The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-speaking World, Volume 1

Front Cover
Richard Aldington
Viking Press, 1958 - 1297 pages

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
FROM The Wife of Baths Tale
14
ANONYMOUS 15TH CENTURY
20
How Butler How
25
WILLIAM DUNBAR 14601520?
32
FROM The Death of Robin Hood
38
Waly Waly
51
Joseph Was an Old Man
58
GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER 1588?1623
318
HENRY KING 15921669
338
JAMES SHIRLEY 15961666
347
ANONYMOUS 17TH CENTURY
353
WILLIAM HABINGTON 16051654
378
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT 16061668
384
Penseroso
393
TO THE OCEAN NOW I FLY
401

ANONYMOUS 15TH16TH CENTURY
64
SIR THOMAS WYATT 15031542
76
NICHOLAS BRETON 15421626
82
SIR EDWARD DYER 1545?1607
89
EDMUND SPENSER 15521599
98
ANTHONY MUNDAY 15531633
120
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 15541586
125
ROBERT GREENE 1560?1592
139
GEORGE CHAPMAN 15601634
145
FROM The Sixth Book of Homers Iliads
148
HENRY CONSTABLE 1562?1613?
154
To the Virginian Voyage
161
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 15641593
168
FROM The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great
174
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 15641616
180
IF IT DO COME TO PASS
187
FIE ON SINFUL FANTASY
192
Sonnets
199
THAT TIME OF YEAR THOU MAYST IN ME BEHOLD
205
POOR SOUL THE CENTRE OF MY SINFUL EARTH
208
Turn All Thy Thoughts
215
RoseCheekd Laura Come
221
SIR ROBERT AYTOUN 15701638
224
FROM The Alchemist 1610
241
JOHN DONNE 15731631
244
A Hymn to Christ
262
JOHN MARSTON 1575?1634
268
CYRIL TOURNEUR 1575?1626
273
CareCharming Sleep
279
Roses Their Sharp Spines
285
SIR JOHN BEAUMONT 15831627
293
FRANCIS BEAUMONT 15841616
299
GILES EARLE 15?16?
305
GEORGE WITHER 15881667
311
To the Lord General Cromwell
407
FROM Samson Agonistes
413
I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart
422
THIS STURDY SQUIRE HE HAD AS WELL
429
RICHARD CRASHAW 1613?1649
430
JOHN CLEVELAND 16131658
440
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667
447
ANDREW MARVELL 16211678
455
HENRY VAUGHAN 16221695
462
They Are All Gone
469
JOHN DRYDEN 16311700
478
FROM MacFlecknoe
490
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY 16391701
497
JOHN OLDHAM 16531683
507
ANNE FINCH COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA 1661P1720
510
FROM On the Death of Doctor Swift
516
JOHN GAY 16851732
522
HENRY CAREY 16871743
527
FROM Eloisa to Abelard
535
Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton
542
ROBERT BLAIR 16991746
543
FROM Spring
549
WILLIAM THOMPSON 1712?1766?
555
FRANCIS FAWKES 17201777
570
JANE ELLIOT 17271805
582
JOHN SCOTT OF AMWELL 17301783
588
SAMUEL BISHOP 17311795
596
MICHAEL BRUCE 17461767
601
ANONYMOUS 18TH CENTURY
608
Infant
614
ROBERT BURNS 17591796
625
WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES 17621850
654
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