Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 2

George Gilfillan

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Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Marc D'Hooghe
and the PG Online Distributed ProofreadersSPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS
OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH
POETS.
With an Introductory Essay,
By
THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.
IN THREE VOLS.
VOL. II.CONTENTS
SECOND PERIOD—FROM SPENSER TO
DRYDEN. (CONTINUED.)
WILLIAM HABINGTON
Epistle addressed to the Honourable W. E.
To his Noblest Friend, J. C., Esq.
A Description of Castara
JOSEPH HALL, BISHOP OF NORWICH
Satire I.
Satire VII.
RICHARD LOVELACE
Song—To Althea, from Prison
Song
A Loose Saraband
ROBERT HERRICK
Song
Cherry-Ripe
The Kiss: A Dialogue
To Daffodils
To Primroses
To Blossoms
Oberon's Palace
Oberon's Feast
The Mad Maid's Song
Corinna's going a-Maying
Jephthah's Daughter The Country Life
SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE
The Spring, a Sonnet—From the Spanish
ABRAHAM COWLEY
The Chronicle, a Ballad
The Complaint
The Despair
Of Wit
Of Solitude
The Wish
Upon the Shortness of Man's Life
On the Praise of Poetry
The Motto—'Tentanda via est,' &c
Davideis-Book II
Life
The Plagues of Egypt
GEORGE WITHER
From 'The Shepherd's Hunting'
The Shepherd's Resolution
The Steadfast Shepherd
From 'The Shepherd's Hunting'
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT
From 'Gondibert'—Canto II
From 'Gondibert'—Canto IV
DR HENRY KING
Sic Vita
Song
LifeJOHN CHALKHILL
Arcadia
Thealma, a Deserted Shepherdess
Priestess of Diana
Thealma in Full Dress
Dwelling of the Witch Orandra
CATHARINE PHILLIPS
The Inquiry
A Friend
MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE
Melancholy described by Mirth
Melancholy describing herself
THOMAS STANLEY
Celia Singing
Speaking and Kissing
La Belle Confidante
The Loss
Note on Anacreon
ANDREW MARVELL
The Emigrants
The Nymph complaining of the Death of her Fawn
On 'Paradise Lost'
Thoughts in a Garden
Satire on Holland
IZAAK WALTON
The Angler's Wish
JOHN WILMOT, EARL or ROCHESTER
Song
SongTHE EARL OP ROSCOMMON
From 'An Essay on Translated Verse'
CHARLES COTTON
Invitation to Izaak Walton
A Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque
DR HENRY MORE
Opening of Second Part of 'Psychozoia'
Exordium of Third Part
Destruction and Renovation of all things
A Distempered Fancy
Soul compared to a Lantern
WILLIAM CHAMBERLAYNE
Argalia taken Prisoner by the Turks
HENRY VAUGHAN
On a Charnel-house
On Gombauld's 'Endymion'
Apostrophe to Fletcher the Dramatist
Picture of the Town
The Golden Age
Regeneration
Resurrection and Immortality
The Search
Isaac's Marriage
Man's Fall and Recovery
The Shower
Burial
Cheerfulness
The Passion
Rules and Lessons
Repentance The Dawning
The Tempest
The World
The Constellation
Misery
Mount of Olives
Ascension-day
Cock-crowing
The Palm-tree
The Garland
Love-sick
Psalm civ
The Timber
The Jews
Palm-Sunday
Providence
St Mary Magdalene
The Rainbow
The Seed Growing Secretly (Mark iv. 26)
Childhood
Abel's Blood
Righteousness
Jacob's Pillow and Pillar
The Feast
The Waterfall
DR JOSEPH BEAUMONT
Hell
Joseph's Dream
Paradise
Eve
To the Memory of his Wife
Imperial Borne Personified
EndMISCELLANEOUS PIECES—
FROM ROBERT HEATH—
What is Love?
Protest of Love
To Clarastella
BY VARIOUS AUTHORS—
My Mind to me a Kingdom is
The Old and Young Courtier
There is a Garden in her Face
Hallo, my Fancy
The Fairy Queen
* * * * *
SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-
KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
SECOND PERIOD—FROM SPENSER TO
DRYDEN. (CONTINUED.)
* * * * *
WILLIAM HABINGTON.
This poet might have been expected to have
belonged to the 'Spasmodic school,' judging by his