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Ed. Penguin, 1953. Size 18 x 11,5 cm. Collected by G. B. Harrison. State: Used, excellent. 416 pages
By G. B. Harrison
November, 1949
In this anthology I have aimed at gathering a gallery of poems, typical and representative of our English poets from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Most of the poems are lyrics; but, since the best work of some of our greatest poets is to be found in poems or plays too long to be given entire, I have preferred to include some extracts rather than to omit altogether such works as The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, Hamlet, Paradise Lost, Absalom and Achitophel, or The Rape of the Lock.
Where an extracts and not the whole poem, is given, the title of the work is noted at the end within square brackets. Spelling and punctuation have been modernised throughout, even in the extracts from Chaucer. By students this may be regretted, though I believe that Spenser certainly, and Chaucer probably, would be more widely appreciated if their archaic spellings were rendered less uncouth to the general reader. The arrangement is roughly chronological in that the poets are set out in the order of their birth. In this way, the collection shows, in little, the progress of English poetry.
Note to the Seventh Impression
An additional forty-five poems have been added, and several of the longer poems formerly represented by short extracts, are now printed complete.
CONTENTS
1- GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Pilgrims: The Knight, The Squire, The Yeoman, The Prioress, The Clerk of Oxford, The Wide of Bath, The Poor Parson
2- SIR THOMAS WYATT
‘And wilt thou leave me thus?…’
‘Forget not yet…’
The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of His Love
Farewell to the Faithless
‘Is it possible…’
3- HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY
Description of Spring
The Means to attain a Happy Life
4- NICHOLAS BRETON
A Country Song
5- EDMUND SPENSER
To his love (1)
Easter Day
To his love (2)
Epithalamium
The Burning Babe
The Garden of Adonis
6- SIR WALTER RALEGH
‘As you came from the holy land…’
‘Even such is Time…’
7- SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
He Seeks Inspiration to Write Worthily to his love
The Sleepless Lover
‘With how sad steps, O Moon…’
‘My true-love…’
8- JOHN LYLY
Cupid and Campaspe
9- THOMAS LODGE
The Sad Lover
My Phillis
10- SIR EDWARD DYER
‘My mind to me a kingdom is…’
11- ROBERT SOUTHWELL
The Burning Babe
12- HENRY CONSTABLE
Diaphenia
13- SAMUEL DANIEL
‘Care-charmer Sleep…’
14- MICHAEL DRAYTON
‘Stay, stay, sweet Time…’
‘Some Atheist…’
Farewell to Love
15- CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
The Aspiring Mind
Beauty Inexpressible
16- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Seven Ages of Man
Study
‘O Mistress mine…’
‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?…’
‘When to the sessions of sweet silent thought…’
‘Full many a glorious morning…’
‘Tired with all these…’
‘That time of year…’
‘My Mistress’ eyes …’
Love and Time
Imagination
‘The quality of mercy…’
The Cares of Kingship
‘To be, or not to be…’
Neglect of Degree
Capricious Time
Antony’s First Meeting with Cleopatra
A Requiem
Eternity through Poetry
This Insubstantial Pageant
17- THOMAS CAMPION
‘Follow your saint…’
‘There is a garden…’
‘When to her lute Corinna sings…’
‘Rose-cheeked Laura, come…’
‘Thou art not fair…’
18- SIR HENRY WOTTQN
On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia
The Character of a Happy Life
19- BEN JONSON
‘Still to be neat…’
To Celia
(1) To Charis, (II) Her Answer
The Hour Glass
Song
20- JOHN DONNE
Song
The Indifferent
The Good-Morrow
The Anniversary
Love’s Growth
The Funeral
The Relic
‘Sweetest love…’
Death
21- GEORGE WITHER
‘I loved a lass…’
22- ROBERT HERRICK
Upon the Loss of His Mistresses
‘Cherry ripe …’
Corinna’s Going a-Maying
The Night Piece
Delight in Disorder
‘Gather ye rose-buds…’
To Daffodils
To Anthea Who may Command him Anything
To Blossoms
Upon Julia’s Clothes
The Hag
him Anything
Grace for a Child
His Litany to the Holy Spirit
23- GEORGE HERBERT
The Collar
Love
The Gifts af God
24- EDMUND WALLER
‘Go, lovely Rose…’
The Girdle
25- JOHN MILTON
At a Solemn Music
L’Allegro
Il Penseroso
Lycidas
Paradise Lost: The First Book
‘Hail, holy Light…’
On His Blindness
Paradise Lost
God’s Purposes Revealed
26- SIR JOHN SUCKLING
‘Why so pale and wan…’
The Constant Lover
27- RICHARD CRASHAW
A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
Charitas Nimia
28- RICHARD LOVELACE
To Althea from Prison
To Lucasta, on Going Beyond the Seas
29- ABRAHAM COWLEY
Platonic Love
The Wish
Life and Fame
30- ANDREW MARVELL
The Garden
To his Coy Mistress
31- HENRY VAUGHAN
The Retreat
Tbe Morning Watch
‘They are all gone into the world of light!…’
The Garland
Childhood
32- JOHN BUNYAN
The Shepherd Boy’s Song
The Song of Master Valiant-for-Truth
33- JOHN DRYDEN
Achitophel
Zimri
Song for Saint Cecilia’s Day
34- HENRY CAREY
Sally in our Alley
35- ALEXANDER POPE
An Essay on Man
Hampton Court
Nature and Art
The Critic’s Task
The Return of Chaos
The Character of Atticus
36- JAMES THOMSON
Spring
Autumn
Winter
37- SAMUEL JOHNSON
Poverty
The Vanity of Human Wishes
THOMAS GRAY
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The Bard
38- WILLIAM COLLINS
Ode written in 1746
To Evening
Ode to Simplicity
39- OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Deserted Village
40- WILLIAM COWPER
His Mother’s Picture
The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
To Mary Unwin
41- THOMAS CHATTERTON
An Excelente Balad of Charitie
Minstrel’s Song
42- GEORGE CRABBE
Village Life – as it is
43- WILLIAM BLAKE
To Winter
To the Muses
The Lamb
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
The Tiger
A Potion Tree
The Garden of Love
The Sick Rose
‘Ah! Sun-flower…’
Jerusalem
44- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud…’
‘I travelled among unknown men…’
‘Three years she grew in sun and shower…’
‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways…’
‘A slumber did my spirit seal…’
Tintern Abbey Re-visited
The Solitary Reaper
‘My heart leaps up…’
London, 1802
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Ode OH Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
45- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
Frost at Midnight
46- ROBERT SOUTHEY
‘My days among the Dead are passed…’
After Blenheim
47- CHARLES LAMB
The Old Familiar Faces
A Farewell to Tobacco
48- THOMAS CAMPBELL
The Soldier’s Dream
Hohenlinden
‘Ye Mariners of England…’
49- JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT
The Nile
Abou Ben Adhem
50- GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, LORD BYRON
‘When we two parted…’
‘She walks in beauty…’
The Incantation
Waterloo
Darkness
‘So, we’ll go no more a roving…’
The Poet’s Song to Don Juan and Haidee
51- CHARLES WOLFE
The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna
52- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Ode to the West Wind
The Cloud
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
‘When the lamp is shatter’d…’
Ozymandias
‘Music, when soft voices die…’
Adonais
53- JOHN KEATS
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Autumn
La Belle Dame sans Merci
54- THOMAS HOOD
‘I remember, I remember…’
The Song of the Shirt
55- EDWARD FITZGERALD
Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr
56- ALFRED TENNYSON, LORD TENNYSON
Mariana
The Lady of Shalott
The Lotos-Eaters
Ulysses
Tithonus
To Virgil
Morte d’Arthur
Crossing the Bar
57- ROBERT BROWNING
The Lost Leader
My Last Duchess
Meeting at Night
Home-Toughts, from Abroad
Porphyria’s Lover
Rabbi Ben Ezra
Prospice
58- ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
‘Say not the struggle nought availeth…’
59- MATTHEW ARNOLD
Requiescat
The Scholar Gipsy
Rugby Chapel
Dover Beach
60- DANTE GABRIEL ROSETTI
The Blessed Damozel
INDEX OF AUTHORS
INDEX OF FIRST LINES