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Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete

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Gilfillan, George, 1813-1878
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English poetry
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January 1, 2006
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Contents

  1. 1.SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS. — BY THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN. — COMPLETE
  2. 2.VOL. I.
  3. 3.INTRODUCTORY ESSAY — THE SPOUTS AND SOLEMNITIES WHICH FOLLOWED KING ARTHUR'S CORONATION. — AN OLD TRADITION. — ARTHUR'S INTRIGUE WITH YGERNE. — THE PROLOGUE. — KING VORTIGERN'S MEETING WITH PRINCESS KODWEN. — THE ATTACK OF RICHARD I. ON A CASTLE HELD BY THE SARACENS. — THE SOLDAN SALADIN SENDS KING RICHARD A HORSE. — DEGORE AND THE DRAGON. — A BATTLE — HUMAN LIFE. — ALLEGORICAL PICTURES. — COVETOUSNESS. — THE PRELATES. — MERCY AND TRUTH. — NATURE, OR KIND, SENDING FORTH HIS DISEASES FROM THE PLANETS, AT THE COMMAND OF CONSCIENCE, AND OF HIS ATTENDANTS, AGE AND DEATH. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI.
  4. 4.ADVERTISEMENT.
  5. 5.CONTENTS. — SPECIMENS, WITH MEMOIRS, OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
  6. 6.JOHN GOWER — THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN. — OF THE GRATIFICATION WHICH THE LOVERS PASSION RECEIVES FROM THE SENSE OF HEARING.
  7. 7.JOHN BARBOUR. — APOSTROPHE TO FREEDOM. — DEATH OF SIR HENRY DE BOHUN.
  8. 8.ANDREW WYNTOUN.
  9. 9.BLIND HARRY. — BATTLE OF BLACK-EARNSIDE. — THE DEATH OF WALLACE.
  10. 10.JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND. — THE KING THUS DESCRIBES THE APPEARANCE OF HIS MISTRESS, WHEN HE FIRST SAW HER FROM A WINDOW OF HIS PRISON AT WINDSOR.
  11. 11.JOHN THE CHAPLAIN—THOMAS OCCLEVE.
  12. 12.JOHN LYDGATE. — CANACE, CONDEMNED TO DEATH BY HER FATHER AEOLUS, SENDS TO HER GUILTY BROTHER MACAREUS THE LAST TESTIMONY OF HER UNHAPPY PASSION. — THE LONDON LYCKPENNY. — DINNER GIVEN BY THE TOWN MOUSE TO THE COUNTRY MOUSE. — [FROM THE MORAL.] — THE GARMENT OF GOOD LADIES.
  13. 13.WILLIAM DUNBAR — THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS THROUGH HELL. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — THE MERLE AND NIGHTINGALE.
  14. 14.GAVIN DOUGLAS. — MORNING IN MAY.
  15. 15.SKELTON. — TO MISTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY.
  16. 16.SIR DAVID LYNDSAY. — MELDRUM'S DUEL WITH THE ENGLISH CHAMPION TALBART. — SUPPLICATION IN CONTEMPTION OF SIDE TAILS,[1] (1538.)
  17. 17.THOMAS TUSSER. — DIRECTIONS FOR CULTIVATING A HOP-GARDEN. — HOUSEWIFELY PHYSIC. — MORAL REFLECTIONS ON THE WIND.
  18. 18.GEORGE GASCOIGNE. — GOOD-MORROW. — GOOD-NIGHT.
  19. 19.THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST AND EARL OF DORSET. — ALLEGORICAL CHARACTERS FROM THE MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES. — HENRY DUKE OP BUCKINGHAM IN THE INFERNAL REGIONS.
  20. 20.JOHN HARRINGTON. — SONNET ON ISABELLA MARKHAM, — VERSES ON A MOST STONY-HEARTED MAIDEN WHO DID SORELY BEGUILE THE NOBLE KNIGHT, MY TRUE FRIEND.
  21. 21.SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. — TO SLEEP. — SONNETS. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI.
  22. 22.ROBERT SOUTHWELL. — LOOK HOME. — THE IMAGE OF DEATH. — LOVE'S SERVILE LOT. — TIMES GO BY TURNS.
  23. 23.THOMAS WATSON. — THE NYMPHS TO THEIR MAY-QUEEN. — SONNET.
  24. 24.THOMAS TURBERVILLE. — IN PRAISE OP THE RENOWNED LADY ANNE, COUNTESS OF WARWICK. — HARPALUS' COMPLAINT OF PHILLIDA'S LOVE BESTOWED ON CORIN, WHO LOVED HER NOT, AND DENIED HIM THAT LOVED HER. — A PRAISE OF HIS LADY. — THAT ALL THINGS SOMETIME FIND EASE OF THEIR PAIN, SAVE ONLY THE LOVER. — FROM 'THE PHOENIX' NEST.' — FROM THE SAME. — THE SOUL'S ERRAND. — SECOND PERIOD.
  25. 25.FRANCIS BEAUMONT. — TO BEN JONSON. — ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER. — AN EPITAPH.
  26. 26.SIR WALTER RALEIGH. — THE COUNTRY'S RECREATIONS. — THE SILENT LOVER. — A VISION UPON 'THE FAIRY QUEEN.' — LOVE ADMITS NO RIVAL.
  27. 27.JOSHUA SYLVESTER. — TO RELIGION. — ON MAN'S RESEMBLANCE TO GOD. (FROM DU BARTAS.) — THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN.
  28. 28.RICHARD BARNFIELD. — ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
  29. 29.ALEXANDER HUME. — THANKS FOR A SUMMER'S DAY. — OTHER SCOTTISH POETS.
  30. 30.SAMUEL DANIEL. — RICHARD II., THE MORNING BEFORE HIS MURDER IN POMFRET CASTLE. — EARLY LOVE. — SELECTIONS FROM SONNETS.
  31. 31.SIR JOHN DAVIES. — INTRODUCTION TO THE POEM ON THE SOUL OF MAN. — THE SELF-SUBSISTENCE OF THE SOUL. — SPIRITUALITY OF THE SOUL.
  32. 32.GILES FLETCHER. — THE NATIVITY. — SONG OF SORCERESS SEEKING TO TEMPT CHRIST. — CLOSE OF 'CHRIST'S VICTORY AND TRIUMPH.'
  33. 33.JOHN DONNE. — HOLY SONNETS. — THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL.
  34. 34.MICHAEL DRAYTON, — DESCRIPTION OF MORNING.
  35. 35.EDWARD FAIRFAX. — RINALDO AT MOUNT OLIVET.
  36. 36.SIR HENRY WOTTON — FAREWELL TO THE VANITIES OF THE WORLD. — A MEDITATION.
  37. 37.RICHARD CORBET. — DR CORBET'S JOURNEY INTO FRANCE. — FAREWELL TO THE FAIRIES.
  38. 38.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.
  39. 39.THOMAS RANDOLPH. — THE PRAISE OF WOMAN. — TO MY PICTURE. — TO A LADY ADMIRING HERSELF IN A LOOKING-GLASS.
  40. 40.ROBERT BURTON. — ON MELANCHOLY.
  41. 41.THOMAS CAREW.
  42. 42.PERSUASIONS TO LOVE. — SONG. — TO MY MISTRESS SITTING BY A RIVER'S SIDE. — SONG. — A PASTORAL DIALOGUE. — SONG.
  43. 43.SIR JOHN SUCKLING. — SONG. — A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING. — SONG.
  44. 44.WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT. — LOVE'S DARTS. — ON THE DEATH OF SIR BEVIL GRENVILLE. — A VALEDICTION.
  45. 45.WILLIAM BROWNE. — SONG. — SONG. — POWER OF GENIUS OVER ENVY. — EVENING. — FROM 'BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS.' — A DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH.
  46. 46.WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING. — SONNET.
  47. 47.WILLIAM DRUMMOND. — THE RIVER OF FORTH FEASTING. — SONNETS. — SPIRITUAL POEMS.
  48. 48.PHINEAS FLETCHER — DESCRIPTION OF PARTHENIA. — INSTABILITY OF HUMAN GREATNESS. — HAPPINESS OF THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE. — MARRIAGE OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH. — END OF VOL. I. — SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
  49. 49.CONTENTS — SECOND PERIOD—FROM SPENSER TO DRYDEN. (CONTINUED.) — SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS. — SECOND PERIOD—FROM SPENSER TO DRYDEN. (CONTINUED.) — WILLIAM HABINGTON. — EPISTLE ADDRESSED TO THE HONOURABLE W.E. — TO HIS NOBLEST FRIEND, J.C., ESQ. — A DESCRIPTION OF CASTARA.
  50. 50.JOSEPH HALL, BISHOP OF NORWICH. — THE MORNING STAR. — 'UPON THE SIGHT OF TWO SNAILS.' — SATIRE I. — SATIRE VII.
  51. 51.RICHARD LOVELACE. — SONG. — SONG. — A LOOSE SARABAND.
  52. 52.ROBERT HERRICK. — SONG. — CHERRY-RIPE. — THE KISS: A DIALOGUE. — TO DAFFODILS. — TO PRIMROSES. — TO BLOSSOMS. — OBERON'S PALACE. — THE MAD MAID'S SONG. — CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING. — JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER. — THE COUNTRY LIFE.
  53. 53.SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. — THE SPRING, A SONNET. FROM THE SPANISH.
  54. 54.ABRAHAM COWLEY. — THE CHRONICLE, A BALLAD. — THE COMPLAINT. — THE DESPAIR. — OF WIT. — OF SOLITUDE. — THE WISH. — UPON THE SHORTNESS OF MAN'S LIFE. — ON THE PRAISE OF POETRY. — THE MOTTO. — DAVIDEIS. — LIFE. — THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT.
  55. 55.GEORGE WITHER — FROM 'THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING.' — THE SHEPHERD'S RESOLUTION. — THE STEADFAST SHEPHERD. — THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING. — SONG.
  56. 56.SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT, — FROM 'GONDIBERT'—CANTO II. — FROM 'GONDIBERT'—CANTO IV.
  57. 57.DR HENRY KING. — SIC VITA. — SONG. — LIFE.
  58. 58.JOHN CHALKHILL. — ARCADIA. — THEALMA, A DESERTED SHEPHERDESS. — PRIESTESS OF DIANA. — THEALMA IN FULL DRESS. — DWELLING OF THE WITCH ORANDRA.
  59. 59.CATHARINE PHILLIPS. — THE INQUIRY. — A FRIEND.
  60. 60.MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE. — MELANCHOLY DESCRIBED BY MIRTH. — MELANCHOLY DESCRIBING HERSELF.
  61. 61.THOMAS STANLEY. — CELIA SINGING. — SPEAKING AND KISSING. — LA BELLE CONFIDANTE. — THE LOSS. — NOTE ON ANACREON.
  62. 62.ANDREW MARVELL. — THE EMIGRANTS. — THE NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAWN. — ON PARADISE LOST. — THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. — SATIRE ON HOLLAND.
  63. 63.IZAAK WALTON. — THE ANGLER'S WISH.
  64. 64.JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER — SONG. — SONG.
  65. 65.THE EARL OF ROSCOMMON. — FROM "AN ESSAY ON TRANSLATED VERSE."
  66. 66.CHARLES COTTON. — INVITATION TO IZAAK WALTON. — A VOYAGE TO IRELAND IN BURLESQUE. — CANTO II — CANTO III.
  67. 67.DR HENRY MORE. — OPENING OF SECOND PART OF 'PSYCHOZOIA.' — EXORDIUM OF THIRD PART. — DESTRUCTION AND RENOVATION OF ALL THINGS. — A DISTEMPERED FANCY. — SOUL COMPARED TO A LANTERN.
  68. 68.WILLIAM CHAMBERLAYNE. — ARGALIA TAKEN PRISONER BY THE TURKS.
  69. 69.HENRY VAUGHAN. — ON A CHARNEL-HOUSE. — ON GOMBAULD'S ENDYMION. — APOSTROPHE TO FLETCHER THE DRAMATIST. — PICTURE OF THE TOWN. — THE GOLDEN AGE. — REGENERATION. — RESURRECTION AND IMMORTALITY. — THE SEARCH. — ISAAC'S MARRIAGE. — MAN'S FALL AND RECOVERY. — THE SHOWER. — BURIAL. — CHEERFULNESS. — THE PASSION. — RULES AND LESSONS. — REPENTANCE. — THE DAWNING. — THE TEMPEST. — THE WORLD. — THE CONSTELLATION. — MISERY. — MOUNT OF OLIVES. — ASCENSION-DAY. — COCK-CROWING. — THE PALM-TREE. — THE GARLAND. — LOVE-SICK. — PSALM CIV. — THE TIMBER. — THE JEWS. — PALM-SUNDAY. — PROVIDENCE. — ST MARY MAGDALENE. — THE RAINBOW. — THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY. — CHILDHOOD. — ABEL'S BLOOD. — RIGHTEOUSNESS. — JACOB'S PILLOW AND PILLAR. — THE FEAST. — THE WATERFALL.
  70. 70.DR JOSEPH BEAUMONT. — HELL. — JOSEPH'S DREAM. — PARADISE. — EVE. — TO THE MEMORY OF HIS WIFE. — IMPERIAL ROME PERSONIFIED. — END.
  71. 71.MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. — FROM ROBERT HEATH. — WHAT IS LOVE? — PROTEST OF LOVE. — TO CLARASTELLA. — BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. — MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS. (FROM BYRD'S 'PSALMS, SONNETS,' ETC. 1588.) — THE OLD AND YOUNG COURTIER. — THERE IS A GARDEN IN HER FACE. — HALLO, MY FANCY. — THE FAIRY QUEEN. — SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
  72. 72.CONTENTS. — THIRD PERIOD—FROM DRYDEN TO COWPER.
  73. 73.SPECIMENS, WITH MEMOIRS, OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS. — SIR CHARLES SEDLEY. — TO A VERY YOUNG LADY. — SONG.
  74. 74.JOHN POMFRET, — THE CHOICE.
  75. 75.THE EARL OF DORSET. — SONG.
  76. 76.JOHN PHILIPS. — THE SPLENDID SHILLING.
  77. 77.SIR SAMUEL GARTH. — THE DISPENSARY.
  78. 78.SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE. — VERSES TO BE PLACED UNDER THE PICTURE OF SIR R. BLACKMORE, CONTAINING A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS. — CREATION.
  79. 79.ELIJAH FENTON. — AN ODE TO THE RIGHT HON. JOHN LORD GOWER. — ROBERT CRAWFORD. — THE BUSH ABOON TRAQUAIR.
  80. 80.THOMAS TICKELL. — TO THE EARL OF WARWICK, ON THE DEATH OF MR ADDISON.
  81. 81.JAMES HAMMOND. — ELEGY XIII.
  82. 82.RICHARD SAVAGE. — THE BASTARD.
  83. 83.THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER. — VERSES WRITTEN AFTER SEEING WINDSOR CASTLE. — AN AMERICAN LOVE ODE.
  84. 84.JONATHAN SWIFT. — BAUCIS AND PHILEMON. — ON POETRY. — ON THE DEATH OF DR SWIFT. — A CHARACTER, PANEGYRIC, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGION-CLUB. 1736.
  85. 85.ISAAC WATTS. — FEW HAPPY MATCHES. — THE SLUGGARD. — THE ROSE. — A CRADLE HYMN. — BREATHING TOWARD THE HEAVENLY COUNTRY. — TO THE REV. MR JOHN HOWE.
  86. 86.AMBROSE PHILIPS. — A FRAGMENT OF SAPPHO.
  87. 87.WILLIAM HAMILTON. — THE BRAES OF YARROW.
  88. 88.ALLAN RAMSAY. — LOCHABER NO MORE. — THE LAST TIME I CAME O'ER THE MOOR. — FROM 'THE GENTLE SHEPHERD.'
  89. 89.ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE. — IMITATION OF THOMSON. — IMITATION OF POPE. — IMITATION OF SWIFT.
  90. 90.WILLIAM OLDYS. — SONG, OCCASIONED BY A FLY DRINKING OUT OF A CUP OF ALE.
  91. 91.ROBERT LLOYD. — THE MISERIES OF A POET'S LIFE.
  92. 92.HENRY CAREY. — SALLY IN OUR ALLEY.
  93. 93.DAVID MALLETT. — WILLIAM AND MARGARET. — THE BIRKS OF INVERMAY.
  94. 94.JAMES MERRICK. — THE CHAMELEON.
  95. 95.DR JAMES GRAINGER. — ODE TO SOLITUDE.
  96. 96.MICHAEL BRUCE. — TO THE CUCKOO. — ELEGY, WRITTEN IN SPRING.
  97. 97.CHRISTOPHER SMART. — SONG TO DAVID.
  98. 98.THOMAS CHATTERTON. — BRISTOWE TRAGEDY. — MINSTREL'S SONG. — THE STORY OF WILLIAM CANYNGE. — KENRICK. — FEBRUARY, AN ELEGY.
  99. 99.LORD LYTTELTON. — FROM THE 'MONODY.'
  100. 100.JOHN CUNNINGHAM. — MAY-EVE; OR, KATE OF ABERDEEN.
  101. 101.ROBERT FERGUSSON. — THE FARMER'S INGLE.
  102. 102.DR WALTER HARTE.
  103. 103.EDWARD LOVIBOND. — THE TEARS OF OLD MAY-DAY.
  104. 104.FRANCIS FAWKES. — THE BROWN JUG.
  105. 105.JOHN LANGHORNE. — FROM 'THE COUNTRY JUSTICE.' — GIPSIES. — A CASE WHERE MERCY SHOULD HAVE MITIGATED JUSTICE.
  106. 106.SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. — THE LAWYER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MUSE.
  107. 107.JOHN SCOTT. — ODE ON HEARING THE DRUM. — THE TEMPESTUOUS EVENING.
  108. 108.ALEXANDER ROSS. — WOO'D, AND MARRIED, AND A'. — THE ROCK AN' THE WEE PICKLE TOW.
  109. 109.RICHARD GLOVER. — FROM BOOK XII — ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST.
  110. 110.WILLIAM WHITEHEAD. — VARIETY.
  111. 111.WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE. — CUMNOR HALL. — THE MARINER'S WIFE.
  112. 112.LORD NUGENT. — ODE TO MANKIND.
  113. 113.JOHN LOGAN. — THE LOVERS. — WRITTEN IN A VISIT TO THE COUNTRY IN AUTUMN. — COMPLAINT OF NATURE.
  114. 114.THOMAS BLACKLOCK. — THE AUTHOR'S PICTURE. — ODE TO AURORA, ON MELISSA'S BIRTHDAY.
  115. 115.MISS ELLIOT AND MRS COCKBURN. — THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. — THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.
  116. 116.SIR WILLIAM JONES. — A PERSIAN SONG OF HAFIZ.
  117. 117.SAMUEL BISHOP. — TO MRS BISHOP, — TO THE SAME,
  118. 118.SUSANNA BLAMIRE. — THE NABOB. — WHAT AILS THIS HEART O' MINE?
  119. 119.JAMES MACPHERSON. — OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN. — DESOLATION OF BALCLUTHA. — FINGAL AND THE SPIRIT OF LODA. — ADDRESS TO THE MOON. — FINGAL'S SPIRIT-HOME. — THE CAVE.
  120. 120.WILLIAM MASON. — EPITAPH ON MRS MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. — AN HEROIC EPISTLE TO SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS, KNIGHT, COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S WORKS, ETC.
  121. 121.JOHN LOWE. — MARY'S DREAM.
  122. 122.JOSEPH WARTON. — ODE TO FANCY.
  123. 123.MISCELLANEOUS. — SONG. — VERSES, — THE OLD BACHELOR. — CARELESS CONTENT. — A PASTORAL. — ODE TO A TOBACCO-PIPE. — AWAY! LET NOUGHT TO LOVE DISPLEASING. — RICHARD BENTLEY'S SOLE POETICAL COMPOSITION. — LINES ADDRESSED TO POPE.[1] — THE END.
  124. 124.INDEX

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