NOTE

The typography of the edition of 1633 has been closely followed, in its use for example of 'u' and 'v'; and of long 's', which is avoided in certain combinations, e.g. 'sk' (but P. 12, l. 27. 'askes' 1633) and frequently 'sb'; nor is it generally used when the letter following 's' is elided; but there are one or two exceptions to this.

In the following places I have printed a full 'and' where 1633 contracts to '&' owing to the length of the line:

Page 12, l. 4. & whõ; P. 15, l. 40. & drove; P. 65, l. 8. & nought; P. 153, l. 105. & almes; P. 158, l. 101. & name; do., l. 107. & rockes, &; P. 159, l. 30. & black; P. 171, l. 83. & lawes; P. 183, l. 18. & Courts; P. 184, l. 29. & God; P. 205, l. 2. & pleasure; P. 240, l. 288. & sinke; P. 254, l. 107. & thinke; do., l. 113. & think; P. 280, l. 24. & Mines; P. 297, l. 56. & lands; do., l. 62. & brow; P. 306, l. 290. & lents; P. 327 (xii), l. 8. & feed; P. 337, l. 35. & thou; P. 360, l. 188. & turn'd; P. 384, l. 78. & face.

In the following places 'm' or 'n', indicated by a contraction, has been printed in full: Page 12, l. 4. Her whõ; do. & whõ; P. 37, 1. 17. whẽ (bis); P. 82, l. 46. thẽ; P. 90, l. 2. frõ; P. 128, l. 28. Valẽtine; P. 141, l. 8. whẽ; P. 150, l. 16. thẽ; P. 159, l. 30. strãge; P. 169, l. 31. whõ; P. 257, l. 210. successiõ; P. 266, l. 513. anciẽt; P. 305, l. 255. thẽ; P. 336, l. 10. whẽ; P. 343, l. 126. Frõ; P. 345, l. 169. thẽ; P. 387, l. 71. Pẽbrooke.

There are a few examples of the same changes in the poems printed from the later editions, but I have not reproduced any of these editions so completely as 1633, every poem in which, with the exception of Basse's An Epitaph upon Shakespeare (1633. p. 149 i.e. 165) has been here reprinted.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I

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]
1633195[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]
163563-4[Farewell to love][70]
66-7[A Lecture upon the Shadow][71]
1650264-5[Sonnet. The Token][72]
391-2[〈Selfe Love〉 He that cannot chuse but love][73]
[EPIGRAMS]
163340[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]
163341[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]
163344-5I.[Iealosie][79]
45-7II.[The Anagram][80]
47-8III.[Change][82]
49-51IV.[The Perfume][84]
51-2V.[His Picture][86]
53-5VI.[Oh, let mee not][87]
55-6VII.[Natures lay Ideot][89]
149-50VIII.[The Comparison][90]
151-2IX.[The Autumnall][92]
153X.[The Dreame][95]
163589-93XI.[The Bracelet][96]
166986-9XII.[His parting from her][100]
163596-7XIII.[Iulia][104]
98-100XIV.[A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife][105]
1633300-2XV.[The Expostulation][108]
1635269-70XVI.[On his Mistris][111]
1650388-90XVII.[Variety][113]
166994-7XVIII.[Loves Progress][116]
97-9XIX.[Going to Bed][119]
Westmoreland MS.XX.[Loves Warr][122]
1633166-8[HEROICALL EPISTLE: Sapho to Philænis][124]
[EPITHALAMIONS, OR MARRIAGE SONGS]
1633118-22[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]
1633325-8[Satyre I][145]
329-32[Satyre II][149]
333-6[Satyre III][154]
337-45[Satyre IIII][158]
346-9[Satyre V][168]
1650262-4[Vpon Mr. Thomas Coryats Crudities][172]
Coryats Crudities[In eundem Macaronicon][174]
[LETTERS TO SEVERALL PERSONAGES]
163356-9[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]
163377-9[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]
163397[To Mr C. B. Thy friend, whom][208]
Westmoreland MS.[To Mr E. G. Even as lame things][208]
1633100-1[To Mr R. W. If, as mine is][209]
Westmoreland MS.[To Mr R. W. Kindly I envy][210]
163398[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]
1633233-5[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]
1633257-9[The Harbinger to the Progresse][249]
260-77[The second Anniversarie][251]
[EPICEDES AND OBSEQUIES UPON THE
DEATHS OF SUNDRY PERSONAGES]
1633154-7[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]
1635271[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]
1633103[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
163328[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
1635331-2I.[Thou hast made me][322]
163332II.[As due by many titles][322]
1635333III.[O might those sighes and teares][323]
163333IV.[Oh my blacke Soule][323]
1635334V.[I am a little world][324]
163333-4VI.[This is my playes last scene][324]
34VII.[At the round earths imagin'd corners][325]
1635336VIII.[If faithfull soules be alike glorifi'd][325]
163335IX.[If poysonous mineralls][326]
35-6X.[Death be not proud][326]
36XI.[Spit in my face you Jewes][327]
37XII.[Why are wee by all creatures waited on?][327]
37-8XIII.[What if this present were the worlds
last night?]		[328]
38XIV.[Batter my heart][328]
39XV.[Wilt thou love God, as he thee!][329]
39-40XVI.[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]
163364-6[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]
1635366-8[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]
1633304-5[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]
1635387-8[Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse][368]
1633350[A Hymne to God the Father][369]
Trinity College, Dublin, MS. [To Christ][370]
[ELEGIES UPON THE AUTHOR][371]
APPENDIX A
Latin Poems and Translations
1635278[De libro cum mutuaretur &c.][397]
278[〈Epigramma〉][397]
1650370-1[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
Poems attributed to John Donne in the Old Editions
(1633-1669) and the principal Ms. Collections,
arranged according to their probable Author.
I
Poems. Probably by Sir John Roe, Knt.
1669130-42[To Sr Nicholas Smyth. Sleep, next society][401]
1635146-7[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]
163565-6[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
1635191-5[To the Countesse of Huntington.
That unripe side of earth]		[417]
III
1635272[Elegie. Death be not proud][422]
IV
1635157-61[Psalme 137. Probably by Francis Davison.
By Euphrates Flowry side]		[424]
V
1635342[On the blessed Virgin Mary.
Probably by Henry Constable]		[427]
VI
1635372[On the Sacrament][427]
VII
Stowe MS. 961[Absence. Absence, heare my protestation ][428]
Probably by John Hoskins.
VIII
163562[Song. Soules joy. Probably by the
Earl of Pembroke]		[429]
195-6[A Dialogue][430]
IX
166917[Break of Daye.]
[ Stay, O sweet][432]
Probably by John Dowlands.
APPENDIX C
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
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]