CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Pago 13 25 27 29 30 . 33 34 35 EDMUND SPENSER. Faëry Queen Merchant of Venice, Act v., sc. i. Hamlet, Act i., sc. iii. Look Home EDWARD VERE. Fancy and Desire CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. The passionate Shepherd to his Love SAMUEL DANIEL. Richard the Second, the morning before his murder in Pomfret Castle GILES FLETCHER. Mercy dwelling in Heaven, and pleading for the Guilty, with Justice described by her Qualities The Palace of Presumption . Happiness of the Shepherd's Life THOMAS LODGE. Rosader's Sonetto Rosalind's Madrigal LORD VAUX 36 37 38 40 42 43 44 45 Pago . BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 46 Sleep 48 Melancholy 48 GEORGE HERBERT 49 MICHAEL DRAYTON. Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine 49 The Lady Geraldine to Henry Howard, earl of Surrey 54 THOMAS MIDDLETON. Leantio's Approach to his Home . 57 BENJAMIN JONSON. From Cynthia's Revels 58 From the Silent Woman 58 Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, sister to Philip Sidney. 59 On Lucy, countess of Bedford 59 To Celia 59 Song of Night 60 Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H. 60 SIR HENRY WOTTON 61 WILLIAM DRUMMOND. Sonnets 62-64 CATHARINE PHILLIPS. The Inquiry 64 JAMES SHIRLEY. Death 66 WILLIAM STRODE. Music 67 SIMON WASTELL. Man. 67 . ROBERT HERRICK. . Song . The Country Life The Motto . 68 69 69 70 70 73 . · 150 Page Of Myself 74 The Complaint 75 The Wish. 79 The Praise of Poetry 80 Of Solitude 81 GEORGE WITHER 83 DR. HENRY KING. Sic Vita 87 The Dirge 87 JOHN MILTON. L'Allegro 88 Il Penseroso 92 Lycidas 97 Comus 103 Paradise Lost 132 Address to Light 149 Eve's Dream From Paradise Regained 156 ANDREW MARVELL. Bermudas 158 The Nymph complaining for the Death of her Fawn 159 The Garden 162 ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA. Retreat . 164 SAMUEL BUTLER. .Hudibras · 166 EDMUND WALLER. Song : 171 HENRY VAUGHAN. Early Rising and Prayer 172 The Timber The Rainbow . 174 The Wreath 174 JOHN DRYDEN. Alexander's Feast 175 Character of Shaftesbury . 179 Character of Zimri . 180 Description of Lycurgus king of Thrace, and of Emetrius king of Inde 181 . 173 . . . . . . . Pago From Cymon and Iphigenia 183 From the Flower and the Leaf . 186 Religio Laici 190 JOHN POMFRET. The Choice 195 THOMAS PARNELL. A Night-Piece on Death . 199 The Hermit . 202 Piety, or the Vision 208 Hymn to Contentment 211 JOHN PHILLIPS. The Splendid Shilling . 214 JOSEPH ADDISON. A Letter from Italy 218 Paraphrase on Psalm xxiii. 222 An Ode 222 MATTHEW PRIOR. The Chameleon 224 Protogenes and Apelles 225 To the Hon. Charles Montague, Esq. 228 JOHN GAY. A Welcome from Greece. To Mr. Pope 229 THOMAS TICKELL. Colin and Lucy 234 To the Earl of Warwick on the Death of Mr. Addison 236 ALEXANDER POPE. The Messiah 242 Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 243 Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 245 Epilogue to the Satires 256 Epistle to Robert earl of Oxford, and Earl of Mortimer 263 JONATHAN SWIFT. On Poetry : 264 THOMAS WARTON. Retirement 275 ROBERT BLAIR. From “ The Grave" 276 239 JAMES THOMSON. The Castle of Indolence ISAAC WATTS. Few Happy Matches AMBROSE PHILLIPS. A Fragment of Sappho Ode The Passions Grongar Hill EDWARD YOUNG. Uncertainty of Human Happiness Complaint for Narcissa MARK AKENSIDE. From the Pleasures of Imagination DAVID MALLETT. William and Margaret WILLIAM SHENSTONE. Ode to Memory CHARLES WESLEY. Hymn of Praise Communion with God' THOMAS CHATTERTON. Mynstrelle's Song TOBIAS SMOLLETT. Ode to Independence JOHN CUNNINGHAM. May-Eve, or Kate of Aberdeen JOHN LANGHORNE. Owen of Carron. Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College |