SECOND PERIOD.
FROM SPENSER TO DRYDEN.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
To Ben Jonson
On the Tombs in Westminster
An Epitaph
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
The Country's Recreations
The Silent Lover
A Vision upon 'The Fairy Queen'
Love admits no Rival
JOSHUA SYLVESTER
To Religion
On Man's Resemblance to God
The Chariot of the Sun
RICHARD BARNFIELD
Address to the Nightingale
ALEXANDER HUME
Thanks for a Summer's Day
OTHER SCOTTISH POETS
SAMUEL DANIEL
Richard II., the morning before his Murder in Pomfret Castle
Early Love
Selections from Sonnets
SIR JOHN DAVIES
Introduction to the Poem on the Soul of Man
The Self-subsistence of the Soul
Spirituality of the Soul
GILES FLETCHER
The Nativity
Song of Sorceress seeking to tempt Christ
Close of 'Christ's Victory and Triumph'
JOHN DONNE
Holy Sonnets
The Progress of the Soul
MICHAEL DRAYTON
Description of Morning
EDWARD FAIRFAX
Rinaldo at Mount Olivet
SIR HENRY WOTTON
Farewell to the Vanities of the World
A Meditation
RICHARD CORBET
Dr Corbet's Journey into France
BEN JONSON
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke
The Picture of the Body
To Penshurst
To the Memory of my beloved Master, William Shakspeare, and what
he hath left us
On the Portrait of Shakspeare
VERE, STORBER, &c
THOMAS RANDOLPH
The Praise of Woman
To my Picture
To a Lady admiring herself in a Looking-glass
ROBERT BURTON
On Melancholy
THOMAS CAREW
Persuasions to Love
Song
To my Mistress sitting by a River's Side
Song
A Pastoral Dialogue
Song
SIR JOHN SUCKLING
Song
A Ballad upon a Wedding
Song
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT
Love's Darts
On the Death of Sir Bevil Grenville
A Valediction
WILLIAM BROWNE
Song
Song
Power of Genius over Envy
Evening
From 'Britannia's Pastorals'
A Descriptive Sketch
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING
Sonnet
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
The River of Forth Feasting
Sonnets
Spiritual Poems
PHINEAS FLETCHER
Description of Parthenia
Instability of Human Greatness
Happiness of the Shepherd's Life
Marriage of Christ and the Church
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