Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch
Table of Contents
Silvia
The Blossom
Spring and Winter: First Part
Spring and Winter: Second Part
Fairy Land I
Fairy Land II
Fairy Land III
Fairy Land IV
Fairy Land V
Love
Sweet-and-Twenty
Dirge
Under the Greenwood Tree
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
It Was a Lover and His Lass
Take, O Take Those Lips Away
Aubade
Fidele
Bridal Song
Dirge of the Three Queens
Orpheus
The Phoenix and Turtle
Sonnet XVIII
Sonnet XXIX
Sonnet XXX
Sonnet XXXI
Sonnet LIII
Sonnet LIV
Sonnet LVII
Sonnet LXXIII
Sonnet LXXXVII
Sonnet XC
Sonnet XCIV
Sonnet XCVII
Sonnet XXX
Sonnet XXXI
Sonnet LIII
Sonnet LIV
Sonnet LVII
Sonnet LXXIII
Sonnet LXXXVII
Sonnet XC
Sonnet XCIV
Sonnet XCVII
Sonnet XCVIII
Sonnet CII
Sonnet CIV
Sonnet CVI
Sonnet CIX
Sonnet CXVI
Sonnet CXXIX
Sonnet CXLVI
Lullaby
Spring
In Time of Pestilence
Cherry-Ripe
Laura
Devotion I
Devotion II
Vobiscum Est Iope
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune
Winter Nights
Integer Vitae
O Come Quickly!
A Nosegay
Elizabeth of Bohemia
The Character of a Happy Life
Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife
Man
To His Forsaken Mistress
To an Inconstant One
Hymn to Diana
To Celia
Simplex Munditiis
The Shadow
The Triumph
An Elegy
A Farewell to the World
The Noble Balm
Epitaph I: On Elizabeth L. H.
Epitaph II: On Salathiel Pavy
A Part of an Ode
Daybreak
Song
Ode
The Ecstasy
The Dream
The Funeral
A Hymn to God the Father
Death
Philomel
Sweet Content
Matin Song
The Message
Sleep
Bridal Song
Aspatia's Song
Hymn to Pan
Away, Delights!
Love's Emblems
Hear, Ye Ladies
God Lyaeus
Beauty Clear and Fair
Melancholy
Weep No More
A Dirge
The Shrouding of the Dutchess of Malfi
Vanitas Vanitatum
Aurora
A Litany
Of His Dear Son, Gervase
Invocation
Madrigal
Spring Bereaved I
Spring Bereaved II
Spring Bereaved III
Her Passing
Inexorable
Change Should Breed Change
Saint John Baptist
Wooing Song
On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey
Dawn
I Loved a Lass
The Lover's Resolution
The Choice
A Widow's Hymn
A Welcome
The Sirens' Song
The Rose
Song
Memory
Epitaph I: In Obitum M. S.
Epitaph II: On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke
Corinna's Going a-Maying
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
To the Western Wind
To Electra
To Violets
To Daffodils
To Blossoms
The Primrose
The Funeral Rites of the Rose
Cherry-Ripe
A Meditation for His Mistress
Delight in Disorder
Upon Julia's Clothes
The Bracelet: To Julia
To Daisies, Not To Shut So Soon
The Night-Piece: To Julia
To Music, To Becalm His Fever
To Dianeme
To Oenone
To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything
To the Willow-Tree
The Mad Maid's Song
Comfort to a Youth That Had Lost His Love
To Meadows
A Child's Grace
Epitaph
Another
His Winding-Sheet
Litany to the Holy Spirit
A Divine Rapture
Epigram: Respice Finem
A Contemplation Upon Flowers
A Renunciation
Exequy on His Wife
Virtue
Easter
Discipline
A Dialogue
The Pulley
Love
A Hymn
Death the Leveller
Song
Persuasions to Joy: A Song
To His Inconstant Mistress
The Unfading Beauty
Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
Epitaph
Another
Time
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara
Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam
A Devout Lover
An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford
Aubade
To a Mistress Dying
Praise and Prayer
On a Girdle
Go, Lovely Rose
Old Age

The Primrose

Ask me why I send you here

This sweet Infanta of the year?

Ask me why I send to you

This primrose, thus bepearl'd with dew?

I will whisper to your ears:—

The sweets of love are mix'd with tears.


Ask me why this flower does show

So yellow-green, and sickly too?

Ask me why the stalk is weak

And bending (yet it doth not break)?

I will answer:—These discover

What fainting hopes are in a lover.

— Robert Herrick
1591-1674   


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