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A Little Book of Old Time Verse - Good Press
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A Little Book of Old Time Verse: Old Fashioned Flowers
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066220006
Table of Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
Love's Wantonness
Song
Fie on Love
A Fragment
Truce in Love Entreated
Jenny Kissed Me
A Ditty
To Electra
To Phyllis, the Fair Shepherdess
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Content
My Jean
To Celia
To His Mistress
The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet
Song
Love Will Find the Way
To Daffodils
Phillida Flouts Me
Song to Flavia
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
My Kate
Grief
Love
Trust Thou Thy Love
Spiritual Love
Woman
To Spring: On the Banks of the Cam
Appelles' Song
To Althea, from Prison
On the Life of Man
Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw
O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming?
The Darkling Thrush
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars
A Japanese Love Song
Wishes
Evanescence
Romance
Celia's Homecoming
Love in the Valley
Lucifer in Starlight
To Anthea
The Fair Circassian
The Constant Lover
Farewell
Song
On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour
A Birthday
Love in thy Youth, Fair Maid
Days
A Hymn to Love
Adieu L'Amour
My Little Pretty One
Song
Song
Song
Rain on the Down
Down by the Sally Gardens
Song
Song
Advice Against Travel
Remember
A Valentine
To His Mistress, Objecting to His Neither Toying nor Talking
When You Are Old
Song
Song
My Loves
Cupid Mistaken
Song
Faith
Memories
The Forest Maid
All's Well
A Violinist
To Helen
The Truth of Woman
Ageanax
Names
A Summer Day in Old Sicily
On a Nightingale in April
Home-Thoughts from Abroad
Few Happy Matches
A Song
Love's Likeness
My Lady
To a Discarded Toast
The Bonnie Wee Thing
Song from The Princess
Song
To a Lofty Beauty, from Her Poor Kinsman
Time of Roses
Hermione
Delia
Speaking and Kissing
A Rondeau to Ethel
The Nun
Under the Wattle
Eutopia
Gladys Sidney Crouch
Published by
P. F. Volland Company
NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO
Copyright, 1917
P. F. Volland Company
Chicago
To My Father
That the verses in this little book will bring back sweet memories of the long ago to every reader, as they do to me, is the earnest wish of the humble gatherer of these old-fashioned flowers. G. S. C.
CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS
Table of Contents
Sir Edward Dyer. (Born 1550—Died 1607.)
To Phyllis, the Fair Shepherdess
Sir Philip Sidney. (Born 1554—Died 1586.)
A Ditty
John Lyly. (Born 1554—Died 1606.)
Appelles' Song
Thomas Lodge. (Born 1556—Died 1625.)
Love's Wantonness
Thomas Campion. (Born (unknown)—Died 1619.)
Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air
Come, O come, my life's delight
Robert Green. (Born 1560—Died 1592.)
Content
Christopher Marlowe. (Born 1562—Died 1593.)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare. (Born 1564—Died 1616.)
O Mistress Mine, Where are you Roaming
Ben Jonson. (Born 1573—Died 1637.)
To Celia
John Donne. (Born 1573—Died 1631.)
Song
Francis Beaumont. (Born 1584—Died 1610.)
Fie on Love
George Wither. (Born 1588—Died 1667.)
The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet
Thomas Carew. (Born 1589—Died 1639.)
Song
A Fragment
Truce in Love Entreated
Phillida Flouts Me
Robert Herrick. (Born 1591—Died 1674.)
A Hymn to Love
To Anthea
To Daffodils
To Electra
To his Mistress
To his Mistress, Objecting to his Neither Toying nor Talking
To the Virgins, to make much of Time
Henry King. (Born 1592—Died 1669.)
On the Life of Man
Thomas Bateson. (Born 1600—Died (no record).)
Her hair the net of golden wire
Sir William D'Avenant. (Born 1605—Died 1668.)
The Lark now Leaves his Watr'y Nest
Edmund Waller. (Born 1605—Died 1687.)
Song: Go Lovely Rose
Song to Flavia
Sir John Suckling. (Born 1609—Died 1641.)
Why so pale and wan, fond lover
Song: O pr'y thee send me back my heart
The Constant Lover
Richard Lovelace. (Born 1618—Died 1658.)
Stone walls do not a prison make
To Althea, from Prison
To Lucasta, on going to the wars
Thomas Stanley. (Born 1625—Died 1678.)
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