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