Seven centuries of verse, English & American, from the early English lyrics to the present day / selected and edited by A.J.M. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, A. J. M. (Arthur James Marshall), 1902-1980, editor.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 818 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Third edition, revised and enlarged.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, [1967]

Contents:

Sumer is icumen in

Adam lay I-Bowndyn

Quid Petis, O fily?

Ubi sunt que ante nos fuerunt

I have a yong suster

I sing of a madien

O western wind

The bailey beareth the bell away

The falcon

A Lyke-wake dirge

Jolly good ale and old

Balade: Hyde, Absolon, thy gilte tresses clere ; Prologue to the Canterbury Tales ; The Nun's Priest's Tale / Geoffrey Chaucer

Sir Patrick Spens

The wife of Usher's well

Thomas the rhymer

Kemp owyne

Clerk Suanders

The cherry-tree carol

The twa corbies

The three ravens

Lord Randal

Edward, Edward

Helen of Kirconnell

To Mistress Margaret Hussey ; To Mistress Isabel Pennell / John Skelton

Desire / William Cornish

The epitaph of Graunde Amoure / Stephen Hawes

The Hind ; They flee from me, that sometime did me seek / Sir Thomas Wyatt

Description of the spring, wherein each thing renews save only the lover / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Three sonnets from "amoretti": LXVIII: Most glorious Lord of lyfe ; LXX: Fresh spring, the herald ; LXXV: one day I wrote her name ; Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser

Walsinghame ; The lie ; Even such is time / Sir Walter Ralegh

Cupid and campaspe / John Lyly

Loving in truth ; with how sad steps, o moon ; My true love hath my heart ; Leave me, O love / Sir Philip Sidney

O wearisome condition of humanity / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke

The song at the well ; Bethsabe's song / George Peele

Are they shadows that we see? / Samuel Daniel

Sonet: Fra bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin / Mark Alexander Boyd

The parting / Michael Drayton

The passionate shepherd to his love / The nymph's reply (by Sir Walter Ralegh) / Christopher Marlowe

From the sonnets: XVII: Shall I compare thee; XXIX: When is disgrace with fortune; XXX: When to the sessions; XXXIII: Full many a glorious morning; LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments; LX: Like as the waves; LXIV: When I have seen by time's fell hand; LXV: since brass, nor stone ; LXVI: Tired with all these; LXXI: No longer mourn for me; LXXIII: That time of year; CVI: When in the chronicle of wasted time; CVII: Not mine own fears; CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds; CXXIX: Th'expense of spirit; CXXX: My mistress' eyes; CXLVI: Poor soul, the center; Songs from the plays: Who is Silvia?; When daisies pied; When icicles hang by the wall; Now the hungry lion roars; Tell me where is fancy bred; Sigh no more, ladies; Under the greenwood tree; Blow, blow, thouh winter wind ; Come away, death; O mistress mine ; Take, O! Take those lips away; Hark, Hark! the lark; fear no more the heat o' the sun; Where the bee sucks; Full Fathom five; The phoenix and the turtle / William Shakespeare

Cerry-ripe; Rose-cheeked Laura; Vivamus mea lesbia atque amemus ; When to her lute corinna sings; Kind are her answers; Young and simple though I am; When thou must home / Thomas Campion

Tom O'Bedlam's song/ Author Unknown

Song: go and catch a falling star; The canonization; The sun rising; The good-morrow- The Ecstasy ; The Anniversary; Elegy: on his mistress; A valediction forbidding mourning; The relic; HOly sonnets: VII: at the round earth's imagined corners; X: Death, be not proud; Xiii: What if this present; XIV: Batter my heart, three-personed God; A hymn to God the father / John Donne

To Celia: drink to me only with thine eyes; Song: to Celia; The triumph of Charis; Slow, Slow, fresh fount ; To the memory of my beloved, the author, Master William Shakespeare; An ode to himself; To Heaven / Ben Jonson

Call for the Robin Redbreast / John Webster

On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ; In Obitum M.S., X Mai, 1614 / William Browne of Tavistock

The argument of his book; Corrinna's going a-maying; To the Virgins, to make much of time; To daffodils; The night-piece, to Julia; Upon Juli'as clothes; Delight in disorder; The cheat of Cupid, or, the ungentle guest; A child's grace; His prayer to Ben Jonson ; The bad season makes the poet sad; A thanksgiving to God, for his house; His creed / Robert Herrick

The collar; Redemption; Peace; The church-floor; Love; The pulley; Discipline; Life; Virture/ George Herbert

Death the leveller/ James shirley

Go, lovely rose/ Edmund Waller

At a solemn music ; On time ; On the morning of Christ's nativity ; L'allegro ; Il Penseroso; Lycidas; Songs from "comus": The star that bids the shepherds fold; Sweet echo, sweetest nymph; Sabrina fair; To the ocean now I fly ; Sonnets: How soon hath time; When I consider how my light is Oliver Cromwell ; On the late massacre in Piemont ; On the detraction which followed upon my writing certain treatises ; On the same; On his deceased wife; Choruses from "Samson Agonistes": May are the wayings of the wise; Oh how comely it is and how reviving; All is best / John Milton

Out upon it! I have loved; A ballad upon a wedding; Song / Sir John Suckling

In the Holy Nativity of our Lord God ; A song / Richard Crashaw

To Lucasta, going to the wars ; To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace

To his coy mistress; The garden; The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers ; Bermudas; The definition of love / Andrew Marvell

The world; The retreat; The nigh; Ascension-hymn / Henry Vaughan

Wonder / Thomas Traherne

Alexander's feast, or, the power of music ; To the memory of Mr. OIdham; Prologue to "Aureng-Zebe" ' Lines printed under the engraved portrait of Milton, 1688; Song of Venus; The lady's song; The secular masque / John Dryden

A better answer (Cloe Jealous); To a child of quality; On critics / Matthew Prior

A description of the morning; Description of a city shower; A satyrical elegy on the death of a late famous general ; Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged / Jonathan Swift

Damon and cupid; Song from "The beaggar's opera": were I laid on Greenland's coast; My own epitaph / John Gay

On the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / Goerge Berkeley

Ode on solitude; To a young lad on her leaving the town after the coronation ; The rape of the lock; Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady ; Engraved on the collar of a dog, which I gave to His Royal Highness; Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton / Alexander Pope

Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick at the opening of the theatre in Drury Lane, 1747 / Samuel Johnson

Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; On the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of goldfishes ; Elegy written in a country churchyard; On Lord Holland's seat near Margate, Kent / Thomas Gray

Ode to evening; Ode written in the beginning of the year / William Collins

For I will consider my cat Jeoffrey / Christopher Smart

When lovely woman stoops to folly ; Edmund Burke (from "retaliation") ; David Garrick (from "retaliation") / Oliver Goldsmith

The poplar field / Epitaph on a hare ; Light shining out of darkness / William Cowper

to the muses ; song: how sweet I roam'd ; songs of innocence: introduction ; The lamb; The little black boy; The tyger; Ah! sun-flower ; The sick rose; London; The little vagabond ; The garden of love; I asked a thief; From "Milton" ; Scoffers; Auguries of innocence / William Blake

Scots wha hae ; A red, red rose; Ae fond kiss; To a mouse, on turning up her nest with the plough ; John Barleycorn: a ballad ; To a louse, on seeing one on a lady's bonnet at church ; Address to the unco guid, or the rigidly righteous / Robert Burns

The daffodils; The solitary reaper; To a butterfly; Stepping westward; Lucy Gray: or, solitude ; Three years she grew; A slumber did my spirit seal; Ode

intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey ; sonnets: The world is too much with use; Upon Westminster Bridge; London, 1802; thoughts of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland ; Mutability; It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; Surprised by Joy

impatient as the wind / William Wordswoth

Bonny Dundee; Proud Maisei / Sir Walter Scott

The fruit plucker; Kubla Khan; The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[and many more].

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has "Broadway Bucks Discount Theatre Tickets" coupon laid in at front.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has clipping from The New York Times Book Review September 17, 1972 laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Smith, A.J.M. (Arthur James Marshall), 1902- Seven centuries of verse, English & American, from the early English lyrics to the present day.

OCLC:

1144355