A huge anthology, with commentary and a large introductory essay by the editor An anthology of poems which attempts to give readers the possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. Introduction xxvii THE ART OF READING POETRY 1 GEOFFREY CHAUCER 30 FROM THE CANTERBURY TALES 32 from The General Prologue from The Wife of Bath's Prologue from The Pardoner's Prologue WILLIAM DUNBAR 50 Lament for the Makers 50 PETRARCHAN POETRY 53 SIR THOMAS WYATT 55 Whoso List to Hunt 55 They Flee from Me 55 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 56 from Astrophel and Stella 56 EDMUND SPENSER 57 THE CAVE OF MAMMON 65 THE BOWER OF BLISS 67 THE MUTABILITIE CANTOS 69 AMORETTI 72 from The Faerie Queene: The Gardens of Adonis 73 EPITHALAMION 79 Epithalamion 80 PHOTHALAMION 91 Prothalamion 92 SIR WALTER RALEGH 97 from The Ocean to Cynthia 99 Answer to Marlowe 102 CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE 103 Tichborne's Elegy 103 ROBERT SOUTHWELL 104 The Burning Babe 104 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 105 from Tamburlaine 106 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 109 MICHAEL DRAYTON 110 from Idea 110 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 111 The Phoenix and Turtle 113 from Hamlet 115 front Troilus and Cressida 120 from Measure for Measure 122 from King Lear 124 from The Tempest 126 Sonnets 127 XIX: "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws," 127 XXX: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" 127 LIII "What is your substance, whereof are you 128 LV: "Not marble, nor the gilded monumelits" 128 LXXIII: "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" 128 LXXXVI: "Was it the proud full sail of this great verse," 129 LXXXVII: "Farewell thou art too dear fin- my possessing," 129 XCIV: "They that have power to hurt and will do none," 130 CVII: "Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul" 130 CXVI: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" 130 CXXI: " 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed," 131 CXXIX: "The expense of spirit in a waste of shame," 131 CXXX: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;" 131 CXLIV: "Two loves I have, of comfort and despair," 132 Songs 132 Dirge 132 When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy 133 Autolycus' Song 134 Autolycus As Peddler 134 THOMAS NASHE 135 Litany in Time of Plague 135 THOMAS CAMPION 136 There Is a Garden in Her Face 137 When to Her Lute Corinna Sings 137 When Thou Must Home to Shades of Under Ground 138 JOHN DONNE 138 Song 139 A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day Being the Shortest Day. 140 The Ecstasy 141 Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness 144 A Hymn to God the Father 145 BEN JONSON 145 To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare 147 Song: To Celia [1606] 149 Song: To Celia [1616] 149 Clerimont's Song 150 TOM O' BEDLAM'S SONG 150 Min o' Bedlam's Song 151 JOHN CLEVELAND 154 Mark Antony 154 JAMES SHIRLEY 155 Dirge 156 ROBERT HERRICK 157 To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time 157 Upon Julia's Clothes 158 Delight in Disorder 158 THOMAS CAREW 159 A Rapture 159 Song 163 RICHARD LOVELACE 164 La Bella Bona Roba 165 Song 166 To Althea, from Prison 166 SIR JOHN SUCKLING 167 Song 168 "Out upon it! I have loved" 168 EDMUND WALLER 169 Song 169 ANDREW MARVELL 170 To His Coy Mistress 172