Metaphysical Poetry An Anthology

by Negri, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780486419169
• ISBN10: 0486419169
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-26
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Dramatic and conversational in rhythm and tone and rich in striking, unusual imagery, metaphysical poetry is represented in this anthology by such masterpieces as "Death, Be Not Proud," by John Donne; Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," as well as works by George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, Thomas Traherne, and others. An outstanding anthology for classroom use-high school through college.

Table of Contents

John Donne (1572--1631)
The Good Morrow	1	(1)
Song	2	(1)
Woman's Constancy	3	(1)
The Undertaking	3	(1)
The Sun Rising	4	(1)
The Indifferent	5	(1)
The Canonization	5	(2)
The Triple Fool	7	(1)
Song	7	(1)
The Legacy	8	(1)
A Fever	9	(1)
Air and Angels	10	(1)
Break of Day	10	(1)
The Anniversary	11	(1)
A Valediction: of My Name, in the Window	12	(1)
Twickenham Garden	13	(1)
A Valediction: of Weeping	14	(1)
The Flea	15	(1)
The Curse	16	(1)
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day	16	(2)
Witchcraft by a Picture	18	(1)
The Bait	18	(1)
The Apparition	19	(1)
The Broken Heart	19	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	20	(1)
The Ecstasy	21	(2)
Love's Deity	23	(1)
The Funeral	24	(1)
The Blossom	24	(1)
The Relic	25	(1)
A Lecture upon the Shadow	26	(1)
A Burnt Ship	27	(1)
Fall of a Wall	27	(1)
Elegy I: Jealousy	27	(1)
Elegy II: The Anagram	28	(2)
Elegy V: His Picture	30	(1)
Elegy IX: The Autumnal	30	(1)
Elegy XVI: On His Mistress	31	(2)
Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed	33	(1)
Satire I	34	(3)
Satire III	37	(2)
To Mr. Rowland Woodward	39	(1)
To the Countess of Bedford on New Year's Day	40	(2)
Elegy on the Lady Markham	42	(2)
La Corona
1	44	(1)
Annunciation	44	(1)
Nativity	44	(1)
Temple	45	(1)
Crucifying	45	(1)
Resurrection	46	(1)
Ascension	46	(1)
Holy Sonnets
Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?	46	(1)
As due by many titles I resign	47	(1)
O might those sighs and tears return again	47	(1)
O my black soul! now thou art summoned	47	(1)
I am a little world made cunningly	48	(1)
This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint	48	(1)
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow	48	(1)
If faithful souls be alike glorified	49	(1)
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree	49	(1)
Death be not proud, though some have called thee	49	(1)
Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side	50	(1)
Why are we by all creatures waited on?	50	(1)
What if this present were the world's last night?	50	(1)
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you	51	(1)
Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest	51	(1)
Father, part of his double interest	51	(1)
Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt	52	(1)
Show me dear Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear	52	(1)
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one	52	(1)
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward	53	(1)
A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany	54	(1)
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	55	(1)
A Hymn to God the Father	56	(1)
Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)
To His Coy Mistress	57	(1)
The Definition of Love	58	(1)
The Mower to the Glowworms	59	(1)
The Mower Against Gardens	59	(1)
Damon the Mower	60	(2)
The Mower's Song	62	(1)
The Unfortunate Lover	63	(2)
The Gallery	65	(1)
The Fair Singer	66	(1)
Mourning	67	(1)
Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes	68	(1)
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun	68	(3)
Daphnis and Chloe	71	(3)
The Match	74	(1)
Young Love	75	(1)
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers	76	(1)
The Garden	77	(2)
Bermudas	79	(1)
A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure	80	(3)
A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body	83	(1)
On a Drop of Dew	84	(1)
Eyes and Tears	85	(2)
The Coronet	87	(1)
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland	87	(3)
Upon Appleton House	90	(21)
George Herbert (1593--1633)
Jordan (1)	111	(1)
Jordan (2)	111	(1)
The British Church	112	(1)
The Son	113	(1)
The Altar	113	(1)
The Church Floor	113	(1)
Easter Wings	114	(1)
Lent	115	(1)
Sunday	116	(2)
Church Music	118	(1)
To All Angels and Saints	118	(1)
Man	119	(1)
Affliction	120	(2)
Frailty	122	(1)
Nature	122	(1)
The Pearl	123	(1)
The Pulley	124	(1)
Peace	125	(1)
Conscience	126	(1)
Discipline	126	(1)
Redemption	127	(1)
Love	128	(1)
The Priesthood	128	(1)
Aaron	129	(1)
The Windows	130	(1)
The Call	130	(1)
The Odor	131	(1)
A True Hymn	132	(1)
Dullness	132	(1)
The Collar	133	(1)
The Flower	134	(1)
Virtue	135	(1)
Richard Crashaw (1613--1649)
On Mr. G. Herbert's Book, Entitled The Temple of Sacred Poems, Sent to a Gentlewoman	136	(1)
A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa	137	(4)
Saint Mary Magdalene, or the Weeper	141	(5)
On the Baptized Ethiopian	146	(1)
Give to Cæsar ...and to God... Mark XII	146	(1)
But Men Loved Darkness Rather than Light . . . John III	146	(1)
To Pontius Washing His Hands	147	(1)
Samson to His Delilah	147	(1)
To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine	147	(1)
Upon the Infant Martyrs	147	(1)
On the Miracle of Loaves	147	(1)
Upon Lazarus His Tears	147	(1)
From Carmen Deo Nostro, 1652	148	(1)
A Song	149	(1)
Wishes to His Supposed Mistress	150	(3)
Music's Duel	153	(5)
Henry Vaughan (1621--1695)
Idle Verse	158	(1)
Mount of Olives (1)	158	(1)
Mount of Olives (2)	159	(1)
The Garland	160	(1)
The Seed Growing Secretly	161	(1)
Quickness	162	(1)
The Bird	163	(1)
The Waterfall	164	(1)
Man	165	(1)
The Night	166	(1)
The Search	167	(2)
Regeneration	169	(3)
The Dwelling-Place	172	(1)
The Retreat	172	(1)
Childhood	173	(1)
The Dawning	174	(1)
The Morning Watch	175	(1)
The World	176	(2)
Ascension Hymn	178	(1)
They Are All Gone Into the World of Light	179	(1)
Unprofitableness	180	(1)
Peace	180	(1)
Thomas Traherne (1637--1674)
Wonder	181	(2)
Eden	183	(1)
News	184	(2)
The Apostasy	186	(2)
Poverty	188	(1)
Right Apprehension	189	(3)
The Rapture	192	(1)
Felicity	192	(1)
Dreams	193	(1)
Insatiableness	194	(1)
The Review	195	(1)
Index of Titles	196	(5)
Index of First Lines	201