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