The Oxford Book of English Verse (1250–1900) Chosen and Edited by A. T. Quiller-Couch
by Arthur T. Quiller-Couch Author
From Arthur Quiller-Couch’s 1919 Introduction to this extensive collection: “For this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse…. To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. It is for the reader to judge if I have so managed it as to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in some young minds not yet initiated.”
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- Print Status
- In Print
- Poems
- 883
- Suggested Grades
- 7th - 12th
- Copyright
- 1919
- URL
- http://www.bartleby.com/101/index.html
Poems
- 1 Cuckoo Song
- 2 Alison
- 3 Spring-tide
- 4 Blow, Northern Wind
- 5 This World's Joy
- 6 A Hymn to the Virgin
- 7 Lovely Rose
- 8 Praise of Women
- 9 Freedom
- 10 The Love Unfeigned
- 11 Balade
- 12 Merciless Beaute
- 13 Lament for Chaucer
- 14 Vox ultima Crucis
- 15 Spring Song of the Birds
- 16 Robin & Makyne
- 17 The Bludy Serk
- 18 To a Lady
- 19 In Honour of the City of London
- 20 On the Nativity of Christ
- 21 Lament for the Makers
- 22 May in the Green-Wood
- 23 Carol
- 24 Quia Amore Langueo
- 25 The Nut-Brown Maid
- 26 As ye came from the Holy Land
- 27 The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring
- 28 Balow
- 29 The Old Cloak
- 30 To Mistress Margery Wentworth
- 31 To Mistress Margaret Hussey
- 32 The True Knight
- 33 An Epitaph
- 34 Forget not yet The Lover Beseecheth his Mistress not to Forget his Steadfast Faith & True Intent
- 35 The Appeal and Earnest Suit to his Unkind Mistress, not to Forsake him
- 36 A Revocation
- 37 Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus
- 38 To His Lute
- 39 Description of Spring Wherein each thing renews, save only the Lover
- 40 Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover being upon the Sea
- 41 The Means to attain Happy Life
- 42 A True Love
- 43 A Bequest of His Heart
- 44 A Rondel of Love
- 45 In Youth is Pleasure
- 46 Amantium Irae
- 47 A Lover's Lullaby
- 48 The Night is Near Gone
- 49 Jolly Good Ale and Old
- 50 When Flora had O'erfret the Firth
- 51 Lusty May
- 52 My Heart is High Above
- 53 A Praise of His Lady Tottel's Miscellany ? by John Heywood
- 54 To Her Sea-faring Lover Tottel's Miscellany ? by John Heywood
- 55 The Faithless Shepherdess William Byrd's Songs of Sundry Natures
- 56 Crabbed Age & Youth The Passionate Pilgrim ? by William Shakespeare
- 57 Phyllida's Love-Call England's Helicon
- 58 A Pedlar John Dowland's Second Book of Songs or Airs
- 59 Hey nonny no! Christ Church MS.
- 60 Preparations Christ Church MS.
- 61 The Now Jerusalem Song of Mary the Mother of Christ (London: E.Allde)
- 62 Icarus Robert Jones's Second Book of Songs and Airs
- 63 Madrigal Davison's Poetical Rhapsody
- 64 How can the Heart forget her? Davison's Poetical Rhapsody ? F. or W. Davison
- 65 Tears John Dowland's Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs
- 66 My Lady's Tears John Dowland's Third & Last Book of Songs or Airs
- 67 Sister, Awake! Thomas Bateson's First Set of English Madrigals
- 68 Devotion Captain Tobias Hume's The First Part of Airs, &c.
- 69 Since First I saw your Face Thomas Ford's Music of Sundry Kinds
- 70 There is a Lady sweet and kind Thomas Ford's Music of Sundry Kinds
- 71 Love not me for comely grace John Wilbye's Second Set of Madrigals
- 72 The Wakening John Attye's First Book of Airs
- 73 Phillida & Coridon
- 74 A Cradle Song The Arbor of Amorous Devices, 1593-4
- 75 The Silent Lover i
- 76 The Silent Lover ii
- 77 His Pilgrimage
- 78 The Conclusion
- 79 Whilst it is prime
- 80 A Ditty In praise of Eliza, Queen of the Shepherds
- 81 Prothalamion
- 82 Epithalamion
- 83 From 'Daphnaida' An Elegy
- 84 Easter
- 85 Cards and Kisses
- 86 Spring's Welcome
- 87 Beauty Bathing
- 88 The Bargain
- 89 Song
- 90 Voices at the Window
- 91 Philomela
- 92 The Highway
- 93 This Lady's Cruelty
- 94 Sleep
- 95 Splendidis longum valedico Nugis
- 96 Myra
- 97 Rosalind's Madrigal
- 98 Phillis 1
- 99 Phillis 2
- 100 Rosaline
- 101 Fair and Fair
- 102 A Farewell to Arms ( To Queen Elizabeth)
- 103 Samela
- 104 Fawnia
- 105 Sephestia's Lullaby
- 106 A Summer Day
- 107 Bridal Song
- 108 Times go by Turns
- 109 The Burning Babe
- 110 On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney
- 111 Love is a Sickness
- 112 Ulysses and the SIren
- 113 Beauty, Time, & Love Sonnets
- 114 Sonet
- 115 Ubique
- 116 To His Coy Love
- 117 The Parting
- 118 Sirena
- 119 Agincourt
- 120 To the Virginian Voyage
- 121 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
- 122 Her Reply (WRITTEN BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH)
- 123 Silvia
- 124 The Blossom
- 125 Spring & Winter i
- 126 Spring & Winter ii
- 127 Fairy Land i
- 128 Fairy Land ii
- 129 Fairy Land iii
- 130 Fairy Land iv
- 131 Fairy Land v
- 132 Love
- 133 Sweet-and-Twenty
- 134 Dirge
- 135 Under the Greenwood Tree
- 136 Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind
- 137 It was a Lover and his Lass
- 138 Take, O take those Lips away
- 139 Aubade
- 140 Fidele
- 141 Bridal Song ? or John Fletcher
- 142 Dirge of the Three Queens ? or John Fletcher
- 143 Orpheus ? or John Fletcher
- 144 The Phoenix and the Turtle
- 145 Sonnets i
- 146 Sonnets ii
- 147 Sonnets iii
- 148 Sonnets iv
- 149 Sonnets v
- 150 Sonnets vi
- 151 Sonnets vii
- 152 Sonnets viii
- 153 Sonnets ix
- 154 Sonnets x
- 155 Sonnets xi
- 156 Sonnets xii
- 157 Sonnets xiii
- 158 Sonnets xiv
- 159 Sonnets xv
- 160 Sonnets xvi
- 161 Sonnets xvii
- 162 Sonnets xviii
- 163 Sonnets xix
- 164 Sonnets xx
- 165 Lullaby
- 166 Spring
- 167 In Time of Pestilence 1593
- 168 Cherry-Ripe
- 169 Laura
- 170 Devotion i
- 171 Devotion ii
- 172 Vobiscum est Iope
- 173 A Hymn in Praise of Neptune
- 174 Winter Nights
- 175 Integer Vitae
- 176 O come quickly!
- 177 A Nosegay
- 178 Elizabeth of Bohemia
- 179 The Character of a Happy Life
- 180 Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife
- 181 Man
- 182 To His Forsaken Mistress
- 183 To an Inconstant One
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