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Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

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  1. 1The Life of Edmund Waller
  2. 2Miscellaneous
  3. 3Dedication
  4. 4Epigraph — Dedication
  5. 5Epigraph
  6. 6Dedication
  7. 7Translated Out of French
  8. 8Denham’s Poems
  9. 9The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller
  10. 10Of His Majesty’s Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham’s
  11. 11On the Taking of Sallè
  12. 12Upon His Majesty’s Repairing of St Paul’s
  13. 13The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning
  14. 14In Answer to One Who Writ a Libel Against the Countess of Carlisle
  15. 15Of Her Chamber
  16. 16Thyrsis, Galatea
  17. 17On My Lady Dorothy Sidney’s Picture
  18. 18At Penshurst
  19. 19Of the Lady Who Can Sleep When She Pleases
  20. 20Of the Misreport of Her Being Painted
  21. 21Of Her Passing Through a Crowd of People
  22. 22The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied
  23. 23On the Friendship Betwixt Saccharissa and Amoret
  24. 24At Penshurst
  25. 25The Battle of the Summer Islands
  26. 26Canto II
  27. 27Canto III
  28. 28Of the Queen
  29. 29The Apology of Sleep, for Not Approaching the Lady Who Can Do Anyth…
  30. 30Puerperium
  31. 31À la Malade
  32. 32Upon the Death of My Lady Rich
  33. 33Of Love
  34. 34For Drinking of Healths
  35. 35Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute
  36. 36Of Mrs Arden
  37. 37Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs
  38. 38Love’s Farewell
  39. 39From a Child
  40. 40On a Girdle
  41. 41The Fall
  42. 42Of Sylvia
  43. 43The Bud
  44. 44On the Discovery of a Lady’s Painting
  45. 45Of Loving at First Sight
  46. 46The Self-Banished
  47. 47A Panegyric to My Lord Protector, of the Present Greatness, and Joi…
  48. 48On the Head of a Stag
  49. 49The Miser’s Speech. In a Masque
  50. 50Chloris and Hylas. Made to a Saraband
  51. 51In Answer of Sir John Suckling’s Verses
  52. 52An Apology for Having Loved Before
  53. 53The Night-Piece; or, a Picture Drawn in the Dark
  54. 54On the Picture of a Fair Youth, Taken After He Was Dead
  55. 55On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies
  56. 56Of a War With Spain, and Fight at Sea
  57. 57Upon the Death of the Lord Protector
  58. 58On St James’s Park, as Lately Improved by His Majesty
  59. 59Upon Her Majesty’s New Buildings at Somerset House
  60. 60Of a Tree Cut in Paper
  61. 61Verses to Dr George Rogers, on His Taking the Degree of Doctor of P…
  62. 62Of English Verse
  63. 63These Verses Were Writ in the Tasso of Her Royal Highness
  64. 64The Triple Combat
  65. 65Upon Our Late Loss of the Duke of Cambridge
  66. 66Of the Lady Mary, Princess of Orange
  67. 67Upon Ben Jonson
  68. 68On Mr John Fletcher’s Plays
  69. 69Upon the Earl of Roscommon’s Translation of Horace, ‘De Arte Poetic…
  70. 70On the Duke of Monmouth’s Expedition Into Scotland in the Summer So…
  71. 71Of an Elegy Made by Mrs Wharton on the Earl of Rochester
  72. 72Of Her Majesty, on New-Year’s Day, 1683
  73. 73Of Tea, Commended by Her Majesty
  74. 74Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks, in the Year 1683
  75. 75A Presage of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire; Presented to His Majes…
  76. 76Epistles
  77. 77The Country to My Lady Carlisle
  78. 78To Phyllis
  79. 79To the Queen-Mother of France, Upon Her Landing
  80. 80To Vandyck
  81. 81To My Lord of Leicester
  82. 82To Mrs Braughton, Servant to Saccharissa
  83. 83To My Young Lady Lucy Sidney
  84. 84To Amoret
  85. 85To My Lord of Falkland
  86. 86To My Lord Northumberland, Upon the Death of His Lady
  87. 87To My Lord Admiral, of His Late Sickness and Recovery
  88. 88To the Queen, Occasioned Upon Sight of Her Majesty’s Picture
  89. 89To Amoret
  90. 90To Phyllis
  91. 91To Sir William Davenant, Upon His Two First Books of Gondibert. Wri…
  92. 92To My Worthy Friend, Mr Wase, the Translator of Gratius
  93. 93To a Friend, on the Different Success of Their Loves
  94. 94To Zelinda
  95. 95To My Lady Morton, on New-Year’s Day, at the Louvre in Paris
  96. 96To a Fair Lady, Playing With a Snake
  97. 97To His Worthy Friend Master Evelyn, Upon His Translation of ‘Lucret…
  98. 98To His Worthy Friend Sir Thomas Higgons, Upon His Translation of ‘T…
  99. 99To a Lady Singing a Song of His Composing
  100. 100To the Mutable Fair
  101. 101To a Lady, From Whom He Received a Silver Pen
  102. 102To Chloris
  103. 103To a Lady in Retirement
  104. 104To Mr George Sandys, on His Translation of Some Parts of the Bible
  105. 105To the King, Upon His Majesty’s Happy Return
  106. 106To the Queen, Upon Her Majesty’s Birthday, After Her Happy Recovery…
  107. 107To a Person of Honour, Upon His Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem…
  108. 108To the Duchess of Orleans, When She Was Taking Leave of the Court a…
  109. 109To Chloris
  110. 110To the King
  111. 111To the Duchess, When He Presented This Book to Her Royal Highness
  112. 112To Mr Creech, on His Translation of ‘Lucretius’
  113. 113Songs
  114. 114Peace, Babbling Muse!
  115. 115Chloris! Farewell
  116. 116To Flavia
  117. 117Behold the Brand of Beauty Toss’d!
  118. 118While I Listen to Thy Voice
  119. 119Go, Lovely Rose!
  120. 120Sung by Mrs Knight to Her Majesty, on Her Birthday
  121. 121Song
  122. 122Prologues and Epilogues
  123. 123Prologue to the ‘Maid’s Tragedy’
  124. 124Epilogue to the ‘Maid’s Tragedy.’ Spoken by the King
  125. 125Epigrams, Epitaphs, and Fragments
  126. 126Of a Lady Who Writ in Praise of Mira
  127. 127To One Married to an Old Man
  128. 128An Epigram on a Painted Lady With Ill Teeth
  129. 129Epigram Upon the Golden Medal
  130. 130Written on a Card That Her Majesty Tore at Ombre
  131. 131To Mr Granville (Now Lord Lansdowne), on His Verses to King James II
  132. 132Long and Short Life · Translated Out of Spanish — Translated Out of…
  133. 133Some Verses of an Imperfect Copy, Designed for a Friend, on His Tra…
  134. 134On the Statue of King Charles I., at Charing Cross, in the Year 1674
  135. 135Pride
  136. 136Epitaph on Sir George Speke
  137. 137Epitaph on Colonel Charles Cavendish
  138. 138Epitaph on the Lady Sedley
  139. 139Epitaph, to Be Written Under the Latin Inscription Upon the Tomb of…
  140. 140Epitaph Unfinished
  141. 141Divine Poems. Of Divine Love. A Poem in Six Cantos
  142. 142Canto I
  143. 143Canto II
  144. 144Canto III
  145. 145Canto IV
  146. 146Canto V
  147. 147Canto VI
  148. 148Of the Fear of God. in Two Cantos
  149. 149Canto II
  150. 150Canto I
  151. 151Canto II
  152. 152On the Paraphrase of the Lord’s Prayer. Written by Mrs Wharton
  153. 153Some Reflections of His Upon the Several Petitions in the Same Prayer
  154. 154On the Foregoing Divine Poems
  155. 155End of Waller’s Poems — The Poetical Works of Sir John Denham — Lif…
  156. 156Denham’s Poetical Works — Poems Upon Several Occasions Cooper’s Hill
  157. 157The Destruction of Troy
  158. 158On the Earl of Strafford’s Trial and Death
  159. 159On Mr Thomas Killigrew’s Return From Venice, and Mr William Murrey’…
  160. 160To Sir John Mennis, Being Invited From Calais to Boulogne, to Eat a…
  161. 161Natura Naturata
  162. 162Sarpedon’s Speech to Glaucus, in the Twelfth Book of Homer
  163. 163Friendship and Single Life, Against Love and Marriage
  164. 164On Mr Abraham Cowley, His Death, and Burial Amongst the Ancient Poets
  165. 165A Speech Against Peace at the Close Committee
  166. 166To the Five Members of the Honourable House of Commons, the Humble…
  167. 167A Western Wonder
  168. 168A Second Western Wonder
  169. 169A Song
  170. 170To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon His Translation of ‘Pastor Fido’
  171. 171To the Hon. Edward Howard, on ‘The British Princes’
  172. 172An Occasional Imitation of a Modern Author Upon the Game of Chess
  173. 173The Passion of Dido for Aeneas
  174. 174Of Justice
  175. 175The Progress of Learning
  176. 176Elegy on the Death of Henry Lord Hastings, 1650
  177. 177Of Old Age
  178. 178The First Part
  179. 179The Second Part
  180. 180The Third Part
  181. 181The Fourth Part

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