Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 1 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 1 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch
Table of Contents
Cuckoo Song
Alison
Spring-tide
Blow, Northern Wind
This World's Joy
A Hymn to the Virgin
Of a Rose, a Lovely Rose
Praise of Women
Freedom
The Love Unfeigned
Balade
Merciles Beaute
Lament for Chaucer
Vox Ultima Crucis
Spring Song of the Birds
Robin and Makyne
The Bludy Serk
To a Lady
In Honour of the City of London
On the Nativity of Christ
Lament for the Makers
May in the Green-Wood
Carol
Quia Amore Langueo
The Nut-Brown Maid
As Ye Came from the Holy Land
The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring
Balow
The Old Cloak
To Mistress Margery Wentworth
To Mistress Margaret Hussey
The True Knight
His Epitaph
Forget Not Yet
The Appeal
A Revocation
Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus
To His Lute
Description of Spring
Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover
The Means to Attain Happy Life
A True Love
A Bequest of His Heart
A Rondel of Love
In Youth Is Pleasure
Amantium Irae
A Lover's Lullaby
The Night Is Near Gone
Jolly Good Ale and Old
When Flora Had O'erfret the Firth
Lusty May
My Heart Is High Above
A Praise of His Lady
To Her Sea-Faring Lover
The Faithless Shepherdess
Crabbed Age and Youth
Phyllida's Love-Call
A Pedlar
Hey Nonny No!
Preparations
The New Jerusalem
Icarus
Madrigal
How Can the Heart Forget Her?
Tears
My Lady's Tears
Sister, Awake!
Devotion
Since First I Saw Your Face
There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind
Love Not Me For Comely Grace
The Wakening
Phillida and Coridon
A Cradle Song
The Silent Lover I
The Silent Lover II
His Pilgrimage
The Conclusion
Whilst It Is Prime
A Ditty
Prothalamion
Epithalamion
From 'Daphnaida'
Easter
Cards and Kisses
Spring's Welcome
Beauty Bathing
The Bargain
Song
Voices at the Window
Philomela
The Highway
His Lady's Cruelty
Sleep
Splendidis Longum Valedico Nugis
Myra
Rosalind's Madrigal
Phillis I
Phillis II
Rosaline
Fair and Fair
A Farewell to Arms
Samela
Fawnia
Sephestia's Lullaby
A Summer Day
Bridal Song
Times Go by Turns
The Burning Babe
On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney
Love Is a Sickness
Ulysses and the Siren
Beauty, Time, and Love
Sonet
Ubique
To His Coy Love
The Parting
Sirena
Agincourt
To the Virginian Voyage
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Her Reply

How Can the Heart Forget Her?

From Davison's Poetical Rhapsody (1602)

At her fair hands how have I grace entreated

With prayers oft repeated!

Yet still my love is thwarted:

Heart, let her go, for she'll not be converted—

Say, shall she go?

O no, no, no, no, no!

She is most fair, though she be marble-hearted.

How often have my sighs declared my anguish,

Wherein I daily languish!

Yet still she doth procure it:

Heart, let her go, for I can not endure it—

Say, shall she go?

O no, no, no, no, no!

She gave the wound, and she alone must cure it.

But shall I still a true affection owe her,

Which prayers, sighs, tears do show her,

And shall she still disdain me?

Heart, let her go, if they no grace can gain me—

Say, shall she go?

O no, no, no, no, no!

She made me hers, and hers she will retain me.

But if the love that hath and still doth burn me

No love at length return me,

Out of my thoughts I'll set her:

Heart, let her go, O heart I pray thee, let her!

Say, shall she go?

O no, no, no, no, no!

Fix'd in the heart, how can the heart forget her?

— Francis or Walter Davison (?)
fl. early 17th century       


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