971, p. 64. From Aglaura (1638). |
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Song. A Young Lady to her Antient Lover John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Harold Love, Oxford University Press 1999, p. 30. Published in Poems on Several Occasions: with Valentinian, A Tragedy (1691). Borderline bawdy, admitted, but not by Wilmot's standards. |
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Song of a Man Who is Loved D.H. Lawrence |
D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems, eds. Vivian de Sola Pinto & Warren Roberts, Penguin Books 1993, p. 249. First published in Look! We Have Come Through! (1917); appears |