The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) / Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts
by John Donne
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- THE POEMS OF JOHN DONNE
- PREFACE
- NOTE
- CONTENTS OF VOL. I
- LIST OF EDITIONS REGULARLY CITED IN NOTES.
- EDITIONS OCCASIONALLY CITED.
- LIST OF MS. SIGLA
- PRINTER
- Hexastichon Bibliopolae.
- Hexastichon ad Bibliopolam.
- Dedication to the Edition of 1650.
- To John Donne.
- To Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with M. Donnes Satyres.
- To John Donne.
- JOHN DONNE
- SONGS AND SONETS.
- The good-morrow.
- Song.
- Womans constancy.
- The undertaking.
- The Sunne Rising.
- The Indifferent.
- Loves Vsury.
- The Canonization.
- The triple Foole.
- Lovers infinitenesse.
- Song.
- The Legacie.
- A Feaver.
- Aire and Angels.
- Breake of day.
- The Anniversarie.
- A Valediction: of my name, in the window.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IIII.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- Twicknam garden.
- A Valediction: of the booke.
- Communitie.
- Loves growth.
- Loves exchange.
- Confined Love.
- The Dreame.
- A Valediction: of weeping.
- Loves Alchymie.
- The Flea.
- The Curse.
- The Message.
- A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day,
- Witchcraft by a picture.
- The Baite.
- The Apparition.
- The broken heart.
- A Valediction: forbidding mourning.
- The Extasie.
- Loves Deitie.
- Loves diet.
- The Will.
- The Funerall.
- The Blossome.
- The Primrose, being at Montgomery Castle, upon the hill, on which it is situate.
- The Relique.
- The Dampe.
- The Dissolution.
- A Ieat Ring Sent.
- Negative love.
- The Prohibition.
- The Expiration.
- The Computation.
- The Paradox.
- Farewell to Love.
- A Lecture upon the Shadow.
- Sonnet. The Token.
- 〈Selfe Love.〉
- EPIGRAMS.
- Hero and Leander.
- Pyramus and Thisbe.
- Niobe.
- A burnt ship.
- Fall of a wall.
- A lame begger.
- Cales and Guyana.
- Sir Iohn Wingefield.
- A selfe accuser.
- A licentious person.
- Antiquary.
- Disinherited.
- Phryne.
- An obscure writer.
- Klockius.
- Raderus.
- Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus.
- Ralphius.
- The Lier.
- ELEGIES.
- ELEGIE I.
- ELEGIE II.
- ELEGIE III.
- ELEGIE IV.
- ELEGIE V.
- ELEGIE VI.
- ELEGIE VII.
- ELEGIE VIII.
- ELEGIE IX.
- ELEGIE X.
- ELEGIE XI.
- ELEGIE XII.
- ELEGIE XIII.
- ELEGIE XIV.
- ELEGIE XV.
- ELEGIE XVI.
- ELEGIE XVII.
- ELEGIE XVIII.
- ELEGIE XIX.
- ELEGIE XX.
- HEROICALL EPISTLE.
- EPITHALAMIONS,
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IIII.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- ECCLOGUE.
- EPITHALAMION.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IIII.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne.
- SATYRES.
- Satyre I.
- Satyre II.
- Satyre III.
- Satyr IIII.
- Satyre V.
- Vpon Mr. Thomas Coryats Crudities.
- In eundem Macaronicon.
- JOHN DONNE, 1613
- LETTERS TO SEVERALL PERSONAGES.
- THE STORME.
- THE CALME.
- To Sr Henry Wotton.
- To Sr Henry Goodyere.
- To Mr Rowland Woodward.
- To Sr Henry Wootton.
- H: W: in Hiber: belligeranti.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- To Sr Edward Herbert. at Iulyers.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- To the Countesse of Huntingdon.
- To Mr T. W.
- To M T. W.
- To Mr T. W.
- To Mr T. W.
- To Mr R. W.
- To Mr R. W.
- To Mr C. B.
- To Mr E. G.
- To Mr R. W.
- To Mr R. W.
- To Mr S. B.
- To Mr I. L.
- To Mr B. B.
- To Mr I. L.
- To Sir H. W. at his going Ambassador to Venice.
- To Mrs M. H.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens.
- To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614.
- To the Lady Bedford.
- AN ANATOMIE OF THE WORLD.
- The first Anniversary.
- To the praise of the dead,
- An Anatomy of the World.
- A Funerall Elegie.
- OF THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE.
- The second Anniversary.
- The Harbinger to the PROGRESSE.
- OF THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE.
- The second Anniversarie.
- EPICEDES AND OBSEQVIES Vpon The deaths of sundry Personages.
- Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford.
- Elegie on the Lady Marckham.
- Elegie on Mris Boulstred.
- Elegie. Death.
- Elegie on the L. C.
- An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton.
- EPITAPHS. EPITAPH ON HIMSELFE.
- To the Countesse of Bedford.
- Omnibus.
- INFINITATI SACRUM, 16. Augusti 1601. METEMPSYCHOSIS.
- Epistle.
- THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE.
- First Song.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- XXIV.
- XXV.
- XXVI.
- XXVII.
- XXVIII.
- XXIX.
- XXX.
- XXXI.
- XXXII.
- XXXIII.
- XXXIV.
- XXXV.
- XXXVI.
- XXXVII.
- XXXVIII.
- XXXIX.
- XL.
- XLI.
- XLII.
- XLIII.
- XLIV.
- XLV.
- XLVI.
- XLVII.
- XLVIII.
- XLIX.
- L.
- LI.
- LII.
- DIVINE POEMS.
- To E. of D. with six holy Sonnets.
- To the Lady Magdalen Herbert: of St. Mary Magdalen.
- HOLY SONNETS.
- La Corona.
- Annvnciation.
- Nativitie.
- Temple.
- Crvcifying.
- Resvrrection.
- Ascention.
- Holy Sonnets.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- The Crosse.
- Resurrection, imperfect.
- The Annuntiation and Passion.
- Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward.
- THE LITANIE.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- XXIV.
- XXV.
- XXVI.
- XXVII.
- XXVIII.
- Vpon the translation of the Psalmes by Sir Philip Sydney, and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sister.
- Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne.
- To Mr Tilman after he had taken orders.
- A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany.
- The Lamentations of Ieremy, for the most part according to Tremelius.
- Chap. I.
- Chap. II.
- Chap. III.
- Chap. IV.
- Chap. V.
- Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse.
- JOHN DONNE
- A Hymne to God the Father:
- I.
- II.
- III.
- To Christ.
- ELEGIES UPON THE AUTHOR
- TO THE MEMORIE OF MY EVER DESIRED FRIEND Dr. Donne.
- To the deceased Author,
- On the death of Dr Donne.
- On Doctor Donne,
- An Elegie upon the incomparable Dr DONNE.
- An Elegie upon Dr Donne.
- An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn Donne:
- An Elegie on Dr. Donne: By Sir Lucius Carie.
- On Dr. Donnes death:
- Upon Mr J. Donne, and his Poems.
- In memory of Doctor Donne: By Mr R. B.
- Epitaph.
- Epitaph upon Dr. Donne,
- In obitum venerabilis viri Iohannis Donne, sacræ Theologiæ Doctoris, Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Divi Pauli, nuper Decani; Illi honoris, tibi (multum mihi colende Vir) observantiæ ergo Hæc ego.
- Elegie on D. D.
- On Dr John Donne, late Deane of S. Paules, London.
- APPENDIX A. LATIN POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS
- De Libro Cvm Mvtvaretur Impresso; Domi à pueris frustatim lacerato; et post reddito Manuscripto. Doctissimo Amicissimoque v. D. D. Andrews.
- 〈Epigramma〉
- Amicissimo, & meritissimo Ben. Jonson. In Vulponem.
- To Mr George Herbert, with one of my Seal〈s〉, of the Anchor and Christ.
- Translated out of Gazæus, Vota Amico facta. fol. 160.
- APPENDIX B. POEMS WHICH HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN DONNE IN THE OLD EDITIONS AND THE PRINCIPAL MS. COLLECTIONS, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR PROBABLE AUTHORS.
- I. POEMS PROBABLY BY SIR JOHN ROE, KNT. To Sr Nicholas Smyth.
- Satyre.
- AN ELEGIE.
- An Elegie to Mris Boulstred: 1602.
- An Elegie.
- Song.
- To Ben. Iohnson, 6 Ian. 1603.
- To Ben. Iohnson, 9. Novembris, 1603.
- To Sr Tho. Roe 1603.
- II. To the Countesse of Huntington.
- III. Elegie.
- IV. Psalme 137.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- V. On the blessed Virgin Mary.
- VI. On the Sacrament.
- VII. Absence.
- VIII. Song.
- A Dialogue.
- IX. Break of Daye.
- APPENDIX C. A SELECTION OF POEMS WHICH FREQUENTLY ACCOMPANY POEMS BY JOHN DONNE IN MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS OR HAVE BEEN ASCRIBED TO DONNE BY MODERN EDITORS.
- I. POEMS FROM ADDITIONAL MS. 25707. A Letter written by Sr H: G: and J: D: alternis vicibus.
- O Frutefull Garden.
- To my Lord of Pembroke.
- Of a Lady in the Black Masque.
- II. POEMS FROM THE BURLEY MS. 〈Life.〉
- 〈My Love.〉
- 〈O Eyes!〉
- 〈Silence Best Praise.〉
- 〈Beauty in Little Room.〉
- 〈Loves Zodiake.〉
- 〈Fortune, Love, and Time.〉
- 〈Life a Play.〉
- A Kisse.
- Epi: B: Jo:
- Epi: Hen: Princ: Hugo Holland.
- III. POEMS FROM VARIOUS MSS. 〈The Annuntiation. Additional Lines.〉
- Elegy. To Chast Love.
- Upon his scornefull Mistresse. Elegy.
- 〈Absence.〉
- 〈Tongue-tied Love.〉
- 〈Love, if a God thou art.〉
- 〈Great Lord of Love.〉
- 〈Loves Exchange.〉
- Song.
- 2.
- Love, bred of glances.
- To a Watch restored to its Mystres.
- 〈Ad Solem.〉
- 〈If She Deride.〉
- 〈Fortune Never Fails.〉
- To His Mistress.
- A Paradoxe of a Painted Face.
- Sonnett.
- On Black Hayre and Eyes.
- Fragment of an Elegy.
- 〈Farewel, ye guilded follies.〉
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