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Tables of Contents for The Oxford Book of Sonnets
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Introduction
xxv
SIR THOMAS WYATT (?1503--1542)
`Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind'
3
1
`Farewell, love, and all thy laws for ever'
4
1
`Unstable dream, according to the place'
5
1
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (?1517--1547)
`Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green'
6
1
`Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead'
7
1
GILES FLETCHER (?1549--1611)
`I saw, sweet Licia, when the spider ran'
8
1
EDMUND SPENSER (?1522--1599)
`More than most fair, full of the living fire'
9
1
`Sweet warrior, when shall I have peace with you?'
10
1
`Coming to kiss her lips, such grace I found'
11
1
`One day I wrote her name upon the strand'
12
1
`Was it a dream, or did I see it plain'
13
1
SIR WALTER RALEGH (?1552--1618)
Sir Walter Ralegh to his son
14
1
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554--1628)
`Satan, no woman, yet a wandering spirit'
15
1
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554--1586)
`Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'
16
1
`In truth, O Love, with what a boyish kind'
17
1
`With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies'
18
1
`Come, sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace'
19
1
`O kiss, which dost those ruddy gems impart'
20
1
SIR ARTHUR GORGES (1557--1625)
`Yourself the sun, and I the melting frost'
21
1
GEORGE CHAPMAN (?1559--1634)
A Coronet for his Mistress Philosophy
22
10
HENRY CONSTABLE (1562--1613)
`Uncivil sickness, hast thou no regard'
32
1
SAMUEL DANIEL (1562--1619)
`Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night'
33
1
MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563--1631)
`You not alone, when you are still alone'
34
1
`Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part'
35
1
JOSHUA SYLVESTER (1563--1618)
Acrostiteliostichon
36
2
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564--1616)
`Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'
38
1
`Not marble, nor the gilded monuments'
39
1
`Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore'
40
1
`Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea'
41
1
`That time of year thou mayst in me behold'
42
1
`They that have power to hurt, and will do none'
43
1
`Let me not to the marriage of true minds'
44
1
`Two loves I have of comfort and despair'
45
1
JOHN DAVIES OF HEREFORD (?1565--1618)
`When first I learned the ABC of love'
46
1
`It is as true as strange, else trial feigns'
47
1
`Give me, fair sweet, the map, well-coloured'
48
1
`So shoots a star as doth my mistress glide'
49
1
THOMAS CAMPION (1567--1620)
`Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air'
50
1
WILLIAM ALABASTER (1568--1640)
`Lo here I am, lord, whither wilt thou send me?'
51
1
`Dear, and so worthy both by your desert'
52
1
BARNABE BARNES (?1569--1609)
`Jove for Europa's love took shape of bull'
53
1
SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569--1626)
`The sacred muse that first made love divine'
54
1
JOHN DONNE (1572--1631)
`I am a little world made cunningly'
55
1
`At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'
56
1
`Death, be not proud, though some have called thee'
57
1
`Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you'
58
1
`Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear'
59
1
RICHARD BARNFIELD (1574--1627)
`Beauty and Majesty are fallen at odds'
60
1
EDWARD, LORD HERBERT OF Cherbury (1582--1648)
`You well-compacted groves, whose light and shade'
61
1
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1585--1649)
`Slide soft, fair Forth, and make a crystal plain'
62
1
`To spread the azure canopy of heaven'
63
1
LADY MARY WROTH (1587--?1651)
`How do I find my soul's extremest anguish'
64
1
`My heart is lost. What can I now expect?'
65
1
`Late in the forest I did Cupid see'
66
1
`Juno, still jealous of her husband Jove'
67
1
WILLIAM BROWNE (?1590--?1645)
`Down in a valley, by a forest's side'
68
1
GEORGE HERBERT (1593--1633)
Redemption
69
1
Prayer
70
1
THOMAS CAREW (?1595--1640)
To my Rival
71
1
WILLIAM HABINGTON (1605--1664)
To Castara. Upon Beauty
72
1
To the Moment last past
73
1
EDMUND WALLER (1606--1687)
Love's Farewell
74
1
JOHN MILTON (1608--1674)
To Charles Diodati
75
1
When the Assault was Intended to the City
76
1
`Lady, that in the prime of earliest youth'
77
1
`A book was writ of late called Tetrachordon'
78
1
On the late Massacre in Piedmont
79
1
`When I consider how my light is spent'
80
1
`Methought I saw my late espoused saint'
81
1
CHARLES COTTON (1630--1687)
Resolution in Four Sonnets, of a Poetical Question put to me by a Friend, concerning Four Rural Sisters
82
4
PHILIP AYRES (1638--1712)
Cynthia on Horseback
86
1
APHRA BEHN (1640--1689)
Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the last of Seven that died before
87
1
THOMAS EDWARDS (1699--1757)
On the Edition of Mr. Pope's Works with a Commentary and Notes
88
1
THOMAS GRAY (1716--1771)
On the Death of Richard West
89
1
THOMAS WARTON (1728--1790)
On Bathing
90
1
To the River Lodon
91
1
WILLIAM COWPER (1731--1800)
To George Romney, esq.
92
1
ANNA SEWARD (1742--1809)
To the Poppy
93
1
CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749--1806)
To a Nightingale
94
1
Composed during a Walk on the Downs, in November 1787
95
1
To Fancy
96
1
To the Insect of the Gossamer
97
1
JOHN BAMPFYLDE (1754--1797)
On a Wet Summer
98
1
MARY ROBINSON (1758--1800)
To Liberty
99
1
WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762--1850)
To the River Itchin, near Winton
100
1
On the Death of William Linley, esq.
101
1
HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS (1762--1827)
To Hope
102
1
To the Strawberry
103
1
THOMAS RUSSELL (1762--1788)
To Boccaccio
104
1
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770--1850)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
105
1
September 1, 1802
106
1
`Surprised by joy---impatient as the wind'
107
1
The Faery Chasm
108
1
`I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret'
109
1
The Column intended by Buonaparte for a triumphal edifice in Milan, now lying by the way-side in the Simplon Pass
110
1
`Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned'
111
1
A Tradition of Oker Hill in Darley Dale, Derbyshire
112
1
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772--1834)
To the River Otter
113
1
Koskiusko
114
1
Composed on a journey homeward; the author having received intelligence of the birth of a son, Sept. 20, 1796
115
1
To Nature
116
1
Work without Hope
117
1
MARY TIGHE (1772--1810)
Written in Autumn
118
1
Written at the Eagle's Nest
119
1
ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774--1843)
`A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee'
120
1
CHARLES LAMB (1775--1834)
The Gipsy's Malison
121
1
To Dora W[ordsworth]
122
1
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775--1864)
To Arthur de Noe Walker
123
1
EBENEZER ELLIOTT (1781--1849)
The Fatal Birth
124
1
JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT (1784--1850)
To the Grasshopper and the Cricket
125
1
The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit
126
3
Iterating Sonnet
129
1
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788--1824)
To Genevra
130
1
JOHN KEBLE (1792--1866)
Malvern at a Distance
131
1
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792--1822)
England in 1819
132
1
Ode to the West Wind
133
5
Ozymandias
138
1
JOHN CLARE (1793--1864)
The Ants
139
1
`I am'
140
1
The Maple Tree
141
1
GEORGE DARLEY (1795--1846)
The Free-booter
142
1
JOHN KEATS (1795--1821)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
143
1
To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat
144
1
`Blue! `Tis the life of heaven, the domain'
145
1
To Sleep
146
1
`Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art'
147
1
HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1796--1849)
`Long time a child, and still a child, when years'
148
1
Night
149
1
THOMAS HOOD (1799--1845)
Silence
150
1
To Vauxhall
151
1
Literary Reminiscences
152
1
WILLIAM BARNES (1801--1886)
False Friends-like
153
1
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803--1849)
To Tartar, a terrier beauty
154
1
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806--1861)
`If thou must love me, let it be for nought'
155
1
`I never gave a lock of hair away'
156
1
`Say over again, and yet once over again'
157
1
`How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'
158
1
`Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers'
159
1
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807--1882)
The Galaxy
160
1
The Broken Oar
161
1
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807--1892)
To a Cape Ann Schooner
162
1
CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER (1807--1898)
A Dream
163
1
East or West?
164
1
Letty's Globe
165
1
Great Britain through the Ice
166
1
Julius Caesar and the Honey-bee
167
1
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809--1849)
To Science
168
1
ALFRED TENNYSON, LORD TENNYSON (1809--1892)
Lines on Cambridge of 1830
169
1
`If I were loved, as I desire to be'
170
1
`How thought you that this thing could captivate?'
171
1
`Guess well, and that is well. Our age can find'
172
1
WILLIAM BELL SCOTT (1811--1890)
Continuity of Life
173
1
ROBERT BROWNING (1812--1889)
The Names
174
1
Now
175
1
WILLIAM EDMONDSTONE AYTOUN (1813--1865)
To Britain
176
1
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819--1861)
`Though to the vilest things beneath the moon'
177
1
FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821--1873)
`An upper chamber in a darkened house'
178
1
`Tall stately plants with spikes and forks of gold'
179
1
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822--1888)
Shakespeare
180
1
Written in Butler's Sermons
181
1
To the Hungarian Nation
182
1
WILLIAM CORY (1823--1892)
Preparation
183
1
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM (1824--1889)
In a Spring Grove
184
1
In Snow
185
1
SIDNEY DOBELL (1824--1874)
Liberty to M. le Diplomate
186
1
GEORGE MEREDITH (1828--1909)
Lucifer in Starlight
187
1
Camelus Saltat
188
2
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828--1882)
Willowwood
190
4
He and I
194
1
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830--1894)
Monna Innominata
195
15
SAMUEL BUTLER (1835--1902)
`She was too kind, wooed too persistently'
210
3
JOHN LEICESTER WARREN, BARON de Tabley (1835--1893)
`Record is nothing, and the hero great'
213
1
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837--1909)
Love and Sleep
214
1
On the Russian persecution of the Jews
215
1
For a Picture
216
1
AUGUSTA WEBSTER (1837--1894)
Mother and Daughter
217
1
WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT (1840--1922)
`Farewell, then. It is finished. I forego'
218
1
THOMAS HARDY (1840--1928)
Hap
219
1
The Sleep-worker
220
1
The Minute before Meeting
221
1
A Church Romance
222
1
ROBERT BUCHANAN (1841--1901)
The Wanderers
223
1
EDWARD DOWDEN (1843--1913)
The Singer
224
1
ROBERT BRIDGES (1844--1930)
To Francis Jammes
225
1
ADA CAMBRIDGE (1844--1926)
Desire
226
1
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844--1889)
God's Grandeur
227
1
The Windhover
228
1
Hurrahing in Harvest
229
1
Felix Randal
230
1
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves
231
2
`I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'
233
1
LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON (1845--1895)
Am I to Lose You?
234
1
MICHAEL FIELD (KATHERINE BRADLEY, 1846--1914, and Edith Cooper, 1862--1913)
Ebbtide at Sundown
235
1
The Mummy invokes his Soul
236
1
Maidenhair
237
1
ALICE MEYNELL (1847--1922)
Thoughts in Separation
238
1
Renouncement
239
1
DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN (1848--1867)
`One night I dreamt that in a gleaming hall'
240
1
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849--1903)
At Queensferry
241
1
PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON (1850--1887)
Speechless
242
1
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850--1894)
`Nay, but I fancy somehow, year by year'
243
1
OSCAR WILDE (1854--1900)
Santa Decca
244
1
AGNES MARY FRANCES ROBINSON (1857--1944)
Art and Life
245
1
FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859--1907)
Non Pax---Expectatio
246
1
MARY COLERIDGE (1861--1907)
To a Piano
247
1
LAURENCE HOPE (ADELA FLORENCE Cory Nicoloson, 1865--1904)
`I Shall Forget'
248
1
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865--1936)
The Hour of the Angel
249
1
ARTHUR SYMONS (1865--1945)
At Seventeen
250
1
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865--1939)
Leda and the Swan
251
1
Meru
252
1
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869--1935)
Fleming Helphenstine
253
1
Lingard and the Stars
254
1
Why he was There
255
1
ROBERT FROST (1874--1963)
Design
256
1
The Silken Tent
257
1
Meeting and Passing
258
1
EDWARD THOMAS (1878--1917)
`Some eyes condemn the earth they gaze upon'
259
1
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886--1967)
Glory of Women
260
1
Sporting Acquaintances
261
1
RUPERT BROOKE (1887--1915)
The Hill
262
1
Sonnet Reversed
263
1
ELIZABETH DARYUSH (1887--1977)
`Children of wealth in your warm nursery'
264
1
ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887--1962)
Where I?
265
1
EDWIN MUIR (1887--1959)
Milton
266
1
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888--1974)
The Tall Girl
267
1
Good Ships
268
1
KENNETH LESLIE (1892--1974)
`The silver herring throbbed thick in my seine'
269
1
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892--1982)
The End of the World
270
1
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY (1892--1950)
`Time does not bring relief; you all have lied'
271
1
`Grow not too high, grow not too far from home'
272
1
`Night is my sister, and how deep in love'
273
1
WILFRED OWEN (1893--1918)
To---
274
1
Maundy Thursday
275
1
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893--1978)
`To no believable blue I turn my eyes'
276
1
ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894--1963)
Armour
277
1
ROBERT GRAVES (1895--1985)
The Troll's Nosegay
278
1
CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY (1895--1915)
`When you see millions of the mouthless dead'
279
1
EDGELL RICKWORD (1898--1982)
Moon-talk
280
1
ROY CAMPBELL (1901--1957)
The Zebras
281
1
KENNETH SLESSOR (1901--1970)
Full Orchestra
282
1
MERRILL MOORE (1903--1957)
The Odor of a Metal is not Strong
283
1
PATRICK KAVANAGH (1904--1967)
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
284
1
Epic
285
1
NORMAN CAMERON (1905--1953)
Fight with a Water-Spirit
286
1
The Unfinished Race
287
1
WILLIAM EMPSON (1906--1984)
The Ants
288
1
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN (1907--1973)
The Sphinx
289
1
`Here war is simple like a monument'
290
1
Edward Lear
291
1
ALEC DERWENT HOPE (1907--)
Paradise Saved
292
1
PAUL ENGLE (1908--1991)
`Look! The air shudders when you breathe it in'
293
1
MALCOLM LOWRY (1909--1957)
About Ice
294
1
ROY FULLER (1912--1991)
Your Absence
295
1
GEORGE BARKER (1913--1991)
To My Mother
296
1
WELDON KEES (1914--1995)
For my Daughter
297
1
DYLAN THOMAS (1914--1953)
Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man Aged a Hundred
298
1
GAVIN EWART (1916--1995)
The Last things
299
1
CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917--)
I am the Great Sun
300
1
ROBERT LOWELL (1917--1977)
Inauguration Day: January 1953
301
1
JOHN HEATH-STUBBS (1918--)
Watching Tennis
302
1
WILLIAM MEREDITH (1919--)
The Illiterate
303
1
EDWIN MORGAN (1920--)
`A shilpit dog fucks grimly by the close'
304
1
RICHARD WILBUR (1921--)
`The winter deepening, the hay all in'
305
1
DONALD DAVIE (1922--1995)
Jacob's Ladder
306
1
PHILIP LARKIN (1922--1985)
Whatever Happened?
307
1
LOUIS SIMPSON (1923--)
Summer Storm
308
1
JAMES MERRILL (1926--1995)
The Midnight Snack
309
1
RICHARD MURPHY (1927--)
Beehive Cell
310
1
PETER PORTER (1929--)
`It's there, somewhere in the Platonic cold store'
311
1
ANTHONY THWAITE (1930--)
Freedom
312
1
DEREK WALCOTT (1930--)
Le Loupgarou
313
1
ALAN BROWNJOHN (1931--)
Looking at Her
314
1
ALISTAIR ELLIOT (1932--)
The Latitudes of Home
315
1
GEOFFREY HILL (1932--)
Lachrimae Amantis
316
1
GEORGE MACBETH (1932--1992)
The Worst Fear
317
1
FLEUR ADCOCK (1934--)
Dreaming
318
1
SEAMUS HEANEY (1939--)
The Skylight
319
1
MICHAEL LONGLEY (1939--)
Sulpicia
320
1
DEREK MAHON (1941--)
Grandfather
321
1
DOUGLAS DUNN (1942--)
The Kaleidoscope
322
1
EAVAN BOLAND (1944--)
Ready for Flight
323
1
SUSAN WICKS (1947--)
On Re-recording Mozart
324
1
CHRISTOPHER REID (1950--)
At the Wrong Door
325
1
PAUL MULDOON (1951--)
Why Brownlee Left
326
1
JANE DRAYCOTT (1954--)
The Prince Rupert's Drop
327
1
CAROL ANN DUFFY (1955--)
Prayer
328
1
ALAN JENKINS (1955--)
Murphy's Law
329
1
JAMIE MCKENDRICK (1955--)
A Shortened History in Pictures
330
1
SIMON ARMITAGE (1963--)
In Our Tenth Year
331
1
ALICE OSWALD (1966--)
Sea Sonnet
332
1
Sources and Notes
333
6
Acknowledgements
339
8
Index of Titles and First Lines
347