by Paul Keegan
Station Island, 1080
Still-Life, 918
Stone Speech, 1028
Stones and Bones, 1102
Strand at Lough Beg, The, 1067
Straying Student, The, 925
Studying the Language, 1102
Sudden Light, 751
Summer, 438
Summer Farm, 974
‘Summer is Ended’, 789
Summers Last Will and Testament, 176
Sundial, The, 1083
Sunlight on the Garden, The, 927
Sweeney Among the Nightingales, 865
Swineherd, 1033
Tales of the Hall, 612
Tall Nettles, 855
Tam o’ Shanter. A Tale, 528
Tao and Unfitness at Inistiogue on the River Nore, 1057
Task, The, 521
Taxis, The, 991
Telegraph Wires, 1094
Tempest, The, 208
Temple, The, 243
Testament of Cresseid, The, 54
Tête-à-Tête, 812
The Author Loving These Homely Meats specially, viz.: cream, pancakes, buttered, pippin-pies (laugh, good people) and tobacco; writ to that worthy and virtuous gentlewoman, whom he calleth mistress, as followeth, 201
These Verses weare Made by Michaell Drayton Esquier Poett Lawreatt the Night before Hee Dyed, 241
Thirty Bob a Week, 808
This Be the Verse, 1039
This is the House That Jack Built, 488
This Last Pain, 911
Thistles, 1008
Thomas Rhymer, 575
Thought-Fox, The, 976
Thoughts after Ruskin, 1048
Thoughts of Phena, 823
Through the Looking-Glass, 773
Tithonus, 735
To a Lady in a Garden, 279
To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with the Plough, November, 1785, 523
To Althea from Prison, 298
To Autumn, 638
To Castara, Upon an Embrace, 275
To E. FitzGerald, 792
To Evoke Posterity, 926
To Fish 690
To Francis Jammes, 886
To Her Lovers Complaint, 388
To His Coy Mistress, 368
To His Love, 860
To Jane. The Invitation, 651
To Juan at the Winter Solstice, 959
To L. Manlius Torquatus, 312
To Marguerite – Continued, 720
To Maystres Isabell Pennell, 75
To Meddowes, 295
To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness, 353
To Mr. Gay, Who Wrote Him a Congratulatory Letter on the Finishing His House, 429
To Mrs Will H. Low, 799
To My Dear and Most Worthy Friend, Mr. Isaak Walton, 391
To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, on His Comedy, Call’d The Double-Dealer, 398
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship. 17th. July 1651, 340
To my Lord Biron’s Tune of — Adieu Phillis, 341
To S. R. Crockett, 811
To the Accuser Who is the God of This World, 614
To the Evening Star, 520
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, 380
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, 294
To W. R., 822
To William Camden, 215
To Women, As Far As I’m Concerned, 897
To Wordsworth, 606
Tollund Man, The, 1030
Tom Punsibi’s Letter to Dean Swift, 442
Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book, 473
Toyland, 984
Traveller, Or a Prospect of Society, The, 494
Treasure Island, 791
Triolets, 812
Trip to Paris and Belgium, A, 795
Triumph of Life, The, 656
Trivia: Or the Art of Walking the Streets of London, 423
True Maid, A, 427
Tryst, The, 914
Tullynoe; Tête-à-Tête in the Parish Priest’s Parlour, 1071
Turnstile, The, 750
Twa Corbies, The, 580
Tweed and Till, 662
Twelfth Night, 180
Two Cantos of Mutabilite, 192
Two in the Campagna, 726
Two-Part Prelude of 1799, The, 560
Tyger, The, 539
Ulysses, 696
Unrelated Incidents, 1022
Upon Julia’s Voice, 293
Upon Our Saviours Tombe Wherein Never Man was Laid, 285
Upon Prew His Maid, 296
Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife, 276
Upon the Infant Martyrs, 285
Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earle of Somerset, Then Falling from Favor, 311
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, A, 227
Vanity of Human Wishes, The, 482
Vergissmeinnicht, 958
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, 463
Vicar of Wakefield, The, 503
Victories of Love, Book 1, 2, 727
Villon, 887
Virgil’s Aeneis, 400
Vision of Judgment, The, 646
Vision of Piers Plowman, The, 15
Vision of Spring in Winter, A, 783
Visionary, The, 712
Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 535
Visit, The, 1021
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam, 815
Voice, The, 834
Volpone, 190
Vote, The, 349
Waiting, 802
Walk, The, 834
Walls Do Not Fall, The, 953
Waring, 693
Warning to Children, 900
War-Song of Dinas Vawr, The, 675
Wartime Dawn, A, 951
Waste Land, The, 876
Watergaw, The, 889
What Would I Give?, 762
Where Art is a Midwife, 1069
White Divel, The, 209
White Heliotrope, 818
White Island: Or Place of the Blest, The, 296
Why Brownlee Left, 1069
Widgeon, 1080
Wife of Usher’s Well, The, 573
Wild Boar and the Ram, The, 442
Wild Oats, 1015
Wild Raspberries, 1047
Wild Swans at Coole, The, 864
Wind and Tree, 1038
Wind Suffers, The, 918
Windhover:, The, 778
Winter in Brighton, 766
Winter: My Secret, 740
Winter Sunrise, 956
Winter-Piece, A, 413
Winter’s Tale, The, 207
Wonder, 345
Woodspurge, The, 771
World, The, 305
Wound, The, 973
Wounds, 1037
Wreath, A, 249
Wreaths, 1068
Wreck of the Deutschland, The, 779
Writing in Prison, 1095
Youth and Art, 752
1 Ich am I am;
5 ‘For the sake of holy charity’
1 in the morë lay dwelt in the moor;
3 sevenightë fullë seven full nights;
8 ‘good was her food’;
10 primerole primrose;
15 dring drink;
21 wellë-spring spring;
22 bour chamber
3 dorst dared; stele steal;
4 bar bore; flour flower
1 Averil April;
2 spray twig; springe sprout;
3 foul bird; hirë wil her desire;
4 on hyrë lede in her language;
6 semeliest fairest; thynge things, creatures;
8 baundoun power;
9 ‘a fair good fortune I have received’;
10 Ichot I know;
11 lent gone;
12 light alighted;
13 on hew in hue, colour; her hair;
15 lufsom chere lovely expression; logh smiled;
16 middel smal slender waist; wel y-make well made;
17 but she unless she;
18 to ben to be; make companion;
19 Ichulle f
orsake I will refuse;
20 feyë doomed, dead;
22 Nightës at night; wende toss;
23 Forthy for which cause; wongës cheeks; waxeth won grow pale;
25 is y-lent me on has come upon me;
26 so wyter wiser;
27 bounté excellence;
28 swyre neck; swon swan;
29 may in toune maiden alive;
31 wowyng wooing; forwake worn out;
32 so water in wore as water in a troubled pool;
33 revë me my make rob me of my mate;
34 y-yernëd yore yearned for so long;
35 tholen whilë sore suffer pain for a time;
37 geynest under gore most gracious woman alive;
38 roun song
1 Erthë earth; tok took;
2 wogh sin;
4 drogh drew;
5 leyde laid;
6 in erthënë throgh in an earthen pit, grave;
7 tho then; hevëde had;
8 ynogh enough (7–8 ‘then had “earth” enough “earth” from “earth” ’)
1 worldës wyn world’s joy;
2 ‘is nothing without Christ’s cross’;
4 blode blood;
5 t’is herte to His heart; myn in my lodging;
6 fulsum fode abundant food;
7 than yeve I litel of then would I give little for;
8 ther there [with Christ]
1 Gloria mundi est the glory of the world is;
2 als as, like; flouwende flowing;
3 skiye cloud; pasende passing;
4 sadwe shadow; undermel early afternoon;
5 quel wheel
2 wroughte created;
3 ferë companion;
6 me lettëd herë kept me here;
7 slow slew;
8 drow drew;
9 leyde on berë laid on a bier;
10 pes peace;
11 ches chose;
12 byen derë buy [redeem] at a cost;
15 bothen both;
18 wonne won
*part of a description, in Latin, of Fortune’s wheel
1 bot deliverance
2 sote sweet;
3 welk walked;
6 sterre stars; over mesure beyond measure;
8 launde glade;
10 here her;
11 cast design;
12 foul bird; engendrure procreation;
13 prest eagerly ready;
14 take hire dom receive her decision; audyence hearing;
16 chese his make choose its mate;
20 unethe hardly;
23 Devyseth describes;
27 woned accustomed;
29 foules of ravyne birds of prey;
34 sed seed;
35 so fele so many;
37 perseth pierces;
39 clerkes scholars; devyse conne know how to describe;
40 tiraunt tyrant; donne dun, dull-brown;
41 doth pyne causes suffering;
42 ravyne rapine;
43 distrayneth grasps;
44 sperhauk sparrow-hawk;
45 quayles foo quail’s foe; merlioun merlin (small falcon);
47 yën meke meek eyes;
48 ayens in anticipation of;
49 ek also; bode omen;
50 geaunt giant;
51 thef thief; chough crow; janglynge pye chattering magpie;
52 eles fo eel’s foe;
54 stare starling; bewrye betray;
55 ruddok robin redbreast;
56 orloge timepiece; thorpes lyte small villages;
57 Venus sone son of Venus;
58 clepeth calls;
59 swalwe swallow; mortherere of the foules smale murderer of bees;
61 turtil turtledove;
63 fesaunt pheasant;
64 waker watchful; unkynde unnatural;
65 popynjay parrot;
66 stroyere destroyer;
67 wrekere punisher; avouterye adultery;
69 wys wise;
70 throstil thrush; frosty white-chested;
75 dide his besy cure worked diligently;
76 benygnely graciously; chese choose;
77 formel female (bird); make mate
1 sonne sun;
2 wedres overshake storms shaken off;
4 on-lofte on high;
9 recovered got back; make mate;
10 mowe may
2 Ther God may God;
3 make in compose;
4 n’envie do not contend with;
5 subgit be humble yourself;
6 pace pass;
12 red… or elles songe read… or else recited;
13 understonde understood;
14 rather earlier;
21 slough slew;
24 holughnesse concavity;
25 ‘leaving on the reverse side each planetary sphere’;
26 avysement observation;
27 erratik sterres wandering planets; herkenyng listening to; armonye the music of the spheres;
29 gan avyse contemplated;
33 to respect of in respect of;
35 Ther where;
36 lough laughed;
38 dampned damned;
39 lust desire for earthly pleasure;
42 sorted assigned;
43 fyn end;
45 real royal;
47 brotelnesse brittleness;
52 repeyreth hom return home (to heaven);
55 fair fairground;
58 crois cross; beye redeem;
59 starf died;
60 falsen prove false to;
61 holly wholly;
63 feynede counterfeit;
64 payens pagans’;
67 guerdoun for travaille reward for effort;
68 rascaille worthless rabble;
75 starf on rode died on the cross;
81 foon foes
1 dalf dug; span spun;
2 tho then
2 shope me dressed; shroudes rough garments; shep shepherd;
3 ‘in the habit of a hermit, but not one dedicated to holy works’;
4 here hear;
5 say saw; sellies marvels; selkouthe extraordinary;
6 hulles hills;
7 of-walked of walking;
8 launde grassy clearing; lened reclined;
9 me mette I dreamed;
11 witterliche truly; seigh saw;
14 aftir in the direction of;
16 waytede looked;
17 leue believe;
18 woned dwelt; wones regions;
22 ful selde seldom;
23 swonken worked;
24 that what;
25 pruyde pride; parayled dressed;
26 continance of clothyng outward show; kyne gyse kinds of way;
27 mony many (other people);
30 ankeres anchorites; selles cells;
31 cayren wander;
32 likerous liflode dainty living; lykame bodies;
33 chaffare trade; cheveth succeeded;
35 murthes entertainments; conneth know how to;
36 swynke labour; swete sweat; othes oaths;
37 foles hem maketh behave like fools;
39 Poule Saint Paul;
40 ‘he who speaks filth…’;
41 yede went;
42 bretful brimful;
43 fayteden begged falsely;
44 gomes men;
45 Robardes knaves robbers;
46 slep sleep; slewthe sloth; sueth follows;
47 plighten bound;
49 tales speeches;
50 leve leave; lye tell lies;
51 on an hep in a crowd; hokede crooked;
53 lobies lubbers; longe tall; swynke labour;
54 copis long gowns; to be knowe to be distinguished (as different);
57 wombe belly;
58 glosede expounded; as hem good likede at will;
59 doctours doctors of theology;
60 maistres masters;
61 marchen go hand in hand;
62 chapman merchant; shryve shrive, confess;<
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63 ferlyes strange events;
64 and but unless;
65 moste meschief greatest misfortune; molde earth
1 shryfte confession;
2 kayres hym goes; to kyrke-ward to church; conpte reckoning (of sin);
4 Betene Betty’s; brewestere ale-wife;
5 whodeward whither;
7 sennes then; shryve confessed; synege sin;
8 assaye have a taste;
10 pyonie peony (-seeds);
11 fenkelsedes fennel-seeds;
12 Othes oaths;
13 Sesse the souteres Sissy the shoemaker;
14 Watte the wernare Walt the warren-keeper;
16 nedlare needle-seller;
18 Purnele Prunella;
19 hayward hedge-warden;
20 Dawe the dikere Davy the ditch-digger;
21 pilede bald-headed;
22 rybibour fiddler; ratoner rat-catcher; rakeare street-sweeper;
23 redyng-kynge master reed-thatcher; disshere dish-seller;
24 Walshe Welshman;
25 uphalderes old-clothes dealers; herly early;
26 to hanselle as a treat;
28 the newe fayre (a game of exchanges); nempnede hit forth to sull put it up for barter;
29 hit threw in;
30 bade asked;
31 preyse appraise;
33 arbitreres arbitrators; bote compensate;
34 raplich quickly; rouned whispered;
35 preisede valued; peniworths bargains;
36 othes oaths;
37 acorden agree;
38 bisouhte begged to get up;
39 ‘and nominated him umpire, so that no dispute should occur’;
40 hostiler ostler;
42 yserved satisfied;
43 ho-so repentede hym whoever had regrets; rathest soonest;
45 leyhing and louring laughing and scowling;
47 umbywhile from time to time;
48 yglobbed gulped down;
49 gothly rumble;
50 potel potful;
51 ruet trumpet; rygebones backbone’s;
53 wesched wished; weps of breres sprig of briars;
55 glemans byche minstrel’s bitch;
56 arere backwards;
57 layth lays; lacche foules catch birds;
58 yes eyes;
59 thromblede stumbled;
62 ac but; greved in the luftynge gave trouble in lifting;
63 cowed coughed; caudel mess;
65 lape of lap up; lyvynge leaving; smauhte smelt;
68 accidie fit of sloth;
71 bolle bowl;
72 inwit conscience; edwitede reproached;
75 shope created;
79 sythe a time;
80 nones noon;
81 deffye digest;
82 brake retch;
83 that 1 aspele myhte what I might have kept in;
86 rybaudes ribalds;
