Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 1 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 1

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Table of Contents

A Hymn to the Virgin

Of a Rose, a Lovely Rose

Spring Song of the Birds

Robin and Makyne

The Bludy Serk

To a Lady

In Honour of the City of London

On the Nativity of Christ

Lament for the Makers

May in the Green-Wood

Carol

Quia Amore Langueo

The Nut-Brown Maid

As Ye Came from the Holy Land

The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring

Balow

The Old Cloak

To Mistress Margery Wentworth

To Mistress Margaret Hussey

Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus

To His Lute

Description of Spring

Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover

The Means to Attain Happy Life

A True Love

A Bequest of His Heart

The Night Is Near Gone

Jolly Good Ale and Old

When Flora Had O'erfret the Firth

Lusty May

My Heart Is High Above

A Praise of His Lady

To Her Sea-Faring Lover

The Faithless Shepherdess

Crabbed Age and Youth

How Can the Heart Forget Her?

Since First I Saw Your Face

There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind

Love Not Me For Comely Grace

Splendidis Longum Valedico Nugis

On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney

Love Is a Sickness

Ulysses and the Siren

Beauty, Time, and Love

To the Virginian Voyage

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Her Reply

A Hymn to the Virgin

Of on that is so fayr and bright 
Velut maris stella,
Brighter than the day is light,
Parens et puella:

Ic crie to the, thou see to me,      
Levedy, preye thi Sone for me,
 Tam pia,
That ic mote come to thee
Maria.

Al this world was for-lore
Eva peccatrice,
Tyl our Lord was y-bore
De te genetrice.

With ave  it went away
Thuster nyth and comz the day 
Salutis;
The welle springeth ut of the,
Virtutis.

Levedy, flour of alle thing,
Rose sine spina,
Thu bere Jhesu, hevene king,
Gratia divina:

Of alle thu ber'st the pris,
Levedy, quene of paradys
Electa:
Mayde milde, moder es
Effecta.
— Anonymous

c. 1300   

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