CONTENTS

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[THOMAS STANLEY][95]
[Introduction][97]
[Poems not printed after 1647][101]
[Despair][101]
[The Picture][101]
[Opinion][101]
[Poems printed in 1647 and reprinted in 1656 but not in 1651][102]
[The Dream][102]
[To Chariessa, beholding herself in a Glass][102]
[The Blush][103]
[The Cold Kiss][103]
[The Idolater][104]
[The Magnet][104]
[On a Violet in her Breast][105]
[Song: 'Foolish lover, go and seek'][105]
[The Parting][106]
[Counsel][106]
[Expostulation with Love in Despair][107]
[Song: 'Faith, 'tis not worth thy pains and care'][108]
[Expectation][108]
[1651 Poems][109]
[The Dedication: To Love][109]
[The Glow-worm][110]
[The Breath][111]
[Desiring her to burn his Verses][111]
[The Night][112]
[Excuse for wishing her less Fair][113]
[Chang'd, yet Constant][113]
[The Self-deceiver (Montalvan)][115]
[The Cure][115]
[Celia Singing][117]
[A la Mesme][117]
[The Return][118]
[Song: 'When I lie burning in thine eye'][119]
[The Sick Lover (Guarini)][119]
[Song: 'Celinda, by what potent art'][120]
[Song: 'Fool, take up thy shaft again'][120]
[Delay][121]
[Commanded by his Mistress to woo for her (Marina)][121]
[The Repulse][122]
[The Tomb][123]
[The Enjoyment (St.-Amant)][124]
[To Celia Pleading Want of Merit][126]
[The Bracelet (Tristan)][127]
[The Kiss][128]
[Apollo and Daphne (Garcilasso Marino)][128]
[Speaking and Kissing][129]
[The Snow-ball][129]
[The Deposition][130]
[To his Mistress in Absence (Tasso)][130]
[Love's Heretic][130]
[La Belle Confidente][132]
[La Belle Ennemie][132]
[The Dream (Lope de Vega)][133]
[To the Lady D.][133]
[Love Deposed][134]
[The Divorce][134]
[Time Recovered (Casone)][135]
[The Bracelet][135]
[The Farewell][136]
[Claim to Love (Guarini)][137]
[To his Mistress, who dreamed he was wounded (Guarini)][137]
[The Exchange][138]
[Unaltered by Sickness][138]
[On his Mistress's Death (Petrarch)][139]
[The Exequies][139]
[The Silkworm][140]
[A Lady Weeping (Montalvan)][140]
[Ambition][141]
[Song: 'When, dearest beauty, thou shall pay'][141]
[The Revenge][142]
[Song: 'I will not trust thy tempting graces'][142]
[Song: 'No, I will sooner trust the wind'][143]
[To a Blind Man in Love (Marino)][143]
[Answer][143]
[Song: 'I prithee let my heart alone'][144]
[The Loss][144]
[The Self-Cruel][145]
[Song (by M. W. M.): 'Wert thou yet fairer than thou art' ][145]
[Answer][146]
[The Relapse][146]
[To the Countess of S. with the Holy Court][147]
[Song (De Voiture): 'I languish in a silent flame'][147]
[Drawn for Valentine by the L. D. S.][148]
[The Modest Wish (Barclay)][148]
[E Catalectis Veterum Poetarum][149]
[On the Edition of Mr. Fletcher's Works][149]
[To Mr. W. Hammond][150]
[On Mr. Shirley's Poems][151]
[On Mr. Sherburn's Translation of Seneca's Medea, and Vindication of the Author][152]
[On Mr. Hall's Essays][153]
[On Sir John Suckling his Picture and Poems][154]
[The Union (by Mr. William Fairfax)][154]
[The Answer][154]
[Pythagoras his Moral Rules][155]
[Poems appearing only in the Edition of 1656][159]
['On this swelling bank, once proud'][159]
['Dear, fold me once more in thine arms!'][160]
['The lazy hours move slow'][160]