The Anchor Seventeenth-Century Series
is published by Doubleday Ancbor Books
under the General Editorship of
Professor J. Max Patrick, New York University
CONTENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
CIIDONOLOGY OF DONNE'S LIFE
INTRODUCTION
This edition bas been especially prepared for
Ancbor Books and bas never before appeared in book form.
Ancbor Books edition: 1967
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67- 1 53 86
Copyright © 1967 by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
All Rigbts Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
ELEGIES TO DONNE
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An Elegie upon tbe death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn
Donne, by Thomas Carew
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To the Memorie of My Ever Desired Friend Dr. Donne,
by Henry King
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To the deceased Author, Upon the . . . printing of his
Poems, . . . by Sir Thomas Browne
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An Elegie upon Dr. Donne,
by Izaak Walton
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To John Donne
by Ben Jonson
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To John Donne
by Ben Jonson
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THE COMPLETE POETRY OF JOHN DONNE
Satires
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Satyre I
Satyre II
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4 Satyre IV
5 Satyre V
6 Upon Mr. Thomas Coryats Crudities
7 In eundem Macaronicon
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Elegies
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Elegie: The Bracelet
Elegie: The Comparison
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The Complete Poetry of John Donne
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Elegie: The Perfume
Elegie: Jealosie
Elegie: "Oh, let mee not serve so"
Elegie: "Natures lay Ideot"
Elegie: Loves Warre
Elegie: Going to Bed
Elegie: Change
Elegie: The Anagram
Elegie: On his Mistris
Elegie: His Picture
Elegie: Loves Progress
Elegie: His parting from her
Elegie: The Expostulation
Elegie: Variety
Sapho to Philamis
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Songs and Sonets
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-- The Message
John Coprario, Musical Setting: "The Message"
26} Witchcraft by a picture
27 The Baite
The Apparition
William Lawes, Musical Setting: "The Apparition"
~ The broken heart
30 Lecture upon the Shadow
~ A Valediction forbidding mourning
32 The good-morrow
(33) Song: "Coe, and catcbe a falling starre"
Anonymous, Musical Setting: "Song"
Womans
constancy
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"Image
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her whom I love"
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The Sunne Rising
37 The Indifferent
38 Loves Usury
39 The Canonization
4° The triple Foole
Loves infinitenesse
Anonymous, Musical Setting: "Song"
42 Song: "Sweetest love, I do not goe"
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4 A Feaver
~5 Aire and Angels
Breake of day
William Corleine, Musical Setting: "Breake of day"
~ The Prohibition
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The Anniversarie
49 A Valediction of my name, in the window
5° The Autumnall
Twicknam garden
52 Valediction of the booke
53 Communitie
@ Loves growth
55 Loves exchange
56 Confined Love
~ The Dreame
5 A Valediction of weeping
59 Loves Alchymie
The Flea
61 The Curse
~ The Extasie
3 The undertaking
Loves Deitie
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@ The Will
67 The Funerall
@ The Blossome
69 The Primrose
7° The Relique
71 The Dampe
72 The Dissolution
73 A Jeat Ring sent
74 Negative love
75 The Expiration
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Alfonso Ferrabosco, Musical Setting: "The Expiration"
The Computation
The Paradox
Sonnet. The Token
Farewell to love
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Selfe Love
"When my harte was mine owne"
A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day
Epigrams
Philo
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Martial
p. 166
Contents
The Complete Poetry of John Donne
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Hero and Leander
pyramus and Thisbe
Niobe
A burnt ship
Fall of a wall
A lame begger
A selfe accuser
A licentious person
Cales and Guyana
Sir John W ingefield
Antiquary
Disinherited
The Lier
Mercurius Gallo-BelgicltS
Phryne
An obscure writer
Klockius
Ralphius
The Jughler
Faustus
Raderus
Ad Autorem (Scaliger)
Ad Autorem (Covell)
Epith{llamioTlS
106 Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne
107 An Epithalamion, 01' mariage Song on the Lady
Elizabeth . . .
Ecclogue
. .. at the mariage Of the Earle of Sommerset
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Ve1'se Letters
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III
The Storme
The Calme
To Sr. Henry Wootton: "Here's no more newes"
To Sr. Henry Wotton: "Sir, more then kisses"
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MHPaper
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To Mr. Rowland Woodward: "Like one who'in her
third widdowhood"
To Mr. T. W.: "All haile sweet Poet"
To Mr. T. W.: "Hast thee harsh verse"
To Mr. T. W.: "Pregnant again"
To Mr. T. W.: "At once, from hence"
To Mr. R. W.: "Zealously my Muse"
To Mr. R. W.: "Muse not that by thy mind"
To Mr. C. B.
To Mr. E. G.
To Mr. R. W.: "If, as mine is, thy life"
To Mr. R. W.: "Kindly'I envy thy songs"
To Mr. S. B.
To Mr. I. L.: "Of that short Roll"
To Mr. B. B.
To Mr. I. L.: "Blest are your North parts"
H. W. in Biber. beUigeranti
To Sir H. W. at his going Ambassador to Venice
To Sr. Henry Goodyere
To the Countesse of Huntingdon: "That unripe
side of earth"
Amicissimo, et meritissimo BEN. JONSON. In Vulponem.
To Mrs. M. H.
To the Countesse of Bedford: "Reason is our Soules left
hand"
A Letter written by Sr. H. G. and]. D. alternis vicibus
To the Countesse of Bedford: "Honour is so sublime"
To the Countesse of Bedford: "You have refin'd mee"
To the Countesse of Bedford: "T'have written then"
To the Countesse of Bedford. On New-yeares day
To Sr. Edward Herbert. At Julyers
To the Countesse of Huntingdon: "Man to Gods image"
A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs. Essex Riche,
Fmm Amyens
To the Countesse of Bedford. Begun in France but
never perfected
De Libra cum mutuaretur, Impresso .
To the Countesse of Salisbury
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The Complete Poetry of John Donne
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Sorrow
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BedfCab
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BedfShe
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BoulRec
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BoulNar
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Epicedes and Obsequies
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Elegie on the L. C.
Epitaph on Himselfe
Elegie to the Lady Bedford
Elegie on the Lady Marckham
Elegie on Mris. Boulstred
Elegie: Death
Elegie On the untimely Death of the incomparable
Prince, HENRY
153 Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, with a Letter to
An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton,
with a Letter to Sir Robert Carr
155 The First Anniversarie: An Anatomie of the World
156 A Funerall Elegie
157 Of the Progres of the Soule: The Second Anniversary
Metempsychosis
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Countesse of Bedford
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159 To the Lady Magdalen Herbert, of St. Mary Magdalen
160 La Corona
161 To E. of D. with six holy Sonnets
162 Holy Sonnet: "As due by many titles"
163 Holy Sonnet: "0 my blacke Soule!"
164 Holy Sonnet: "This is my playes last scene"
165 Holy Sonnet: "At the round earths"
166 Holy Sonnet: "If poysonous mineralls"
167 Holy Sonnet: "Death be not proud"
168 Holy Sonnet: "Spit in my face"
169 Holy Sonnet: "Why are wee by all creatures"
170 Holy Sonnet: "What if this present"
171 Holy Sonnet: "Batter my heart"
172 Holy Sonnet: "Wilt thou love God"
173 Holy Sonnet: "Father, part of his double interest"
174 Holy Sonnet: "Thou hast made me"
175 Holy Sonnet: "I am a little world"
176 Holy Sonnet: "0 Might those sighes"
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Holy Sonnet: "If faithfull soules"
Holy Sonnet: "Since she whome 1 lovd"
Holy Sonnet: "Show me deare Christ"
Holy Sonnet: "Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet"
The Crosse
Resurrection, imperfect
The Annuntiation and Passion
A Litanie
1 85 Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward
186 To Mr. George Herbert, with one of my Seals,
187 The Lamentations of Jeremy, . . .
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Thomas Ford, Musical Setting: "Lamentations of Jeremy"
188 Translated out of Gaza9us, Vota Amico facta
1 89 To Mr. Tilman after he had taken orders
19 0 A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany
19 1 Upon the translation of the Psalmes
by Sir Philip Sydney, and. . . his Sister
19 2 Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse
193 A Hymne to God the Father
Johann Sebastian .Bach, Musical Setting: "A Hymne
to God the Father"
194 Epigraph..., Deaths Duell
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EXPLANATORY NOTES
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CHRONOLOGICAL SCHEDULE OF THE POEMS
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TEXTUAL NOTES
INDEX OF DIFFERENCES FROM GARDNER'S TEXT
TABLE FOR USE WITH COMBS AND SULLENS'
Concordance
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APPENDlX: AN ADDITIONAL ATTRIBUTION
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX OF TITLES
INDEX OF FIRST LINES