The Penguin Book of English Verse

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;