Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Preface
• Editor's Note
• The Wood Engravings
• THOMAS WYATT (c. 1503-42)
• Engraving by Derrick Harris
• 1 Throughout the world, if it were sought
• 2 My lute awake! perform the last
• 3 Madam, withouten many words
• 4 They flee from me, that sometime did me seek
• 5 Forget not yet the tried intent
• ANONYMOUS (?)
• Engraving by Norman Janes
• 6 Western wind, when will thou blow
• NICHOLAS UDALL (1505-56)
• 7 Whoso to marry a minion wife
• HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517-47)
• Engraving by Richard Shirley Smith
• 8 My friend, the things that do attain
• 9 Laid in my quiet bed, in study as I were
• GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1525-77)
• Engraving by Douglas Percy Bliss
• 10 And if I did, what then?
• 11 Sing lullaby, as women do
• JASPER HEYWOOD (1535-98)
• 12 If thou in surety safe wilt sit
• EDARD DYER (1543-1607)
• 13 The lowest tree tops, the an her gall
• EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD (1550-1604)
• Engraving by Norman Janes
• 14 Were I a King I could command content
• 15 If women could be fair, and yet not fond
• SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552-1618)
• Engravings by Simon Brett
• 16 To His Son
• 17 As you came from the holy land
• 18 The Lie
• 19 Even such is time, which takes in trust
• EDMUND SPENSER (1552-99)
• Engravings by John Biggs, with the exception of two swans by Joan Hassall
• 20 Prothalamion
• 21 Epithalamion
• ANONYMOUS (?)
• Engraving by Simon Brett
• 22 The passionate Mans Pilgrimage
• 23 He that marris a merry lass
• FULKE GREVILLE (1554-1628)
• Engraving by Frank Martin
• 24 Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage
• 25 Oh, wearisome condition of humanity
• PHI8LIP SYDNEY (1554-86)
• Portrait by Peter Reddick
• 26 Only joy, now here you are
• 27 Loving in truth and fain in verse my love to show
• 28 With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!
• Engraving by Peter Reddick
• 29 Get hence foul Grief, the canker of the mind
• Engraving by Harry Brockway
• 30 My true love hath my heart, and I have his
• Engravings by Harry Brockway
• JOHN LYLY (1554-1606)
• Engravings by Marjorie Taylor
• Cupid and my Campaspe played
• ROBERT GREENE (1558-92)
• Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee
• GEORGE PEELE (1558-96)
• Engraving by Hilary Paynter
• 33 His golden locks time hath to silver turned
• 34 Hot sun, cool fire, tempered with sweet air
• FRANCIS BASON (1561-1626)
• 35 The world's a bubble, and the life of man
• JOHN HARINGTON (1561-1612)
• Whence comes my love? O heart, disclose!
• SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619)
• Engraving by Joan Hassall
• Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night
• MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)
• Engraving by Geoffrey Wales
• 38 You brave heroic minds
• 39 Good folk, for gold or hire
• 40 Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
• CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-93)
• Engraving by Marjorie Taylor
• 41 Come live with me and be my love
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
• Portrait by Reynolds Stone
• 42 Shall I Compare thee to a summer's day?
• 43 If thou survive my well-contented day
• Engraving by Jane Lydbury
• 44 Being your slave, what should I do but tend
• Engraving by Simon Brett
• 45 When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
• 46 That time of year thou mayst in me behold
• 47 They that have power to hurt and will do none
• Engraving by Harry Brockway
• 48 To me, fair friend, you never can be old
• Engraving by Peter Forster
• 49 Let me not to the marriage of true minds
• 50 Crabbed Age and Youth
• 51 Blow, blow, thou winter wind
• 52 Full fathom five they father lies
• Engraving by John Buckland-Wright
• 53 When icicles hang by the wall
• 54 O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
• 55 Fear no more the heat o the sun
• THOMAS BASTARD (1566-1618)
• 56 De Puero Balbutiente
• ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX (1566-1601)
• 57 Happy were he could finish forth his fate
• 58 Absence, hear thou my protestation
• ANONYMOUS (?)
• Engraving by Joan Hassall
• 59 There is a lady sweet and kind
• 60 The silver swan, who living had no note
• 61 Hey nonno no!
• THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620)
• Engraving by John Lawrence
• 62 Just beguiler
• 63 Now winter nights enlarge
• 64 Rose-cheeked Laura, come
• 65 Kind are her answers
• 66 When thou must home to shades of underground
• THOMAS NASHE (1567-1601)
• 67 Adieu, farewell earth's bliss
• ROBERT AYTON (1570-1638)
• 68 I loved thee once, I'll love no more
• THOMAS DEKKER (1570-1638)
• 69 Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
• SAMUEL ROWLANDS (1570-1630)
• 70 Melancholy Conceit
• BEN JONSON (1572-1637)
• Portrait by Hilary Paynter, all other engravings by George Tute
• 71 Follow a shadow it still flies you
• 72 Her Triumph
• 73 On my first Son
• 74 Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears
• 75 Hymn to Diana
• 76 Still to be neat, still to be dressed
• 77 Here she was wont to go, and here, and here!
• 78 My Picture Left in Scotland
• JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)
• Portrait by David Gentleman; all other engravings by Jane Lydbury
• 79 The Expiration
• 80 Go and catch a falling star
• 81 The sun rising
• 82 Break of day
• 83 The canonisation
• 84 The Good-Morrow
• 85 Love's Deity
• 86 At the round earths' imagined corners, blow
• 87 Death, be no proud, though some have called thee
• JOHN FLETCHER (1579-1625)
• Engraving by Simon Brett
• 88 Opheus I am, come from the deeps below
• JOHN DIGBY, EARL OF BRISTOL (1580-1653)
• 89 Grieve not, dear love, although we often part
• JOHN WEBSTER (1580-1634)
• Engraving by Joan Hassall
• 90 Call for the robin redbreast and the wren
• EDWARD HERBERT (1583-1648)
• 91 Inconstancy's the greatest of sins
• FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1584-1616)
• 92 Hold back thy hours, old Night, till we have done
• WILIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN (1585-1649)
• 93 Like the Idalian queen
• 94 My thoughts hold mortal strife
• 95 Saint John Baptist
• WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)
• Engraving by Gwen Raverat
• 96 Underneath this sable hearse
• 97 Song of the Sirens
• ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)
• Portrait by Simon Brett, all other engravings by Jane Lydbury
• 98 Counsel to Girls
• 99 His Prayer to Ben Jonson
• 100 Whenas in silks my Julia goes
• 101 To daisies, not to shut so soon
• 102 Corinna's going a-Maying
• 103 A sweet disorder in the dress
• 104 Fair daffodils we weep to see
• 105 Lovers how they come and part
• WILLIAM CAVENDISH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE (1592-1676)
• 106 We'll placed in Love's triumphant chariot high
• HENRY KING (1592-1669)
• Engraving by Frank Martin
• 107 The Exequy
• 108 Sic Vita
• FRANCIS QUARLES (1592-1644)
• 109 On change of weathers
• GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)
• Portrait by Simon Brett, all other engravings by Kathleen Lindsley
• 110 The Flower
• 111 The Pulley
• 112 Bitter-sweet
• 113 Sin
• 114 The Collar
• 115 Prayer
• 116 Redemption
• 117 Affliction
• THOMAS CAREW (1595-1639)
• Engraving by Yvonne Skargon
• 118 Ask me no more where Jove bestows
• 119 A Lady's Prayer to Cupid
• JAMES SHIRLEY (1596-1666)
• 120 The glories of our blood and state
• WILLIAM DAVENANT (1606-68)
• 121 The lark now leaves his watery nest
• EDMUND WALLER (1606-87)
• Engravings by Yvonne Skargon
• 122 Go lovely rose
• 123 On a Girdle
• JOHN MILTON (1608-74)
• Portrait by Hilary Paynter, frontispiece by Alison McKenzie, all other engravings by Harry Brockway
• 124 Hymn on the Morning of Christ's nativity
• 125 On Time
• 126 O'er the smooth enamelled green
• 127 Lycidas
• 128 Il Penseroso
• 129 On his Blindness
• 130 Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son
• JOHN SUCKLING (1609-41)
• 131 Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
• 132 O for some honest lover's ghost
• 133 Out upon it, I have loved
• RICHARD CRAWHAW (1612-49)
• 134 Wishes: To his (supposed) Mistress
• ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-67)
• 135 Against Hope
• 136 The thirsty earth soaks up the rain
• RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-58)
• 137 To Lucasta
• 138 To Althea from Prison
• 139 To Lucasta, Going beyond the seas
• ALEXANDER BROME (1620-66)
• 140 I have been in love and in debit and in drink
• ANDREW MARVELL (1621-78)
• Portrait by Peter Reddick, all other engravings by Harry Brockway
• 141 Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
• 142 The Mower to the Glow-Worms
• 143 To make a final conquest of all me
• 144 To his Coy Mistress
• 145 The Definition of Love
• 146 Thought in a Garden
• 147 The Picture of Little TC in a Prospect of Flowers
• ANONYMOUS (?)
• Engravings by Douglas Percy Bliss
• 148 Sir Patrick Spens
• HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-95)
• 149 Man
• 150 Peace Engraving by Brierley Lofthouse
• 151 The Retreat
• 152 Quickness Engravings by Reynolds Stone
• MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE (1623-73)
• 153 Of the Theme of Love
• JOHN HALL (1627-56)
• 154 The Call
• JOHN BUNYAN (1628-88)
• Engraving by Roy Morgan
• 155 Song of the Shepherd Boy
• 156 The Pilgrim Song
• CHARLES COTTON (1630-87)
• Engraving by Gwenda Morgan
• 157 Evening
• JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)
• Portrait by Hilary Paynter, Alexander by Diana Bloomfield, musical engravings by Norman Janes
• 158 The New London
• 159 Song for t Cecilia's Day 1687
• 160 Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music
• 161 Momus' song to Mars
• 162 Fair Iris I love and hourly I die
• THOMAS SHIPMAN (1632-80)
• 163 The Resolute Courtier
• THOMAS TRAHERNE (1637-74)
• Engravings by Angela Lemaire
• 164 News
• 165 Shadows in the water
• PHILIP AYRES (1638-1712)
• 166 Ever Present
• CHARLES SEDLEY (1639-1701)
• 167 Not, Celia that I juster am
• JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-80)
• Engravings by Richard Shirley Smith
• 168 Absent from thee I languish still
• 169 A song of a young lady to her ancient lover
• 170 Love a woman? You're an ass!
• 171 Upon his leaving his mistress
• 172 Love and Life
• ANOYMOUS (?)
• 173 A thought on human life
• 174 The Twa corbies
• MARY CHUDLEIGH (1656-1710)
• 175 To the ladies
• SAMUEL WESLEY (1662-1735)
• 176 Anacreontic, on parting with a little child
• WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1708)
• 177 Phyllis's resolution
• MATTHEW PRIOR (1664-1721)
• 178 Les Estreines
• 179 The Lady who offers her looking glass to Venus
• 180 A letter to the honourable Lady, Miss Margaret Cavendish-Holles-Harley
• 181 The merchant to secure his treasure
• JONATHAN RICHARDSON (1665-1745)
• 182 On my late dear wife
• JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)
• 183 To stella
• GEORGE GRANVILLE (1667-1735)
• 184 Chloe's the wonder of her sex
• WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670-1729)
• 185 See, see she wakes, Sabina wakes!
• 186 Pious Selinda goes to prayers
• 187 False though she be to me and love
• JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719)
• Portrait (with Steele) by Richard Shirley Smith
• 188 The spacious Firmament on High
• ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748)
• Engraving by Diana Bloomfield
• 189 Man frail, and God Eternal
• HENRY CAREY (1681-1743)
• Engraving by John Lawrence
• 190 The ballad of Sally in our Alley
• ESTHER JOHNSON (1681-1728)
• 191 If it be true, celestial powers
• JOHN GAY (1685-1732)
• Engraving by Hilary Paynter
• 192 Before the barn door crowing
• AARON HILL (1685-1750)
• 193 Modesty
• ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)
• Portrait by Hilary Paynter
• 194 Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate Lady
• 195 Happy the man who wish and care
• 196 A hymn written in Windsor forest
• 197 On a certain Lady at court
• 198 I dreamed that, buried in my fellow clay
• 199 On a female rope-dancer
• SOAME JENYNS (1704-87)
• 200 The temple of Venus
• JOHN BANCKS (1709-51)
• Engraving by Frank Martin
• 201 A description of London
• SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-84)
• Engraving by Derrick Harris
• 202 To Sir John Lade, on his coming of age
• 203 On the death of Dr Robert LEvet
• WILLIAM SHENSTONE (1714-63)
• 204 Written an Inn at Henley, engraving by Joan Hassall
• 205 Lines written on a window at the Leasowes at a time of very deep snow, engraving by Richard Shirley Smith
• THOMAS GRAY (1716-71)
• Engravings by Agnes Miller Parker
• 206 Ode on the death of a favourite cat drowned in a tub of goldfishes
• 207 Elegy written in a country churchyard
• HORACE WALPOLE (1717-97)
• 208 Epitaph on two piping bullfinches of Lady Ossory's, buried under a rose bush in her garden
• WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-59)
• 209 Ode to evening
• 210 Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746
• CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-71)
• 211 On a bed of Guernsey lilies, engravings by Diana Bloomfield
• 212 For Saturday
• 213 The nativity of our Lord and Saviour
• Engraving by Gwen Raverat
• OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730-74)
• Engraving by John Lawrence
• 213 O Memory thou fond deceiver
• 214 An elegy on the death of a mad dog
• WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)
• Portrait by Diana Bloomfield
• 216 The poplar field
• 217 Light shining out of darkness, engraving by Michael Renton
• 218 To Mary
• 219 Verses, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary abode in the island of Juan Fernandez, engraving by Eric Ravilious
• 220 On the loss of the Royal George, 1782, engravings by Frank Martin
• JOHN MACLAURIN (1734-96)
• Engravings by Frank Martin
• 221 Elegy
• JOHN COLLINS (1742-1808)
• Engraving by Claire Dalby
• 222 Tomorrow
• CHARLES DIBDIN (1745-1814)
• 223 Did but the law appoint us one
• CHARLES MORRIS (1745-1838)
• Engravings by Richard Shirley Smith
• 224 Country and town
• WILLIAM JONES (1746-94)
• 225 A Moral tetrastich
• ANNE LINDSAY (1750-1825)
• Engraving by Joan Hassall
• 226 Auld Robin Gray
• RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751-1816)
• Engraving by Frank Martin
• 227 Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen
• 228 I ne'er could any lustre see
• WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
• Engravings by William Blake
• 229 To the muses
• 230 The clod and the pebble
• 231 The divine image
• 232 Never seek to tell thy love
• 233 London
• 234 The tiger
• 235 Jerusalem
• 236 Auguries of Innocence
• ROBERT BURNS (1759-96)
• Engravings by Joan Hassall
• 237 The Banks o doom
• 238 For A'that
• 239 A red, red rose
• 240 The silver tassie
• 241 John Anderson, My Jo
• 242 To a mouse
• 243 Holy Willie's prayer
• 244 Auld Lang Syne
• JOHN WILLIAMS (1761-1818)
• Engraving by John Farleigh
• 245 Matrimony
• WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)
• Engravings by Peter Reddick
• 246 She was a phantom of delight
• 247 The daffodils
• 248 The affliction of Margaret
• 249 Ode on intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood
• 250 Upon Westminster bridge, 3 September 1802
• 251 The world is too much with us, late and soon
• 252 It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
• 253 Mutability
• 254 With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh
• 255 Elegiac Stanzas
• SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832)
• Portrait by Diana Bloomfield, engraving by Joan Hassall
• 256 Proud Maisie is in the wood
• 257 Look not thou on beauty's charming
• 258 Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
• SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
• Portrait by David Gentleman, all other engravings by Miriam Macgregor, except the tailpiece to "the Ancient Mariner", which is by Garrick Palmer
• 259 Work without hope
• 260 Frost at midnight
• 261 Kubla Khan
• 262 Time, real and imaginery
• 263 Dejection, an Ode
• 264 The Time of the ancient mariner
• ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843)
• Portrait by John Farley
• 265 The Soldier's Wife
• CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834)
• 266 The old familiar faces
• WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864)
• 267 Ireland never was contented
• 268 Twenty years hence my eye may grow
• 269 La Promessa Sposa
• 270 Kirce
• 271 Dying speech of an old philosopher
• THOMAS CAMPBELL (1777-1844)
• Engraving by Gwen Raverat
• 272 Hohenlinden
• 273 How delicious is the winning
• 274 The more we live, more brief appear
• THOMAS MOORE (1779-1852)
• Engravings by Gwen Raverat
• 275 Echo
• 276 Oft in the stilly night
• JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859)
• Engraving by John Lawrence
• 277 Rondeau
• THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK (1785-1866)
• Engraving by Gwen Raverate
• 278 The war songs of Dinas Vawr
• 279 Love and age
• 280 I dug, beneath the cypress shade
• GEORGE GORDEON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)
• Engravings by Peter Forster
• 281 So we'll go no more a-roving
• 282 When we two parted
• 283 To Thomas Moore
• 284 Remember thee, remember thee
• 285 Oh snatched away in beauty's bloom
• 286 She walks in beauty, like the night
• 287 The destruction of Sennacherib
• 288 The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece
• 289 Stanzas for music
• 290 On this day I complete by thirty sixth year
• CHARLES WOLFE (1791-1823)
• Engraving by Richard Shirley Smith
• 291 The burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna
• PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
• Engravings by Richard Shirley Smith
• 292 To the night
• 293 A widow bird sat mourning for her love
• 294 One word is too often profaned
• 295 The waning moon
• 296 Music, when soft voices dies
• 297 When the lamp is shattered
• 298 To a skylark
• 299 Ozymandias
• 300 Ode to the west wind
• 301 To jane with a guitar
• 302 Stanzas written in dejection near Naples
• JOHN CLARE (1793-1864)
• Engravings by Ian Stephens
• 303 Black grows the sudden sky, betokening rain
• 304 I am! yet what I am who care, or knows?
• 305 The fear of flowers
• JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
• Engravings by Simon Brett
• 306 On first looking into Chapman's Homer
• 307 La Belle Dame sans Merci
• 308 Ode to psyche
• 309 Ode to a nightingale
• 310 Ode on a Grecian urn
• 311 Ode on melancholy
• 312 Ode to Autunm
• 313 Four seasons fill the measure of the year
• 314 Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
• GEORGE DARLEY (1795-1846)
• 315 The Mermaidens' vesper-hymn
• 316 It is not beauty I demand
• 317 Wherefore, unlaurelled boy
• THOMAS HOOD (1799-1845)
• Engravings by Ian Stephens
• 318 I remember, I remember
• 319 The bridge of sighs
• THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY (1800-59)
• 320 Epitaph on a Jacobite
• JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (1801-90)
• Engraving by Simon Brett
• 321 Lead, kindly light amid the encircling gloom
• THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-49)
• Engravings by John Buckland-Wright
• 322 Wolfram's dirge
• 323 Sibilla's dirge
• ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-61)
• Engravings by Reynolds Stone
• 324 What's the best thing in the world?
• 325 I thought once how Theocritus had sung
• 326 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
• 327 I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless
• ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-92)
• Portrait by Peter Reddick, all other engravings by Andrew Davidson
• 328 The Lotos-Eaters
• 329 Will waterproof's lyrical monologue
• 330 A spirit haunts the year's last hours
• 331 Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height
• 332 The Eagle
• 333 Ulysses
• 334 The Kraken
• 335 Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white
• 336 Tithonus
• WILLIAM BELL SCOTT (1811-90)
• 337 Death
• ROBERT BROWNING (1812-89)
• Portrait by Frank Martin, all other engravings by John Lawrence
• 338 Home thoughts from abroad
• 339 Two in the Campagna
• 340 Up at the villa - down in the City
• 341 A toccata of Galuppi's
• 342 Love among the ruins
• 343 Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
• 344 Meeting at night
• EMILY BRONTE (1818-48)
• Portrait by Simon Brett, engraving by Diana Bloomfield
• 345 Love and friendship
• 346 Fall, leaves, fall, die, flowers, away
• 347 The old stoic
• EMILY BRONTE, AND CHARLOTTE BRONTE (1816-55)
• Engraving by Diana Bloomfield
• 348 The Visionary
• ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819-61)
• Portrait by Diana Bloomfield
• 349 Say not, the struggle nought availeth
• 350 To spend uncounted years of pain
• 351 The latest decalogue
• CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-75)
• 352 Young and old
• MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-88)
• 353 To Marguerite, engraving by Claire Dalby
• 354 Shakespeare
• 355 Destiny
• 356 Come to me in my dreams, and then
• 357 The scholar gypsy, engravings by Ian Stephens
• 358 Dover beach, engravings by Paul Kershaw and Ian Stephens
• 359 The last word, engravings by Claire Dalby
• COVENTRY PATMORE (1823-96)
• 360 Magna est veritas, engraving by Ethelbert White
• 361 The Toys, engraving by Gwen Raverat
• 362 Constancy rewarded
• WILLIAM COREY (1823-92)
• 363 Heraclitus
• WILLIAM ALLINGHAM (1824-89)
• Engravings by Gwen Raverat
• 364 The Fairies
• 365 The witch-bride
• ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTOR (1825-64)
• 366 Envy
• GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909)
• Engravings by Chris Wormell
• 367 Lucifer in starlight
• 368 Phoebus with admetus
• 369 Should they love die
• DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-82)
• Engravings by Ethelbert White
• 370 The choice
• 371 The woodspurge
• 372 Without her
• CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-94)
• Portrait by Robert Maynard
• 373 When I am dead, my dearest
• 374 Echo
• 375 A birthday6
• 376 The blindest buzzard I know
• 377 Promises like pie-crust
• WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-96)
• Engravings by Joan Fairleigh
• 378 Shameful death
• 379 Summer dawn
• 380 October
• JOHN LEICESTER WARREN, BARON DE TABLEY (1835-95)
• 381 The power of Interval
• ALGERNON SWINBURNE (1837-1909)
• Engravings by John Buckland-Wight
• 382 A Forsaken garden
• 383 Chorus from Atalnta in Calydon
• 384 A Leave-taking
• 385 A match
• THOMAS HARDY (1840-1927)
• Portrait by Simon Brett, all other engravings by Peter Reddick
• 386 At castle Boterel
• 387 The Voice
• 388 I look into my glass
• 389 Afterwards
• 390 During wind and rain
• ROBERT BRIDGES (1844-1930)
• Engraving by John Lawrence
• 391 London snow
• 392 Nightingales
• 393 April 1885
• 394 The clouds have left the sky
• GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-89)
• Engravings by Peter Reddick
• 395 Inversnaid
• 396 Thou art indeed just
• 397 Binsey poplars
• 398 A kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
• 399 Pied beauty
• 400 Spring and fall
• 401 God's grandeur
• A.W.E.O'SHAUGHNESY (1844-81)
• 402 We are music-makers
• ALICE MEYNELL (1847-1922)
• 403 The rainy summer
• ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-94)
• Engraving by Derrick Harris
• 404 I am a hunchback, yellow faced
• 405 Requiem
• OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)
• Engraving by Valentin le Campion
• 406 The Harlot's house
• A.E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936)
• Engravings by Nicholas Parry
• 407 On Wenlock Edge the wood in trouble
• 408 Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
• 409 Crossing alone the nighted ferry
• 410 I to my perils
• 411 Eight o'Clock
• 412 Tell me not here, it needs not saying
• 413 The fairies break their dances
• 414 Now hollow fires burn out to black
• 415 the night is freezing fast
• FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907)
• Engraving by Derrick Harris
• 416 The Hound of heaven
• 417 At Lord's
• 418 Arab love song
• MARY COLERIDGE (1861-1907)
• 419 I saw a stable, low and very bare
• RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)
• Engravings by Kathleen Kindsley, tailpiece by Agnes Miller Parker
• 420 If
• 421 The galley-slave
• 422 The way through the woods
• 423 Hap song of the dane wome
• 424 The roman centurion's song
• 425 A St Helena lullaby
• 426 Danny Deever
• W.B. YEATS (1865-1939)
• Portrait by Simon Brett
• 427 The second coming
• 428 The scholars
• 429 A coat
• 430 A prayer for my daughter
• 431 Byzantium
• 432 Sailing by Byzantium
• 433 The hour before dawn
• 434 An acre of grass
• ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900)
• 435 Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
• LAURENCE BINYON (1869-1943)
• 436 For the fallen - September 1914
• HILAIRE BELLOC (1870-1943)
• 437 The early morning
• 438 Tarantella
• W H DAVIES (1871-1940)
• 439 The villain
• 440 All in June
• RALPH HODGSON (1871-1962)
• Engraving by Miranda Mott
• 441 Time
• J M SYNGE (1871--1909)
• 442 A Question
• 443 Dread
• WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956)
• Engraving by Joan Hassall
• 444 The spotted flycatcher
• 445 The old summerhouse
• 446 The listeners
• G K CHESTERTON (1874-1936)
• 447 The donkey
• 448 The rolling english road, engraving by John Lawrence
• 449 Lepanto, engravings by Simon Brett
• JOHN MASEFIELD (1878-1967)
• 450 Cargoes
• 451 An epilogue
• 452 C.L.M.
• EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)
• Engraving by James Bostock
• 453 Adlestrop
• 454 Out in the dark over the snow
• 455 Cock-crow
• 456 Tall nettles cove4r up, as they have done
• JOHN FREEMAN (1880-1929)
• 457 The hounds
• JOHN DRINKWATER (1882-1937)
• 458 Moonlit applies
• JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)
• 459 Chamber music XXXVI
• JAMES STEPHENS (1882-1950)
• 460 A glass of beer
• T E HULME (1883-1917)
• 461 The embankment
• JAMES ELROY FLECKER (1884-1915)
• 462 To a poet a thousand years hence, engraving by Val Biro
• 463 The old ships, engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton
• 464 The golden journey to Samarkand
• ANNA WICKHAM (1884-1947)
• Engraving by Diana Bloomfield
• 465 Soul's liberty
• D H LAWRENCE (1885-1930)
• Portrait by Simon Brett, other engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton
• 466 Piano
• 467 Bavarian Gentians
• 468 Song of man who has come through
• ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)
• Engravings by Joan Hassall
• 469 Field glasses
• 470 A dead mole
• 471 The shepherds hut
• FRANCES CORNFORD (1886-1960)
• Engraving by Gwen Raverat
• 472 All soul's night
• SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)
• 473 Everyone sang
• 474 Attack
• 475 In me past, present, future, meet
• RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915)
• 476 Heaven
• EDWIN MUIR (1887-1959)
• 477 The Combat
• EDITH SITWELL (1887-1964)
• 478 Dark Song
• E S ELIOT (1888-1965)
• 479 La figlia che piange
• 480 The love song of J Alfred Prufrock
• 481 Journey of the Magi
• IVOR GUERNEY (1890-1937)
• 482 Moments
• WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)
• Engravings by Linda Holmes
• 483 Arms and the boy
• 484 The send-off
• 485 Insensibility
• 486 Futility
• 487 Anthem for doomed youth
• ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985)
• 488 The trolls' nosegay
• 489 Flying crooked
• 490 Seldom yet now, the quality
• 491 The Laureate
• 492 Love without hope, as when the young-bird-catcher
• EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896-1974)
• Engravings by Diana Bloomfield
• 493 Forefathers
• 494 The midnight skaters
• ROY CAMPBELL (1902-57)
• Engraving by Barbara Greg
• 495 Autumn
• 496 The serf
• ASJ TESSIMOND (1902-62)
• 497 Postscript to a pettinessA
• STEVIE SMITH (1902-71)
• 498 Lady Rogue Singleton
• 499 Not waving by drowning
• C DAY-LEWIS (1904-72)
• Engravings by Peter Forster
• 500 Windy day in August
• 501 The christmas tree
• 502 Emily Bronte
• NORMAN CAMERON (1905-53)
• 503 The Compassionte fool
• 504 Shepherdess
• JOHN BETJEMAN (1906-84)
• Engraving by Joan Hassall
• 505 Upper Lambourne
• 506 The Metropolitan Railway
• 507 Late flowering lust
• DRUMONG ALLISON (1921-43)
• Engraving by Simon Brett
• 542 O Sheriffs
• KINGSLEY AMIS (1922-95)
• 543 After Goliath
• SIDNEY KEYES (1922-43)
• Engraving by Peter Reddick
• 544 William Wordsworth
• PHILIP LARKIN (1922-85)
• 545 Days
• 546 At grass
• 547 Coming
• 548 Toads revisted
• JOHN WAIN (1925-94)
• 549 Apology for understatement
• ELIZABETH JENNINGS (1926-)
• 550 Family affairs
• JAMES MICHIE (1927-)
• Engraving by Hilary Paynter
• 551 The last wasp
• THOM GUNN (1929-)
• Engraving by Hilary Paynter
• 552 No speech from the scaffold
• Acknowledgements
• Illustration acknowledgements
• Index of first lines