COWPER: _Alexander Selkirk_, 34*; anapests of, 35; blank verse of, 240 f.; _John Gilpin_, 264; _My Mary_, 79*; on Milton's verse, 58 f.; _Sonnet to Mrs. Unwin_, 278*; _Table Talk_, 205*; _Task_, 239 f.*. CRABBE: _Borough_, 206f.*. CRASHAW: _Wishes for the Supposed Mistress_, 64*. _Creation and Fall_ (Mystery Play), 95*. Cretic, 31. "Crown of Sonnets," 275. CYNEWULF: _Crist_, 116*; _Elene_, rime in, 126 n.; Riddle of (strophic), 63 n. Dactyl, 24. Dactylic verse, two-stress, 30; three-stress, 37; four-stress, 40; five-stress, 42; six-stress, 44; seven-stress, 46; eight-stress, 48. DANIEL: _Care-charmer Sleep_, 291 f.*; _Civil War_, 99*; _Defence of Rime_, 33 n.; _Delia_, 273, 292. DANTE, _terza rima_ of, 65, 67-69. DAVENANT: _Gondibert_, 71*, 72. DAVIES, Sir J.: _Nosce Teipsum_, 73. Decasyllabic couplet, 174-213; Chaucer's, 177; in Elizabethan age, 190; in the drama, 196-199; of the romantic poets, 209f., 212; Saintsbury on qualities of, 194f. _De Muliere Samaritana_, 253*. DENHAM: _Against Love_, 63*; _Cooper's Hill_, 191f.*. _Deo Gracias_, 96*. _Deor's Lament_, 62n. DE QUINCEY, on Milton's verse, 233n. "Descending rhythm," 25. DESCHAMPS, 358. DOBSON, A., ballades of, 367; _Dance of Death_, 368; on French lyrical forms, 358f.; on _ottava rima_, 101; on Pope, 203; _Rose Leaves_, 381f.*; _Too Hard it is to Sing_, 269f.*; _When I Saw you Last, Rose_, 378*; _With Pipe and Flute_, 374*. DONNE, critics on the verse of, 183; _Holy Sonnets_, 274f.*; influence of, on lyrical forms of 17th century, 90; _La Corona_, 275; _Satires_, 183*. DOUGLAS, G.: _Palace of Honour_, 101*, 133*. DOWDEN, on Shakspere's verse, 184. Drama, rime in, 184; verse of, characteristic, 395. DRAYTON: _Agincourt_, 86*; _Amouret Anacreontic_, 26*; _Idea_, 273, 293; _Love's Farewell_, 292*; _Polyolbion_, 256f.*. DRUMMOND, W.: _Sonnet_, 274*.