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The Flower of the Mind

The Flower of the Mind

by Alice Meynell

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Author
Meynell, Alice, 1847-1922
Credits
Transcribed from the 1898 Grant Richards edition by David Price
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
2080
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2080
Release Date
February 1, 2000
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE FLOWER OF THE MIND
  2. 2.INTRODUCTION
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.ANONYMOUS 13TH CENTURY — THE FIRST CAROL
  5. 5.SIR WALTER RALEIGH 1552–1618 — VERSES BEFORE DEATH
  6. 6.EDMUND SPENSER 1553–1599 — EASTER — FRESH SPRING — LIKE AS A SHIP — EPITHALAMION
  7. 7.JOHN LYLY 1554(?)–1606 — THE SPRING
  8. 8.SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 1554–1586 — TRUE LOVE — THE MOON — KISS — SWEET JUDGE — SLEEP — WAT’RED WAS MY WINE
  9. 9.THOMAS LODGE 1556–1625 — ROSALYND’S MADRIGAL — ROSALINE — THE SOLITARY SHEPHERD’S SONG
  10. 10.ANONYMOUS — I SAW MY LADY WEEP
  11. 11.GEORGE PEELE 1558(?)–1597 — FAREWELL TO ARMS
  12. 12.ROBERT GREENE 1560(?)–1592 — FAWNIA — SEPHESTIA’S SONG TO HER CHILD
  13. 13.CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 1562–1593 — THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE
  14. 14.SAMUEL DANIEL 1562–1619 — SLEEP — MY SPOTLESS LOVE
  15. 15.MICHAEL DRAYTON 1563–1631 — SINCE THERE’S NO HELP
  16. 16.JOSHUA SYLVESTER 1563–1618 — WERE I AS BASE
  17. 17.WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564–1616 — FANCY — UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE — FAIRIES — COME AWAY — FULL FATHOM FIVE — DIRGE — SONG — SONG
  18. 18.ANONYMOUS — TOM O’ BEDLAM
  19. 19.THOMAS CAMPION Circ. 1567–1620 — KIND ARE HER ANSWERS — LAURA — HER BACKED BOWER — FOLLOW — WHEN THOU MUST HOME — WESTERN WIND — FOLLOW YOUR SAINT — CHERRY-RIPE
  20. 20.THOMAS NASH 1567–1601 — SPRING
  21. 21.JOHN DONNE 1573–1631 — THIS HAPPY DREAM — DEATH — HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER — THE FUNERAL
  22. 22.RICHARD BARNEFIELD 1574(?)–(?) — THE NIGHTINGALE
  23. 23.BEN JONSON 1574–1637 — CHARIS’ TRIUMPH — JEALOUSY — EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH L. H. — HYMN TO DIANA — ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER — ECHO’S LAMENT FOB NARCISSUS — AN EPITAPH ON SALATHIEL PAVY, A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH’S CHAPEL
  24. 24.JOHN FLETCHER 1579–1625 — INVOCATION TO SLEEP, FROM VALENTINIAN — TO BACCHUS
  25. 25.JOHN WEBSTER (?)–1625 — SONG FROM THE DUCHESS OF MALFI — SONG FROM THE DEVIL’S LAW-CASE — IN EARTH, DIRGE FROM VITTORIA COROMBONA
  26. 26.WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 1585–1649 — SONG — SLEEP, SILENCE’ CHILD — TO THE NIGHTINGALE — MADRIGAL I — MADRIGAL II
  27. 27.BEAUMONT and FLETCHER 1586–1616 and 1579–1625 — I DIED TRUE
  28. 28.FRANCIS BEAUMONT 1586–1616 — ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY
  29. 29.SIR FRANCIS KYNASTON 1587–1642 — TO CYNTHIA, ON CONCEALMENT OF HER BEAUTY
  30. 30.NATHANIEL FIELD 1587–1638 — MATIN SONG
  31. 31.GEORGE WITHER 1588–1667 — SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP!
  32. 32.THOMAS CAREW 1589–1639 — SONG — TO MY INCONSTANT MISTRESS — AN HYMENEAL DIALOGUE — INGRATEFUL BEAUTY THREATENED
  33. 33.THOMAS DEKKER Circa 1570–1641 — LULLABY — SWEET CONTENT
  34. 34.THOMAS HEYWOOD —1649? — GOOD-MORROW
  35. 35.ROBERT HERRICK 1591–1674 — TO DIANEME — TO MEADOWS — TO BLOSSOMS — TO DAFFODILS — TO VIOLETS — TO PRIMROSES — TO DAISIES, NOT TO SHUT SO SOON — TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME — DRESS — IN SILKS — CORINNA’S GOING A-MAYING — GRACE FOR A CHILD — BEN JONSON
  36. 36.GEORGE HERBERT 1593–1632 — HOLY BAPTISM — VIRTUE — UNKINDNESS — LOVE — THE PULLEY — THE COLLAR — LIFE — MISERY
  37. 37.JAMES SHIRLEY 1596–1666 — EQUALITY
  38. 38.ANONYMOUS Circa 1603 — LULLABY
  39. 39.SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT 1605–1668 — MORNING
  40. 40.EDMUND WALLER 1605–1687 — THE ROSE
  41. 41.THOMAS RANDOLPH 1606–1634? — HIS MISTRESS
  42. 42.CHARLES BEST 17th century — A SONNET OF THE MOON
  43. 43.JOHN MILTON 1608–1674 — HYMN ON CHRIST’S NATIVITY — L’ALLEGRO — IL PENSEROSO — LYCIDAS — ON HIS BLINDNESS — ON HIS DECEASED WIFE — ON SHAKESPEARE — SONG ON MAY MORNING — INVOCATION TO SABRINA, FROM COMUS — INVOCATION TO ECHO, FROM COMUS — THE ATTENDANT SPIRIT, FROM COMUS
  44. 44.JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE 1612–1650 — THE VIGIL OF DEATH
  45. 45.RICHARD CRASHAW 1615(?)–1652 — ON A PRAYER-BOOK SENT TO MRS. M. R. — TO THE MORNING — LOVE’S HOROSCOPE — ON MR. G. HERBERT’S BOOK — WISHES TO HIS SUPPOSED MISTRESS — QUEM VIDISTIS PASTORES, ETC. A HYMN OF THE NATIVITY, SUNG BY THE SHEPHERDS — MUSIC’S DUEL — THE FLAMING HEART
  46. 46.ABRAHAM COWLEY 1618–1667 — ON THE DEATH OF MR. CRASHAW — HYMN TO THE LIGHT
  47. 47.RICHARD LOVELACE 1618–1658 — TO LUCASTA ON GOING TO THE WARS — TO AMARANTHA — LUCASTA — TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON — A GUILTLESS LADY IMPRISONED: AFTER PENANCED — THE ROSE
  48. 48.ANDREW MARVELL 1620–1678 — A HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL’S RETURN FROM IRELAND — THE PICTURE OF T. C. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS — THE NYMPH COMPLAINING OF THE DEATH OF HER FAWN — THE DEFINITION OF LOVE — THE GARDEN
  49. 49.HENRY VAUGHAN 1621–1695 — THE DAWNING — CHILDHOOD — CORRUPTION — THE NIGHT — THE ECLIPSE — THE RETREAT — THE WORLD OF LIGHT
  50. 50.SCOTTISH BALLADS — HELEN OF KIRCONNELL — THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL — THE DOWIE DENS OF YARROW — SWEET WILLIAM AND MAY MARGARET — SIR PATRICK SPENS — HAME, HAME, HAME
  51. 51.BORDER BALLAD — A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE
  52. 52.JOHN DRYDEN 1631–1700 — ODE
  53. 53.APHRA BEHN 1640–1689 — SONG, FROM ABDELAZAR
  54. 54.JOSEPH ADDISON 1672–1719 — HYMN
  55. 55.ALEXANDER POPE 1688–1744 — ELEGY
  56. 56.WILLIAM COWPER 1731–1800 — LINES ON RECEIVING HIS MOTHER’S PICTURE
  57. 57.ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD 1743–1825 — LIFE
  58. 58.WILLIAM BLAKE 1757–1828 — THE LAND OF DREAMS — THE PIPER — HOLY THURSDAY — THE TIGER — TO THE MUSES — LOVE’S SECRET
  59. 59.ROBERT BURNS 1759–1796 — TO A MOUSE — THE FAREWELL
  60. 60.WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1770–1850 — WHY ART THOU SILENT? — THOUGHTS OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND — IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING, CALM AND FREE — ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC — O FRIEND! I KNOW NOT — SURPRISED BY JOY — TO TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE — WITH SHIPS THE SEA WAS SPRINKLED — THE WORLD — UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1802 — WHEN I HAVE BORNE IN MEMORY — THREE YEARS SHE GREW — THE DAFFODILS — THE SOLITARY REAPER — ELEGIAC STANZAS — TO H. C. — ’TIS SAID THAT SOME HAVE DIED FOR LOVE — THE PET LAMB — STEPPING WESTWARD — THE CHILDLESS FATHER — ODE ON INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
  61. 61.SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771–1832 — PROUD MAISIE — A WEARY LOT IS THINE — THE MAID OF NEIDPATH
  62. 62.SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1772–1834 — YOUTH AND AGE — THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER — ARGUMENT — PART I — PART II — PART III — PART IV — PART V — PART VI — PART VII
  63. 63.WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 1775–1864 — ROSE AYLMER — EPITAPH — CHILD OF A DAY
  64. 64.THOMAS CAMPBELL 1767–1844 — HOHENLINDEN — EARL MARCH
  65. 65.CHARLES LAMB 1775–1835 — HESTER.
  66. 66.ALLAN CUNNINGHAM 1784–1842 — A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA
  67. 67.GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON 1788–1823 — THE ISLES OF GREECE
  68. 68.PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792–1822 — HELLAS — WILD WITH WEEPING — TO THE NIGHT — TO A SKYLARK — TO THE MOON — THE QUESTION — THE WANING MOON — ODE TO THE WEST WIND — RARELY, RARELY COMEST THOU — THE INVITATION, TO JANE — THE RECOLLECTION — ODE TO HEAVEN — FIRST SPIRIT — SECOND SPIRIT — THIRD SPIRIT — LIFE OF LIFE — AUTUMN — STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION NEAR NAPLES — DIRGE FOR THE YEAR — A WIDOW BIRD — THE TWO SPIRITS
  69. 69.JOHN KEATS 1795–1821 — ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN’S HOMER — TO SLEEP — THE GENTLE SOUTH — LAST SONNET — ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE — ODE ON A GRECIAN URN — ODE TO AUTUMN — ODE TO PSYCHE — ODE TO MELANCHOLY
  70. 70.HARTLEY COLERIDGE 1796–1849 — SHE IS NOT FAIR
  71. 71.NOTES — Epithalamion .—Page 3 . — Rosalynd’s Madrigal .—Page 21 . — Rosaline .—Page 22 . — Farewell to Arms .—Page 25 . — The Passionate Shepherd .—Page 28 . — Take , O take those Lips away .—Page 44 . — Kind are her Answers .—Page 46 . — Dirge .—Page 44 . — Follow .—Page 49 . — When thou must Home .—Page 50 . — The Funeral .—Page 56 . — Charis’ Triumph .—Page 58 . — In Earth .—Page 64 . — Song .—Page 65 . — To my Inconstant Mistress .—Page 75 . — The Pulley .—Page 91 . — Misery .—Page 94 . — The Rose .—Page 99 . — L’Allegro .—Page 109 . — Il Penseroso .—Page 113 . — Lycidas .—Page 119 . — On a Prayer-book .—Page 131 . — Wishes to his Supposed Mistress .—Page 139 . — On the Death of Mr. Crashaw .—Page 157 . — Hymn to the Light .—Page 159 . — To Lucasta .—Page 163 . — Lucasta Paying her Obsequies .—Page 165 . — To Althea , from Prison .—Page 166 . — A Horatian Ode .—Page 169 . — The Picture of T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers .—Page 173 . — The Definition of Love .—Page 179 . — Childhood .—Page 183 . — Scottish Ballads .—Page 191 . — Mrs. Anne Killigrew .—Page 205 . — Song , from Abdelazar .—Page 209 . — Hymn .—Page 209 . — Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady .—Page 210 . — Lines on Receiving his Mother’s Picture .—Page 213 . — Life .—Page 217 . — The Land of Dreams .—Page 217 . — Surprised by Joy .—Page 229 . — Stepping Westward .—Page 243 . — Youth and Age .—Page 256 . — The Rime of the Ancient Mariner .—Page 258 . — Page 265 . — Page 266 . — Rose Aylmer .—Page 281 . — The Isles of Greece .—Page 286 . — Hellas .—Page 290 . — The Waning Moon .—Page 298 . — Ode to the West Wind .—Page 299 . — The Invitation .—Page 303 . — La Belle Dame bans Merci .—Page 316 . — Ode to a Nightingale .—Page 320 .
  72. 72.FOOTNOTES.

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