by Paul Keegan
Marlowe, Christopher (1564–1593), 156, 159, 174
Marvell, Andrew (1621–1678), 364, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372
Meredith, George (1828–1909), 746
Mew, Charlotte (1869–1928), 838, 845
Meynell, Alice (1847–1922), 811, 812
Milton, John (1608–1674), 255, 259, 280, 333, 342, 351, 352, 353
Mitchell, Elma (1919– ), 1048
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689–1762), 432, 450, 479
Montague, John (1929– ), 1009
Moore, Thomas (1779–1852), 599
Morgan, Edwin (1920– ), 1093
Morris, William (1834–1896), 804
Muir, Edwin (1887–1959), 888, 964, 975
Muldoon, Paul (1951– ), 1038, 1069, 1070, 1078, 1086, 1096
Nashe, Thomas (1567–1601), 176
Newman, John Henry (1801–1890), 687
Oldham, John (1653–1683), 374
Oliphant, Caroline, Baroness Nairne (1766–1845), 660, 661
Orleans, Charles of (1394?-1465), 44, 45, 46
Owen, Wilfred (1893–1918), 857, 858, 859
Patmore, Coventry (1823–1896), 727, 777
Paulin, Tom (1949– ), 1069, 1079
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785–1866), 675
Peele, George (1556–1596), 142, 167
Philips, Katherine (1632–1664), 340, 341
Phillips, Ambrose (1674–1749), 413
Pitter, Ruth (1897–1992), 962
Plath, Sylvia (1932–1963), 1000, 1001, 1002
Pope, Alexander (1688–1744), 419, 424, 429, 446, 451, 454, 456, 459, 462, 463, 467, 469
Pound, Ezra (1885–1973), 833, 839, 866, 867
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802–1839), 663, 676
Prior, Matthew (1664–1721), 412, 426, 427
Probyn, May (fl.1895), 812
Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825–1864), 739
Quarles, Francis (1592–1644), 250
Raine, Craig (1944– ), 1064
Ralegh, Sir Walter (1554?-1618), 109, 126, 175, 221, 223
Ramsay, Allan (1686–1758), 428, 438
Randolph, Thomas (1605–1635), 257
Reed, Henry (1914–1986), 949
Reid, Christopher (1949– ), 1065, 1102
Riding, Laura (1901–1991), 918
Riley, Denise (1948– ), 1098
Robinson, A. Mary F. (1857–1944), 802
Rosenberg, Isaac (1890–1918), 852, 853
Rossetti, Christina (1830–1894), 739, 740, 761, 762, 775, 777, 789, 814
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–1882), 737, 751, 771, 795
Sandys, George (1578–1644), 237
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886–1967), 859, 860
Scott, Alexander (1520?–1590?), 99
Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832), 573, 603, 611, 612
Sedley, Sir Charles (1639?–1701), 396, 407
Sempill of Beltrees, Robert (1590?-1660?), 252
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), 137, 180, 181, 193–9, 207, 208
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822), 606, 611, 615, 642, 644, 645, 651, 653, 656
Shenstone, William (1714–1763), 478
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), 515, 516
Sheridan, Thomas (1719–1788), 442
Shirley, James (1596–1666), 291
Sidney, Robert, Earl of Leicester (1563–1626), 151
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554–1586), 108, 119, 134, 152, 153
Skelton, John (1460?–1529), 50, 74, 76
Skipsey, Joseph (1832–1903), 789
Smart, Christopher (1722–1771), 481, 488, 491, 502
Smith, Charlotte (1749–1806), 527, 546
Smith, Iain Crichton (1928–1998), 1016
Smith, Ken (1938– ), 1095
Smith, Stevie (1902–1971), 945, 966, 977, 978, 1027
Sorley, Charles Hamilton (1895–1915), 843
Soutar, William (1898–1943), 914
Southwell, Robert, S.J. (1561–1595), 139, 141
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599), 100, 102, 111, 138, 143, 192
Stanley, Thomas (1625–1678), 310
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894), 791, 799, 811
Strode, William (1600–1643), 321
Suckling, Sir John (1609–1641), 258, 289, 323
Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745), 415, 430, 448, 449, 452, 463
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909), 748, 758, 760, 781, 783
Symons, Arthur (1865–1945), 808, 818
Synge, J. M. (1871–1909), 829, 830
Taylor, John (1580–1653), 322
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809–1892), 696, 709, 713, 735, 786, 792
Theiner, George (1928–1988), 1010
Thomas, Dylan (1914–1953), 909, 960, 966, 968
Thomas, Edward (1878–1917), 843, 844, 854, 855, 856
Thomas, R. S. (1913–2000), 982, 990, 1007
Thomson, James (1700–1748), 438
Tichborne, Chidiock (1558?-1586), 106
Tomlinson, Charles (1927– ), 988, 1028
Townshend, Aurelian (1583?-1651?), 313
Traherne, Thomas (1637–1674), 344, 345, 347
Turner, Charles (1808–1879), 765, 789
Vaughan, Henry (1621–1695), 303, 314
Wainwright, Jeffrey (1944– ), 1062
Waller, Edmund (1606–1687), 278, 279, 386
Wanley, Nathaniel (1634–1680), 362
Watson, Thomas (c.1557–1592), 103
Watts, Isaac (1674–1748), 410, 411, 427
Webster, Augusta (1837–1894), 767
Webster, John (1575?-1634 or 1638?), 209, 211
Weever, Robert (fl.1550), 93
Wesley, Charles (1707–1788), 468, 476
Wickham, Anna (1884–1947), 844
Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900), 819
Williams, Hugo (1942– ), 1100, 1101
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), 355, 356, 360, 363, 392, 393, 394, 395
Wordsworth, Dorothy (-), 670
Wordsworth, William (1770–1850), 553, 554, 560, 590, 591, 593, 594, 699
Wotton, Sir Henry (1568–1639), 237, 276, 311
Wroth, Lady Mary (1857?–1652?), 234
Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503–1542), 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 88
Yeats, W. B. (1865–1939), 804, 807, 837, 838, 864, 869, 885, 892, 893, 894, 908, 928
Young, Edward (1683–1765), 434
Index of First Lines
A boy skips flat stones out to sea – each does fine 1053
A city plum is not a plum 776
A constant keeping-past of shaken trees 795
A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket 1009
A horn hung on an oak 1042
A lake 719
A lamb could not get born. Ice wind 1066
A misremembered lyric: a soft catch of its song 1098
A mountain’s giddy height I sought 800
A picture has no grammar. It has neither evil nor good. It has only colour, say orange or mauve 1016
A silent conquering army 1026
A slumber did my spirit seal 566
A square, squat room (a cellar on promotion) 802
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still 885
A sweet disorder in the dresse 294
A thousand martyrs I have made 356
A touch of cold in the Autumn night 832
A way feare with thy projectes, noe false fyre 151
A worm fed on the heart of Corinth 853
A wreathed garland of deserved praise 249
A year ago I fell in love with the functional ward 981
About suffering they were never wrong 936
About ten days or so 1100
Above her face 1062
Absence, the noble truce 169
Absent from thee I languish still 393
Accept thou Shrine of my Dead Saint 267
Adam lay y-bownden bownden in a bond 46
Adieu, farewell earths blisse 176
Ae fond kiss, and th
en we sever 534
Ae weet forenicht i’ the yow-trummle 889
After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains 609
Aftir that hervest inned had hise sheves 41
Against an elm a sheep was ty’d 442
Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men 1008
Aged man, that mowes these fields 313
Ah, did you once see Shelley plain 725
Ah friend, ’tis true – this truth you lovers know – 429
‘Ah, he was a grand man’ 1071
Ah! no, not these! 812
Ah! sad wer we as we did peäce 750
Ah Sun-flower! weary of time 540
Al night by the rosë, rosë 4
Alas! for Peter not an helping Hand 602
Alas my love, ye do me wrong 103
Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace 90
All day and night, save winter, every weather 844
All hushed and still within the house 706
All is lithogenesis – or lochia 910
All my past life is mine noe more 355
All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids 760
Always the same hills 1007
Amazing monster! that, for aught I know 691
An Age in her Embraces past 394
An affable Irregular 893
An incident here and there 953
Ancient Person, for whom I 392
And as in well-growne woods, on trees, cold spinie Grashoppers 205
And as in winter time when Jove his cold-sharpe javelines throwes 205
And at the upper end of that faire rowme 117
And call yee this to utter what is just 154
And did those feet in ancient time 584
‘And first the walles and dark entrie I sought’ 90
And here the precious dust is layd 271
And now behold your tender Nurse the Ayre 148
And the deepened stillness as a calm, cast over us 922
And thou wert sad – yet I was not with thee 680
And what’s your tune? 716
Another and another and another 721
Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees 865
April is the cruellest month, breeding 876
As a child, they could not keep me from wells 1008
As bryght Phebus, scheyn soverane hevynnys e 67
As he came near death things grew shallower for us 1012
As I drive to the junction of lane and highway 836
As I in hoarie Winters night stoode shivering in the snow 141
As I lay asleep in Italy 615
As I was walking all alane 580
As I was walking in the Mall of late 374
As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay 656
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame 790
As some brave Admiral, in former War 363
As some fond virgin, whom her mother’s care 424
As virtuous men passe mildly away 227
As when it hapneth that some lovely Towne 236
As you came from the holy land 109
Ash on an old man’s sleeve 941
Aske me no more whither doe stray 272
At dawn she unmasked 812
At dinner she is hostess, I am host 746
At half-past eight o’clock, booms, hencoops, spars 619
At night, sometimes, when I cannot sleep 1009
At noon, in the dead centre of a faith 1079
At Polwart on the Green 428
At Timon’s Villa let us pass a day 446
At the large foot of a fair hollow tree 330
At the round earths imagin’d corners, blow 231
Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods 1056
Avenge O Lord thy slaughter’d Saints, whose bones 352
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night 732
Ay, gaze upon her rose-wreathed hair 674
Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho! 191
Barely a twelvemonth after 975
Basho, coming 1044
Batter my heart, three person’d God, for, you 232
Be plain in Dress and sober in your Diet 450
Be this was said a grondyn dart leit he glide 66
Because I liked you better 920
Before the Moone should circlewise close both hir homes in one 98
Before we shall again behold 350
Behind her big fan 812
Behind his wife stood, ever fixed alone 320
Beholde this fle- 94
Below the surface-stream, shallow and light 767
Best and brightest, come away 651
Between the brown hands of a server-lad 859
Bitwenë March and Avëril 5
Blows the wind today, and the sun and the rain are flying 811
Borgia, thou once wert almost too august 680
Bothered by his wife 1063
’Bout th’ Husband Oke, the Vine 275
Brag, sweet tenor bull 1003
Brick dust in sunlight 982
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art 640
Brisk chaunticleer his mattins had begun 481
— Brook and road 699
… but chief of all 342
But for lust we could be friends 962
but now lead on 339
But sweet sister death has gone debauched today 923
But there are 609
‘But why do you go?’ said the lady, while both sat under the yew 741
Butt stay my thoughts, make end, geve fortune way 221
By our first strange and fatall interview 161
By Saynt Mary, my lady 75
By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand 840
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ lazy at the sea 806
By the waters of Babylon 79
By this he knew she wept with waking eyes 746
Call for the Robin-Red-brest and the wren 209
Calm is the morn without a sound 714
Calme was the day, and through the trembling ayre 143
Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe 215
Can death be faithfull or the grave be just 362
Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night 125
Careful Observers may fortel the Hour 415
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings 1064
Children, if you dare to think 900
Children of wealth in your warm nursery 927
Chloe, in Verse by your commande I write 356
Christ was the word that spake it 100
Christ, whose Glory fills the Skies 468
Christ’s teeth ascended with him into heaven 1068
Chronos, Chronos, mend thy Pace 405
Clay is the word and clay is the flesh 946
Close and slow, summer is ending in Hampshire 932
Cold in the earth – and the deep snow piled above thee 706
‘Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height’ 709
Come live with mee, and be my love 174
Come my CELIA, let us prove 190
Come unto these yellow sands 208
Comes to mind as another small upheaval 1078
Condemn’d to hope’s delusive mine 519
Constant Penelope, sends to thee carelesse Ulisses 107
Corinna, Pride of Drury-Lane 452
Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head 148
Cou’d our First Father, at his toilsome Plough 412
Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown 328
Creation’s mildest charms are there combin’d 494
Crossing alone the nighted ferry 919
Crowding this beach 1028
Cyriack, this three years day these eys though clear 353
Dark house, by which once more I stand 713
Dazel’d thus, with height of place 311
Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush 775
Dear Cloe, how blubber’d is that pretty Face? 426
Dear l
ittle Bog-Face 945
Dearest, it was a night 825
Death be not proud, though some have called thee 231
Deere to my soule, then leave me not forsaken 126
Descended of an ancient Line 381
Design, or chance, makes others wive 279
Do not go gentle into that good night 968
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short 265
Done is a battell on the dragon blak 63
Doris, I that could repell 310
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet 804
Down the close darkening lanes they sang their way 858
Down to me quickly, down! I am such dust 826
Downe in the depth of mine iniquity 171
Draw me nere, draw me nere 72
Dulled by the slow glare of the yellow bulb 951
Each inmost peece in me is thine 155
Early, each morning, Martha Blake 991
Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, vaulty, voluminous,… stupendous 794
Earth has not any thing to shew more fair 590
Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound 111
Erthë tok of erthe 6
Even in the bluest noonday of July 799
Even now there are places where a thought might grow 1045
Even suche is tyme that takes in trust 223
Every day I see from my window 1015
Everyone suddenly burst out singing 860
Everything passes and vanishes 792
Evil, if rightly understood 508
Fair Amoret is gone astray 410
Faire Friend, ’tis true, your beauties move 265
Fall leaves fall die flowers away 706
Far in a western brookland 816
Farewel, too little and too lately known 380
Farewell, Life! My senses swim 700
Farewell sweet Boy, complaine not of my truth 170
Farewell, this world! I take my leve for evere 70
Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy 215
Father of lights! what Sunnie seed 316
Fayre Summer droops, droope men and beasts therefore 176
Feare no more the heate o’ th’ Sun 200
Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest 791
Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new 178
Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June 841
Five years have passed; five summers, with the length 554
Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe 183
Fond Painter, why woulds’t thou my picture draw? 237
For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love 224
For maple and for pine 1055
For now, and since first break of dawne the Fiend 336
For shame, thou everlasting Woer 307
For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardners talent 488
Forbear bold Youth, all’s Heaven here 340
