- 1Preface
- 2Part the First
- 3II — Love the Only Price of Love
- 4III — A Poesy to Prove Affection Is Not Love
- 5IV — Life
- 6V — Natural Comparisons With Perfect Love
- 7VI — The Soul’s Errand
- 8VII — 1 — Mundus Qualis
- 9VIII — The Story of a Summer Day
- 10IX — A Vow to Love Faithfully, Howsoever He Be Rewarded
- 11X — An Appeal
- 12XI — A Renunciation
- 13XII — The Excellency of His Love
- 14XIII
- 15XIV — To His Forsaken Mistress
- 16XV — The Shepherds Farewell
- 17XVI — Sonnet
- 18XVII — Sonnet
- 19XVIII — A Vision Upon the Fairy Queen
- 20XIX — The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
- 21XX — The Answer
- 22XXI — Samela
- 23XXII — Silent Music
- 24XXIII — Triumph of Charis
- 25XXIV — A Bridal Song
- 26XXV — Sonnet
- 27XXVI — Sonnet
- 28XXVII — Sonnet
- 29XXVIII — Sonnet
- 30XXIX — Sonnet
- 31XXX — Sonnet
- 32XXXI — Sonnet
- 33XXXII — Sonnet
- 34XXXIII — Sonnet
- 35XXXIV — Sonnet
- 36XXXV — Sonnet
- 37XXXVI — A Sad Song
- 38XXXVII — Invocation to Sleep
- 39XXXVIII — Song
- 40XXXIX — The Shepherd’s Praise of His Sacred Diana
- 41XL — True Growth
- 42XLI — The Battle of Agincourt
- 43XLII — To Himself
- 44XLIII — Melancholy
- 45XLIV — Lewd Love Is Loss
- 46XLV — To the World. A Farewell for a Gentlewoman, Virtuous and Noble
- 47XLVI — To the Memory of Ben Jonson
- 48XLVII — A Contented Mind
- 49XLVIII — Sonnet
- 50XLIX — Sonnet
- 51L — Times Go by Turns
- 52Li — Life a Bubble
- 53LII — Man’s Mortality
- 54LIII — Of My Dear Son Gervase Beaumont
- 55LIV — Dirge
- 56LV — On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey
- 57LVI — Death’s Final Conquest
- 58LVII — The Same
- 59LVIII — Lines Written by One in the Tower, Being Young and Condemne…
- 60LIX — Lines Written the Night Before His Execution
- 61LX — Sonnet
- 62LXI — The Heavenly Jerusalem
- 63Part the Second
- 64LXIII — Winifreda
- 65LXIV — A Lecture Upon the Shadow
- 66LXV — Song
- 67LXVI — The Primrose
- 68LXVII — True Loveliness
- 69LXVIII — The Rose’s Message
- 70LXIX — The Roses Pride
- 71LXX — To Castara. The Reward of Innocent Love
- 72LXXI — Love’s Anniversary. To the Sun
- 73LXXII — The Surrender
- 74LXXIII — The Bride’s Tragedy
- 75LXXIV — Burd Helen
- 76LXXV — Love’s Enterprise
- 77LXXVI — The Twa Brothers
- 78LXXVII — The Twa Sisters
- 79LXXVIII — To a Virtuous Young Lady
- 80LXXIX — Eyes and Tears
- 81LXXX — To My Worthy Friend Master George Sandys, on His Translation…
- 82LXXXI — The Flower
- 83LXXXII — God Unsearchable
- 84LXXXIII — At a Solemn Music
- 85LXXXIV — The Rainbow
- 86LXXXV — L’Allegro
- 87LXXXVI — Il Penseroso
- 88LXXXVII — Contentation
- 89LXXXVIII — In Praise of Hope
- 90LXXXIX — Prologue
- 91XC — Prologue
- 92XCI — Distiches
- 93XCII — Fame Unmerited
- 94XCIII — On the Death of Prince Henry, Son of James the First
- 95XCIV — On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia
- 96XCV — Lord Strafford’s Meditations in the Tower
- 97XCVI — I’ll Never Love Thee More
- 98XCVII — To Althea From Prison
- 99XCVIII — To Lucasta, on Going Beyond the Seas
- 100XCIX — A Cavalier War-Song
- 101C — The Soldier Going to the Field
- 102CI — Loyalty Confined
- 103CII — A Royal Lamentation
- 104CIII — Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From Ireland
- 105CIV — On the Late Massacre in Piemont
- 106CV — Hymn to Light
- 107CVI — To the Royal Society
- 108CVII — The Dream
- 109CVIII — The Dirge
- 110CIX — Paraphrase From Seneca
- 111CX — Vanished Blessings
- 112CXI — Epitaph — CXII — The World’s Fallacies
- 113CXIII — To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
- 114CXIV — An Epitaph on the Excellent Countess of Huntingdon
- 115CXV — A Pagan Epitaph
- 116CXVI — On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, My Christ…
- 117CXVII — An Epitaph Upon Husband and Wife, Who Died and Were Buried…
- 118CXVIII — Epitaph
- 119CXIX — Epitaph on Companions Left Behind in the Northern Seas
- 120CXX — Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers
- 121CXXI — Exequy on His Wife
- 122CXXII — Epitaph
- 123CXXIII — Sonnet
- 124CXXIV — Sonnet
- 125CXXV — Lycidas
- 126CXXVI — The Christian’s Reply to the Philosopher
- 127CXXVII — Mortification
- 128CXXVIII — The Retreat
- 129CXXIX — A Drop of Dew
- 130CXXX — Peace
- 131CXXXI — Evening Hymn
- 132CXXXII — The Valediction
- 133CXXXIII — Hymn for Advent; or Christ’s Coming to Jerusalem in Triumph
- 134CXXXIV — Beyond the Veil
- 135Part the Third
- 136CXXXVI — Stella’s Birthday. 1720
- 137CXXXVII — On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America
- 138CXXXVIII — The Lawyer’s Farewell to His Muse
- 139CXXXIX — The Jugglers
- 140CXL — Rule Britannia
- 141CXLI — Admiral Hosier’s Ghost
- 142CXLII — Lament for Flodden
- 143CXLIII — Wae’s Me for Prince Charlie
- 144CXLIV — An Ode
- 145CXLV — Ode
- 146CXLVI — Ode to the Cuckoo
- 147CXLVII — Ode to Evening
- 148CXLVIII — To a Mountain Daisy
- 149CXLIX — On the Death of Richard West
- 150CL — To the Honourable Miss Carteret
- 151CLI — To Miss Georgiana Carteret
- 152CLII — The Dying Lover
- 153CLIII — The Sailor’s Return
- 154CLIV — The Banks of Doon
- 155CLV — The Braes of Yarrow
- 156CLVI — Auld Robin Gray
- 157CLVII — The Progress of Poesy
- 158CLVIII — Sonnet
- 159CLIX — To the River Lodon
- 160CLX — To Mary Unwin
- 161CLXI — To the Same
- 162CLXII — To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison
- 163CLXIII — Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
- 164CLXIV — On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet
- 165CLXV — Highland Mary
- 166CLXVI — The Cast-Away
- 167CLXVII — The Land o’ the Leal
- 168CLXVIII — Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard
- 169CLXIX — Wrestling Jacob
- 170Part the Fourth
- 171CLXXI — The Rainbow
- 172CLXXII — The Common Lot
- 173CLXXIII — The Holly Tree
- 174CLXXIV — The Squire’s Pew
- 175CLXXV — A Dream
- 176CLXXVI — December Morning
- 177CLXXVII — The Thrush’s Nest
- 178CLXXVIII — Time
- 179CLXXIX — Fancy in Nubibus
- 180CLXXX — Evening
- 181CLXXXI — The Wall-Flower
- 182CLXXXII — The Sea-Cave
- 183CLXXXIII — Holy Thursday
- 184CLXXXIV — On an Antique Gem Bearing the Heads of Pericles and Aspasia
- 185CLXXXV — Love
- 186CLXXXVI — She Walks in Beauty
- 187CLXXXVII — Song
- 188Clxxxviii — The Lonely
- 189CLXXXIX — Proud Maisie
- 190CXC — An Hour With Thee
- 191CXCI — The Fugitives
- 192CXCII — Lucy
- 193CXCIII — Ode to Psyche
- 194CXCIV — The Sunflower
- 195CXCV — Regrets
- 196CXCVI — To a Lofty Beauty, From Her Poor Kinsman
- 197CXCVII — The Grasshopper and the Cricket
- 198CXCVIII — To a Bird That Haunted the Waters of Laken in the Winter
- 199CXCIX — The Sylvan Life
- 200CC — Spring
- 201CCI — The Poetry of Earth
- 202CCII — Sonnet
- 203CCIII — The Destruction of Sennacherib
- 204CCIV — Thrasymene
- 205CCV — The Battle of Naseby
- 206CCVI — Cavalier Song
- 207CCVII — The Battle of the Baltic
- 208CCVIII — Hohenlinden
- 209CCIX — On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
- 210CCX — Composed by the Sea-Side, Near Calais, August, 1802
- 211CCXI — November, 1806
- 212CCXII — The Burial of Sir John Moore
- 213CCXIII — Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
- 214CCXIV — Song
- 215CCXV — To the Memory of Pietro D’Alessandro
- 216CCXVI — Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni
- 217CCXVII — The Danish Boy
- 218CCXVIII — On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye
- 219CCXIX — Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife
- 220CCXX — France: An Ode, 1797
- 221CCXXI — Ode to the West Wind
- 222CCXXII — Ode to a Nightingale
- 223CCXXIII — Ode to a Skylark
- 224CCXXIV — ‘On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year’
- 225CCXXV — Peschiera
- 226CCXXVI — Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, P…
- 227CCXXVII — Ode on a Grecian Urn
- 228CCXXVIII — Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
- 229CCXXIX — Despondency Rebuked
- 230CCXXX — The Light of Other Days
- 231CCXXXI — Dirge
- 232CCXXXII — Lines Written in My Own Album
- 233CCXXXIII — Sonnet
- 234CCXXXIV — Sonnet
- 235CCXXXV — Sonnet
- 236CCXXXVI — The Chimney-Sweeper
- 237CCXXXVII — To the Moon
- 238Ccxxxviii — Song
- 239CCXXXIX — On Another’s Sorrow
- 240CCXL — A Dead Rose
- 241CCXLI — At the Church Gate
- 242CCXLII — On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born
- 243CCXLIII — On the Same
- 244CCXLIV — Fire
- 245CCXLV — On Being Pressed to Go to a Masqued Ball Not Many Months Af…
- 246CCXLVI — The Death Bed
- 247CCXLVII — Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire
- 248CCXLVIII — Time
- 249CCXLIX — She Is Far From the Land
- 250CCL — The Last Man
- 251CCLI — Rose Aylmer
- 252CCLII — The Spring of the Year
- 253CCLIII — Burial of the Dead
- 254CCLIV — The Sleep
- 255CCLV — To the Memory of My Venerable Grandfather-in-Law, Samuel Mar…
- 256CCLVI — The Evening Cloud
- 257CCLVII — Night and Death
- 258Part the Fifth
- 259CCLIX — The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- 260CCLX — Autumn Woods
- 261CCLXI — Lapse
- 262CCLXII — The Humble-Bee
- 263CCLXIII — To a Waterfowl
- 264CCLXIV — Aspiration
- 265CCLXV — The Palm-Tree and the Pine
- 266CCLXVI — A Summer Reminiscence
- 267CCLXVII — Song
- 268CCLXVIII — The Violet
- 269CCLXIX — Joy
- 270CCLXX — The Happy Husband
- 271CCLXXI — Then
- 272CCLXXII — The Prince of Orange in 1672
- 273CCLXXIII — The Private of the Buffs
- 274CCLXXIV — On a Picture by Turner
- 275CCLXXV — The Rhodora
- 276CCLXXVI — The Good Part That Shall Not Be Taken Away
- 277CCLXXVII — In War Time
- 278Cclxxviii — Come Up From the Fields, Father
- 279CCLXXIX — Sonnet
- 280CCLXXX — A Dedication to Charles Dickens of the Life of Oliver Gold…
- 281CCLXXXI — Sonnet
- 282CCLXXXII — The Ugly Princess
- 283Cclxxxiii — Weariness
- 284CCLXXXIV — Song
- 285CCLXXXV — Sonnet
- 286CCLXXXVI — Sonnet
- 287Cclxxxvii — Almond Blossom
- 288Cclxxxviii — Home Thoughts, From Abroad
- 289CCLXXXIX — Home Thoughts, From the Sea
- 290CCXC — James and John
- 291CCXCI — In Memoriam
- 292CCXCII — In Remembrance of the Hon. Edward Ernest Villiers
- 293CCXCIII — For Charlie’s Sake
- 294CCXCIV — The Legend of the Stepmother
- 295CCXCV — The Sands of Dee
- 296CCXCVI — A Dirge
- 297CCXCVII — Death and Life
- 298CCXCVIII — Tithonus
- 299CCXCIX — The Days That Are No More
- 300CCC — Sonnet
- 301CCCI — The Voiceless
- 302CCCII — A Thanksgiving
- 303CCCIII — The Grave
- 304CCCIV — My Psalm
A Household Book of English Poetry
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