The ploughman's song ; His wisdom / Nicholas Breton --
A description of love / Sir Walter Raleigh --
Dulcina ; Philon the shepherd
True love / Sir Philip Sidney --
A serving men's song ; Song of Apelles / John Lyly --
Rosalind's madrigal ; A blith and bonny country lass / Thomas Lodge --
Song from The Old Wife's Tale / George Peele --
Aeliana's ditty / Henry Chettle --
Behold a wonder here / John Dowland --
Feste's song from Twelfth Night ; Ver and Hiems ; Balthasar's song from Much Ado About Nothing / William Shakespeare --
Song / Thomas Campion ; Still to be neat ; Follow a shadow ; To Celia / Ben Jonson --
Good-morrow / Thomas Heywood --
Love not me for comely grace / John Wilbye --
Shall I, wasting in despair? / George Wither --
The vision to Electra ; Clothes do but cheat and cozen us ; To Electra ; Chop-cherry ; A ternary of littles, upon a pipkin of jelly sent to a lady ; The poet loves a mistress but not to marry ; Delight in disorder ; To the virgins to make much of time ; The good-night or blessing / Robert Herrick --
In praise of ale / Thomas Bonham --
A maid me loved / Patrick Hannary --
Mediocrity in love rejected / Thomas Carew --
On a girdle ; Go, lovely Rose / Edmund Waller --
To my love ; Why so pale and wan, fond lover? She's pretty to walk with / Sir John Suckling --
A song of dalliance / William Cartwright --
Mark Antony / John Cleveland --
The glove ; To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace --
Of drinking / Abraham Cowley --
Ametas and Thestylis making hay-ropes ; The mower to the glow-worms / Andrew Marvell --
Would you be a man of fashion? ; Down in a garden ; Pity and love / Anonymous --
I have been in love and in debt ; Now I'm resolved to love no more / Alexander Brome --
Roundelay / John Dryden --
He that marries a merry lass ; Yes, I could love if I could find / Anonymous --
The fisherman's song / Thomas D'Urfey --
The despairing lover / William Walsh --
The remedy worse than the disease ; A true maid ; Answer to Cloe jealous ; Cupid mistaken / Matthew Prior --
A gentle echo on woman / Jonathan Swift --
Pious Celinda ; Song ; A nymph and a swain / William Congreve --
When Orpheus went down / Samuel Lisle --
On a certain lady at court ; The quiet life / Alexander Pope --
Susannah and the elders ; The vicar of Bray ; Man, man, man ; Green broom ; Charlie he's my darling / Anonymous --
On the death of a mad dog / Oliver Goldsmith --
Early morning meadow song / Charles Dalmon --
Here's to the maiden ; The pleasing constraint with Mr. Halhed / Richard Brinsley Sheridan --
A toast ; Let minions marshal every hair / Anonymous --
Green grow the rashes, O! ; Tam Glen ; The jolly beggars ; Epitaph for James Smith ; Duncan Gray cam here to woo / Robert Burns --
To Sally / John Quincy Adams --
Song ; To Mrs. Leigh upon her wedding day / George Canning --
Commination / Walter Savage Landor --
Did not ; The time I've lost in wooing ; When I loved you / Thomas Moore --
The nun ; Fairies' song ; Jenny kiss'd me ; Madame d'Albret's laugh / Leigh Hunt --
From Crochet Castle ; The war-song of Dinas Vawr ; The grey friar / Thomas Love Peacock --
Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos / Lord Byron --
All in the downs ; Lines in a young lady's album / Thomas Hood --
The belle of the ball-room ; Good-night to the season ; The talented man / Winthrop Mackworth Praed --
Sonnet to a monkey / Marjorie Fleming.
Mickey Free's song / Charles Lever --
The charming woman / Lady Dufferin --
The height of the ridiculous / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
The sorrows of Werther ; Commanders of the faithful ; The ballad of Bouillabaisse ; The age of wisdom / William M. Thackeray --
The akond of swat ; The nutcrackers and the sugar-tongs / Edward Lear --
From Spectator ab Extra / Arthur Hugh Clough --
Sing heigh-ho! / Charles Kingsley --
To my grandmother ; A terrible infant ; Rotten row ; Loulou and her cat ; Our photographs / Frederick Locker-Lampson --
The kiss / Coventry Patmore --
Martial in London / Mortimer Collins --
The ballad of dead ladies / Dante Gabriel Rossetti --
With two fair girls / Major Robert C. Macgregor --
Lines suggested by the fourteenth of February ; Forever ; Ode to tobacco ; Changed ; On the beach ; Contentment ; Love / Charles S. Calverley --
Jabberwocky ; She's all my fancy painted him / Lewis Carroll --
Dictum sapienti / Charles Henry Webb --
The family fool ; King Goodheart ; The Duke of Plaza-Toro ; Out of sorts ; The humane mikado ; The disagreeable man ; The rover's apology ; The suicide's grave ; The contemplative sentry ; The susceptible chancellor ; The aesthete ; The policeman's lot ; The British tar / Sir W.S. Gilbert --
Caprice / William Dean Howells --
A match / Algernon Charles Swinburne --
Good and bad luck / John Hay --
To Brander Matthews ; On a fan that belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour ; A ballad to Queen Elizabeth ; Dora versus Rose ; A kiss / Austin Dobson --
The chosen people / W.N. Ewer --
Weathers / Thomas Hardy --
A poem of privacy / John Addington Symonds --
A merry ballad of vintners / John Payne --
Martin Luther at Potsdam / Barry Pain --
A centipede was happy quite / Anonymous --
An explanation / Walter Learned --
Ballade of dead actors / William Ernest Henley --
Why I drink / Dean Henry Aldrich --
The pessimist / Ben King --
Horace I / Eugene Field --
Behold the deeds! ; Shake, Mulleary and Go-Ethe / Henry Cuyler Bunner --
Tender-heartedness ; Aunt Eliza / Colonel D. Streamer --
Great fleas / Anonymous --
Infirm / Edward Sanford Martin --
In Philistia / Bliss Carman --
The uses of ocean / Sir Owen Seaman --
The ladies / Rudyard Kipling --
I wish that my room had a floor / Gelett Burgess --
R-e-m-o-r-s-e / George Ade --
Canopus ; The lazy writer / Bert Leston Taylor --
Where do the gipsies come from? / H.H. Bashford --
A possibility / Carolyn Wells --
The ballad of the Billycock / Anthony C. Drane --
The yak ; They say, and I am glad they say / Hilaire Belloc --
The legend of the First Cam-u-el / Arthur Guiterman --
Conversational / Anonymous --
Tired Tim / Walter de la Mare --
An original cuss / Keither Preston --
The inhuman wolf and the lamb sans gene ; Little Boy Blue ; How Jack found that beans may go back on a chap / Guy Wetmore Carryl --
Feast on wine or fast on water ; Commercial candour ; A ballade of suicide ; The song against songs / G.K. Chesterton --
To the God of Love / E.G.V. Knox --
The jokesmith's vacation / Don Marquis --
Those two boys ; To a young woman on the World staff / Franklin P. Adams --
The look / Sara Teasdale.
The wise woman ; Your letter does not move me ; Do not fear, my love / Louis Untermeyer --
If you stick a stock of liquor
Carmen ; The belle of the Balkans / Newman Levy --
Advice to worriers / George S. Kaufman --
Your little hands ; If you love me ; Some folks I know ; The ocean spills ; A little while to love and rave / Samuel Hoffenstein --
The tryst / Christopher Morley --
He didn't oughter ... ; Coals of fire / A.P. Herbert --
The penitent ; I, being born a woman / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
The sisters Kastemaloff ; A royal pickle ; The day closes / Carlton Talbott --
Unfortunate coincidence ; One perfect rose ; Comment ; Résumé ; Fable ; They part ; The evening primrose ; Ballade of unfortunate mammals / Dorothy Parker --
Commissary report / Stoddard King --
Male and female created he them / Aldous Huxley --
The tales the barbers tell ; Drinking song for present-day gatherings / Morris Bishop --
On the rising generation / Howard Deitz --
Meditation / Joseph T. Shipley --
The babbitt and the bromide / Ira Gershwin --
A father does his best / E.B. White --
To a small boy standing on my shoes while I am wearing them ; The oyster ; Genealogical reflection / Ogden Nash --
This way out / Margaret Fishback --
To J.S. / Robert J. Misch --
Reflections in a hospital / Emanuel Eisenberg --
Dynastic tiff / Geoffrey Hellman.
