The Flower of the Mind
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Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (1847-1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, poet and suffragist. Her prose essays were remarkable for fineness of culture and peculiar restraint of style. Preludes (1875) was her first poetry collection. The work was warmly praised by Ruskin especially the sonnet Renunciation for its beauty and delicacy. After Alice converted to the Roman Catholic Church, her writings migrated to subjects of religious matters which led her to the Catholic newspaper publisher and editor Wilfrid Meynell whom she married a year later. The couple became proprietor ...
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- THE FLOWER OF THE MIND
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- ANONYMOUS 13TH CENTURY
- THE FIRST CAROL
- SIR WALTER RALEIGH 1552–1618
- VERSES BEFORE DEATH
- EDMUND SPENSER 1553–1599
- EASTER
- FRESH SPRING
- LIKE AS A SHIP
- EPITHALAMION
- JOHN LYLY 1554(?)–1606
- THE SPRING
- SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 1554–1586
- TRUE LOVE
- THE MOON
- KISS
- SWEET JUDGE
- SLEEP
- WAT’RED WAS MY WINE
- THOMAS LODGE 1556–1625
- ROSALYND’S MADRIGAL
- ROSALINE
- THE SOLITARY SHEPHERD’S SONG
- ANONYMOUS
- I SAW MY LADY WEEP
- GEORGE PEELE 1558(?)–1597
- FAREWELL TO ARMS
- ROBERT GREENE 1560(?)–1592
- FAWNIA
- SEPHESTIA’S SONG TO HER CHILD
- CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 1562–1593
- THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE
- SAMUEL DANIEL 1562–1619
- SLEEP
- MY SPOTLESS LOVE
- MICHAEL DRAYTON 1563–1631
- SINCE THERE’S NO HELP
- JOSHUA SYLVESTER 1563–1618
- WERE I AS BASE
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564–1616
- FANCY
- UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
- FAIRIES
- COME AWAY
- FULL FATHOM FIVE
- DIRGE
- SONG
- SONG
- ANONYMOUS
- TOM O’ BEDLAM
- THOMAS CAMPION Circ. 1567–1620
- KIND ARE HER ANSWERS
- LAURA
- HER BACKED BOWER
- FOLLOW
- WHEN THOU MUST HOME
- WESTERN WIND
- FOLLOW YOUR SAINT
- CHERRY-RIPE
- THOMAS NASH 1567–1601
- SPRING
- JOHN DONNE 1573–1631
- THIS HAPPY DREAM
- DEATH
- HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER
- THE FUNERAL
- RICHARD BARNEFIELD 1574(?)–(?)
- THE NIGHTINGALE
- BEN JONSON 1574–1637
- CHARIS’ TRIUMPH
- JEALOUSY
- EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH L. H.
- HYMN TO DIANA
- ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER
- ECHO’S LAMENT FOB NARCISSUS
- AN EPITAPH ON SALATHIEL PAVY, A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH’S CHAPEL
- JOHN FLETCHER 1579–1625
- INVOCATION TO SLEEP, FROM VALENTINIAN
- TO BACCHUS
- JOHN WEBSTER (?)–1625
- SONG FROM THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
- SONG FROM THE DEVIL’S LAW-CASE
- IN EARTH, DIRGE FROM VITTORIA COROMBONA
- WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 1585–1649
- SONG
- SLEEP, SILENCE’ CHILD
- TO THE NIGHTINGALE
- MADRIGAL I
- MADRIGAL II
- BEAUMONT and FLETCHER 1586–1616 and 1579–1625
- I DIED TRUE
- FRANCIS BEAUMONT 1586–1616
- ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY
- SIR FRANCIS KYNASTON 1587–1642
- TO CYNTHIA, ON CONCEALMENT OF HER BEAUTY
- NATHANIEL FIELD 1587–1638
- MATIN SONG
- GEORGE WITHER 1588–1667
- SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP!
- THOMAS CAREW 1589–1639
- SONG
- TO MY INCONSTANT MISTRESS
- AN HYMENEAL DIALOGUE
- INGRATEFUL BEAUTY THREATENED
- THOMAS DEKKER Circa 1570–1641
- LULLABY
- SWEET CONTENT
- THOMAS HEYWOOD —1649?
- GOOD-MORROW
- ROBERT HERRICK 1591–1674
- TO DIANEME
- TO MEADOWS
- TO BLOSSOMS
- TO DAFFODILS
- TO VIOLETS
- TO PRIMROSES
- TO DAISIES, NOT TO SHUT SO SOON
- TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME
- DRESS
- IN SILKS
- CORINNA’S GOING A-MAYING
- GRACE FOR A CHILD
- BEN JONSON
- GEORGE HERBERT 1593–1632
- HOLY BAPTISM
- VIRTUE
- UNKINDNESS
- LOVE
- THE PULLEY
- THE COLLAR
- LIFE
- MISERY
- JAMES SHIRLEY 1596–1666
- EQUALITY
- ANONYMOUS Circa 1603
- LULLABY
- SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT 1605–1668
- MORNING
- EDMUND WALLER 1605–1687
- THE ROSE
- THOMAS RANDOLPH 1606–1634?
- HIS MISTRESS
- CHARLES BEST 17th century
- A SONNET OF THE MOON
- JOHN MILTON 1608–1674
- HYMN ON CHRIST’S NATIVITY
- L’ALLEGRO
- IL PENSEROSO
- LYCIDAS
- ON HIS BLINDNESS
- ON HIS DECEASED WIFE
- ON SHAKESPEARE
- SONG ON MAY MORNING
- INVOCATION TO SABRINA, FROM COMUS
- INVOCATION TO ECHO, FROM COMUS
- THE ATTENDANT SPIRIT, FROM COMUS
- JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE 1612–1650
- THE VIGIL OF DEATH
- RICHARD CRASHAW 1615(?)–1652
- ON A PRAYER-BOOK SENT TO MRS. M. R.
- TO THE MORNING
- LOVE’S HOROSCOPE
- ON MR. G. HERBERT’S BOOK
- WISHES TO HIS SUPPOSED MISTRESS
- QUEM VIDISTIS PASTORES, ETC. A HYMN OF THE NATIVITY, SUNG BY THE SHEPHERDS
- MUSIC’S DUEL
- THE FLAMING HEART
- ABRAHAM COWLEY 1618–1667
- ON THE DEATH OF MR. CRASHAW
- HYMN TO THE LIGHT
- RICHARD LOVELACE 1618–1658
- TO LUCASTA ON GOING TO THE WARS
- TO AMARANTHA
- LUCASTA
- TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON
- A GUILTLESS LADY IMPRISONED: AFTER PENANCED
- THE ROSE
- ANDREW MARVELL 1620–1678
- A HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL’S RETURN FROM IRELAND
- THE PICTURE OF T. C. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS
- THE NYMPH COMPLAINING OF THE DEATH OF HER FAWN
- THE DEFINITION OF LOVE
- THE GARDEN
- HENRY VAUGHAN 1621–1695
- THE DAWNING
- CHILDHOOD
- CORRUPTION
- THE NIGHT
- THE ECLIPSE
- THE RETREAT
- THE WORLD OF LIGHT
- SCOTTISH BALLADS
- HELEN OF KIRCONNELL
- THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL
- THE DOWIE DENS OF YARROW
- SWEET WILLIAM AND MAY MARGARET
- SIR PATRICK SPENS
- HAME, HAME, HAME
- BORDER BALLAD
- A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE
- JOHN DRYDEN 1631–1700
- ODE
- APHRA BEHN 1640–1689
- SONG, FROM ABDELAZAR
- JOSEPH ADDISON 1672–1719
- HYMN
- ALEXANDER POPE 1688–1744
- ELEGY
- WILLIAM COWPER 1731–1800
- LINES ON RECEIVING HIS MOTHER’S PICTURE
- ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD 1743–1825
- LIFE
- WILLIAM BLAKE 1757–1828
- THE LAND OF DREAMS
- THE PIPER
- HOLY THURSDAY
- THE TIGER
- TO THE MUSES
- LOVE’S SECRET
- ROBERT BURNS 1759–1796
- TO A MOUSE
- THE FAREWELL
- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1770–1850
- WHY ART THOU SILENT?
- THOUGHTS OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND
- IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING, CALM AND FREE
- ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC
- O FRIEND! I KNOW NOT
- SURPRISED BY JOY
- TO TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE
- WITH SHIPS THE SEA WAS SPRINKLED
- THE WORLD
- UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1802
- WHEN I HAVE BORNE IN MEMORY
- THREE YEARS SHE GREW
- THE DAFFODILS
- THE SOLITARY REAPER
- ELEGIAC STANZAS
- TO H. C.
- ’TIS SAID THAT SOME HAVE DIED FOR LOVE
- THE PET LAMB
- STEPPING WESTWARD
- THE CHILDLESS FATHER
- ODE ON INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
- SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771–1832
- PROUD MAISIE
- A WEARY LOT IS THINE
- THE MAID OF NEIDPATH
- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1772–1834
- YOUTH AND AGE
- THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
- ARGUMENT
- PART I
- PART II
- PART III
- PART IV
- PART V
- PART VI
- PART VII
- WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 1775–1864
- ROSE AYLMER
- EPITAPH
- CHILD OF A DAY
- THOMAS CAMPBELL 1767–1844
- HOHENLINDEN
- EARL MARCH
- CHARLES LAMB 1775–1835
- HESTER.
- ALLAN CUNNINGHAM 1784–1842
- A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA
- GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON 1788–1823
- THE ISLES OF GREECE
- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792–1822
- HELLAS
- WILD WITH WEEPING
- TO THE NIGHT
- TO A SKYLARK
- TO THE MOON
- THE QUESTION
- THE WANING MOON
- ODE TO THE WEST WIND
- RARELY, RARELY COMEST THOU
- THE INVITATION, TO JANE
- THE RECOLLECTION
- ODE TO HEAVEN
- FIRST SPIRIT
- SECOND SPIRIT
- THIRD SPIRIT
- LIFE OF LIFE
- AUTUMN
- STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION NEAR NAPLES
- DIRGE FOR THE YEAR
- A WIDOW BIRD
- THE TWO SPIRITS
- JOHN KEATS 1795–1821
- ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN’S HOMER
- TO SLEEP
- THE GENTLE SOUTH
- LAST SONNET
- ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE
- ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
- ODE TO AUTUMN
- ODE TO PSYCHE
- ODE TO MELANCHOLY
- HARTLEY COLERIDGE 1796–1849
- SHE IS NOT FAIR
- NOTES
- Epithalamion.—Page 3.
- Rosalynd’s Madrigal.—Page 21.
- Rosaline.—Page 22.
- Farewell to Arms.—Page 25.
- The Passionate Shepherd.—Page 28.
- Take, O take those Lips away.—Page 44.
- Kind are her Answers.—Page 46.
- Dirge.—Page 44.
- Follow.—Page 49.
- When thou must Home.—Page 50.
- The Funeral.—Page 56.
- Charis’ Triumph.—Page 58.
- In Earth.—Page 64.
- Song.—Page 65.
- To my Inconstant Mistress.—Page 75.
- The Pulley.—Page 91.
- Misery.—Page 94.
- The Rose.—Page 99.
- L’Allegro.—Page 109.
- Il Penseroso.—Page 113.
- Lycidas.—Page 119.
- On a Prayer-book.—Page 131.
- Wishes to his Supposed Mistress.—Page 139.
- On the Death of Mr. Crashaw.—Page 157.
- Hymn to the Light.—Page 159.
- To Lucasta.—Page 163.
- Lucasta Paying her Obsequies.—Page 165.
- To Althea, from Prison.—Page 166.
- A Horatian Ode.—Page 169.
- The Picture of T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers.—Page 173.
- The Definition of Love.—Page 179.
- Childhood.—Page 183.
- Scottish Ballads.—Page 191.
- Mrs. Anne Killigrew.—Page 205.
- Song, from Abdelazar.—Page 209.
- Hymn.—Page 209.
- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.—Page 210.
- Lines on Receiving his Mother’s Picture.—Page 213.
- Life.—Page 217.
- The Land of Dreams.—Page 217.
- Surprised by Joy.—Page 229.
- Stepping Westward.—Page 243.
- Youth and Age.—Page 256.
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.—Page 258.
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- Rose Aylmer.—Page 281.
- The Isles of Greece.—Page 286.
- Hellas.—Page 290.
- The Waning Moon.—Page 298.
- Ode to the West Wind.—Page 299.
- The Invitation.—Page 303.
- La Belle Dame bans Merci.—Page 316.
- Ode to a Nightingale.—Page 320.
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