From "Britannia's Pastorals":-- To England 45 The Seasons 45 May Day Customs 46 Birds in May 46 Music on the Thames 47 A Concert of Birds 47 Flowers 48 Morning 48 Night 49 A Pleasant Grove 50 An Angler 51 A Rill 52 "Glide soft, ye silver floods" 52 "Venus by Adonis' side" 53 A Song: "Gentle Nymphs" 54 Spring Morning. I. From _The Shepherd's Pipe_ 54 " " II. " " 55 A Round 56 "Welcome, welcome, do I sing" 57 Autumn. From _The Shepherd's Pipe_ 58 The Siren's Song. From _Inner Temple Masque_ 59 The Charm. From _Inner Temple Masque_ 59 Caelia: Five Sonnets--"Lo, I the man" 60 "Why might I not for once" 60 "Fairest, when by the rules" 61 "Were't not for you" 61 "Sing soft, ye pretty birds" 62 Visions: Four Sonnets--"I saw a silver swan" 62 "A Rose, as fair as ever" 62 "Down in a valley" 63 "A gentle Shepherd" 63 Epitaphs: In Obitum 64 On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke 64 Prefatory Note There are few issues attended with greater uncertainty than the fate of a poet, and of the three represented herein it may be said that they survive but tardily in public interest. Such a state of things, in spite of all pleading, is quite beyond reason; hence the purport of this small Anthology is at once obvious.