| SOURCE | | PAGE |
| 1633 | [The Printer to the Understanders] | [1] |
| 1633 | [Hexastichon Bibliopolae] | [3] |
| 1635 | [Hexastichon ad Bibliopolam] | [3] |
| 1650 | [Dedication to the Edition of 1650] | [4] |
| 1650 | [To John Donne] | [5] |
| 1650 | [To Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with M. Donnes Satyres] | [6] |
| 1650 | [To John Donne] | [6] |
| [SONGS AND SONETS] |
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| 1633 | 195 | [The good-morrow] | [7] |
| | 196-7 | [Song] | [8] |
| | 197-8 | [Womans constancy] | [9] |
| | 198-9 | [The undertaking] | [10] |
| | 199-200 | [The Sunne Rising] | [11] |
| | 200-1 | [The Indifferent] | [12] |
| | 201-2 | [Loves Vsury] | [13] |
| | 202-4 | [The Canonization] | [14] |
| | 204-5 | [The triple Foole] | [16] |
| | 205-6 | [Lovers infiniteness] | [17] |
| | 206-8 | [Song] | [18] |
| | 208-9 | [The Legacie] | [20] |
| | 209-10 | [A Feaver] | [21] |
| | 211-12 | [Aire and Angels] | [22] |
| | 212 | [Breake of day] | [23] |
| | 213-14 | [The Anniversarie] | [24] |
| | 214-17 | [A Valediction: of my name, in the window] | [25] |
| | 218-19 | [Twicknam garden] | [28] |
| | 219-21 | [A Valediction: of the booke] | [29] |
| | 222 | [Communitie] | [32] |
| | 223-4 | [Loves growth] | [33] |
| | 224-5 | [Loves exchange] | [34] |
| | 226 | [Confined Love] | [36] |
| | 227 | [The Dreame] | [37] |
| | 228-9 | [A Valediction: of weeping] | [38] |
| | 229-30 | [Loves Alchymie] | [39] |
| | 230-1 | [The Flea] | [40] |
| | 231-2 | [The Curse] | [41] |
| | 186 | [The Message] | [43] |
| | 187-8 | [A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day] | [44] |
| | 189 | [Witchcraft by a picture] | [45] |
| | 190-1 | [The Baite] | [46] |
| | 191 | [The Apparition] | [47] |
| | 192-3 | [The broken heart] | [48] |
| | 193-4 | [A Valediction: forbidding mourning] | [49] |
| | 277-80 | [The Extasie] | [51] |
| | 280-1 | [Loves Deitie] | [54] |
| | 281-2 | [Loves diet] | [55] |
| | 283-5 | [The Will] | [56] |
| | 285-6 | [The Funerall] | [58] |
| | 286-7 | [The Blossome] | [59] |
| | 288-9 | [The Primrose, being at Montgomery Castle, upon the hill, on which it is situate] | [61] |
| | 289-90 | [The Relique] | [62] |
| | 290-1 | [The Dampe] | [63] |
| | 291-2 | [The Dissolution] | [64] |
| | 292-3 | [A Ieat Ring sent] | [65] |
| | 293 | [Negative love] | [66] |
| | 294 | [The Prohibition] | [67] |
| | 295 | [The Expiration] | [68] |
| | 295 | [The Computation] | [69] |
| | 302 | [The Paradox] | [69] |
| 1635 | 63-4 | [Farewell to love] | [70] |
| | 66-7 | [A Lecture upon the Shadow] | [71] |
| 1650 | 264-5 | [Sonnet. The Token] | [72] |
| | 391-2 | [〈Selfe Love〉 He that cannot chuse but love] | [73] |
| [EPIGRAMS] |
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| 1633 | 40 | [Hero and Leander] | [75] |
| | 40 | [Pyramus and Thisbe] | [75] |
| | 40 | [Niobe] | [75] |
| | 41 | [A burnt ship] | [75] |
| | 41 | [Fall of a wall] | [76] |
| | 41 | [A lame begger] | [76] |
| Westmoreland MS. | [Cales and Guyana] | [76] |
| " | MS. | [Sir Iohn Wingefield] | [76] |
| 1633 | 41 | [A selfe accuser] | [76] |
| | 42 | [A licentious person] | [77] |
| | 42 | [Antiquary] | [77] |
| | 42 | [Disinherited] | [77] |
| | 42 | [Phryne] | [77] |
| | 42 | [An obscure writer] | [77] |
| | 42 | [Klockius] | [77] |
| | 43 | [Raderus] | [78] |
| | 43 | [Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus] | [78] |
| | 43 | [Ralphius] | [78] |
| Westmoreland MS. | [The Lier] | [78] |
| [ELEGIES] |
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| 1633 | 44-5 | I. | [Iealosie] | [79] |
| | 45-7 | II. | [The Anagram] | [80] |
| | 47-8 | III. | [Change] | [82] |
| | 49-51 | IV. | [The Perfume] | [84] |
| | 51-2 | V. | [His Picture] | [86] |
| | 53-5 | VI. | [Oh, let mee not] | [87] |
| | 55-6 | VII. | [Natures lay Ideot] | [89] |
| | 149-50 | VIII. | [The Comparison] | [90] |
| | 151-2 | IX. | [The Autumnall] | [92] |
| | 153 | X. | [The Dreame] | [95] |
| 1635 | 89-93 | XI. | [The Bracelet] | [96] |
| 1669 | 86-9 | XII. | [His parting from her] | [100] |
| 1635 | 96-7 | XIII. | [Iulia] | [104] |
| | 98-100 | XIV. | [A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife] | [105] |
| 1633 | 300-2 | XV. | [The Expostulation] | [108] |
| 1635 | 269-70 | XVI. | [On his Mistris] | [111] |
| 1650 | 388-90 | XVII. | [Variety] | [113] |
| 1669 | 94-7 | XVIII. | [Loves Progress] | [116] |
| | 97-9 | XIX. | [Going to Bed] | [119] |
| Westmoreland MS. | XX. | [Loves Warr] | [122] |
| 1633 | 166-8 | [HEROICALL EPISTLE: Sapho to Philænis] | [124] |
| [EPITHALAMIONS, OR MARRIAGE SONGS] |
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| 1633 | 118-22 | [An Epithalamion, Or marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day] | [127] |
| | 123-27 | [Eclogue. 1613. December 26] | [131] |
| | 127-35 | [Epithalamion] | [135] |
| | 135-8 | [Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne] | [141] |
| [SATYRES] |
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| 1633 | 325-8 | [Satyre I] | [145] |
| | 329-32 | [Satyre II] | [149] |
| | 333-6 | [Satyre III] | [154] |
| | 337-45 | [Satyre IIII] | [158] |
| | 346-9 | [Satyre V] | [168] |
| 1650 | 262-4 | [Vpon Mr. Thomas Coryats Crudities] | [172] |
| Coryats Crudities | [In eundem Macaronicon] | [174] |
| [LETTERS TO SEVERALL PERSONAGES] |
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| 1633 | 56-9 | [The Storme] | [175] |
| | 59-61 | [The Calme] | [178] |
| | 61-3 | [To Sr Henry Wotton. Sir, more then kisses] | [180] |
| | 72-4 | [To Sr Henry Goodyere. Who makes the Past] | [183] |
| | 74-5 | [To Mr Rowland Woodward. Like one who] | [185] |
| | 76-7 | [To Sr Henry Wootton. Here's no more newes] | [187] |
| Burley MS. | [H: W: in Hiber: belligeranti] | [188] |
| 1633 | 77-9 | [To the Countesse of Bedford. Madame, Reason is] | [189] |
| | 79-82 | [To the Countesse of Bedford. Madame, You have refin'd] | [191] |
| | 82-4 | [To Sr Edward Herbert, at Iulyers. Man is a lumpe] | [193] |
| | 84-7 | [To the Countesse of Bedford. T'have written then] | [195] |
| | 87-90 | [To the Countesse of Bedford. This twilight of] | [198] |
| | 90-3 | [To the Countesse of Huntingdon. Madame, Man to Gods image] | [201] |
| | 93-4 | [To Mr T. W. All haile sweet Poët] | [203] |
| | 95 | [To Mr T. W. Hast thee harsh verse] | [205] |
| | 95-6 | [To Mr T. W. Pregnant again] | [206] |
| | 96 | [To Mr T. W. At once, from] | [206] |
| Westmoreland MS. | [To Mr R. W. Zealously my Muse] | [207] |
| " | MS. | [To Mr R. W. Muse not that by] | [207] |
| 1633 | 97 | [To Mr C. B. Thy friend, whom] | [208] |
| Westmoreland MS. | [To Mr E. G. Even as lame things] | [208] |
| 1633 | 100-1 | [To Mr R. W. If, as mine is] | [209] |
| Westmoreland MS. | [To Mr R. W. Kindly I envy] | [210] |
| 1633 | 98 | [To Mr S. B. O Thou which] | [211] |
| | 101 | [To Mr I. L. Of that short] | [212] |
| | 99-100 | [To Mr B. B. Is not thy sacred] | [212] |
| | 102 | [To Mr I. L. Blest are your] | [213] |
| | 104-5 | [To Sir H. W. at his going Ambassador to Venice] | [214] |
| | 106-8 | [To Mrs M. H. Mad paper stay] | [216] |
| | 108-10 | [To the Countesse of Bedford. Honour is so] | [218] |
| | 111 | [To the Countesse of Bedford. Though I be dead] | [220] |
| | 112-13 | [A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens. Madame, Here where] | [221] |
| | 115-18 | [To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614] | [224] |
| | 298-9 | [To the Lady Bedford. You that are she] | [227] |
| [AN ANATOMIE OF THE WORLD] |
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| 1633 | 233-5 | [To the praise of the dead] | [229] |
| | 235-51 | [The first Anniversary] | [231] |
| | 252-5 | [A Funerall Elegie] | [245] |
| [OF THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE] |
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| 1633 | 257-9 | [The Harbinger to the Progresse] | [249] |
| | 260-77 | [The second Anniversarie] | [251] |
[EPICEDES AND OBSEQUIES UPON THE DEATHS OF SUNDRY PERSONAGES] |
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| 1633 | 154-7 | [Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry] | [267] |
| | 139 | [To the Countesse of Bedford. Letter introducing] | [270] |
| | 140-8 | [Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford] | [271] |
| | 66-8 | [Elegie on the Lady Marckham] | [279] |
| | 69-71 | [Elegie on Mris Boulstred] | [282] |
| | 296-8 | [Elegie. Death] | [284] |
| | 52-3 | [Elegie on the L. C.] | [287] |
| | 162-3 | [An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton] | [288] |
| [EPITAPHS] |
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| 1635 | 271 | [On himselfe] | [291] |
| | 386-7 | [Omnibus] | [292] |
| 1633 before p.1 | [INFINITATI SACRUM] | |
| | | [Epistle] | [293] |
| | 1-27 | [The Progresse of the Soule] | [295] |
| [DIVINE POEMS] |
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| 1633 | 103 | [To E. of D. with six holy Sonnets] | [317] |
Walton's Life of Mr George Herbert | [To the Lady Magdalen Herbert: of St. Mary Magdalen] | |
| | [317] |
| Holy Sonnets |
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| 1633 | 28 | [La Corona] | [318] |
| | 28-9 | [Annunciation] | [319] |
| | 29 | [Nativitie] | [319] |
| | 30 | [Temple] | [320] |
| | 30-1 | [Crucifying] | [320] |
| | 31 | [Resurrection] | [321] |
| | 31-2 | [Ascention] | [321] |
| Holy Sonnets |
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| 1635 | 331-2 | I. | [Thou hast made me] | [322] |
| 1633 | 32 | II. | [As due by many titles] | [322] |
| 1635 | 333 | III. | [O might those sighes and teares] | [323] |
| 1633 | 33 | IV. | [Oh my blacke Soule] | [323] |
| 1635 | 334 | V. | [I am a little world] | [324] |
| 1633 | 33-4 | VI. | [This is my playes last scene] | [324] |
| | 34 | VII. | [At the round earths imagin'd corners] | [325] |
| 1635 | 336 | VIII. | [If faithfull soules be alike glorifi'd] | [325] |
| 1633 | 35 | IX. | [If poysonous mineralls] | [326] |
| | 35-6 | X. | [Death be not proud] | [326] |
| | 36 | XI. | [Spit in my face you Jewes] | [327] |
| | 37 | XII. | [Why are wee by all creatures waited on?] | [327] |
| | 37-8 | XIII. | [What if this present were the worlds last night?] | [328] |
| | 38 | XIV. | [Batter my heart] | [328] |
| | 39 | XV. | [Wilt thou love God, as he thee!] | [329] |
| | 39-40 | XVI. | [Father, part of his double interest] | [329] |
| Westmoreland MS. | XVII. | [Since she whom I lov'd hath payd her last debt] | [330] |
| " | MS. | XVIII. | [Show me deare Christ, thy spouse] | [330] |
| " | MS. | XIX. | [Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet in one] | [331] |
| 1633 | 64-6 | [The Crosse] | [331] |
| | 161-2 | [Resurrection, imperfect] | [333] |
| | 168-9 | [The Annuntiation and Passion] | [334] |
| | 170-1 | [Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward] | [336] |
| | 172-85 | [The Litanie] | [338] |
| 1635 | 366-8 | [Vpon the translation of the Psalmes by Sir Philip Sydney, and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sister] | [348] |
| | 368 | [Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne] | [350] |
| | 369-70 | [To Mr Tilman after he had taken orders] | [351] |
| 1633 | 304-5 | [A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany] | [352] |
| | 306-23 | [The Lamentations of Ieremy, for the most part according to Tremelius] | [354] |
| 1635 | 387-8 | [Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse] | [368] |
| 1633 | 350 | [A Hymne to God the Father] | [369] |
| Trinity College, Dublin, MS. [To Christ] | [370] |
| | | [ELEGIES UPON THE AUTHOR] | [371] |
| APPENDIX A |
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| Latin Poems and Translations |
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| 1635 | 278 | [De libro cum mutuaretur &c.] | [397] |
| | 278 | [〈Epigramma〉] | [397] |
| 1650 | 370-1 | [Amicissimo, & meritissimo, Ben Jonson] | [398] |
| | 378 | [To Mr George Herbert, with one of my Seals] | [398] |
| | 379 | [A sheafe of Snakes used] | [399] |
| | 385 | [Translated out of Gazæus] | [400] |
| APPENDIX B |
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| | Poems attributed to John Donne in the Old Editions (1633-1669) and the principal Ms. Collections, arranged according to their probable Author. | |
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| I |
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| Poems. Probably by Sir John Roe, Knt. |
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| 1669 | 130-42 | [To Sr Nicholas Smyth. Sleep, next society] | [401] |
| 1635 | 146-7 | [Satyre. Men write that love and reason disagree] | [406] |
| | 93-5 | [An Elegie. Come, Fates; I feare you not] | [407] |
| Hawthornden MS. | [An Elegie to Mris Boulstred: 1602] | [410] |
| Addl. MS. 10309 | [An Elegie. True love findes witt] | [412] |
| 1635 | 65-6 | [Song. Deare Love, continue] | [412] |
| | 208-9 | [To Ben. Iohnson, 6 Ian. 1603] | [414] |
| | 207-8 | [To Ben. Iohnson, 9. Novembris, 1603 ] | [415] |
| | 209-10 | [To Sr Tho. Roe. 1603] | [416] |
| II |
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| 1635 | 191-5 | [To the Countesse of Huntington. That unripe side of earth] | [417] |
| III |
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| 1635 | 272 | [Elegie. Death be not proud] | [422] |
| IV |
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| 1635 | 157-61 | [Psalme 137. Probably by Francis Davison. By Euphrates Flowry side] | [424] |
| V |
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| 1635 | 342 | [On the blessed Virgin Mary. Probably by Henry Constable] | [427] |
| VI |
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| 1635 | 372 | [On the Sacrament] | [427] |
| VII |
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| Stowe MS. 961 | [Absence. Absence, heare my protestation ] | [428] |
| | | Probably by John Hoskins. | |
| VIII |
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| 1635 | 62 | [Song. Soules joy. Probably by the Earl of Pembroke] | [429] |
| | 195-6 | [A Dialogue] | [430] |
| IX |
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| 1669 | 17 | [Break of Daye.] | |
| | | [ Stay, O sweet] | [432] |
| | | Probably by John Dowlands. | |
| APPENDIX C |
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| Addl. MS. 25707 | [A Letter written by Sr H: G: and J: D: alternis vicibus] | [433] |
| Addl. MS. 25707 | [O Frutefull Garden] | [434] |
| | | [To my Lord of Pembroke] | [435] |
| | | [Of a Lady in the Black Masque] | [436] |
| Burley MS. | [〈Life.〉] | [437] |
| | | [〈My Love.〉] | [437] |
| | | [〈O Eyes!〉] | [438] |
| | | [〈Silence Best Praise.〉] | [439] |
| | | [〈Beauty in Little Room.〉] | [440] |
| | | [〈Loves Zodiake.〉] | [440] |
| | | [〈Fortune, Love, and Time.〉] | [440] |
| | | [〈Life a Play.〉] | [441] |
| | | [A Kisse] | [441] |
| | | [Epi: B: Jo:] | [443] |
| | | [Epi: Hen: Princ: Hugo Holland] | [443] |
| O'Flaherty MS. | [〈The Annuntiation. Additional Lines.〉] | [443] |
| | | [Elegy. To Chast Love] | [445] |
| | | [Upon his scornefull Mistresse. Elegy] | [446] |
| Lansdowne MS. 740 | [〈Absence.〉] | [447] |
| | | [〈Tongue-tied Love.〉] | [447] |
| O'Flaherty MS. | [〈Love, if a God thou art.〉] | [448] |
| | | [〈Great Lord of Love.〉] | [448] |
| | | [〈Loves Exchange.〉] | [449] |
| | | [Song. Now y'have killd] | [450] |
| Stowe MS. 961 | [Love, bred of glances] | [450] |
| Bridgewater MS. | [To a Watch restored to its Mystres〈se〉] | [451] |
| Egerton MS. | [〈Ad Solem.〉] | [451] |
| Stephens MS. | [〈If She Deride.〉] | [452] |
| | | [〈Fortune Never Fails.〉] | [453] |
| | | [To His Mistress] | [455] |
| Stowe MS. 961 | [A Paradoxe of a Painted Face] | [456] |
| | | [Sonnett. Madam that flea] | [459] |
| Addl. MS. 11811 | [On Black Hayre and Eyes] | [460] |
| Phillipps MS. | [Fragment of an Elegy] | [462] |
| Walton's Compleat Angler 〈[Farewel, ye guilded follies.〉] | [465] |
| | | [Index of First Lines] | [469] |
| PLATES |
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| face page[John Donne, from the engraving prefixed to the Poems, 1635 ] | [7] |
face page[John Donne, 1613, from an engraving prefixed to the prose Letters &c., 1651 ] | [175] |
| face page[John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632 ] | [369] |