Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century Donne to Butler

by Grierson, Herbert J. C.; Fowler, Alastair

• ISBN13: 9780192822901
• ISBN10: 019282290X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-02-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This classic anthology, first published in 1921, has been instrumental in reviving interest in the seventeenth-century metaphysical poets and in securing for them the high reputation they now enjoy. This new edition includes the same poems as the original--love poems, divine poems, elegies, satires, epistles, and meditations by over twenty-five different poets ranging from Suckling and Donne to Marvell and Herbert. Grierson's brilliant introductory essay is included, while Alastair Fowler has contributed a new introduction and notes and modernized the spellings throughout.

Author Biography

Alastair Fowler is Professor of English at the Universities of Virginia and Edinburgh, between which he divides his time. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse (1992).

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
The Good Morrow	p. 39
Song [Go, and catch a falling star]	p. 39
The Sun Rising	p. 40
Lovers' Infiniteness	p. 41
Song [Sweetest love, I do not go]	p. 42
Air and Angel	p. 43
The Anniversary	p. 44
Twicknam Garden	p. 45
The Dream	p. 46
A Valediction: Of Weeping	p. 47
The Message	p. 48
A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day	p. 49
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	p. 50
The Ecstasy	p. 51
The Funeral	p. 54
The Blossom	p. 54
The Relic	p. 56
The Prohibition	p. 57
The Expiration	p. 57
Absence	p. 58
On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia	p. 59
To the Countess of Salisbury	p. 59
Upon Kind and True Love	p. 60
Elegy over a Tomb	p. 61
An Ode upon a Question Moved, whether Love Should Continue for Ever	p. 62
Song: Mediocrity in Love Rejected	p. 67
Song: To My Inconstant Mistress	p. 67
A Deposition from Love	p. 68
Ingrateful Beauty Threatened	p. 69
Song: Eternity of Love Protested	p. 69
To a Lady that Desired I Would Love Her	p. 70
A Song [Ask me no more where Jove bestows]	p. 71
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara	p. 72
Sonnet II [Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white]	p. 72
Sonnet III [Oh for some honest lover's ghost]	p. 73
[To His Rival I]	p. 74
[The Constant Lover]	p. 75
To Cynthia. On Concealment of Her Beauty	p. 76
Quatrains	p. 77
Song. To the Tune of 'In Faith I Cannot Keep My Father's Sheep'	p. 78
Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning Before Sun-Rising	p. 79
Song [The lark now leaves his watery nest]	p. 80
Song [Before we shall again behold]	p. 81
Love's Horoscope	p. 82
Wishes: To His (Supposed) Mistress	p. 83
Song. To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas	p. 88
Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	p. 89
Gratiana Dancing and Singing	p. 89
The Scrutiny. Song. Set by Mr Thomas Charles	p. 90
To Althea, from Prison: Song	p. 91
To Amoret Gone from Him	p. 92
The Call	p. 92
An Epicurean Ode	p. 93
The Repulse	p. 94
To Celia Pleading Want of Merit	p. 95
La Belle Confidente	p. 95
The Divorce	p. 96
The Exequies	p. 97
Sonnet [Tell me no more how fair she is]	p. 98
The Spring	p. 98
The Change	p. 100
To His Coy Mistress	p. 100
The Gallery	p. 102
The Fair Singer	p. 103
The Definition of Love	p. 104
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers	p. 105
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship	p. 106
To My Lucasia, in Defence of Declared Friendship	p. 107
Holy Sonnets	p. 113
Divine Meditation I [Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?]	p. 113
Divine Meditation VI [This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint]	p. 113
Divine Meditation VII [At the round Earth's imagined corners, blow]	p. 114
Divine Meditation X [Death be not proud, though some have called thee]	p. 114
Divine Meditation XIII [What if this present were the world's last night?]	p. 115
Divine Meditation XV [Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you]	p. 115
Sonnet XVIII [Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear]	p. 116
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward	p. 116
A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany	p. 118
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	p. 119
A Hymn to God the Father	p. 120
A Hymn to My God in a Night of My Late Sickness	p. 120
A Dialogue betwixt God and the Soul	p. 121
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	p. 122
Redemption	p. 130
Easter Wings	p. 130
Affliction [I]	p. 131
Jordan [I]	p. 133
The Church Floor	p. 134
The Windows	p. 134
Virtue	p. 135
Life	p. 136
JESU	p. 136
The Collar	p. 137
Aaron	p. 138
Discipline	p. 139
Love [III]	p. 140
Emblem III. vii [Why dost thou shade thy lovely face?]	p. 140
Emblem V. iii [Even like two little bank-dividing brookes]	p. 142
Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam. DAVID	p. 144
[Epiphany]	p. 145
To . . . the Countess of Denbigh	p. 146
In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God	p. 148
The Hymn of St Thomas in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament	p. 152
Saint Mary Magdalene, or, The Weeper	p. 153
A Hymn to . . . Saint Teresa	p. 159
Regeneration	p. 163
The Retreat	p. 166
[And do they so? Have they a sense]	p. 167
Man	p. 168
[Ascension]	p. 169
[As time one day by me did pass]	p. 170
The Dwelling-Place	p. 171
The Night	p. 172
The Waterfall	p. 174
Quickness	p. 175
A Pastoral Hymn	p. 176
And She Washed His Feet with Her Tears	p. 176
The Christian's Reply to the Philosopher	p. 177
A Dialogue between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure	p. 178
The Coronet	p. 181
A Dialogue between the Soul and Body	p. 182
Elegy: His Picture	p. 187
Elegy: On His Mistress	p. 187
Satyre III	p. 189
To Sir Henry Wotton, at His Going Ambassador to Venice	p. 192
To the Countess of Bedford	p. 193
[Valediction to Life]	p. 195
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne	p. 197
To My Worthy Friend Master George Sandys	p. 199
Maria Wentworth, Thomae Comitis Cleveland Filia Praemortua Prima	p. 200
On Shakespeare 1630	p. 201
An Elegy on Ben Jonson	p. 202
To the Queen, Entertained at Night by the Countess of Anglesey	p. 202
For the Lady Olivia Porter: A Present, upon a New Year's Day	p. 203
The Grasshopper	p. 204
Ode: Of Wit	p. 205
Against Hope	p. 207
Answer for Hope	p. 208
On the Death of Mr Crashaw	p. 210
Destiny	p. 212
Hymn: To Light	p. 214
On an Hour-Glass	p. 217
An Exequy to His Matchless Never to Be Forgotten Friend	p. 218
A Contemplation upon Flowers	p. 222
On a Drop of Dew	p. 222
The Garden	p. 223
[The Metaphysical Sectarian]	p. 226
Notes	p. 231
List of Books Cited	p. 305
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 315
Index of First Lines	p. 317
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