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The Flower of the Mind

by Alice Meynell

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Anonymous — 13th Century — The First Carol
  3. 3Sir Walter Raleigh 1552–1618 — Verses Before Death
  4. 4Edmund Spenser 1553–1599
  5. 5Fresh Spring
  6. 6Like as a Ship
  7. 7Epithalamion
  8. 8John Lyly 1554(?)–1606 — The Spring
  9. 9Sir Philip Sidney 1554–1586
  10. 10The Moon
  11. 11Kiss
  12. 12Sweet Judge
  13. 13Sleep
  14. 14Wat’red Was My Wine
  15. 15Thomas Lodge 1556–1625
  16. 16Rosaline
  17. 17The Solitary Shepherd’s Song
  18. 18Anonymous — I Saw My Lady Weep
  19. 19George Peele 1558(?)–1597 — Farewell to Arms
  20. 20Robert Greene 1560(?)–1592
  21. 21Sephestia’s Song to Her Child
  22. 22Christopher Marlowe 1562–1593 — The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
  23. 23Samuel Daniel 1562–1619
  24. 24My Spotless Love
  25. 25Michael Drayton 1563–1631 — Since There’s No Help
  26. 26Joshua Sylvester 1563–1618 — Were I as Base
  27. 27William Shakespeare 1564–1616
  28. 28Fancy
  29. 29Under the Greenwood Tree
  30. 30Fairies
  31. 31Come Away
  32. 32Full Fathom Five
  33. 33Dirge
  34. 34Song
  35. 35Song
  36. 36Anonymous — Tom o’ Bedlam
  37. 37Thomas Campion — Circ. 1567–1620
  38. 38Laura
  39. 39Her Backed Bower
  40. 40Follow
  41. 41When Thou Must Home
  42. 42Western Wind
  43. 43Follow Your Saint
  44. 44Cherry-Ripe
  45. 45Thomas Nash 1567–1601 Spring
  46. 46John Donne 1573–1631
  47. 47Death
  48. 48Hymn to God the Father
  49. 49The Funeral
  50. 50Richard Barnefield 1574(?)–(?) — The Nightingale
  51. 51Ben Jonson 1574–1637
  52. 52Jealousy
  53. 53Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H.
  54. 54Hymn to Diana
  55. 55On My First Daughter
  56. 56Echo’s Lament Fob Narcissus
  57. 57An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy, a Child of Queen Elizabeth’s Chapel
  58. 58John Fletcher 1579–1625
  59. 59To Bacchus
  60. 60John Webster (?)–1625
  61. 61Song From the Devil’s Law-Case
  62. 62In Earth, Dirge From Vittoria Corombona
  63. 63William Drummond of Hawthornden 1585–1649
  64. 64Sleep, Silence’ Child
  65. 65To the Nightingale
  66. 66Madrigal I
  67. 67Madrigal II
  68. 68Beaumont and Fletcher — 1586–1616 and 1579–1625 — I Died True
  69. 69Francis Beaumont 1586–1616 on the Tombs in Westminster Abbey
  70. 70Sir Francis Kynaston 1587–1642 to Cynthia, on Concealment of Her Be…
  71. 71Nathaniel Field 1587–1638 Matin Song
  72. 72George Wither 1588–1667 — Sleep, Baby, Sleep!
  73. 73Thomas Carew 1589–1639
  74. 74To My Inconstant Mistress
  75. 75An Hymeneal Dialogue
  76. 76Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
  77. 77Thomas Dekker — Circa 1570–1641
  78. 78Sweet Content
  79. 79Thomas Heywood — 1649? — Good-Morrow
  80. 80Robert Herrick 1591–1674
  81. 81To Meadows
  82. 82To Blossoms
  83. 83To Daffodils
  84. 84To Violets
  85. 85To Primroses
  86. 86To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon
  87. 87To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
  88. 88Dress
  89. 89In Silks
  90. 90Corinna’s Going A-Maying
  91. 91Grace for a Child
  92. 92Ben Jonson
  93. 93George Herbert 1593–1632
  94. 94Virtue
  95. 95Unkindness
  96. 96Love
  97. 97The Pulley
  98. 98The Collar
  99. 99Life
  100. 100Misery
  101. 101James Shirley 1596–1666 Equality
  102. 102Anonymous — Circa 1603 Lullaby
  103. 103Sir William Davenant 1605–1668 Morning
  104. 104Edmund Waller 1605–1687 — The Rose
  105. 105Thomas Randolph 1606–1634? — His Mistress
  106. 106Charles Best — 17th Century — A Sonnet of the Moon
  107. 107John Milton 1608–1674
  108. 108L’Allegro
  109. 109Il Penseroso
  110. 110Lycidas
  111. 111On His Blindness
  112. 112On His Deceased Wife
  113. 113On Shakespeare
  114. 114Song on May Morning
  115. 115Invocation to Sabrina, From Comus
  116. 116Invocation to Echo, From Comus
  117. 117The Attendant Spirit, From Comus
  118. 118James Graham, Marquis of Montrose 1612–1650 — The Vigil of Death
  119. 119Richard Crashaw 1615(?)–1652
  120. 120To the Morning
  121. 121Love’s Horoscope
  122. 122On Mr. G. Herbert’s Book
  123. 123Wishes to His Supposed Mistress
  124. 124Quem Vidistis Pastores, etc — A Hymn of the Nativity, Sung by the S…
  125. 125Music’s Duel
  126. 126The Flaming Heart
  127. 127Abraham Cowley 1618–1667
  128. 128Hymn to the Light
  129. 129Richard Lovelace 1618–1658
  130. 130To Amarantha
  131. 131Lucasta
  132. 132To Althea, From Prison
  133. 133A Guiltless Lady Imprisoned: After Penanced
  134. 134The Rose
  135. 135Andrew Marvell 1620–1678
  136. 136The Picture of T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
  137. 137The Nymph Complaining of the Death of Her Fawn
  138. 138The Definition of Love
  139. 139The Garden
  140. 140Henry Vaughan 1621–1695
  141. 141Childhood
  142. 142Corruption
  143. 143The Night
  144. 144The Eclipse
  145. 145The Retreat
  146. 146The World of Light
  147. 147Scottish Ballads
  148. 148The Wife of Usher’s Well
  149. 149The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
  150. 150Sweet William and May Margaret
  151. 151Sir Patrick Spens
  152. 152Hame, Hame, Hame
  153. 153Border Ballad — A Lyke-Wake Dirge
  154. 154John Dryden 1631–1700 — Ode
  155. 155Aphra Behn 1640–1689 — Song, From Abdelazar
  156. 156Joseph Addison 1672–1719 — Hymn
  157. 157Alexander Pope 1688–1744 Elegy
  158. 158William Cowper 1731–1800 — Lines on Receiving His Mother’s Picture
  159. 159Anna Laetitia Barbauld 1743–1825 Life
  160. 160William Blake 1757–1828
  161. 161The Piper
  162. 162Holy Thursday
  163. 163The Tiger
  164. 164To the Muses
  165. 165Love’s Secret
  166. 166Robert Burns 1759–1796
  167. 167The Farewell
  168. 168William Wordsworth 1770–1850
  169. 169Thoughts of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
  170. 170It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
  171. 171On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
  172. 172O Friend! I Know Not
  173. 173Surprised by Joy
  174. 174To Toussaint L’Ouverture
  175. 175With Ships the Sea Was Sprinkled
  176. 176The World
  177. 177Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802
  178. 178When I Have Borne in Memory
  179. 179Three Years She Grew
  180. 180The Daffodils
  181. 181The Solitary Reaper
  182. 182Elegiac Stanzas
  183. 183To H. C.
  184. 184’Tis Said That Some Have Died for Love
  185. 185The Pet Lamb
  186. 186Stepping Westward
  187. 187The Childless Father
  188. 188Ode on Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Child…
  189. 189Sir Walter Scott 1771–1832
  190. 190A Weary Lot Is Thine
  191. 191The Maid of Neidpath
  192. 192Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834
  193. 193Youth and Age
  194. 194The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  195. 195Part I
  196. 196Part II
  197. 197Part III
  198. 198Part IV
  199. 199Part V
  200. 200Part VI — First Voice
  201. 201Part VII
  202. 202Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864
  203. 203Epitaph
  204. 204Child of a Day
  205. 205Thomas Campbell 1767–1844
  206. 206Earl March
  207. 207Charles Lamb 1775–1835 Hester
  208. 208Allan Cunningham 1784–1842 — A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
  209. 209George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron 1788–1823 — The Isles of Greece
  210. 210Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822
  211. 211Wild With Weeping
  212. 212To the Night
  213. 213To a Skylark
  214. 214To the Moon
  215. 215The Question
  216. 216The Waning Moon
  217. 217Ode to the West Wind
  218. 218Rarely, Rarely Comest Thou
  219. 219The Invitation, to Jane
  220. 220The Recollection
  221. 221Ode to Heaven
  222. 222Third Spirit
  223. 223Life of Life
  224. 224Autumn
  225. 225Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
  226. 226Dirge for the Year
  227. 227A Widow Bird
  228. 228The Two Spirits
  229. 229John Keats 1795–1821
  230. 230On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
  231. 231To Sleep
  232. 232The Gentle South
  233. 233Last Sonnet
  234. 234Ode to a Nightingale
  235. 235Ode on a Grecian Urn
  236. 236Ode to Autumn
  237. 237Ode to Psyche
  238. 238Ode to Melancholy
  239. 239Hartley Coleridge 1796–1849 — She Is Not Fair
  240. 240Rosalynd’s Madrigal — Page 21
  241. 241Rosaline — Page 22
  242. 242Farewell to Arms — Page 25
  243. 243The Passionate Shepherd — Page 28 — Take, o Take Those Lips Away —…
  244. 244Kind Are Her Answers — Page 46
  245. 245Dirge — Page 44 — Follow — Page 49
  246. 246When Thou Must Home — Page 50
  247. 247The Funeral — Page 56
  248. 248Charis’ Triumph — Page 58
  249. 249In Earth — Page 64
  250. 250Song — Page 65
  251. 251To My Inconstant Mistress — Page 75
  252. 252The Pulley — Page 91
  253. 253Misery — Page 94
  254. 254The Rose — Page 99
  255. 255L’Allegro — Page 109
  256. 256Il Penseroso — Page 113 — Lycidas — Page 119
  257. 257On a Prayer-book — Page 131
  258. 258Wishes to His Supposed Mistress — Page 139
  259. 259On the Death of Mr. Crashaw — Page 157
  260. 260Hymn to the Light — Page 159
  261. 261To Lucasta — Page 163
  262. 262Lucasta Paying Her Obsequies — Page 165
  263. 263To Althea, From Prison — Page 166
  264. 264A Horatian Ode — Page 169
  265. 265The Picture of T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers — Page 173
  266. 266The Definition of Love — Page 179
  267. 267Childhood — Page 183
  268. 268Scottish Ballads — Page 191
  269. 269Mrs. Anne Killigrew — Page 205
  270. 270Song, From Abdelazar — Page 209
  271. 271Hymn — Page 209
  272. 272Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady — Page 210
  273. 273Lines on Receiving His Mother’s Picture — Page 213
  274. 274Life — Page 217
  275. 275The Land of Dreams — Page 217
  276. 276Surprised by Joy — Page 229
  277. 277Stepping Westward — Page 243
  278. 278Youth and Age — Page 256
  279. 279The Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Page 258
  280. 280Rose Aylmer — Page 281 — The Isles of Greece — Page 286
  281. 281Hellas — Page 290
  282. 282The Waning Moon — Page 298 — Ode to the West Wind — Page 299
  283. 283The Invitation — Page 303 — La Belle Dame Bans Merci — Page 316
  284. 284Ode to a Nightingale — Page 320

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