Metaphysical poetry / edited by Colin Burrow

Includes note and index.

Introduction -- A hymn to my god in a night of my late sickness / Sir Henry Wotton -- On his mistress, the queen of Bohemia / Sir Henry Wotton -- The Flea / John Donne -- The good morrow / John Donne -- Song / John Donne -- Woman's constancy / John Donne -- The undertaking / John Donne -- The sun rising / John Donne -- The canonization / John Donne -- The triple fool / John Donne -- Song / John Donne -- Air and angle / John Donne -- The anniversary / John Donne -- Twickenham graden / John Donne -- Valediction to his Book / John Donne -- The dream / John Donne -- A valediction of weeping / John Donne -- The curse / John Donne -- A nocturnal upon St Lucy's day, being the shortest day / John Donne -- The apparition / John Donne -- A valediction : forbidding morning / John Donne -- The ecstasy / John Donne -- The funeral / John Donne -- The relic / John Donne -- Elegy : to his mistress going to bed / John Donne -- Elegy : his picture / John Donne -- 'As due by many titles' / John Donne -- 'At the round earth's imagined corners' / John Donne -- 'Death be not proud' / John Donne -- 'What if this present' / John Donne -- 'Batter my hart' / John Donne -- 'Since she whom i loved' / John Donne -- Good Friday, 1631. Riding westward / John Donne -- A hymn to Christ, at the author's last going into Germany / John Donne -- A hymn to god the father / John Donne -- Hymn to god my god, in my sickness / John Donne -- [Parted souls] / Edward Herbert -- Elegy over o tomb / Edward Herbert -- The thought / Edward Herbert -- Sonnet : on the groves near Merlou Castle / Edward Herbert -- An ode upon a question moved, whether love should continue foe ever ? / Edward Herbert -- A meditation upon his wax candle burning out / Edward Herbert -- A dialogue betwixt time and a pilgrim / Aurelian Townshend -- 'Though regions far divided' / Aurelian Townshend -- Pure simple love / Aurelian Townshend -- To Cynthia : on her embraces / Sir Francis Kynaston -- To Cynthia : on her mother's decease / Sir Francis Kynaston -- Upon platonic love : to mistress cicely crofts, maid of honour / Sir Robert Ayton -- The legacy / Henry King -- The exequy / Henry King -- Sic vita / Henry King -- A contemplation upon flower / Henry King -- On a monument / Francis Herbert -- The altar / George Herbert -- Redemption / George Herbert -- Easter wings / George Herbert -- Payer (I) / George Herbert -- Jordan (I) / George Herbert -- Church-movement / George Herbert -- Virtue / George Herbert -- The Pearl Matthew I3 / George Herbert -- Affliction (IV) / George Herbert -- Life / George Herbert -- Jordan (II) / George Herbert -- The pilgrimage / George Herbert -- The collar / George Herbert -- The pulley / George Herbert -- The flower / George Herbert -- Aaron / George Herbert -- The Forerunners / George Herbert -- Discipline / George Herbert -- Death / George Herbert -- Doomsday / George Herbert -- Love (III) / George Herbert -- Perseverance / George Herbert -- Church festivals / Christopher Harvey -- To my mistress sitting by a river's side : an eddy / Thomas Carew -- To my mistress in absence / Thomas Carew -- A rapture / Thomas Carew -- To a lady that desired i would love her / Thomas Carew -- To my worthy friend master George Sandys, on his translation of the psalms / Thomas Carew -- A song / Thomas Carew -- The second rapture / Thomas Carew -- An elegy upon the death of the dean of St. Paul's Dr. John Donne / Thomas Carew -- The present / Thomas Beedome -- The Vow-breach / Owen Felltham -- The reconcilement / Owen Felltham -- Upon his picture / Thomas Randolph -- To time / Thomas Randolph -- Against them who lay unchastity to the sex of women / William Habington -- Nox nocti indicat scientiam (David) / William Habington -- For the lady Olivia Porter. a present, upon a new year's day / Sir William Davenant -- Song : to two lovers condemned to die / Sir William Davenant -- The dream. To Mr. George Porter / Sir William Davenant -- Song / Sir William Davenant -- Song : Endymion Porter and Olivia / Sir William Davenant -- Song / Edmund Waller -- The bud / Edmund Waller -- An apology for having loved before / Edmund Waller -- Of the last verses in the Book / Edmund Waller -- Om time / John Milton -- At a solemn music / John Milton -- On Shakespeare. 1630 / John Milton -- Sonnet II / Sir John Suckling -- [Love's clock] / Sir John Suckling -- Against fruition / Sir John Suckling -- [The constant lover] / Sir John Suckling -- Farewell to love / Sir John Suckling -- Constancy / Sidney Godolphin -- 'Lord, when the wise men' / Sidney Godolphin -- 'Madam, 'tis true' / Sidney Godolphin -- Elegy o Dr. Donne / Sidney Godolphin -- A sigh sent to hos absent love / William Cartwright -- No platonic love / William Cartwright -- A letter to her husband, absent upon public employment / Anne Bradstreet -- On Mr. Georg Herbert's book entitled 'the temple of sacred poems', sent to a gentlewoman / Richard Crashaw -- To the novelist and best of ladies, the countess of Denbigh. Persuading her to resolution in religion, and to render herself without further delay into the communion of the catholic church / Richard Crashaw -- A hymn of the nativity, sung as by the shepherds / Richard Crashaw -- New year's day / Richard Crashaw -- Upon the body of our blessed lord, naked and bloody / Richard Crashaw -- Saint Mary Magdalene, or the weeper / Richard Crashaw -- A hymn to the name and honour of the admirable Saint Teresa / Richard Crashaw -- An epitaph upon a young married couple dead and buried together / Richard Crashaw -- Mr. Crashaw's answer for hope / Richard Crashaw -- The hecatomb / John Cleveland -- The anti-platonic / John Cleveland -- To the same : the tears / William Hammond -- On myself being sick of a fever / Thomas Philipot -- To her at her departure / Robert Heath -- Sonnet : to his Misterss confined / Samuel Pick -- Written in juice of lemon / Abraham Cowley -- All-over, love / Abraham Cowley -- Against hope / Abraham Cowley -- The enjoyment / Abraham Cowley -- My picture / Abraham Cowley -- Ode : of wit / Abraham Cowley -- On the death of Mr. Crashaw / Abraham Cowley -- Hymn to light / Abraham Cowley -- Song : to Lucasta, going beyond the seas / Richard Lovelace -- Song : to Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace -- The grasshopper : to my noble friend Mr. Charles cotton : ode / Richard Lovelace -- To Althea, from prison : song / Richard Lovelace -- La bella bona roba / Richard Lovelace -- A Dialogue between the resolved soul and created pleasure / Andrew Marvell -- On a drop of dew / Andrew Marvell -- The coronet / Andrew Marvell -- Bermudas / Andrew Marvell -- A dialogue between the soul and body / Andrew Marvell -- The nymph complaining for the death of her fawn / Andrew Marvell -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- Mourning / Andrew Marvell -- The definition of love / Andrew Marvell -- The picture of little T. C. in a prospect of flowers / Andrew Marvell -- Damon the mower / Andrew Marvell -- The garden / Andrew Marvell -- An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland / Andrew Marvell -- Regeneration / Henry Vaughan -- The retreat / Henry Vaughan -- The morning-watch / Henry Vaughan -- 'Silence, and stealth of days' / Henry Vaughan -- Unprofitableness / Henry Vaughan -- Idle verse / Henry Vaughan -- The world / Henry Vaughan -- Man / Henry Vaughan -- 'I walked the other day' / Henry Vaughan -- 'They are all gone into the world of light' / Henry Vaughan -- The star / Henry Vaughan -- 'As time one day by me did pass' / Henry Vaughan -- The waterfall / Henry Vaughan -- Quickness / Henry Vaughan -- The Quaere / Henry Vaughan -- Love's contentment / James Paulin -- The glow-worm / Thomas Stanley -- The bracelet / Thomas Stanley -- The Exequies / Thomas Stanley -- The life / Eliza -- The dart / Eliza -- To my husband / Eliza -- An epicurean ode / John Hall -- The epitome / John Hall -- An epitaph / John Hall -- To my excellent lucasia, on our friendship / Katherine Philip -- A dialogue of friendship multiplied / Katherine Philip -- Orinda to lucasis / Katherine Philip -- The preparative / Thomas Traherne -- Felicity / Thomas Traherne -- Shadows in the water / Thomas Traherne -- Consummation / Thomas Traherne -- Love and life / John Wilmot -- Song : a young lady to her ancient lover / John Wilmot -- Upon nothing / John Wilmot -- Greatness in little / Richerd Leigh -- The echo / Richerd Leigh -- On a sunbeam / Thomas Heyrick