Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Table of Contents

Silvia

The Blossom

Spring and Winter: First Part

Spring and Winter: Second Part

Under the Greenwood Tree

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

It Was a Lover and His Lass

Take, O Take Those Lips Away

Aubade

Fidele

Bridal Song

Dirge of the Three Queens

Orpheus

The Phoenix and Turtle

In Time of Pestilence

A Hymn in Praise of Neptune

The Character of a Happy Life

Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife

Man

To His Forsaken Mistress

A Farewell to the World

The Noble Balm

Epitaph I: On Elizabeth L. H.

Epitaph II: On Salathiel Pavy

A Hymn to God the Father

Beauty Clear and Fair

Melancholy

Weep No More

A Dirge

The Shrouding of the Dutchess of Malfi

Vanitas Vanitatum

Aurora

A Litany

Of His Dear Son, Gervase

Change Should Breed Change

Saint John Baptist

Wooing Song

On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey

Dawn

I Loved a Lass

The Lover's Resolution

Epitaph I: In Obitum M. S.

Epitaph II: On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke

Corinna's Going a-Maying

To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time

The Funeral Rites of the Rose

Cherry-Ripe

A Meditation for His Mistress

Delight in Disorder

Upon Julia's Clothes

The Bracelet: To Julia

To Daisies, Not To Shut So Soon

The Night-Piece: To Julia

To Music, To Becalm His Fever

To Dianeme

To Oenone

To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything

To the Willow-Tree

The Mad Maid's Song

Comfort to a Youth That Had Lost His Love

Litany to the Holy Spirit

A Divine Rapture

Epigram: Respice Finem

A Contemplation Upon Flowers

Persuasions to Joy: A Song

To His Inconstant Mistress

The Unfading Beauty

Ingrateful Beauty Threatened

Epitaph

Another

Time

To Roses in the Bosom of Castara

Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam

A Devout Lover

An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford

Spring and Winter: Second Part

When icicles hang by the wall,
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, 
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail, 

When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul,

Then nightly sings the staring owl,

To-whit!
To-who!—a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw, 
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw, 

When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,

Then nightly sings the staring owl,

To-whit!

To-who!—a merry note,

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

— William Shakespeare
1564-1616

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