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I got me flowers to straw Thy way; I got me boughs off many a tree: But Thou wast up by break of day,
And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee.
PREFACE
ANONYMOUS
CONTENTS
Be my comfort, Christ Jesus!
Prayer of Richard de Castre
Quia Amore Langueo
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340?-1400)
Virginibus Puerisque
SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552?-1618)
Pilgrimage
Written in His Bible the Night before His
Execution
EDMUND SPENSER (1552?-1599)
The Ministry of Angels
Easter Day
The Love of Christ.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)
Sonnet
MARY COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1555?-1621)
Psalm cxxxix
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554-
1628)
Faith and Works
19
21
ROBERT SOUTHWELL (1561?-1595)
The Burning Babe
Man's Civil War
At Home in Heaven
Lost Grace
23
24
25
26
SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619)
Faith and Form
Works
HENRY CONSTABLE (1562-1613)
To St Margaret
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
Soul and Body
THOMAS CAMPION (?-1619)
The Christian Stoic
Song
A. W.
Dialogue
Though late, my heart, yet turn at last
F. B. P.
Urbs Beata Hierusalem.
The Invitation
The Heart's Chambers
Confession
A Royal Guest
SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)
Self-Knowledge
Self-Ignorance
SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568-1639)
The Character of a Happy Life
JOHN DONNE, Dean of St Paul's (1573-1631)
Four Sonnets:
I. Thou hast made me, and shall Thy
work decay?.
JOHN DONNE-continued
II. As due by many titles, I resign
III. At the round earth's imagin'd
corners blow
IV. Death, be not proud, though some
have called thee
BEN JONSON (1573?-1647)
An Hymn to God the Father
To Heaven
The Fortress of Mansoul.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1585-1649)
A Hymn of the Resurrection
Faith without Works
Change should breed Change
No Trust in Time .
ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)
Litany
Eternity.
To his Conscience
Lent
To Death
To find God
Upon God
Humility
GILES FLETCHER (1588?-1623)
The Incarnation
The Passion
The Resurrection
Earth and Heaven
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GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)
From "The Church Porch"
Education
Wealth
A Wreath
100
RICHARD CRASHAW (1613?-1640)
A Hymn of the Nativity.
Christ when He died
106
108
IIO
III
114
116