later poems-第3章
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The rose
Thomas Randolph (1606…1634?)
His mistress
Charles Best (…?)
A sonnet of the moon
John Milton (1608…1674)
Hymn on Christ's nativity
L'allegro
Il penseroso
Lycidas
On his blindness
On his deceased wife
On Shakespeare
Song on May morning
Invocation to Sabrina; from Comus
Invocation to Echo; from Comus
The attendant spirit; from Comus
James Graham; Marquis of Montrose (1612…1650)
The vigil of death
Richard Crashaw (1615?…1652)
On a prayer…book sent to Mrs。 M。 R。
To the morning
Love's horoscope
On Mr。 G。 Herbert's book
Wishes to his supposed mistress
Quem Vidistis Pastores etc。
Music's duel
The flaming heart
Abraham Cowley (1618…1667)
On the death of Mr。 Crashaw
Hymn to the light
Richard Lovelace (1618…1658)
To Lucasta on going to the wars
To Amarantha
Lucasta
To Althea; from prison
A guiltless lady imprisoned: after penanced
The rose
Andrew Marvell (1620…1678)
A Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland
The picture of T。 C。 in a prospect of flowers
The nymph complaining of death of her fawn
The definition of love
The garden
Henry Vaughan (1621…1695)
The dawning
Childhood
Corruption
The night
The eclipse
The retreat
The world of light
Scottish Ballads
Helen of Kirconnell
The wife of Usher's well
The dowie dens of Yarrow
Sweet William and May Margaret
Sir Patrick Spens
Hame; hame; hame
Border Ballad
A lyke…wake dirge
John Dryden (1631…1700)
Ode (Thou youngest virgin…daughter of the skies)
Aphre Behn (1640…1689)
Song; from Abdelazar
Joseph Addison (1672…1719)
Hymn (The spacious firmament on high)
Alexander Pope (1688…1744)
Elegy
William Cowper (1731…1800)
Lines on receiving his mother's picture
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743…1825)
Life
William Blake (1757…1828)
The land of dreams
The piper
Holy Thursday
The tiger
To the muses
Love's secret
Robert Burns (1759…1796)
To a mouse
The farewell
William Wordsworth (1770…1850)
Why art thou silent?
Thoughts of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland
It is a beauteous evening; calm and free
On the extinction of the Venetian Republic
O friend! I know not
Surprised by joy
To Toussaint L'ouverture
With ships the sea was sprinkled
The world
Upon Westminster bridge; Sept。 3; 1802
When I have borne in memory
Three years she grew
The daffodils
The solitary reaper
Elegiac stanzas
To H。 C。
'Tis said that some have died for love
The pet lamb
Stepping westward
The childless father
Ode on intimations of immortality
Sir Walter Scott (1771…1832)
Proud Maisie
A weary lot is thine
The Maid of Neidpath
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772…1834)
Kubla Khan
Youth and age
The rime of the ancient mariner
Walter Savage Landor (1775…1864)
Rose Aylmer
Epitaph
Child of a day
Thomas Campbell (1767…1844)
Hohenlinden
Earl March
Charles Lamb (1775…1835)
Hester
Allan Cunningham (1784…1842)
A wet sheet and a flowing sea
George Noel Gordon; Lord Byron (1788…1823)
The Isles of Greece
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792…1822)
Hellas
Wild with weeping
To the night
To a skylark
To the moon
The question
The waning moon
Ode to the west wind
Rarely; rarely comest thou
The invitation; to Jane
The recollection
Ode to heaven
Life of life
Autumn
Stanzas written in dejection near Naples
Dirge for the year
A widow bird
The two spirits
John Keats (1795…1821)
La Belle Dame sans merci
On first looking into Chapman's Homer
To sleep
The gentle south
Last sonnet
Ode to a nightingale
Ode on a Grecian urn
Ode to Autumn
Ode to Psyche
Ode to Melancholy
Hartley Coleridge (1796…1849)
She is not fair
ALICE MEYNELL'S COMMENTS/NOTES
EPITHALAMION
Written by Spensor on his marriage in Ireland; Elizabeth Boyle of
Kilcoran; who survived him; married one Roger Seckerstone; and was
again a widow。 Dr。 Grosart seems to have finally decided the
identity of the heroine of this great poem。 It is worth while to
explain; once for all; that I do not use the accented e for the
longer pronunciation of the past participle。 The accent is not an
English sign; and; to my mind; disfigures the verse; neither do I
think it necessary to cut off the e with an apostrophe when the
participle is shortened。 The reader knows at a glance how the word
is to be numbered; besides; he may have his preferences where
choice is allowed。 In reading such a line as Tennyson's
〃Dear as remembered kisses after death;〃
one man likes the familiar sound of the word 〃remembered〃 as we all
speak it now; another takes pleasure in the four light syllables
filling the line so full。 Tennyson uses the apostrophe as a rule;
but neither he nor any other author is quite consistent。
ROSALYND'S MADRIGAL
It may please the reader to think that this frolic; rich; and
delicate singer was Shakespeare's very Rosalind。 From Dr。 Thomas
Lodge's novel; Euphues' Golden Legacy; was taken much of the story;
with some of the characters; and some few of the passages; of As
You Like It。
ROSALINE
This splendid poem (from the same romance); written on the poet's
voyage to the Islands of Terceras and the Canaries; has the fire
and freshness of the south and the sea; all its colours are clear。
The reader's ear will at once teach him to read the sigh 〃heigh ho〃
so as to give the first syllable the time of two (long and short)。
FAREWELL TO ARMS
George Peele's four fine stanzas (which must be mentioned as
dedicated to Queen Elizabeth; but are better without that
dedication) exist in another form; in the first person; and with
some archaisms smoothed。 But the third person seems to be far more
touching; the old man himself having done with verse。
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD
The sixth stanza is perhaps by Izaak Walton。
TAKE; O TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY
The author of this exquisite song is by no means certain。 The
second stanza is not with the first in Shakespeare; but it is in
Beaumont and Fletcher。
KIND ARE HER ANSWERS
These verses are a more subtle experiment in metre by the musician
and poet; Campion; than even the following; Laura; which he himself
sweetly commended as 〃voluble; and fit to express any amorous
conceit。〃 In Kind are her Answers the long syllables and the
trochaic movement of the short lines meet the contrary movement of
the rest; with an exquisite effect of flux and reflux。 The
〃dancers〃 whose time they sang must have danced (with Perdita) like
〃a wave of the sea。〃
DIRGE
I have followed the usual practice in omitting the last and less
beautiful stanza。
FOLLOW
Campion's 〃airs;〃 for which he wrote his words; laid rules too
urgent upon what would have been a delicate genius in poetry。 The
airs demanded so many stanzas; but they gave his imagination leave
to be away; and they depressed and even confused his metrical play;
hurting thus the two vital spots of poetry。 Many of the stanzas
for music make an unlucky repeating pattern with the poor variety
that a repeating wall…paper does not attempt。 And yet Campion
began again and again with the onset of a true poet。 Take; for
example; the poem beginning with the vitality of this line;
〃touching in its majesty〃…
〃Awake; thou spring of speaking grace; mute rest becomes not thee!〃
Who would have guessed that the piece was to close in a jogging
stanza containing a reflection on the fact that brutes are
speechless; with these two final lines …
〃If speech be then the best of graces;
Doe it not in slumber smother!〃
Campion yields a curious collection of beautiful first lines。
〃Sleep; angry beauty; sleep and fear not me〃
is far finer than anything that follows。 So is there a single
gloom in this …
〃Follow thy fair sun; unhappy shadow!〃
And a single joy i