Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) --
Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed 1 --
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) --
'One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand' 3
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618) --
"'As Ye Came from the Holy Land'" 3 --
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) --
'Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show' 6 --
John Lyly (1554?-1606) --
George Peele (1556-1596) --
Henry Constable (1562-1613) --
Samuel Daniel (1562?-1619) --
'If This Be Love, to Draw a Weary Breath' 9
Michael Drayton (1563-1631) --
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) --
Passionate Shepherd to His Love 10
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) --
'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?' 11 --
'That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold' 11 --
'From You Have I Been Absent in the Spring' 12 --
'When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time' 12 --
'Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds' 13 --
'My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun' 13
Thomas Campion (1567-1620) --
'Thou Art Not Fair, for All Thy Red and White' 14 --
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) --
John Donne (1572-1631) --
Elegy: On His Mistress Going to Bed 23
Ben Jonson (1573?-1637) --
Thomas Heywood (1574?-1641) --
George Wither (1588-1667) --
'I Loved a Lass, a Fair One' 26
Robert Herrick (1591-1674) --
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 27 --
Upon Julia's Clothes 28 --
Francis Quarles (1592-1644) --
Henry King (1592-1669) --
Thomas Carew (1595?-1645?) --
To His Inconstant Mistress 34
Edmund Waller (1606-1687) --
John Milton (1608-1674) --
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) --
'Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?' 36 --
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) --
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 37 --
To Althea, from Prison 38 --
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) --
To His Coy Mistress 40 --
Mower to the Glo-Worms 42
John Dryden (1631-1700) --
'Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor!' 43
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) --
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover 44
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) --
William Congreve (1670-1729) --
'Pious Selinda Goes to Prayers' 46 --
'False though She Be to Me and Love' 46
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan 47
Henry Carey (1687?-1743) --
William Cowper (1731-1800) --
William Blake (1757-1827) --
'How Sweet I Roam'd from Field to Field' 52 --
Clod and the Pebble 53 --
Robert Burns (1759-1796) --
'Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw' 54 --
John Anderson My Jo 54 --
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) --
'Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known' 57 --
'She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways' 58 --
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) --
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) --
'Past Ruin'd Ilion Helen Lives' 59 --
'Proud Word You Never Spoke, but You Will Speak' 60 --
'You Smiled, You Spoke, and I Believed' 60 --
'The Torch of Love Dispels the Gloom' 61 --
'If I Am Proud, You Surely Know' 61 --
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) --
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) --
At the Mid Hour of Night 63
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) --
'When We Two Parted' 64 --
'She Walks in Beauty, Like the Night' 65 --
'So, We'll Go No More A-Roving' 65
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) --
John Clare (1793-1864) --
To Mary: 'It Is the Evening Hour' 68 --
To Mary: 'I Sleep with Thee, and Wake with Thee' 68 --
John Keats (1795-1821) --
'Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) --
William Barnes (1801-1886) --
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) --
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) --
'I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung' 74 --
'How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways' 75
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) --
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) --
'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White' 78 --
'Come Not, When I Am Dead' 78
Robert Browning (1812-1889) --
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) --
'If Grief for Grief Can Touch Thee' 84
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) --
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City 85 --
When I Heard at the Close of the Day 85 --
Sometimes with One I Love 86 --
As if a Phantom Caress'd Me 86 --
From Pent-Up Aching Rivers 87
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) --
Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) --
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) --
George Meredith (1828-1909) --
'By This He Knew She Wept with Waking Eyes' 95 --
'In Our Old Shipwrecked Days There Was an Hour' 96
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) --
'We Outgrow Love Like Other Things' 96 --
'My Life Closed Twice before Its Close' 96
Christina Rossetti (1830-1909) --
William Morris (1834-1896) --
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) --
Wilfrid Blunt (1840-1922) --
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --
A Broken Appointment 101 --
In a Cathedral City 101 --
A Thunderstorm in Town 102
Alice Meynell (1847-1922) --
A. E. Housman (1859-1936) --
'Oh, When I Was in Love with You' 103 --
'Along the Field as We Came By' 103 --
'White in the Moon the Long Road Lies' 104
W. B. Yeats (1864-1939) --
Down by the Salley Gardens 105 --
Never Give All the Heart 106 --
Arthur Symons (1865-1945) --
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) --
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae 108
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) --
Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) --
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) --
River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter 112
Edward Thomas (1887-1917) --
Like the Touch of Rain 113
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) --
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
'I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed' 114
Hart Crane (1899-1932) --
