| Book First |
| Song on May Morning by John Milton |
| Hymn: To Light by Abraham Cowley |
| On a Drop of Dew by Andrew Marvell |
| The Swallow by Abraham Cowley |
| Song: ‘Look Nymphs, and Shepherds look’ by John Milton |
| Song: ‘O’er the smooth enameld green’ by John Milton |
| Song: ‘Nymphs and Shepherds dance no more’ by John Milton |
| The Merry Beggars by Richard Brome |
| The Garden by Andrew Marvell |
| The Mower against Gardens by Andrew Marvell |
| The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers by Andrew Marvell |
| The Pastime of the Queen of Fairies by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
| The Fountain by Sir Edward Sherburne |
| To the Nightingale by John Milton |
| The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn by Andrew Marvell |
| What Is Love by Robert Heath |
| The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell |
| Love in Thy Youth by Walter Porter |
| Expectation by Thomas Stanley |
| Young Love by Andrew Marvell |
| The Spring by Abraham Cowley |
| We Must Not Part As Others Do—Anonymous |
| The Magnet by Thomas Stanley |
| The Surprise by Sir Edward Sherburne |
| Husbandry by William Hammond |
| The Fair Singer by Andrew Marvell |
| To the Lady May by Aurelian Townsend |
| To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell |
| See’st Not, My Love, with What a Grace by William Bosworth |
| Song: ‘Come, come, thou glorious object of my sight’ by William Killigrew |
| Mounting Hyperboles by Richard Brathwaite |
| No More unto My Thoughts Appear by Sidney Godolphin |
| David’s Song by Abraham Cowley |
| Celia, Sleeping or Singing by Thomas Stanley |
| To His Mistress by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham |
| Phillis Inamorata by Lancelot Andrewes |
| The Mower to the Glow-worms by Andrew Marvell |
| A Mock Song by Alexander Brome |
| The Kiss by Thomas Stanley |
| Weeping and Kissing by Sir Edward Sherburne |
| The Mower’s Song by Andrew Marvell |
| The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley |
| Fuscara, or the Bee Errant by John Cleveland |
| Greedy Lover Pause Awhile by John Wilson |
| To Julia to Expedite Her Promise by John Cleveland |
| Upon Black Eyes and Becoming Frowns by James Howell |
| When on Mine Eyes Her Eyes First Shone by John Wilson |
| To Cynthia by Sir Francis Kynaston |
| Novo Inamoramento by Sir Edward Sherburne |
| Mercury Complaining by Aurelian Townsend |
| The Resolve by Alexander Brome |
| The Vow by Sir Edward Sherburne |
| The Relapse by Thomas Stanley |
| The Sweetmeat by Sir Edward Sherburne |
| The Forsaken Maid by William Hammond |
| The Disposition by Thomas Stanley |
| Humility by Richard Brome |
| Change Defended by Sir Edward Sherburne |
| The Exequies by Thomas Stanley |
| The Parting by Thomas Stanley |
| The Tomb by Thomas Stanley |
| To the State of Love; Or the Senses’ Festival by John Cleveland |
| Friendship and Single Life, against Love and Marriage by Sir John Denham |
| Epithalamium by Samuel Sheppard |
| Childhood by Henry Vaughan |
| The Burial of an Infant by Henry Vaughan |
| Song: ‘See, O see!’ by George Digby, Earl of Bristol |
| Eyes and Tears by Andrew Marvell |
| The Rainbow by Henry Vaughan |
| For Hope by Abraham Cowley |
| A Wish by Abraham Cowley |
| The Wish by Abraham Cowley |
| To a Virtuous Young Lady by John Milton |
| On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-three by John Milton |
| To the Royal Society by Abraham Cowley |
| Ode of Wit by Abraham Cowley |
| To the Lord General Cromwell by John Milton |
| An Horatian Ode by Andrew Marvell |
| Brutus by Abraham Cowley |
| On Shakespear 1630 by John Milton |
| On Paradise Lost by Andrew Marvell |
| To the Lady Margaret Ley by John Milton |
| To Mr. Lawrence by John Milton |
| To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton |
| To Mr. Hobbes by Abraham Cowley |
| Upon Tom of Christ Church, Oxford by John Cleveland |
| When the Assault Was Intended to the City by John Milton |
| On the Late Massacher in Piemont by John Milton |
| Abel’s Blood by Henry Vaughan |
| The Rebel Scot by John Cleveland |
| Sailors for My Money by Martin Parker |
| Song by Lady Happy, as a Sea-Goddess by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
| The Star That Bids the Shepherd Fold by John Milton |
| Song: ‘Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv’st unseen’ by John Milton |
| Song: ‘Sabrina fair’ by John Milton |
| To the Ocean Now I Fly by John Milton |
| Themista’s Reproof by Richard Brathwaite |
| Poets and Their Theft by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
| The Author’s Apology for His Book by John Bunyan |
| An Epilogue by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
| Drinking by Abraham Cowley |
| The Epicure by Abraham Cowley |
| Another by Abraham Cowley |
| The Excellency of Wine by Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery |
| The Healths by Patrick Cary |
| Loyalty Confined by Sir Roger L’Estrange |
| Lord Stafford’s Meditations in the Tower—Anonymous |
| A Royal Lamentation by King Charles I. |
| L’Allegro by John Milton |
| Il Penseroso by John Milton |
| A Poetic Descant upon a Private Music-Meeting by Edward Benlowes |
| At a Solemn Musick by John Milton |
| Man by Henry Vaughan |
| Upon the Weakness and Misery of Man by Samuel Butler |
| On Time by John Milton |
| The Retreat by Henry Vaughan |
| Corruption by Henry Vaughan |
| Affliction by Henry Vaughan |
| On His Blindness by John Milton |
| The Pilgrim by John Bunyan |
| The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation by John Bunyan |
| The World by Henry Vaughan |
| The Philosopher’s Devotion by Henry More |
| On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity: First Part by John Milton |
| On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity: The Hymn by John Milton |
| Hymn: ‘Lord, when the wise men came from far’ by Sidney Godolphin |
| Crucifixus Pro Nobis by Patrick Cary |
| The Favour by Henry Vaughan |
| The Eclipse by Henry Vaughan |
| Whilst I Beheld the Neck o’ th’ Dove by Patrick Cary |
| The Coronet by Andrew Marvell |
| Come, Come! What Do I Here? by Henry Vaughan |
| The Morning-Watch by Henry Vaughan |
| The Dawning by Henry Vaughan |
| And Do They So? Have They a Sense by Henry Vaughan |
| The Rock by Thomas Washbourne |
| I Walk’d the Other Day to Spend My Hour by Henry Vaughan |
| Bermudas by Andrew Marvell |
| Peace by Henry Vaughan |
| Evening Hymn by Sir Thomas Browne |
| The Night by Henry Vaughan |
| Song: ‘Morpheus, the humble god, that dwells’ by Sir John Denham |
| They Are All Gone into the World of Light by Henry Vaughan |
| On His Deceased Wife by John Milton |
| To Cynthia by Sir Francis Kynaston |
| Lycidas by John Milton |
| On the Death of Mr. Crashaw by Abraham Cowley |
| On the Death of Mr. William Hervey by Abraham Cowley |
| An Epitaph on Thomas, Third Lord Fairfax by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham |
| On Mr. Abraham Cowley’s Death and Burial among the Ancient Poets by Sir John Denham |
| Epitaph: ‘He whom Heaven did call away’—Anonymous |
| An Epitaph upon— by Andrew Marvell |
| A Pagan Epitaph—Anonymous |
| Epitaph: ‘In this marble casket lies’—Anonymous |
| Epitaph: ‘She on this clayen pillow layed her head’—Anonymous |
| Epitaph: ‘Here lies a piece of Christ’ by Robert Wild |
| The Valediction by Richard Baxter |
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| Book Second |
| Robin Hood and Little John—Anonymous |
| Robin Hood and the King—Anonymous |
| Robin Hood and Allin a Dale—Anonymous |
| Robin Hood Rescuing the Widow’s Three Sons—Anonymous |
| Robin Hood and the Monk—Anonymous |
| Robin Hood and the Butcher—Anonymous |
| Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne—Anonymous |
| Robin Hood’s Death and Burial—Anonymous |
| Sir Patrick Spens—Anonymous |
| The Battle of Otterbourne—Anonymous |
| The Hunting of the Cheviot—Anonymous |
| Kinmont Willie—Anonymous |
| Captain Care or Edom o Gordon—Anonymous |
| The Bonnie House o’ Airly—Anonymous |
| Mary Ambree—Anonymous |
| Bonnie George Campbell—Anonymous |
| Earl Brand—Anonymous |
| Johney Scot—Anonymous |
| The Dowy Houms of Yarrow—Anonymous |
| The Twa Sisters—Anonymous |
| Clerk Saunders—Anonymous |
| Love Gregor; or, the Lass of Lochroyan—Anonymous |
| Child Waters—Anonymous |
| Fair Annie—Anonymous |
| Lord Thomas and Fair Annet—Anonymous |
| Bonny Barbara Allan—Anonymous |
| The Queen’s Marie—Anonymous |
| Lord Donald—Anonymous |
| Edward—Anonymous |
| Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard—Anonymous |
| Thomas the Rhymer—Anonymous |
| Tam Lin—Anonymous |
| Clerk Colvill—Anonymous |
| The Wife of Usher’s Well—Anonymous |
| Fine Flowers in the Valley—Anonymous |
| The Daemon Lover—Anonymous |
| The Three Ravens—Anonymous |
| The Twa Corbies—Anonymous |
| A Lyke-Wake Dirge—Anonymous |
| Bessie Bell and Mary Gray—Anonymous |
| Burd Helen—Anonymous |
| Annan Water—Anonymous |
| Willie Drowned in Yarrow—Anonymous |
| There Was a Maid Came out of Kent—Anonymous |
| The Gay Goshawk—Anonymous |
| Hind Horn—Anonymous |
| The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington—Anonymous |
| St. Stephen and Herod—Anonymous |
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| Book Third |
| The Salutation by Thomas Traherne |
| A Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going out of the Town in the Spring by John Dryden |
| Come, Sweet Lass by Thomas D’Urfey |
| To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
| To Mrs. M. A. at Parting by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
| The Enquiry by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
| On an Hour-Glass by John Hall |
| Dumbness by Thomas Traherne |
| Hunting-Song by John Dryden |
| Harvest Home by John Dryden |
| Incantation by John Dryden |
| Incantation by John Dryden |
| Song: ‘Hear, ye sullen powers below!’ by John Dryden |
| Thamesis’ Song by John Dryden |
| A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day by John Dryden |
| Alexander’s Feast; Or, the Power of Music by John Dryden |
| The Choice by Thomas Traherne |
| The Person by Thomas Traherne |
| Contentation by Charles Cotton |
| Upon Nothing by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| To a Very Young Lady by Sir George Etherege |
| To a Very Young Lady by Sir Charles Sedley |
| Love’s New Philosophy by Philip Ayres |
| Love Will Find out the Way—Anonymous |
| The Lure by John Hall |
| The Call by John Hall |
| You Pleasing Dreams of Love and Sweet Delight by John Dryden |
| Song: ‘Love in fantastic triumph sate’ by Aphra Behn |
| Love Still Has Something of the Sea by Sir Charles Sedley |
| Les Amours by Charles Cotton |
| The Plaything Changed—Anonymous |
| He or She That Hopes to Gain—Anonymous |
| Song: ‘O Love! that stronger art than wine’ by Aphra Behn |
| The Enchantment by Thomas Otway |
| Constancy by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| Love and Life by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| To His Mistress by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| On the Eyes and Breasts of the Lady on Whom He Was Enamoured—Anonymous |
| The Mistress by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| A Song: ‘My dear mistress has a heart’ by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| Chloe’s Triumph by Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough |
| Roundelay by John Dryden |
| Phillis Knotting by Sir Charles Sedley |
| Ode: ‘Fair Isabel, if ought but thee’ by Charles Cotton |
| Song: ‘Join once again, my Celia’ by Charles Cotton |
| Song: ‘Not, Celia, that I juster am’ by Sir Charles Sedley |
| To a Lady, Asking How Long He Would Love Her by Sir George Etherege |
| Song: ‘Phillis, for shame, let us improve’ by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
| Song: ‘Phillis, men say that all my vows’ by Sir Charles Sedley |
| Song: ‘Ladies, though to your conquering eyes’ by Sir George Etherege |
| Written on a White Fan Borrowed from Miss Osborne, Afterwards His Wife by Francis Atterbury |
| Song: ‘Dorinda’s sparkling wit and eyes’ by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
| Laura Sleeping by Charles Cotton |
| On Lydia Distracted by Philip Ayres |
| On a Fair Beggar by Philip Ayres |
| A Lady to a Young Courtier by Dr. Henry Hughes |
| When I a Lover Pale Do See—Anonymous |
| Song, Written at Sea, in the First Dutch War (1665), the Night before an Engagement by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
| Song: ‘Some thirty or forty or fifty at least’ by Thomas D’Urfey |
| A Scotch Song: ‘Jocky was a dowdy lad’ by Thomas D’Urfey |
| Ladies, Farewell, I Must Retire by James Howard |
| Chloe Divine by Thomas D’Urfey |
| The Fair Stranger by John Dryden |
| Song: ‘Why, dearest, shouldst thou weep, when I relate’ by Charles Cotton |
| To Coelia by Charles Cotton |
| A Song: ‘Absent from thee I languish still’ by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| The Song of Venus by John Dryden |
| Damilcar’s Song by John Dryden |
| May the Ambitions Ever Find by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
| Song: ‘How happy the lover’ by John Dryden |
| Song: ‘In vain, Clemene, you bestow’ by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset |
| To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
| Song: ‘More love or more disdain I crave’ by Charles Webbe |
| Phillada Flouts Me—Anonymous |
| Song: ‘Phillis is my only joy’ by Sir Charles Sedley |
| Song: ‘I feed a flame within, which so torments me’ by John Dryden |
| A Song: ‘Fair, sweet and young, receive a prize’ by John Dryden |
| Song: ‘You charmed me not with that fair face’ by John Dryden |
| Song betwixt a Shepherd and a Shepherdess by John Dryden |
| Song: ‘Dear, from thine arms then let me fly’ by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| Phyllis’s Resolution by William Walsh |
| The Dream by Aphra Behn |
| To Mira by George Granville, Lord Lansdowne |
| Song: ‘How hardly I concealed my tears’ by Anne Wharton |
| Song: ‘The happiest mortals once were we’ by George Granville, Lord Lansdowne |
| A Pastoral Song: ‘As I was sitting on the grass’—Anonymous |
| Song: ‘If she be not kind as fair’ by Sir George Etherege |
| The Defiance by Thomas Flatman |
| Fading Beauty—Anonymous |
| Song: ‘How prodigious is my fate’ by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
| Song: ‘Ye happy swains whose hearts are free’ by Sir George Etherege |
| Song: ‘Farewell, ungrateful traitor!’ by John Dryden |
| To Regina Collier, on Her Cruelty to Philaster by Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) |
| Song: ‘Of all the torments, all the cares’ by William Walsh |
| The Despairing Lover by William Walsh |
| Song: ‘Can life be a blessing’ by John Dryden |
| The Libertine by Aphra Behn |
| Song: ‘When on those lovely looks I gaze’ by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| Song: ‘Give me leave to rail at you’ by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| Song: ‘No, no, poor suffering heart, no change endeavour’ by John Dryden |
| Song: ‘Come, Celia, let’s agree at last’ by John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire |
| Inconstancy Excused by John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire |
| Rondeau by Charles Cotton |
| The Winchester Wedding by Thomas D’Urfey |
| A South Sea Ballad by Edward Ward |
| Upon Drinking in a Bowl by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| Ode: ‘The day is set did earth adorn’ by Charles Cotton |
| The Commons’ Petition to King Charles II. by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| The Victory in Hungary by Thomas Shadwell |
| Lines Printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton by John Dryden |
| Prologues to the University of Oxford, I by John Dryden |
| Prologues to the University of Oxford, II by John Dryden |
| Prologues to the University of Oxford, III by John Dryden |
| A Wish by Thomas Flatman |
| For Thoughts by Thomas Flatman |
| On News by Thomas Traherne |
| The Aspiration by John Norris |
| The Preparative by Thomas Traherne |
| Song: ‘Ah, fading joy! how quickly art thou past!’ by John Dryden |
| Hymn to Darkness by John Norris |
| Sonnet: ‘What has this bugbear Death that’s worth our care?’ by William Walsh |
| Death—A Song by Thomas Flatman |
| Song of the Priestesses by Nahum Tate |
| On His Mistress Drowned by Thomas Sprat |
| Epitaph on Charles II. by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| To the Memory of Mr. Oldham by John Dryden |
| On the Death of Waller by Aphra Behn |
| To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew by John Dryden |
| To His Book by William Walsh |
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| Book Fourth |
| A Description of the Morning by Jonathan Swift |
| An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Earl of Burlington by John Gay |
| A Description of a City Shower by Jonathan Swift |
| Hymn to Contentment by Thomas Parnell |
| The Blind Boy by Colley Cibber |
| To the Nightingale by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
| The Tree by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
| To a Child of Quality by Matthew Prior |
| A Letter to the Honourable Lady Miss Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley by Matthew Prior |
| Song: ‘My days have been so wondrous free’ by Thomas Parnell |
| Secret Love by Peter Anthony Motteux |
| The Rose-bud by William Broome |
| The Poet and the Rose by John Gay |
| Song: ‘See, see, she wakes, Sabina wakes!’ by William Congreve |
| Song: ‘When thy beauty appears’ by Thomas Parnell |
| Song: ‘O ruddier than the cherry!’ by John Gay |
| A Song: ‘If wine and music have the power’ by Matthew Prior |
| A Song: ‘I smile at Love and all its arts’ by Sir John Vanbrugh |
| Song: ‘Only tell her that I love’ by John Cutts, Lord Cutts |
| An Ode: ‘The merchant, to secure his treasure’ by Matthew Prior |
| Sally in Our Alley by Henry Carey |
| Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-eyed Susan by John Gay |
| Song: ‘Pious Selinda goes to prayers’ by William Congreve |
| The Indifferent by William Pattison |
| Amoret by William Congreve |
| To a Lady Making Love by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| Song: ‘Why, lovely charmer, tell me, why’ by Sir Richard Steele |
| The Advice by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| The Answer by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| On a Certain Lady at Court by Alexander Pope |
| Semele to Jupiter by William Congreve |
| The Declaimer by Henry Baker |
| The Answer by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
| Those Arts Which Common Beauties Move by John Oldmixon |
| The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-glass to Venus by Matthew Prior |
| A Song: ‘Persuade me not, there is a grace’ by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
| Verses, Written for the Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax |
| The Question, to Lisetta by Matthew Prior |
| Lisetta’s Reply by Matthew Prior |
| To Chloe by John Oldmixon |
| The Female Phaeton by Matthew Prior |
| To Apollo Making Love by Thomas Tickell |
| A Better Answer by Matthew Prior |
| To a Lady by Matthew Prior |
| False Though She Be to Me and Love by William Congreve |
| To Chloe Weeping by Matthew Prior |
| A Song: ‘In vain you tell your parting lover’ by Matthew Prior |
| An Elegy to an Old Beauty by Thomas Parnell |
| Colin and Lucy by Thomas Tickell |
| A Ballad: ‘’Twas when the seas were roaring’ by John Gay |
| Pastoral: Hylas and Ægon by Alexander Pope |
| Eloïsa to Abelard by Alexander Pope |
| A Pastoral by John Byrom |
| On My Birthday by Matthew Prior |
| Stella’s Birthday, 1720 by Jonathan Swift |
| Stella’s Birthday, March 13, 1727 by Jonathan Swift |
| The Secretary, Written at The Hague by Matthew Prior |
| The Jugglers by John Gay |
| The Goat without a Beard by John Gay |
| The Hare with Many Friends by John Gay |
| Apollo’s Edict by Jonathan Swift |
| An Account of the Greatest English Poets by Joseph Addison |
| Mr. Pope’s Welcome from Greece by John Gay |
| To Sir Godfrey Kneller on His Picture of the King by Joseph Addison |
| Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Being the Prologue to the Satires by Alexander Pope |
| An Epigram by John Byrom |
| On the Death of Dr. Swift by Jonathan Swift |
| Theristes, or the Lordling by Thomas Tickell |
| A Grub Street Elegy by Jonathan Swift |
| On a Fly by William Oldys |
| The Wine Vault by George Alexander Stevens |
| Trifles by George Farquhar |
| Verses, Imitated from the French of Mons. Maynard to Cardinal Richelieu by George Stepney |
| Careless Content by John Byrom |
| Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope |
| The Hermit by Thomas Parnell |
| The Wish by Walter Pope |
| The Change by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
| To the Evening Star by George Stepney |
| A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
| A Hymn for Evening by Thomas Parnell |
| A Night-Piece on Death by Thomas Parnell |
| On the Origin of Evil by John Byrom |
| Divine Ode by Joseph Addison |
| A Cradle Hymn by Isaac Watts |
| The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope |
| To His Soul by Matthew Prior |
| The Dying Christian to His Soul by Alexander Pope |
| The Day of Judgment by Isaac Watts |
| Verses Sent by Lord Melcombe to Dr. Young by George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe |
| On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan by Thomas Tickell |
| To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison by Thomas Tickell |
| Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady by Alexander Pope |
| My Own Epitaph by John Gay |
| For My Own Monument by Matthew Prior |
| Life’s Progress by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
