| Geoffrey Chaucer. | 1. | The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales |
| Lines 1–200 |
| Lines 201–400 |
| Lines 401–600 |
| Lines 601–800 |
| Lines 801–858 |
| 2. | The Nun’s Priest’s Tale |
| Lines 1–200 |
| Lines 201–400 |
| Lines 401–637 |
| Traditional Ballads. | 3. | The Douglas Tragedy |
| 4. | The Twa Sisters |
| 5. | Edward |
| 6. | Babylon; or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie |
| 7. | Hind Horn |
| 8. | Lord Thomas and Fair Annet |
| 9. | Love Gregor |
| 10. | Bonny Barbara Allan |
| 11. | The Gay Goss-Hawk |
| 12. | The Three Ravens |
| 13. | The Twa Corbies |
| 14. | Sir Patrick Spence |
| 15. | Thomas Rymer and the Queen of Elfland |
| 16. | Sweet William’s Ghost |
| 17. | The Wife of Usher’s Well |
| 18. | Hugh of Lincoln |
| 19. | Young Bicham |
| 20. | Get Up and Bar the Door |
| 21. | The Battle of Otterburn |
| 22. | Chevy Chase |
| 23. | Johnie Armstrong |
| 24. | Captain Car |
| 25. | The Bonny Earl of Murray |
| 26. | Kinmont Willie |
| 27. | Bonnie George Campbell |
| 28. | The Dowy Houms o Yarrow |
| 29. | Mary Hamilton |
| 30. | The Baron of Brackley |
| 31. | Bewick and Grahame |
| 32. | A Gest of Robyn Hode |
| The First Fytte |
| The Second Fytte |
| The Thirde Fytte |
| The Fourth Fytte |
| The Fyfth Fytte |
| The Sixth Fytte |
| The Seventh Fytte |
| The Eighth Fytte |
| Anonymous. | 33. | Balow |
| 34. | The Old Cloak |
| 35. | Jolly Good Ale and Old |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt. | 36. | A Supplication |
| 37. | The Lover’s Appeal |
Henry Howard,
Earl of Surrey. | 38. | Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover |
| 39. | The Means to Attain Happy Life |
| George Gascoigne. | 40. | A Lover’s Lullaby |
| Nicholas Breton. | 41. | Phillida and Coridon |
| Anonymous. | 42. | A Sweet Lullaby |
| 43. | Preparations |
| 44. | The Unfaithful Shepherdess |
| Anthony Munday. | 45. | Beauty Bathing |
| Richard Edwardes. | 46. | Amantium Irae |
| Sir Walter Raleigh. | 47. | His Pilgrimage |
| 48. | The Lie |
| 49. | Verses |
| 50. | What Is Our Life |
| Sir Edward Dyer. | 51. | My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is |
| John Lyly. | 52. | Cupid and Campaspe |
| 53. | Spring’s Welcome |
| Sir Philip Sidney. | 54. | Song |
| 55. | A Dirge |
| 56. | A Ditty |
| 57. | Loving in Truth |
| 58. | Be Your Words Made, Good Sir, of Indian Ware |
| 59. | To Sleep |
| 60. | To the Moon |
| Thomas Lodge. | 61. | Rosalind’s Madrigal |
| 62. | Rosaline |
| 63. | Phillis |
| George Peele. | 64. | Paris and none |
| Robert Southwell. | 65. | The Burning Babe |
| Samuel Daniel. | 66. | Beauty, Time, and Love Sonnets |
| 67. | To Sleep |
| Michael Drayton. | 68. | Agincourt |
| 69. | To the Virginian Voyage |
| 70. | Love’s Farewell |
| Henry Constable. | 71. | Diaphenia |
| Edmund Spenser. | 72. | Prothalamion |
| 73. | Epithalamion |
| 74. | A Ditty |
| 75. | Perigot and Willie’s Roundelay |
| 76. | Easter |
| 77. | What Guile Is This? |
| 78. | Fair Is My Love |
| 79. | So Oft as I Her Beauty do Behold |
| 80. | Rudely Thou Wrongest My Dear Heart’s Desire |
| 81. | One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand |
| 82. | Like as the Culver, on the Bared Bough |
| William Habington. | 83. | To Roses in the Bosom of Castara |
| 84. | Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam |
| Christopher Marlowe. | 85. | The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
| 86. | Her Reply |
| Richard Rowlands. | 87. | Our Blessed Lady’s Lullaby |
| Thomas Nashe. | 88. | In Time of Pestilence |
| 89. | Spring |
| William Shakespeare. | 90. | Winter |
| 91. | O Mistress Mine |
| 92. | Fancy |
| 93. | Under the Greenwood Tree |
| 94. | A Lover and His Lass |
| 95. | Silvia |
| 96. | Spring |
| 97. | Lullaby |
| 98. | Ophelia’s Song |
| 99. | Where the Bee Sucks |
| 100. | Love’s Perjuries |
| 101. | Take, O Take |
| 102. | A Madrigal |
| 103. | Amiens’ Song |
| 104. | Dawn Song |
| 105. | Dirge of Love |
| 106. | Fidele’s Dirge |
| 107. | A Sea Dirge |
| 108. | Eighteenth Sonnet |
| 109. | Twenty-ninth Sonnet |
| 110. | Thirtieth Sonnet |
| 111. | Thirty-first Sonnet |
| 112. | Thirty-second Sonnet |
| 113. | Thirty-third Sonnet |
| 114. | Fifty-fourth Sonnet |
| 115. | Fifty-fifth Sonnet |
| 116. | Fifty-seventh Sonnet |
| 117. | Sixtieth Sonnet |
| 118. | Sixty-fourth Sonnet |
| 119. | Sixty-fifth Sonnet |
| 120. | Sixty-sixth Sonnet |
| 121. | Seventy-first Sonnet |
| 122. | Seventy-third Sonnet |
| 123. | Eighty-seventh Sonnet |
| 124. | Ninetieth Sonnet |
| 125. | Ninety-fourth Sonnet |
| 126. | Ninety-seventh Sonnet |
| 127. | Ninety-eighth Sonnet |
| 128. | One Hundred and Fourth Sonnet |
| 129. | One Hundred and Sixth Sonnet |
| 130. | One Hundred and Seventh Sonnet |
| 131. | One Hundred and Ninth Sonnet |
| 132. | One Hundred and Tenth Sonnet |
| 133. | One Hundred and Eleventh Sonnet |
| 134. | One Hundred and Sixteenth Sonnet |
| 135. | One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Sonnet |
| 136. | One Hundred and Forty-sixth Sonnet |
| 137. | One Hundred and Forty-eighth Sonnet |
| Robert Greene. | 138. | Connent |
| Richard Barnfield. | 139. | The Nightingale |
| Thomas Campion. | 140. | Cherry-ripe |
| 141. | Follow your Saint |
| 142. | When to Her Lute Corinna Sings |
| 143. | Follow thy Fair Sun |
| 144. | Turn All thy Thoughts to Eyes |
| 145. | Integer Vitae |
Robert Devereux,
Earl of Essex. | 146. | A Passion of my Lord of Essex |
| Sir Henry Wotton. | 147. | Elizabeth of Bohemia |
| 148. | Character of a Happy Life |
Edward de Vere,
Earl of Oxford. | 149. | A Renunciation |
| Ben Jonson. | 150. | Simplex Munditiis |
| 151. | The Triumph |
| 152. | The Noble Nature |
| 153. | To Celia |
| 154. | A Farewell to the World |
| 155. | A Nymph’s Passion |
| 156. | Epode |
| 157. | Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H. |
| 158. | On Lucy, Countess of Bedford |
| 159. | An Ode to Himself |
| 160. | Hymn to Diana |
| 161. | On Salathiel Pavy |
| 162. | His Supposed Mistress |
| 163. | To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us |
| John Donne. | 164. | The Funeral |
| 165. | A Hymn to God the Father |
| 166. | Valediction, Forbidding Mourning |
| 167. | Death |
| 168. | The Dream |
| 169. | Song |
| 170. | Sweetest Love, I do not Go |
| 171. | Lover’s Infiniteness |
| 172. | Love’s Deity |
| 173. | Stay, O Sweet |
| 174. | The Blossom |
| 175. | The Good Morrow |
| 176. | Present in Absence |
| Joshua Sylvester. | 177. | Love’s Omnipresence |
William Alexander,
Earl of Stirling. | 178. | To Aurora |
| Richard Corbet. | 179. | Farewell, Rewards and Fairies |
| Thomas Heywood. | 180. | Pack, Clouds, Away |
| Thomas Dekker. | 181. | Country Glee |
| 182. | Cold’s the Wind |
| 183. | O Sweet Content |
| Francis Beaumont. | 184. | On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey |
| 185. | Master Francis Beaumont’s Letter to Ben Jonson |
| John Fletcher. | 186. | Aspatia’s Song |
| 187. | Melancholy |
| John Webster. | 188. | Call for the Robin-Redbreast |
| Anonymous. | 189. | O Waly, Waly |
| 190. | Helen of Kirconnell |
| 191. | My Love in Her Attire |
| 192. | Love Not Me |
| William Drummond. | 193. | Saint John Baptist |
| 194. | Madrigal |
| 195. | Life |
| 196. | Human Folly |
| 197. | The Problem |
| 198. | To His Lute |
| 199. | For the Magdalene |
| 200. | Content and Resolute |
| 201. | Alexis, Here She Stayed; Among These Pines |
| 202. | Summons to Love |
| George Wither. | 203. | I Loved a Lass |
| 204. | The Lover’s Resolution |
| William Browne (?). | 205. | On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke |
| Robert Herrick. | 206. | Cherry-Ripe |
| 207. | A Child’s Grace |
| 208. | The Mad Maid’s Song |
| 209. | To the Virgins |
| 210. | To Dianeme |
| 211. | A Sweet Disorder |
| 212. | Whenas in Silks |
| 213. | To Anthea who may Command Him Any Thing |
| 214. | To Daffodils |
| 215. | To Blossoms |
| 216. | Corinna’s Maying |
| Francis Quarles. | 217. | An Ecstasy |
| George Herbert. | 218. | Love |
| 219. | Virtue |
| 220. | The Elixir |
| 221. | The Collar |
| 222. | The Flower |
| 223. | Easter Song |
| 224. | The Pulley |
| Henry Vaughan. | 225. | Beyond the Veil |
| 226. | The Retreat |
Francis Bacon,
Viscount St. Alban. | 227. | Life |
| James Shirley. | 228. | The Glories of our Blood and State |
| 229. | The Last Conqueror |
| Thomas Carew. | 230. | The True Beauty |
| 231. | Ask Me No More |
| 232. | Know, Celia |
| 233. | Give Me More Love |
| Sir John Suckling. | 234. | The Constant Lover |
| 235. | Why So Pale and Wan |
| Sir William D’Avenant. | 236. | Dawn Song |
| Richard Lovelace. | 237. | To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars |
| 238. | To Althea from Prison |
| 239. | To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas |
| Edmund Waller. | 240. | On a Girdle |
| 241. | Go, Lovely Rose! |
| William Cartwright. | 242. | On the Queen’s Return from the Low Countries |
James Graham,
Marquis of Montrose. | 243. | My Dear and Only Love |
| Richard Crashaw. | 244. | Wishes for the Supposed Mistress |
| 245. | Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa |
| Thomas Jordan. | 246. | Let Us Drink and Be Merry |
| Abraham Cowley. | 247. | A Supplication |
| 248. | Cheer Up, My Mates |
| 249. | Drinking |
| 250. | On the Death of Mr. William Hervey |
| Alexander Brome. | 251. | The Resolve |
| Andrew Marvell. | 252. | A Garden |
| 253. | The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers |
| 254. | Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland |
| 255. | Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda |
| 256. | Thoughts in a Garden |
| 257. | Love Will Find Out the Way |
| 258. | Phillada Flouts Me |
| Earl of Rochester. | 259. | Epitaph on Charles II |
| Sir Charles Sedley. | 260. | Chloris |
| 261. | Celia |
| John Dryden. | 262. | Ode |
| 263. | Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going Out of the Town in the Spring |
| 264. | Song for St. Cecilia’s Day |
| 265. | Alexander’s Feast |
| 266. | On Milton |
| Matthew Prior. | 267. | To a Child of Quality |
| 268. | Cloe |
| 269. | The Dying Adrian to His Soul |
| 270. | Epigram |
| Isaac Watts. | 271. | True Greatness |
| Lady Grisel Baillie. | 272. | Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee |
| Joseph Addison. | 273. | Hymn |
| Allan Ramsay. | 274. | Peggy |
| John Gay. | 275. | Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing |
| 276. | Black-Eyed Susan |
| Henry Carey. | 277. | Sally in our Alley |
| Alexander Pope. | 278. | Solitude |
| 279. | On a Certain Lady at Court |
| 280. | An Essay on Man: The Design |
| Epistle I |
| Epistle II |
| Epistle III |
| Epistle IV |
| Ambrose Philips. | 281. | To Charlotte Pulteney |
| Colley Cibber. | 282. | The Blind Boy |
| James Thomson. | 283. | Rule, Britannia |
| 284. | To Fortune |
| Thomas Gray. | 285. | Elegy |
| 286. | Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College |
| 287. | Hymn to Adversity |
| 288. | Ode on the Spring |
| 289. | The Progress of Poesy |
| 290. | The Bard |
| 291. | Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude |
| 292. | On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes |
| George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe. | 293. | Shorten Sail |
