THIS BOOK "Unstable dream, according to the place" "Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green" “Time wasteth years, and months, and hours” "Youth made a fault through lightness of Belief” “Why live I, wretch, and see my joys decay" "Look, Delia, how we esteem the half-blown rose "Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable night' "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and "You, best discern'd of my mind's inward eyes" “When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" 16 PAGE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 17 18 19 20 21 22 "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" "Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now "From you have I been absent in the spring" "When in the chronicle of wasted time" "O, never say that I was false of heart" "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" "What potions have I drunk of Siren tears " "The expense of spirit in a waste of shame " "Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth" WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING "Ah thou, my love, wilt lose thyself at last " THOMAS CAMPION "Thrice toss those oaken ashes in the air" BARNABE BARNES "Ah, sweet Content! where is thy mild abode" JOHN DONNE 23 24 25 26 27 28 "Death! be not proud, though some have called thee" 29 WILLIAM DRUMMOND "The sun is fair when he with crimson crown" “That I so slenderly set forth my mind " "As, in a dusky and tempestuous night" "These eyes, dear Lord, once tapers of desire" WILLIAM HABINGTON To Castara To Castara JOHN MILTON To the Nightingale On his Blindness On his Deceased Wife WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To Sleep "Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind" WILLIAM WORDSWORTH "The world is too much with us: late and soon "9 To a Snow-Drop Composed upon Westminster Bridge The Infant M- M "Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest" Composed in the Valley near Dover Mutability ROBERT SOUTHEY Winter CHARLES LAMB 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 "In Christian world Mary the garland wears!" "Long time a child, and still a child, when years" Homer "Think upon Death, 'tis good to think of Death” THOMAS HOOD "Love, dearest Lady, such as I would speak" PAGE HILAIRE BELLOC December ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Regret SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD "Gaily and greenly let my seasons run" MATHILDE BLIND Suffering The Agnostic New Year's Eve WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT To Manon. Depreciating her beauty On the Shortness of Time To Juliet. Fear has cast out Love The Venus of Milo ROBERT BRIDGES "Winter was not unkind because uncouth" ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Sonnets from the Portuguese (XXII) ROBERT BUCHANAN We are Fatherless When we are all Asleep The Cup of Tears Earth's Eldest Born 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 |